Faces Between the Lines

 

It has been a chaotic 8 days let me tell yoU!

Two visits to Emergency.

I am okay.  Don't worry. 

Thank you Lord!

The last vlog before going to Emergency

Linking up with Friday Face Off hosted by the lovely Nicole and Art for Fun Friday with Hosted by Gillena.

Faces Between The Lines

I got this notebook off my shelf, I initially started keeping my creative writings in it and doodles in 2021 and then the notebook turned into a journey of my cancer diagnosis in 2022 and then this notebook turned into documenting my doctor visits, scans, blood work, treatments, journaling, poetry and doodles. 

I found comfort in writing down everything that I was going through. 

Letting you all know I am cancer free and praying that in January my scans will be clear just like the page from 2022.  

I doodled the following faces through my Cancer Journey. 

I enjoyed making faces without lifting the pen off the page. 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! God Bless you all!

You can tell I am starting to feel better when I start having tea again and making collages. :) 

Thank you for your comments and your kindness. 

Have a lovely rest of the month. 

Blessings your way. 

Maria

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

Winter Wonderland and Whimsical Wonder

Linkin up with

  ART JOURNAL JOURNEY 

FRIDAY FACE OFF

ART FOR FUN FRIDAY

Winter

Winter wonderland is here and it is cold outside. I've been enjoying winter walks in the forest paths and I love the sounds of nature in the cold. The branches clanking and whipping each other, the birds sing and tweet, the squirrels rustle through the leaves to find seeds and nuts. I've been writing a lot of nature poems and would like to share them with you soon. I take my book out in the forest and write what I feel. I feel so much whimsy and wonder in the forest. I truly miss the forest in PEI. We lived close to this magical trail and I loved it so much. At the moment I am living close to another trail, I can still hear a little city noise, it's okay though. I am grateful. 

I have been enjoying filming daily for Vlogmas on my Youtube Channel and I am finding with daily vlogs it really makes me focus on the daily things that sometimes we can take for granted. I am finding that each day has beauty and magic. The pink skies and the sun rising, the lights on the Christmas tree, the hot cuppa coffee, the snow that sits on the trees like fluffy cotton. All these little things are beautiful and magical to me. I am grateful.

Winter is truly a wonderland and whimsical, it is playful and helps my imagination to come to life. I love to express what I imagine though my art and videos. I am appreciative and grateful. The sense of wonder comes out when I take walks. I do pretend I am a kid again and wonder always what is around the corner or around the tree. My imagination kicks up in nature. The only thing I don't do is run around and frolic in nature. I walk but I wonder if that would change how we feel if I actually run like a kid again. Have you tried to frolic and run in nature? I wonder why certain things fade as we grow older. Why do we lose our sense of wonder, excitement and enthusiasm and forget how to play? Why would it feel "silly" if we jump or hop around like children? I feel we should skip, jump and frolic like we did when we were kids. I think we should awaken our sense of playfulness and have fun. I feel we should bring back our sense of wonder and do more pretending. 

Winter Wonderland Artwork 

Winter Wonderland of The Past

Thank you all so much!

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 

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*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! ❤️  

Art For Fun Friday & Portrait Challenge FFO

Happy Friday! 

 Linking up with Nicole's Friday Face Off Challenge and Art for Fun Friday hosted by the lovely Gillena.

Photo Reference:

hello it's me

nice to see you 😊 

I started sketching for the Portrait Challenge this last week and I truly learned so much. 

First drawing

I did a quick sketch, a sketch with more time put into it and also I traced my self in the final piece so I can learn what I am doing wrong. My sketches do not look like me. LOL They look lovely but they don't look like me. 

Quick sketches

More time spent on this portrait. 

 The traced one below looks a little more like me. I learned a lot and with each line I almost cried. I've been through a lot the past four years and I am grateful for each pencil stroke. I thank you Nicole for inspiring me and for hosting this challenge because I am more appreciative of myself through this challenge. I will continue to work on self portraits because I do find it such a great challenge to learn and grow. I would like to work on a self portrait with paints as well. 

I traced the outline of this one:

As I traced this I learned about placement of my eyes, width of my nose and I know I would like to work on shading more. I am grateful for this challenge because I learned alot and I know that I need to keep practicing to keep growing. 

 I have so much more learning to do. Portraits are not my usual comfort zone. Landscapes and abstract and vases with flowers are my thing. So this was truly a challenge. I had a lot of fun and a lot of learning happening. I will continue to work on my portraits and continue to challenge myself. 

Thank you all so much for your visit and your comments mean so much to me. Thank you Gillena and Nicole for your amazing challenges and blog hops. It's a beautiful art community. 

I am truly grateful!

NEW VLOG

Please have a look and subscribe to my Youtube Channel.

I will be filming weekly vlogs in December called #Vlogmas

Previous Posts

Thursday Art and Dinner Date

T Stands for Theatre

Art Sketchbook Flip Through!

I finished the small sketchbook. 

A junk journal Page in my Christmas Composition Book

I really love doing these so much.

Setting up my Leuchtturm1917 Christmas Pages

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