tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72535355434664120622024-03-05T11:59:39.814-05:00Mandy SaileCanadian colored pencil artist Mandy Saile is a multi-disciplinary artist creating whimsical and vividly colored artwork for happy home decor.
Her work is inspired by all of the rescued house rabbits and chronic head pain she lives with.Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.comBlogger2044125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-13030530291263223012020-11-26T21:50:00.001-05:002020-11-27T21:52:34.708-05:00One Year Ago Today & One Year Cancer Free<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq0vGv8LJZMPa7dpUdPnYQ6txyPbueKFoNDyrVXz8yZL2-CjlbOeoHBr9ExezRgsqWfUpvxs_qccWZE-myW6afqvqdD1T_h773pfX1eG7Kt48htQ6heStDsa8mVLKakwufVYrZp1r5V1VA/s1080/One+Year+Cancer+Free+01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1080" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq0vGv8LJZMPa7dpUdPnYQ6txyPbueKFoNDyrVXz8yZL2-CjlbOeoHBr9ExezRgsqWfUpvxs_qccWZE-myW6afqvqdD1T_h773pfX1eG7Kt48htQ6heStDsa8mVLKakwufVYrZp1r5V1VA/w640-h428/One+Year+Cancer+Free+01.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">A year ago today my love was going through his first cancer surgery, just two weeks after finding a big mass via scope. This was 3 months after countless ER visits, 6 cat-scans and almost dying from 2 deep vein thrombosis clots that lodged in both lungs which is when he was in intensive care for 3 days and his survival rate was 20%!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="text-align: left;">He's had 3 more of these surgeries since where the surgeon scooped out half of his bladder like a melon but this 1st time actually went so deep it </span><span style="text-align: left;">perforated</span><span style="text-align: left;"> his bladder! It was a looonngggg day and night...15 hours in the hospital! He was home that same night but with a catheter and I had to stay up all night emptying the bag and watching for the size of clots coming out...the next day we were getting the catheter out and that night we were back in the ER with very scary and awful excessive bleeding, because of this for following surgeries he was kept overnight thankfully!</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="text-align: left;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3mgTmjE5sKbdgps_oEaDJIfkyE8c10TJanp8NF5Wa4HTZot9qqQjLHJfWlU9f6OJhy4rLiZU4YLwiuMCnAYJrqaxprK-8_X5hHhREx93tUDAdi4NrQGd6joeYOjJGO4URrsGZSFWo7ij6/s1080/One+Year+Cancer+Free+03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="721" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3mgTmjE5sKbdgps_oEaDJIfkyE8c10TJanp8NF5Wa4HTZot9qqQjLHJfWlU9f6OJhy4rLiZU4YLwiuMCnAYJrqaxprK-8_X5hHhREx93tUDAdi4NrQGd6joeYOjJGO4URrsGZSFWo7ij6/w428-h640/One+Year+Cancer+Free+03.jpg" width="428" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="text-align: left;">Then it was the torturous wait for biopsy results. We've done this process 4 times since. At this time we didn't know it was a highly aggressive cancer, "A Killer" as the doctor put it. We got that news the day after his 44th birthday, 2.5 weeks later!</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="text-align: left;">As you might only imagine it's been an exhaustive time but he's beautifully and officially 1 year cancer free now. But of course for us the clock restarts every single time a scope is coming up or every time we wait for biopsies. </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;">Every time he has a new pain we panic the cancer is back. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;">That will be life now, panicking, being afraid...that's what cancer does to you, it instills endless fear, it snatches away your lightness of heart, it smothers any kind of joyful naivety that the bad things won't happen to you.