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.
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.
I enjoy my coffee daily but I also enjoy my tea and recently I've been enjoying
David's Pumpkin Chai Tea
Very flavourful and doesn't leave an aftertaste in the mouth.
a lovely October tea!
I wanted to start drawing my cuppa tea's and coffee's for future posts, but for now here are some photos of my cuppas.
I haven't picked up knitting for a year, but a cup of coffee yes!
My reading has become a little less this year but my cup of coffee never!
I wish we lived in a town like Star's Hollow (Gilmore Girls), or Rosewood (Pretty Little Liars), or Mystic Falls (Vampire Diaries), or Forks (Twilight).
Wait If you had to choose one what would it be?
And if you like another Fictional town let me know so I can watch it too!
I just remembered Stranger Things and Harry Potter.
If I had to choose one of these fictional towns to live in it would be Rosewood. Mystery, friendship and fancy clothing. lol no wait I choose Star's Hollow. Casual and fun and cute.
Let's mix them up all together!
A town where there is Star's Hollow food, coziness and seasonal celebration with a hint of Rosewood friendship and fashion, a little vampire from Mystic falls and a hint of wolf from Forks. Done!
My most recent cuppa is this blue cup with stripes.
I bought this cup for my daughter for her hot chocolate but I use it too.
I know they say drink less coffee during menopause,
I'm trying but it's a challenge.
I also filmed Vlogtober Week 1
If you like have a look!
Thank you all and have a magical and wonderful week!
*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.
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