The Works and Words of Lisa Mantchev. Written by Lisa in Shiny Things. Muppety! Check out some previous articles.

Trying to clean shop, my loves, and all future announcements will be made at my website. Once there was a small child and his tiny elephant. They needed a forever-home, so they wandered up streets and down, knocking on doors, always hoping. And then, at the top of a tall flight of stairs and behind an apple-red door, a lady with brown hair and smiling eyes invited them to stay a while.

I love fish-out-of-water stories of ordinary people in extraordinary situations, especially if those situations delve into the unexplained. Get a behind-the-scenes peek at the writing life on my blog.

Saturday, December 22, 2012. Yesterday I got an e-mail from Sanne Staarink. I made a birth announcement card for her and her husband Maarten. But they also showed the card I designed! How cool is that? You can see the fragment HERE.

Serving Mortgage Clients in BC from my office in Delta. I have been in the mortgage industry for almost 27 years. My first 16 years were spent working for a large Canadian chartered bank. During that time I helped develop credit products, managed branches and ran sales teams. While the management experience has been valuable, it was working one on one with clients that I truly enjoyed.