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;">I'm surprised by how fast the year has flown by, but at least that means that the worst year of both of our lives has flown by too! </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;">He was my hero before all this, for his beautiful tenacious heart. But now he's also my warrior beast, I've seen him go through so much bone chilling immense amounts of pain, suffering and fear with more grace, kindness and toughness then I've ever seen before in my life. I love you <a href="https://www.instagram.com/deyfennslayd/" target="_blank">Jonathan Peterson aka </a></span></span><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/deyfennslayd/" target="_blank">@deyfennslayd</a></span><span style="text-align: left;">.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA3OJ_zV8Suh7FqGH9DtFbLZuvd_54J-QObmQetVNkDbz9hO0OW5T6-pPPeNFj8dK1PbU0vx665rhtJtB66tcGopU5vA5mP4FMCl3D9mTI_5vapUXDJbcOIqwX00qH23rpv8SYAXBQyl84/s1080/One+Year+Cancer+Free+02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1080" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA3OJ_zV8Suh7FqGH9DtFbLZuvd_54J-QObmQetVNkDbz9hO0OW5T6-pPPeNFj8dK1PbU0vx665rhtJtB66tcGopU5vA5mP4FMCl3D9mTI_5vapUXDJbcOIqwX00qH23rpv8SYAXBQyl84/w640-h428/One+Year+Cancer+Free+02.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p></p>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-7103134106762853572020-11-25T22:17:00.005-05:002020-11-27T22:24:49.366-05:00Mooshi-Haroo's 1st Year Homecoming<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">It was one year ago today that we found our Mooshi-Haroo outside in the freezing cold, eating birdseed to survive, in our very own front yard...it was the eve of my honey's 1st big surgery, a deep resection of a highly aggressive bladder tumor and the worst possible night for a rescue but how could we just ignore him...we couldn't, there wasn't any second of a doubt. The odds of us seeing him was a miracle really, I just happened to spy him from the front window as I was sitting down to eat dinner & yelled to my honey, "Quick, Jonathan hurry, there's a bunny in the front yard" and out I dashed in my socks, in the sleet and snow, only stopping to run back inside about 40 minutes later because I couldn't feel my feet! A neighbor called out their door "Is that your bunny" and after we caught him, I went to talk to them and found out that Mooshi was actually seen running around the neighborhood for at least a whole month and apparently he had a friend! He was seen with a bigger white rabbit! Well I'll tell you the rest of that story on Friday, how about that, it's quite the tale ha ha!.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvWIh-NY1vXBWu7pZaNk7vPOdE3A7cnL1LC-meNr9OKX1hFGivxK1SObl4JOwp8SyUJeUo-rWYfoV4js6ORtEjYH2pk5ANJtLfKLiLEy5_-INQ4LO0I5rXjoCp6ySb_eOpQpsvSF6KPAi/s1080/Mooshi+Haroo+01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvWIh-NY1vXBWu7pZaNk7vPOdE3A7cnL1LC-meNr9OKX1hFGivxK1SObl4JOwp8SyUJeUo-rWYfoV4js6ORtEjYH2pk5ANJtLfKLiLEy5_-INQ4LO0I5rXjoCp6ySb_eOpQpsvSF6KPAi/w480-h640/Mooshi+Haroo+01.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">There was at first a desperation to catch him because I knew if he left our yard, it was unlikely we'd see him again since this was the first time we'd seen him at all and I am a bird watcher so I watch out the windows often! He was elusive and wiley at first and my heart was in my throat as we tried again and again to approach him with no luck, he clearly didn't trust people. But I quickly realized that he would follow Jonathan and I said "Babe, go to the back slowly and open the gate" and he did so a few steps at a time and sure enough, like the Pied Piper, Moo followed him cautiously but surely and then went straight into the backyard which is when we were able to close the gate and feel some relief because at least back there he couldn't escape. It took another 10 minutes to corner him and