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{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.  ~ inspired by Soule Mama

Featured! (:

My art prints have recently been featured in this blog ~ ~ and this blog! Yay!

Right now I am going to make myself some toast and lovely hot chocolate...

Done! (Yum!) Jude is taking a much-needed nap in the bedroom after a dreadfully fitful, sleepless night and Jason has run to the post to mail off a pile of packages (: I should be, if I were wiser on this day, napping alongside my sweet little one but I'd rather get some much-needed work done, and of course enjoy my hot chocolate, alone ;-)

I haven't found many sacred 'time pockets' as of late, which I customarily use to compose blog posts, reply to emails and get random computer work done. Hence the long spans of time reaching from one blog post to another... What to report?? To start, the temperatures here in Ontario have been amazingly cold! The windows are absolutely beautiful though, Their fleur-de-lis patterns of ice reaching from top to bottom. I have been inside for days,, trying my best to stay cozy, and keep Jude busy. He does miss his outside play when we spend an entire day indoors (which really means, he gets severely grumpy)!

I thought I might compose a fun list of the recent goings-on::

hot chocolate

family card games at the table

(reluctant on my part) all-nighters

Teething

oatmeal with honey for breakfast

fashion shows with Bella (which translates to Isabella trying on all my clothes)

fashion shows with Jude (which means, Isabella dressing Jude up in her old dresses and showing him off to everyone in the house ;-)

stolen moments of drawing in my orange sketchbook

LOTS of snow

endless cups of tea

trying our best to name all food items by their french pronounciations

looking longingly at my secret lover, 'sewing machine', sitting nonchalently at the end of the kitchen table

'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins ~ That's what I am reading right now

Quiet moments with Jude, nursing him before sleep

trying to relax and stretch and breathe

brushing the cats

brushing the dog

petting the bunny

eating toast for lunch when I don't want to waste time preparing anything more elaborate

piggybacks for Isabella

origami

preparing art prints to mail out

playdates with great friends who also love tea ;-)

baking muffins

sweeping the floor 100 times a day

So many creative ideas but never enought time to bring them into fruition!

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Embroidered Valentines! xoxo

Aren't they lovely? (:  Handmade Valentines!

The bird is my own original illustration, which I have sewn onto cardstock weight paper and then freeform embroidered. They are for sale in my shop, in sets of five for $15.oo. Yay!

Happy Valentine's day! Well, it's not here yet, but it will be soon!

Perfect for your love, perfect for your friends and children and everyone you know!

Check them out in my etsy shop (:

Getting ready for Valentine's Day (-:

Origami Kissers!

 

 

Jason and I have been busy creating these happy Valentine Kissers! Sold in sets of either 16 or 32, they are in my shop right now! They come in packages of pink, red, or a mix of both (: Fun!

Artwork (: Yay!

I have been busily creating these past few weeks, even amidst the chaos of baby~land (aka insane teething), holidays, family and such (: All can be found in my etsy shop (:

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Snippets from Christmas (:

Christmas was lovely (: I love my family and I am so glad to be home with them again! Last year the holidays were spent far from my mom, dad and sister in California. This year we are blessed with such glorious Canadian snow, The perfect addition to a true Christmas holiday ;-)

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touching base

I haven't posted in forever! Things have been very busy ~~ Lots of real life happening (: I am going to pop in very soon with pictures from our family Christmas celebrations and lots of new art for my etsy shop (:

^__^   Happy New Year to you!   ^__^