Tuesday, October 21, 2025

A Slow Autumn 🍂 Morning



Linking up with Tea Stands For Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! Time is going fast my friends. 

The trees have changed colour; red, yellow, orange and brown. 

Leaves are falling and some trees are bare.

I've been enjoying Pumpkin Chai tea with milk and maple syrup from Davids Tea.

The cup is a gift from a friend. I received it before moving to PEI. 



I'm still stuck on the same books and really need to make the time to read more. 
Cold iced coffee for the afternoon and I love popcorn. This one is not my favourite flavour. 
Previously I bought the Pumpkin Spice popcorn and enjoyed that more. 


Books I need to finish by the end of this month. 





I wish you all a lovely week full of love, good health and kindness. 

Love how roses still bloom and blossom in Autumn. 


Thank you all for your visit. 
I hope you have magical, wonderful and creative week!
Lot's of prayers and love,
Maria 

 

Friday, October 17, 2025

A Week of Creativity



I hope you are all well my friends! Happy Friday! I made a few art pieces this week and
I am happy I was able to stay creative.
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Linking up with Friday Face Off hosted by the wonderful and talented Nicole
&
Art for Fun Friday hosted by the lovely and talented Gillena.

I painted the clay pumpkins!





 
I created a few collages, portraits and mixed media too. 
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They are not perfect and I believe It's okay to have many mistakes.
we learn from mistakes right?


Mixed Media piece
 I used paint, markers, stickers.


Doodle


an Elf 
I used watercolour and paint
I also used a little glitter 
not really happy about him but I will try and make another Elf


A watercolour landscape



Collage/Junk Journaling




Collage/ Junk Journaling





Autumn Tree
Watercolour





Lately I am not pleased with my artwork but I feel it's okay to feel this way and I must stay creative.
I have a feeling that I am very emotional due to my menopause. It's making me so emotional. lol


 I hope you had a wonderful week my friends. I wish you all the best and have a magical and wonderful weekend! Thank you for your visit and your comments. :) hugs!

Happy 10 Year Anniversary on Youtube! I can't believe it. 
I am so grateful for all my subscribers. A huge thank you to everyone who watches my videos!




Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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


T stands for Tuesday


 


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


Friday, October 10, 2025

Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend FFO & Art for Fun





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!

Happy FFO!

Linking up to Friday Face Off 

ART FOR FUN

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. 

Thank you!





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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Vlogtober Week One (Crafts, Cooking, Nature Walks & Spirit Halloween) T Stands for Tuesday






Happy Tuesday lovely friends!
Today I am linking up for

 
T stands for Tuesday

T Stands For Tuesday hosted by the wonderful and lovely 

Elizabeth and Bluebeard



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!
Lots of peace, joy and love
Maria