T Stands for Quietly Entering A New Year

 

Happy Tuesday wonderful friends! I had my mammogram yesterday and my scans are CLEAR! 

Thank you Lord!

On the weekend I was anxious because of yesterday.

I did manage to fill my journals with the month of February tabs and stickers. 

It was a lot of fun. I did all this at the couch area instead of the art room.

Also I got to spend time with my hubby which was really wonderful. 

 Linking up with Elizabeth's Blog Party T Stands for Tuesday

Recently I've been loving drinking smoothies!

Blueberry banana with milk and maple syrup and strawberry too. 

So good and refreshing!

I managed to put together my January vlog! 

This was a challenge but I did it. 

If you like have a look at the video. 

As for artwork the last pieces I worked on are the pastels. 

In progress I am working on Nicole's FFO portraits for Friday.

Today and tomorrow I will be continuing the FFO Portraits and I look forward to sharing them on my blog. 

Thank you all for all your wonderful comments.

Have a lovely rest of the week!

Maria 

London Fog Tea & Art

 Good Morning! It's a cold one here in Ontario. Like super cold I hate it. -14 but feels like -23! what? Noooooo I don't like it. I stay cozy and warm with my favourite tea at the moment and it is London Fog Tea. I am linking up with T Stands for Tuesday hosted by the lovely Elizabeth. 

Yesterday I took out my pastels and oh what fun I had! 

Lately I'm having a challenging time figuring it out what to draw and paint

I need more prompts,

Where do you go for finding prompts? 

using pastels is fun!

oil pastels on Canson Pastel Paper

 

Chalk Pastels on Canson Pastel Paper 

Both chalk pastels and oil pastels are messy to play with but so much fun. I will be playing with these today as well.  I hope you all have a lovely Tuesday and enjoy the rest of the week. I appreciate you all for your visit and thank you for your comments. It means a lot to me. 

Thank you! 

Maria

Weekly Arts & Crafts

 

Hello and happy Tuesday! 

Linking up to T Stands for Tuesday Hosted by lovely Elisabeth

&

Art Journal Journey hosted this month by the lovely Erika  with the Theme "What's Up"

What's Up with me...

I created my winter mood Board in the Art room,

It is always fun to put together a bunch of things that I like,

I enjoy using various fabrics, yarn, ribbons, pictures, postcards and handmade items like the felt heart.

I made a hanging heart with yarn

I do feel I need more practice with this because I tend to put too much yarn in one area than another but I do think the heart looks pretty. 

I created a pink felt heart and added glitter glue on the ends of it

I would like to make some with lavender and a lace trim in the future. 

A closer look at the winter Moodboard in my Art Room

Having a cuppa coffee. This is my daughter's cute mug.

Currently Reading and enjoying

A few stationary favourites on my desk

I use all of these daily in my journal

I love little stamps and would like to have more. They are fun to play with. 

One of my cats 

this is

Auggie

He is never amused only if it involves food. 

I hope you all have a lovely week,

thank you for your visit and your wonderful comments. 

Thank you,

Maria 

Junk Journal Art Weekly

 

Happy Tuesday! How are you all doing? Happy 2026!

I am doing good and looking forward to Junk journaling Art weekly. 

I am linking up with T Stands for Tuesday hosted by Elizabeth. 

I painted my cuppa with watercolour pencils in my mini sketchbook.

Along with other blog post ideas coming this month I hope to go slowly and smoothly into this year with no pressure. Just nice and easy. One day at a time. 

 I haven't worked at my desk since I got sick. I am better now and it has been so relaxing and fun.

I am so happy to be creating again. 

I will be exploring different mediums and working with various styles. 

I can't wait to share my process with you all. 

In my Junk Journaling process, I will be incorporating more writing and other elements in my journal pages. I look forward to more textures, colours and patterns. I look forward to mixing art with journaling and paper. A mixed media fun party!

I hope you are all well my wonderful friends. 

Thank you for reading my blog and being here. I am truly grateful. 

Have a wonderful day!

 

T Stands for January Free Printable

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