pick him up. He wouldn't eat or poop for 3 days after, he just wanted to drink bowl after bowl of water. It took everything in him to survive out there. The next day and night was a freezing cold blizzard, one which he wasn't likely to survive, talk about serendipitous timing! I didn't want to keep him at first honestly, I wanted to get him healthy & find him another home because things were just way too much with my honeys diagnosis (and mine infact) but my honey without a doubt said we had to, "He was meant to be". I am so glad we did. He's a chewer for sure but he's also so so happy & dances all the time for us, he comes when called and has such a gentle warm personality. We sadly suspect he was an Easter present tossed outside. I wanted to call him Haroo, Jonathn wanted to call him Mooshi so Mooshi-Haroo it became, a brand new family member.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Happy 1st year homecoming Mooshi-Haroo Saile-Peterson, we love you so much buddy XO and everyone don't forget that you can see <a href="https://www.instagram.com/leporidaelovely/" target="_blank">Mooshi-Haroo on our rabbit micro-sanctuary stream on Instagram</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-51584790732639866962020-11-22T17:09:00.003-05:002020-11-22T17:10:11.945-05:00Cosmic Fox<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I finished my "Cosmic Fox"...she's just plain old archival ink pen on sketchpaper...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVefysZob9_4XoUtQf8FuycC8q6e7LryAlMk_zAc2lkFpWsP_H3XseHPKIzPh1epWsW1hBkVFLDg5LFf3lHZMN7MIdVKxFQV0QwHLBITKx-RlqCZyQUvmclRKonVCPuchZYwy09F9H1VD/s2048/Magic+Fox.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1484" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVefysZob9_4XoUtQf8FuycC8q6e7LryAlMk_zAc2lkFpWsP_H3XseHPKIzPh1epWsW1hBkVFLDg5LFf3lHZMN7MIdVKxFQV0QwHLBITKx-RlqCZyQUvmclRKonVCPuchZYwy09F9H1VD/w464-h640/Magic+Fox.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I am pretty sure she's going to be going on some t-shirts soon, that's exciting.</span></div>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-33213848507279552972020-11-19T23:37:00.004-05:002020-11-19T23:37:19.162-05:00Miss You Teela<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">4 years ago today I lost my best friend, my soul baby,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">my sunshine Teela...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8htyb3dA9TNcZwYb3R9zM7u_783gmv9akFtAKF5c97hCyUJZ_vtfn0FE3yXkFuHm_WB2zbiI8c0CQzaDABimOIlcWam_nH2K0yxQwj5oKjcg5GQ3oMrVI5ZfGqHaakrSLvZli3syr2sj5/s640/Teela+in+August+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8htyb3dA9TNcZwYb3R9zM7u_783gmv9akFtAKF5c97hCyUJZ_vtfn0FE3yXkFuHm_WB2zbiI8c0CQzaDABimOIlcWam_nH2K0yxQwj5oKjcg5GQ3oMrVI5ZfGqHaakrSLvZli3syr2sj5/w640-h428/Teela+in+August+01.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSLTXBUlR0I6tZNhroN_OKQHX6yX_XqaRPkT7fxKUyXB72N33EXGFkd2mip_7o350ODoJ-3Mg9roUIRNtla-Zk0kPJMDt1r9GYxa_Nir_vxW26daqydySJ5IuIpb79Tchf4fPSV5d9KiGC/s640/Enjoying+The+Yard+03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jVu7ZIgQ3BqghFdobkHU50vQthYfb4Ztgc1VoO-ZZmkiiF4sHq0vZRFqAwUA5WwnO6AiSAb0WVuS6DwmyYdcDQWQJ9roSo-2WY_LxV9AgJtoywYnLXSUuGyvnaqzZ0n9NQMvPXdBq2Jo/s640/Teela+Outside+02+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jVu7ZIgQ3BqghFdobkHU50vQthYfb4Ztgc1VoO-ZZmkiiF4sHq0vZRFqAwUA5WwnO6AiSAb0WVuS6DwmyYdcDQWQJ9roSo-2WY_LxV9AgJtoywYnLXSUuGyvnaqzZ0n9NQMvPXdBq2Jo/w640-h428/Teela+Outside+02+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">The plain truth is she took a huge part of me with her when she died</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">suddenly in my arms. </span><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">I miss her Every. Single. Day.