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 

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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.

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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

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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

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*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. :) 

PAST BLOG POST October 2022 when we moved from Toronto to PEI and lived there for two years! (currently we are back in Ontario)

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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. 

I truly appreciate each and everyone of you!

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Thank you from my heart!

Maria