I created a few collages, portraits and mixed media too.
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They are not perfect and I believe It's okay to have many mistakes.
we learn from mistakes right?
Mixed Media piece
I used paint, markers, stickers.
Doodle
an Elf
I used watercolour and paint
I also used a little glitter
not really happy about him but I will try and make another Elf
A watercolour landscape
Collage/Junk Journaling
Collage/ Junk Journaling
Autumn Tree
Watercolour
Lately I am not pleased with my artwork but I feel it's okay to feel this way and I must stay creative.
I have a feeling that I am very emotional due to my menopause. It's making me so emotional. lol
I hope you had a wonderful week my friends. I wish you all the best and have a magical and wonderful weekend! Thank you for your visit and your comments. :) hugs!
Happy 10 Year Anniversary on Youtube! I can't believe it.
I am so grateful for all my subscribers. A huge thank you to everyone who watches my videos!
Hello and welcome wonderful friends. I hope you are all well. How was your week? I would like to thank you all for the wonderful visit and for your comments. It's a pleasure to read your blogs and see all your wonderful photos, read your lovely stories and poems and see your artwork. I appreciate you so much.
Remember you are amazing, wonderful and important!
This weekend, here in Canada we have Thanksgiving. It's a long weekend and we get together with family. Growing up, my Greek family never really did a traditional Thanksgiving celebration. When I was dating my now husband in 1999, I went over to his house and his family celebrated Thanksgiving with all the festive foods like turkey, sweet potato, cottage roll, stuffing and cranberry sauce! It was so amazing to see and be a part of a big family and sit together and talk, laugh and give thanks. Since 1999, each year we have been getting together to have a Thanksgiving meal. Even though our table is now missing a few family members, we think and pray for our loved ones each year and miss them dearly.
We actually missed two years of Thanksgiving gatherings because we were living in another province and one or two years because of covid.
This was two years ago when we had thanksgiving on Prince Edward Island
It wasn't the same without our family.
I am really looking forward to getting together this Sunday with my husband's family.
My hubby and daughters love my food so much they always request a small thanksgiving meal again on the actual Thanksgiving day which is on Monday, October 13th. We put on the movie "Rudy" and enjoy a cozy, do nothing day (for them) lol ( I'll be busy cooking) and give thanks to the people before us and to the good Lord and to our friends and family.
The menu on my Thanksgiving meal includes: Butternut squash soup topped with bacon, Roasted Chicken, (not a fan of turkey but I will eat it if someone else cooks it), sweet potatoes with brown sugar and caramelized marshmallows and pecans on top, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce from scratch, maple brown sugar carrots, cottage roll, stuffing, homemade gravy, biscuits and pumpkin pie for dessert. I like apple pie too. I won't lie it's a lot of work but fun to have my family enjoy the meal I cook. It makes me so happy.
ARTS CRAFTS & READING
This week I worked in my journal and planner a lot. I also did a little more reading and found that Short stories and also short poems help with getting out of a reading slump! If you are ever in a reading slump try short poems and short stories or articles. Even a magazine or blog posts. :)
Reading
Even though I am in the middle of two other books I picked up this one and so far I like it.
ART
Work in Progress
🎃 I will be painting these little pumpkins either today or tomorrow. 🎃
I like pumpkins so I made three magical clay pumpkins
Made Ghost Girl in my Leuchtturm1917 Sketchbook
I used watercolours, ink, pen and pencil crayon
I also glued on glitter stars for the buttons and twine for the bow.
Not sure if i like the shape of her eyes or the tip of the nose but I might try making her again.
A few other creative videos that I made this week
Painted on candles to make them spooky
Going to try a few more of these in the future
Made a sticker journal layout in the moleskine. I am starting to dislike this notebook because of the paper. It falls apart and crinkles too much and also bleeds to the other side. I started to glue two pages together to make the pages stronger.
That is all my wonderful friends. I hope and pray the very best for you.
Have a magical weekend and God Bless you all. I look forward to visiting your blogs.
*please someone explain the rules to T Tuesday! is it only post on Tuesday? is it post a drink? is it post only a previous post? please forgive me and let me know. :)
Also if you have a blog hop let me know and I will add your button to the side of my blog.
Currently
on my desk
always tea and coffee
This week went by so fast!
I tried to keep busy doing a lot of art.
I did neglect keeping the house in order but sometimes I just have to do what I have to do! :)
Acrylic Paints and pencil crayons
Pumpkin person
Pumpkin
Acrylic Paints
I also did decoupage this week!
I bought a vase and napkins from the Dollar tree
It was very fun to make
I don't mind that there is texture on the vase
October Journal Layout
The moleskin notebook threads are falling apart and I am not sure it will last but I will keep going and using tape. I don't like to start something and not finish it.
Acrylic Landscape Painting
I also made little pumpkins but not sure why my photo is not uploading so here is the youtube short.
I am truly grateful and happy that I focused on art this week.
I do need to find a balance though. lol
I just keep going.
One thing I learned this week is to take good care of your self,
Treat your self with love and kindness.
Thank you all for your visit and your wonderful comments.
Welcome to my blog and to this post. I appreciate you and appreciate your time. It means so much to me. Hope you enjoy this post and thank you again for being here.