</span></div><p></p>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-54680528307215950242020-11-18T22:41:00.005-05:002020-11-18T22:42:42.976-05:00It Was A Good Summer<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">It was a good summer...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlPRwZH7t0fpj37JFWIULz9tcevJXRjZz6AB40IMMIUJbccNbV22BXKh-K72ZDAKTg7xRf4Gq5SROvQ_5WbNByu2uLNJfHD5_ALbG_SWnU9-2kW4D5ysY1ZSnpg0wv5AhP3Q8nNyW9m0FX/s1080/It+Was+A+Good+Summer+18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlPRwZH7t0fpj37JFWIULz9tcevJXRjZz6AB40IMMIUJbccNbV22BXKh-K72ZDAKTg7xRf4Gq5SROvQ_5WbNByu2uLNJfHD5_ALbG_SWnU9-2kW4D5ysY1ZSnpg0wv5AhP3Q8nNyW9m0FX/w480-h640/It+Was+A+Good+Summer+18.jpg" width="480" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicub9mzDIIEG12x87Jn4S4FU2BQ5_yR_l4_rIr98l8Sf-6Qquf45t8g7zwKJML44n7xfL_8ieqvdtQHCcB4ohyNOC_Ac0yQS6FNWVJDo9SG_LSZfzNxRyiUC_2OWvgDYDs6WXdMX_Tg52T/s1080/It+Was+A+Good+Summer+16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicub9mzDIIEG12x87Jn4S4FU2BQ5_yR_l4_rIr98l8Sf-6Qquf45t8g7zwKJML44n7xfL_8ieqvdtQHCcB4ohyNOC_Ac0yQS6FNWVJDo9SG_LSZfzNxRyiUC_2OWvgDYDs6WXdMX_Tg52T/w480-h640/It+Was+A+Good+Summer+16.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Everyday I felt glad that we had a yard for us & the buns.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-17003230575851444712020-11-17T22:32:00.002-05:002020-11-17T22:35:27.332-05:00A Kind Night In Progress<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I am so happy to be back to blogging, </span><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">hopefully with my normal regularity now!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Although I have come back to find that the Blogger interface has</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span>completely changed </span><span>and I can't say I am a fan of the changes whatsoever!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span>Anyhow...let me start to catch you up on abunch of new images...</span></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHbhfns7_dJF7jT-HfwtiIimxkx62QWrTHMhhCPf6g-YXo9HYoOyi0onN_kNlre6Z5FrA4_8Xh9SIGWpMZtjECluVxvCVcPe9PCHb7DVGT_Dww4QOGBXnSfLUdukTTe0GvoyGye2dRQWCk/s1080/A+Kind+Night+Lizard+01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHbhfns7_dJF7jT-HfwtiIimxkx62QWrTHMhhCPf6g-YXo9HYoOyi0onN_kNlre6Z5FrA4_8Xh9SIGWpMZtjECluVxvCVcPe9PCHb7DVGT_Dww4QOGBXnSfLUdukTTe0GvoyGye2dRQWCk/w480-h640/A+Kind+Night+Lizard+01.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsBQwIUZZ2FGtrRx2S5T8MEQA3iJRl5tegYy4eABwA5BHutoM3C4lWmSiF6AiCTvnI5lBmKzP2yEKDixTSP0tTxt3NQYkMLJt8AaUddWDwYBQCnRRG_F03n5EJEpPN7m1mCKFzV_eF4IhU/s1080/A+Kind+Night+In+Progress+20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsBQwIUZZ2FGtrRx2S5T8MEQA3iJRl5tegYy4eABwA5BHutoM3C4lWmSiF6AiCTvnI5lBmKzP2yEKDixTSP0tTxt3NQYkMLJt8AaUddWDwYBQCnRRG_F03n5EJEpPN7m1mCKFzV_eF4IhU/w480-h640/A+Kind+Night+In+Progress+20.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">...so bear with me as I figure out everything</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">and get a new font etc sorted out!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">In the meantime here's a new piece almost complete,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">it's a coloured pencil on paper called "A Kind Night",</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">it's taking awhile as it's full of lots of detail but it'll all be worth it I am hoping.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I'll be able to show you the final piece soon XO.</span></div><p></p>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-38003998736319219072020-11-16T22:33:00.002-05:002020-11-16T22:33:15.463-05:00Random Road Trips<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">One of our favorite things to do has always been just to pick a road and see where it takes us....this time it was way out in the middle of nowhere on active logging roads where I had to pee on the side of the road and where we were racing in front of logging trucks because there was nowhere to pull off safely! But in the spots</span><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;"> where we could pull off safely the scenery was breathtaking.