Friday, October 17, 2025
A Week of Creativity
Hello my name is Maria and I'm very passionate about art. I enjoy blogging and photography. I'm a full time mommy and really enjoy blogging about things that I enjoy and love. I'm passionate about the Arts and I love to showcase my artistic flare through my writing, photography and written articles. Thank you for being here and I appreciate your visit. Please leave me a comment. I truly enjoy reading your comments. Thank you.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Happy Tea Stands For Tuesday
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 my name is Maria and I'm very passionate about art. I enjoy blogging and photography. I'm a full time mommy and really enjoy blogging about things that I enjoy and love. I'm passionate about the Arts and I love to showcase my artistic flare through my writing, photography and written articles. Thank you for being here and I appreciate your visit. Please leave me a comment. I truly enjoy reading your comments. Thank you.
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!
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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
A few other creative videos that I made this weekPainted on candles to make them spooky
Going to try a few more of these in the future
Have a magical weekend and God Bless you all. I look forward to visiting your blogs.
Thank you!
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Hello my name is Maria and I'm very passionate about art. I enjoy blogging and photography. I'm a full time mommy and really enjoy blogging about things that I enjoy and love. I'm passionate about the Arts and I love to showcase my artistic flare through my writing, photography and written articles. Thank you for being here and I appreciate your visit. Please leave me a comment. I truly enjoy reading your comments. Thank you.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Vlogtober Week One (Crafts, Cooking, Nature Walks & Spirit Halloween) T Stands for Tuesday
Hello my name is Maria and I'm very passionate about art. I enjoy blogging and photography. I'm a full time mommy and really enjoy blogging about things that I enjoy and love. I'm passionate about the Arts and I love to showcase my artistic flare through my writing, photography and written articles. Thank you for being here and I appreciate your visit. Please leave me a comment. I truly enjoy reading your comments. Thank you.
Friday, October 3, 2025
October Pumpkin Art & Blog Hops
Linking Up to these lovely parties!
*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)
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
Thank you all for your visit and your wonderful comments.
I truly appreciate each and everyone of you!
Linking up to these wonderful Blog Parties!
Thank you from my heart!
Maria
Hello my name is Maria and I'm very passionate about art. I enjoy blogging and photography. I'm a full time mommy and really enjoy blogging about things that I enjoy and love. I'm passionate about the Arts and I love to showcase my artistic flare through my writing, photography and written articles. Thank you for being here and I appreciate your visit. Please leave me a comment. I truly enjoy reading your comments. Thank you.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Happy October! 🎃 🍁 Favourites and Vlogtober Plans
I will try to film vlogtober videos this month. Not sure if I can make a daily one but I will try my best.
This is a short that I made yesterday. This is a Junk Journal Entry in my Junky Junk Journal as I call it.
My junky junk journal is in an OXFORD composition book. I also glue two pages together to create each collage.
I love junky junk journals! :)
I hope you all have a wonderful October.Thank you for being here and reading my post. Thank you for all your comments!
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Check out my prints on Red Bubble
Currently Reading the same books but I want to finish them this month.
Hello my name is Maria and I'm very passionate about art. I enjoy blogging and photography. I'm a full time mommy and really enjoy blogging about things that I enjoy and love. I'm passionate about the Arts and I love to showcase my artistic flare through my writing, photography and written articles. Thank you for being here and I appreciate your visit. Please leave me a comment. I truly enjoy reading your comments. Thank you.
Friday, September 26, 2025
Happy Friday! Friday Face Off
Hello and Happy Friday wonderful artist friends!
Can you believe this is the last Friday in September 2025?
Where did the time go?
LINKING UP TO FRIDAY FACE OFF! YAY!
Welcome to my blog and to this post. I appreciate you and appreciate your time. It means so much to me. Hope you enjoy this post and thank you again for being here.
This week I took a few pictures and captured two unique faces and thought I will share these with Friday Face Off Artists!
What do you think? Cute or what! :-)
Thank you all so much for being here. If you like check out my Free October Calendar printable for your journals.
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Hello my name is Maria and I'm very passionate about art. I enjoy blogging and photography. I'm a full time mommy and really enjoy blogging about things that I enjoy and love. I'm passionate about the Arts and I love to showcase my artistic flare through my writing, photography and written articles. Thank you for being here and I appreciate your visit. Please leave me a comment. I truly enjoy reading your comments. Thank you.




















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