Happy Friday Friends!

Happy Friday! How is everyone? Here is the morning photo my hubby sent to me. 

 I am linking the vlog up with Nicole's lovely Friday Face Off and Gillena's  Art for Fun Friday.

      On August 14 we went out and celebrated my Name Day. We had lovely and delicious Sushi.

It was delicious! I got the salmon platter and the smoked salmon salad was my favourite. 

This week I also doodled some faces and then made a mess of things so I used stickers and placed them on top of the mistakes and then drew on top of the stickers. 

These stickers come with the Leuchtturm1917 notebook.

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I enjoyed making these faces and enjoyed using only four markers and highlighters for all of them. 

I have not picked up my art supplies for a while and this was so refreshing to do. 

As for reading I am still trying to finish a book. It is challenging but I know I will finish one this month. 

Currently watching "The Middle" on Netflix and finished watching "My Brilliant Career" on Netflix and loved it so much. 

What are you reading and watching at the moment? 

What are you working on that is creative?

I would love to know in the comments. 

Thank you so much for being here and reading my blog post. I appreciate you. 

You are amazing and wonderful!

Thank you kindly!

Recent Favourites 🩷✨

 

 Recent Favourites 

Cardigans

Coffee (Caramel or pumpkin spice)

Lip Gloss (Pumpkin Flavour Bath and Bodyworks)

 Laptop to blog and create videos and digital collages

My reading glasses

Reading

Browsing on Pinterest

Reusable Water Bottle

Making Art

Watching Films

Fragrance (Bath and Body Works Vanilla Cafe)

My bag and a stuffy bag charm Currently (Miffy in a pumpkin outfit)

Daily Journaling with a lot of stickers in my Leuchtturm1917 

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Thank you for being here and reading my blog post. 

Have a wonderful day!

Maria 

Chasing The Last Bit of Summer

 

Happy Friday! 

My hubby sent me this photo from Toronto. I appreciate the photos because I know that he will not have this view for a long time as his work changes locations. 

So I appreciate all the photos and sunrises!

 I am linking the vlog up with Nicole's lovely Friday Face Off and Gillena's  Art for Fun Friday.

I had a funky week but I am sure things will get better. 

I have faith in God and believe in prayer. 

I finally put together the vlog! It took a long time but I am grateful I put it together in a creative way. 

I also used music from Thematic.  I use imovie to edit and it gave me problems but I figured it out. I also had help from my daughter. She is so good with editing in detail. Not I. I just slap it together. lol 

I truly hope you watch it and subscribe to my channel. It helps me out a lot. 

If you take some time to watch my vlog, I appreciate it very much.

Tomorrow is my nameday! 

"The primary celebration for the Mother of God in the Greek Orthodox Church is the Dormition of the Theotokos (Koimisis tis Theotokou), celebrated on August 15th. Known as Dekapentavgoustos, it marks her "falling asleep" (death) and bodily assumption into heaven. It is a major national holiday in Greece, often called the "Summer Pascha" (Easter of the Summer)"

-wikipedia

I hope tomorrow we get to do something special for my Nameday. I always enjoy outings!

I have one more episode of "My Brilliant Career" to watch on Netflix. So far I am enjoying it. 

 

My reading, not going well so I am going to force myself to read this weekend. I am going to make a vlog to hold me accountable for reading. :) 

As for acting I have done four auditions and nothing yet but I will keep trying. 

Thank you kindly my friends and have a lovely weekend!

Maria 

The Active Mind

Happy Tuesday friends! Linking up with Elizabeth's Blog T Stands For Tuesday. 

The above photo was sent from hubby from work. The Sunrise is beautiful!

Drinking coffee at the moment and trying to finish this book. I bought the blanket from winners and i love it. It is warm and soft and has pumpkins all over it. Super cute.  

I love pumpkins! 🎃

This is a farm we visited last weekend and it has a chip truck and the fries are delicious! 

I  look forward to visiting in the Fall to get some pumpkins. 
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Halloween things are at the mall already. 

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My sis-in-law lent me some vintage books and I think I will not be able to read them all but maybe I will read one and return them to her in October. 

Remember these back in the day?

let me know in the comments which one should I read?

I made this trail mix and I did not like the rolo bites but everything else was yummy. 

I think it is missing caramel popcorn. 

Friend Mail from my good friend Joy. 

Thank you Joy!

Bought a fun colouring book from the Dollar tree. 

Or it might of been the dollar store not sure. lol

I've been enjoying little things here and there and I hope you have too. 

Films and Movies I've been enjoying

Netflix 

ATYPICAL

The Middle

Season 1 & 2 Stranger Things

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

I will Find You

Blackwater Lane 

Have a lovely rest of the week and thank you so much!

Echoes of Yesteryear

Happy Friday! Time is going by so fast.

 I am sharing past portraits with you today. 

I feel it is important to reflect on past artwork and also to find gratitude within ourselves and appreciate our creativity.

Sometimes creativity can be thoughts and creative reflections of our past artwork, 

this process helps me find more inspiration and direction for my next pieces. 

Linking up today with Friday Face Off hosted by the lovely Nicole and Art For Fun Friday hosted by the lovely Gillena. 

Thank you so much!

 

Thank you all for your comments and kindness. Have a lovely weekend!

Turn Chaos Into Calm with Planners and Journals

 

The amount of information and chaos that happens in my brain needs a calm outlet. My outlet is to document and let everything out into the pages of a  Leuchtturm1917.  I love to journal daily, plan, write lists and more. 

I have been a brand ambassador for  Leuchtturm1917  for five years and I am so grateful to work with them. I have used Leuchtturm1917 journals and sketchbooks for over five years and really love the quality of them. A journal needs to be strong and not fall apart because I stick a lot of things in it like memories, photos, receipts and more. I really love how you can choose a notebook colour, lines or dots and size of the notebook. 

I really love to create monthly pages and write dates to remember and bucket lists. 

Yes Love a lot of stickers too. Inside and out my book. The more the better. 

I've been using the "some lines a day" journal and I have two more years to go with this. Love it so much. I reflect back on what I did this day last year and it is amazing to read. Very grateful for each moment that I have documented. 

Overall I love using my Leuchtturm1917 notebooks. I find writing things down really helps me plan better and declutter my brain.

I love the quality of the notebooks, planners and sketchbooks. 

Writing and documenting definitely helps turn my chaos into calmness!

Thank you all for reading my blog post. I appreciate it!

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