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">(this butterfly is called an Aphrodite Frittilary...Isn't that the prettiest name!)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZP1P90G7Xt4QzpuKeqrIBn3bRZDMFzVPHQvbeAe_68QumUWyeziY1ELys2XIxyIrY9qe6P1LvoF8Tl7MNjvVa6B4kVVAisOkqV6eKu5_oCOkArVb79fXv_n6GFcM8xXUHjzTFgogWeP-/s1080/Roadtrip+07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEZP1P90G7Xt4QzpuKeqrIBn3bRZDMFzVPHQvbeAe_68QumUWyeziY1ELys2XIxyIrY9qe6P1LvoF8Tl7MNjvVa6B4kVVAisOkqV6eKu5_oCOkArVb79fXv_n6GFcM8xXUHjzTFgogWeP-/w480-h640/Roadtrip+07.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">We ended up at one point along the shores of St. Bernard where there was a sudden & stark reminder of the world we've created by eating animals!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">But it was also a good reminder that we're lucky we have a vehicle & the time to take these random spur of the moment road trips that help us clear our minds & hearts of life's stresses, it's one thing safe things we can do nowadays as long as we stay in the vehicle and far away from people!!!</span></div><br /><p></p>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-58268937723673827462020-11-13T22:47:00.001-05:002020-11-16T22:51:37.018-05:00A Year Ago Today<p style="text-align: center;"> I<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">t was a year ago exactly today that our world was turned upside down in what's feeling like a very permanent way even though he's now 11 months concer free! My gut was telling me something was wrong weeks before when we were in and out of the hospital due to a foot injury that lead to blood clots that lead to him almost dying in the Critical Care Unit </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large; text-align: left;">and all of that eventually lead to the discovery of a tumor but only after ALOT of things just kept happening to land him back in the ER!..the doctors missed this tumor again and again...Thank goodness for a random ER doctor that said "hmmm something is up here, you shouldn't have blood in your urine, lets send you for a bladder scope". We want to find this ER doctor and somehow get a message to him to thank him for being on the ball and investigatory instead of just blowing the blood off as though it was nothing like our own family Dr. Elena Ayoub-Kolb did!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsjkxG4-n-llSDCPoP2hyygawDD8FzAoEzMvQFyHoNEVkTpfTzImCUPBSKxMAwLH0hDxrBIz-ZN2bBdBsM6WM-pJfNhXGvZR7TpKq3bqqKJtULW5qa0Wfwd_quiRmH_4ZKJ8a8yfDUJ5K/s1080/Jonathan+-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsjkxG4-n-llSDCPoP2hyygawDD8FzAoEzMvQFyHoNEVkTpfTzImCUPBSKxMAwLH0hDxrBIz-ZN2bBdBsM6WM-pJfNhXGvZR7TpKq3bqqKJtULW5qa0Wfwd_quiRmH_4ZKJ8a8yfDUJ5K/w480-h640/Jonathan+-1.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large; text-align: left;">This day a year ago, my heart was pounding away in my throat as I waited in the waiting room as my honey got his scope. I knew something was wrong the second the nurse came to get me telling me that 'my husband has had a bad scare and needed me'. I was lead into the back to the surgeons office where I found my amazing Jonathan, usually solid as a rock no matter what, shaking like I've never seen him shake before & as I knelt down to comfort him, the doctor instantly put his hand on my shoulder...it was then that I knew we were in trouble...