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Happy Tuesday! How are you all doing?

The last few weeks of December were very challenging for me. I had two trips to the emergency and then my husband got the flu. He's been sick for almost two weeks now. I am feeling a little lost and feeling down but I hope that I will regain creativity again.

 I managed to make a free printable calendar on Canva for you if you like. 

See my creativity is slowly coming back! :) 

DOWNLOAD HERE

I also kindly received a new mug for Christmas. 

It has my initial and a little gingy man climbing up. 

 I love it so much.

 Since I've been unwell my enthusiasm for tea has lowered a bit, I do hope that changes. 

I do enjoy the one cuppa coffee in the morning. 

Linking up to T Stands For Tuesday hosted by the wonderful Elizabeth. Thank you Elizabeth!

Also over the Holiday I kindly won a few books from Women's Network, Simon Schuster Canada and Stack TV. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for your visit

Thank you for your comments

I truly appreciate you so much.

Have a very Happy New Year! 

Thank you!

Maria

My Vlog

Last vlog of 2025

Can't wait to make more videos in 2026!

T Stands for Perfectly Imperfect

 Linking up with Elizabeth's blog  T Stands for Tuesday

Good morning friends!

It's been a strange and weird four days. 

My holly jolly mommy mug broke, my cake broke and my kiddos got sick. 

Nothing is perfect. Things happen and we just have to stay optimistic and keep going. 

Not every moment in life is a Holly Jolly Mommy moment. LOL

Just keep going

pray

stay calm

take a nature walk

The walk I took yesterday was so cold. -16 ouch!

I had to put more than one day together in the VLOGMAS because life got busy.

This mug is from David's Tea 

I've been enjoying the Bird and Blend teas. 

I did manage to make two short creative videos on Youtube

They are collages in my Christmas Composition book.

I really love making collage pages in this book.

Someone mentioned I should make a real time long video of this process. 

I think I will! :) 

Praying that the rest of this week will go smoothly,

Praying that I get some gift shopping done because I haven't been able to get anything yet. 

I am sure things will be great! 

Hope you are all well,

thank you for being here and thank you for reading my blog post. 

Maria

T Stands for 'Tis The Season To Be Jolly!

Happy December 2nd!

 I am very happy and excited for this month! I am working on a daily vlog challenge called #VLOGMAS

Linking up with Elizabeth's blog  T Stands for Tuesday

My wonderful husband bought me a lovely Advent Tea Calendar from the UK called Bird and Blend Tea. I love all their flavours. Yesterday's tea was Gingerbread Chai. It was delicious. I love this calendar because It has two tea bags. In january I go through them again and enjoy another cuppa. 

I am going to open day two later and will film it in the vlog. Also going to go for a lovely walk in the winter trail! ❄️ 

Yesterday I created a few pages of collage journaling. 

I wrote a letter to Santa and put it in the envelope.

I worked a little in my Leuchtturm1917 book. 

I added a page for the Bird and Blend Advent tea 

*Feel free to use my code: MARIA for 20% off your purchase with Leuchtturm1917.

*not sponsored. 

I also created some dangling charms to the book. I will showcase it in the vlog as well. 

On Sunday we decorated our tree and also decorated gingerbread houses and made these lovely oranges. 

They smell so wonderful in the living room. 

I will take a picture of the tree and gingerbread houses for my next post, you can see them in the vlog if you like. :) 

 

Feel Free to Use this December Calendar. 

You can save it on your computer and print it out. 

 Videos

Getting ready for Christmas

#VLOGMAS DAY 1

ART

Draw a Snowman with me

My Travel journal 

Have a wonderful December my friends. I will be uploading a vlog every day (hopefully) 

Thank you all for your visit and your wonderful comments. 

I always look forward to reading them. 

#VLOGMAS 

I will be uploading a daily vlog on my Youtube Channel. 

Please subscribe to my channel. 

Thank you from my heart!

WISH LIST FOR CHRISTMAS

A scandinavian Elf

And

and last one 

Favourite Series

Home For Christmas On Netflix (Norwegian) I am obsessed with Norwegian shows.   

Thank you! ❤️  

T stands for Theatre!

Happy Tuesday! I know I said I don't like fizzy drinks but on the weekend I had this drink called flirt and it is made in Canada. I LOVE IT. So so good. Reminds me of Orangina. 

LINKING UP WITH T STANDS FOR TUESDAY hosted by Elizabeth.

I had a lovely day on Sunday. I went with my friend Alexandra to see a play and had lunch at Athens Restaurant. First time going to this restaurant and the food was spectacular!

The restaurant is located on 707 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4J 1L2. Spectacular food! Very Authentic Greek Food. 

Also that coke was incredible! I think the temperature of a drink matters a lot.  

This coke zero was so deliciously cold I enjoyed it. Yes I know I said I don't like fizzy drinks before but I think I enjoy fizzy drink when it is very very cold. 🥶 Must be super cold. 

Fantastic food. The meatballs and rice had so much flavour. So good. 

They decorated the restaurant so nicely.

After the delicious lunch we went to Trinacria Espresso Italiano on 374 Danforth Ave.  and I ordered a double shot of espresso in my cappuccino. Oh boy let me tell you this kept me up all night into the morning. lol 

it was the best cappuccino ever!

I love my cappuccino with cinnamon.

We took an Uber to the Theatre and watched a funny Greek Play. It was wonderful and my friend Christine is in the play and she is so talented. She executed her roll perfectly. She is fantastic! ⭐️ 

The entire cast was wonderful and I laughed cried. I loved the play. 

My friend Christine and I. 

