Morning Skies & Art

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Happy Friday! 

Linking up today with the wonderful Nicole and her lovely blog  Friday Face Off  and the lovely Gillena  over at Art For Fun Friday. 

Lately feeling nervous for my daughter as she will be attending high school next week.  Change makes me nervous. I am sure she will have a wonderful time and things will be great. 

Hubby sent me a morning sunrise photo from work.  The day after the big storm.

* I'm having an issue with responding to comments again. So annoyed. I am sorry. 

A little mixed media and not sure how I feel about her. 

Hubby sent me this photo of the morning sunrise

Toronto September 4, 2026

Favourite chocolate

Blogging

Watercolour and paint and glitter

Not sure how I feel about this piece

It's a little more fun and whimsical

Painting

Collage in my Autumn Junk Journal

Another Collage in my Autumn Junk Journal

Made baked pumpkin donuts and they were a little too moist from the pumpkin but I will try again another time. 

Thank you all so much and have a lovely weekend!

I hope this comment thing fixes it self. 

All the best my friends!

Thank you again,

Maria

Mixing Art and Productivity

 Happy Friday! It's been a productive week for me. A little too productive. lol

 I am linking up today with the wonderful Nicole and her lovely blog for Friday Face Off and the lovely Gillena and her lovely blog Art For Fun Friday.

This morning's sky of Downtown Toronto sent to me from my hubby.

Paper Collages at my art desk, I started this Autumnal mini junk journal book for fun.

 Here are the Youtube shorts on how I made the collages

A sketch that I made this morning in my Leuchtturm1917  sketchbook.

This is Mr. Ziggy and next week I will try to get a picture of Mr. Auggie.

This is the Autumn Junk Journal and I am really happy with how it is developing. I would like to add more of my art in here and also some recipes and even an Autumn Bucket List and photos. A little touch of something personal. 

Here is how I made the cover

I finished the book "The Dollhouse Murders" and I gave it a 3/5. 

I watched "Blood Sacrifice" on Netflix and loved it. 

Thank you so much my wonderful friends! I will see you soon and thank you for reading my blog and also for your lovely comments and support. 

See you next week and have a lovely weekend and a wonderful rest of the month!

I did some painting as well, check out my previous post if you like. 

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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!

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 

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!