This week I took a few pictures and captured two unique faces and thought I will share these with Friday Face Off Artists!
What do you think? Cute or what! :-)
Drawing my Friday Face Off Lady
Autumn Watercolour Landscape
Thank you all so much for being here. If you like check out my Free October Calendar printable for your journals.
Incredible wedding! I am so grateful and blessed to have had the opportunity to watch my nephew get married. So special. It was the most beautiful ceremony. I wish him and his new bride all the happiness in the world! God Bless them!
Sunday
Chores, groceries, feeling tired from the day before. Watched "Murder In The Building".
Monday
Got up, took shower, had coffee, prepared my daughters lunch for school, vacuumed, mopped, put laundry on, fed the cats and walked my daughter to school. Folded laundry and feeling a bit tired. Cooked bean soup for dinner. My bean soup has ingredients like carrots, celery, onion and garlic. This week I am going to try and read more of my books and do some artwork. It's monday and I am so tired. I always overwork myself with house chores. My hand rashes are doing better.
Tuesday
More laundry. I call it the cycle that doesn't end. Feeling a bit off in the afternoon but managed to create a few collages in my various notebooks. I use a travelers notebook from Peter Pauper Press, a Moleskine notebook, a Leuchtturmn1917 notebook and a small Studio Series A6 Field Sketchbook from Peter Pauper Press which I bought on Amazon.
I used lovely snail mail goodies from my friend Yaya.
This collage is in my Leuchtturmn1917.
I love using washi tape, scraps of paper and stamps too.
Junk journaling and collage work is really relaxing.
This is my new Moleskine notebook. I am not sure how this will hold up with my mixed media but we will see how it goes. It has thin paper and I like the crunchy sound it makes.
I will be using this for journaling, collage work and artworks.
Collage in my Travelers Journal
Lovely pieces came from my snail mail pal Yaya.
Wednesday
Cleaned and did some laundry. Caught up with journaling and art. Did not read as much as I would like too. Watched "Bordertown: Mural Murders" as you can tell I like Murder Mysteries. 🕵🏻♀️ 🔍
Cooked lemon rice and meatballs with tomato sauce for dinner. Hubby came home and we watched the movie "A Fall City Christmas" on Prime. A very meaningful film.
Created this piece. This is in my book Studio Series A6 Field Sketchbook from Peter Pauper Press. I bought it from Amazon. I think it was 10 dollars. I really love the paper in this book. It's soft and it feels so amazing to colour with pencil crayons. Smooth and soft. Not sure where I saw this quote but I love cake and I say "Eat the Cake" life is too short!
Would like to do more reading tomorrow, lets see how this goes...
Thurdsay
Set up my moleskine notebook with October themed stickers and I hope it holds up. It feels like it might fall apart. I am use to stronger paper and a hard cover. I will update you when I figure things out.
Doing laundry. Not cooking today. Leftovers today.
Should be reading but I am tired from setting up the notebook and worrying about it. lol
Missing my husband and feeling emotional. I'm hanging in there and can't wait until the weekend.
Took a leaf photo today.
Friday
Happy Friday Face Off! I hope you are all well my wonderful artistic and creative friends! I am happy it's Friday. I love doing the blog hop on Friday and into the weekend. It makes me really happy to see all the artwork and posts from all of you. I truly do appreciate each and everyone of you. This weekend I hope to relax a bit and enjoy spending time with family. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and keep making art!
Mixed media: I used paper, glue, markers and water soluble crayons.
I pray daily to be guided and to have strength and courage. September is here and I am very happy and excited to see so many Autumnal colours everywhere. It's the little things that bring me joy. I am grateful for each moment. This weekend my nephew is getting married and I can't wait to be a part of his special day. Looking forward to his wedding.
This month I would like to decorate our home with Autumnal decor, go bowling and go to a drive in movie because I've never been to one. I would love to take my family to see a play as well.
This month I would like to make a delicious soup. Maybe leek and potato and also would love to make a chicken pot pie! Getting hungry just thinking about it.
I have a lot of things I would like to do. I also would like to decorate my cork board for fall and make a bucket list in my Leuchtturmn1917 notebook. Sometimes I plan too many things but I feel it's better to have more ideas than nothing.
We visited the Apple farm and it was a bit crowded but lovely at the same time. We didn't go apple picking we just bought apples, pies and candy apples. I will be going back with my husband to have a treat at the cafe. In the evening made popcorn and finished the Series "The Four Seasons" on Netflix.
September 7th, 2025
Getting my Autumn decorations out of the bins and decorating.
September 8th
Made a delicious creamy potato veggie soup and bread. The family loved it.
September 9th
Made some artwork
Wednesday September 10, 2025
I made a lovely chicken pot pie today. I haven't been reading as much as I would like too. My hands get very bad rashes. So stressful. I know I should visit the doctor. Hopefully soon because no cream is working. I'm trying to stay off my phone and not watch the media because so many negative things are happening. This is why I like to visit all the lovely artists and bloggers for Friday Face Off. It brings me joy and I feel we should do things that make us happy.
Thursday September 11, 2025
It's a beautiful sunny day today. I created the mixed media piece today.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
Have a wonderful weekend and thank you so much for for being here and reading my post. Thank you for all your comments! Sending you all lots of positivity and love and light!