Christine if you are reading this I want you to know you are AMAZING! Love you to the moon and back! 

My friend Alexandra and I.

I had a wonderful time with my friend Alexandra. She is incredible friend and I am grateful for our friendship. I know Alexandra for over 30 years. She is amazing. 

 What a fun and wonderful day filled with special moments. 

I love my friends and I am so grateful for our friendship. 

Thank you all so much for your visit. 

Thank you for your comments. 

There are more shows coming up. You can find more info if you like here: Mpampades Me Roumi

T Stands for Getting Creative

Happy Tuesday! How are you all doing?  I hope you are all well. 

It snowed 

I love looking at snow!

I've been busy with journaling and artwork and some drawing and painting. I have been also cooking, cleaning and keeping the house in order. I am trying to stay active too. I am happy and feel blessed and good. Hope you are all doing well aswell. 

 Linking up with  T Stands for Tuesday

hosted by the lovely Elizabeth.

I've been enjoying tea with lemon and honey

Made a digital collage on Shuffles 

Touched up some old Christmas Postcards that I made last year.

New Post Card

Junk Journaling in the Christmas Composition book

I kindly received this beautiful card from a lovely friend Joy last Christmas. I can now use all my Christmas cards and memories and keep them in this Composition book that I am making. 

As I sit at my desk this is my view

Junk Journaling in my Christmas Composition book

Made another lovely Christmas Postcard that I am sending out to a friend.

Have a wonderful day and a wonderful rest of the week!

I am off to sketch some more for the Portrait Challenge! That post will be up this Friday! 

Can't wait to share that with you all. 

Thank you all so much,

Maria 

 Check out my vlog if you like

 

T Stands for Life is Messy But I Don't Mind At All

Happy Tuesday!

First I would like to say it is Remembrance Day and I would like to pay my respect to all the fallen soldiers and respect to all that fought for our Country. 

Since my last post I have not stepped close to my art desk nor have I created anything. 

I was busy with house chores and my mind is all over the place. 

I wish I had a routine. Routines never stay routines because life happens and things change and I just go with the flow and try to just hang in there. Life is messy but I don't mind at all. I just keep going.

I did manage to go into my planner and write down things that I am thinking about and organize my thoughts a bit. I also did some Youtube watching and stayed off the scrolling as much as I could. 

Linking up with T Stands for Tuesday hosted by the lovely Elizabeth.

Thank you Elizabeth for hosting a lovely party! 🎉 

Since my last post  I vlogged a bit more and pushed my self to just film and get out of my comfort zone.

I will be putting the video together by the end of the week. 

I also created a mood board. 

I bought stamps for my snail mail friends. 

On Sunday we had our first snow ❄️ fall! 

So beautiful to look at.

I am trying really hard to make my self go for daily walks. 

Not sure what my problem is. I avoid it. lol

I need to just go for a walk and take my sketch book or my camera and just go for 30 min. 

Hopefully I will go tomorrow. 😬 

I walk my daughter to school and I took this photo on the way to school.

I also finished a book!

Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose by Mary Oliver
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Little Alleluias Collected Poetry and Prose by Mary Oliver is an exceptional book. This is my first time reading Mary Oliver’s work and I love her poetry. She expresses a lot about nature and how she feels about nature. She questions things and her writing is clear and simple yet so so beautiful. Wonderful reading experience. I can read her work over and over again. I would like to read more of her works. Wonderful and I highly recommend.

View all my reviews

Thank you so much for your visit my friends. 

I hope you are having a wonderful week. 

I look forward to reading your comments. 

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Hugs,

Maria 

Tuesday Tea & A Farewell Poem to October

Linking up with Tea For Tuesday 

Hosted by the lovely Elizabeth.  Bluebird and Elizabeth's Blog

This is not the poem

I pulled my back last night

Don't ask how 

Ok 

I will tell you

Just getting into my PJ's 

yup that's all it took

Now I'm sitting and can't move from the couch

Thank goodness I have some help today.

Yesterday I tried this tea and It's in my favourite mug

I love the Nutcracker story and this mug is from Indigo

it has the characters all over it

I have a green version of this mug as well but it's in boxes from our move

We haven't unboxed everything

The tea is Organic Green Tea Matcha with toasted rice 

I really love the flavour of the toasted rice.

My Sweet October

October,

Colours of red, orange, yellow, brown

Leaves are falling all around and the air is cool

Fireplace in the air

Sounds of Autumn everywhere

Leaves falling like rain to the ground

The sun is bright 

The sky so blue contrasting with the warm colours of the leaves

oh how I will miss your beauty!

My sweet October.

-Maria Medeiros

Thank you for each moment

I am grateful for each day

MINI COMPILATION OF PHOTOS

Have a wonderful day and a lovely rest of the week my friends!

Thank you from my heart!

Maria

Happy Tea Stands For Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! How are you all doing?

I hope you are all good my friends. I am feeling tired from the Thanksgiving weekend. 

I cooked a lot and ate too much. 🤣 

We also watched a couple of Christmas movies and had popcorn. My favourite snack. The two Christmas movies that we watched were Angels Sing with Harry Connick Junior and While you Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock. Sandra is an fantastic actress. 

I woke up today and painted my tea cup photo for Tea Stands For Tuesday.

Linking up with Tea Stands For Tuesday 

hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard

 

Painted my cuppa tea. This tea is the Twinings Lady Grey and I add lemon to it. 

I definitely want to practice painting cups more often.

I also enjoyed a cold iced caramel coffee with pumpkin spice. 🎃

I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week my friends.

Thank you for your visit.

Lots of hugs

Maria