</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Like I said, he's 11 months cancer free now...it's been a hell of a battle, a hell of a year with countless more ER visits after the discovery of the cancer, 4 big surgeries, 12 treatments, many scopes and almost 20 nights in the hospital etc etc. Life hasn't fully uprighted yet honestly though, cause we're not out of the woods entirely yet and well I just don't know if it ever does once cancer has swooped into your life! But I do know one thing, I have never ever been prouder of being this amazing man's partner in everything.</span></span></p>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-59018699161241249692020-11-07T20:22:00.002-05:002020-11-15T20:33:36.125-05:00Meet The Maker - Day 6 - Shop Small<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Today's is the last day of Meet The Maker and the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large; text-align: left;">prompt is "Shop Small".</span></p><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;">Supporting small businesses whether it's online or local is such a lovely thing and feeling...all of us small makers are just trying to make the world a smidge lovelier with our creativity and goodness knows the world</div><div style="text-align: center;">can use a bit of extra lovely lately!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bIWBJLQpi3eH9MRHmPCjjVU1ikQ4FSAhaeIdn2zfwhgF0i_3b7xm1grYeQ-QNcoayArOOnJUL5KsM86VjtTl9ONsKPqZJpelQy7hlvE6ZbHWJWJuak403MXDPRpq6vlan17ApIc2_G9q/s1080/New+Packaging+01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bIWBJLQpi3eH9MRHmPCjjVU1ikQ4FSAhaeIdn2zfwhgF0i_3b7xm1grYeQ-QNcoayArOOnJUL5KsM86VjtTl9ONsKPqZJpelQy7hlvE6ZbHWJWJuak403MXDPRpq6vlan17ApIc2_G9q/w480-h640/New+Packaging+01.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;">Every single order I get, no matter how big or small I do a happy dance</div><div style="text-align: center;">and get a burble of happiness in my tum.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I appreciate every single one so much.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It means the world that someone wants to spend their hard earned money</div><div style="text-align: center;">on my work and it also acknowledges my unique skills, training & hard work too.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikg6ff_vrFa9PIGgBWx0XMm-dCpzYmgBtW-GuHky2pMB8yuJ2L6mDKoxMgpxIu5nAXKXhGgYAJ5rqOKZ-ERCTq2FQrZe572Z3y3ArX6xYmD0v-T58TilKFSIwnmqwg1TdIFLQSVEvzpTpU/s1080/New+Packaging+07.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikg6ff_vrFa9PIGgBWx0XMm-dCpzYmgBtW-GuHky2pMB8yuJ2L6mDKoxMgpxIu5nAXKXhGgYAJ5rqOKZ-ERCTq2FQrZe572Z3y3ArX6xYmD0v-T58TilKFSIwnmqwg1TdIFLQSVEvzpTpU/w480-h640/New+Packaging+07.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;">Even if you can't buy from small businesses right now,</div><div style="text-align: center;">because let's face it, sometimes that just isn't possible,</div><div style="text-align: center;">there are still great ways that you can help us small indie businesses.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You can like our posts and I always encourage people to not just heart a post but to leave comments too....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgno3nB-eI3sv89G06-MiLEaFjrrV5k2zxtLuMkR4Su3QZnD3rE4MiK9wvlUzVbYgfB8MrgqinY75Ew8VAdQxJaacTubglrf2T8mfaqyHetmZaUo1QwGJEphOf1B2TPUnXOhkRYR-U0JVg-/s1080/New+Packaging+08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgno3nB-eI3sv89G06-MiLEaFjrrV5k2zxtLuMkR4Su3QZnD3rE4MiK9wvlUzVbYgfB8MrgqinY75Ew8VAdQxJaacTubglrf2T8mfaqyHetmZaUo1QwGJEphOf1B2TPUnXOhkRYR-U0JVg-/w480-h640/New+Packaging+08.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">....Reposting our work or things that you have bought from us on all or any of your social media platforms is one of the biggest ways you can help us out.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Saving our posts helps us get higher IG rankings which is a tricky beast!</div><div style="text-align: center;">and well just sharing our work & names with your family & friends</div><div style="text-align: center;">is a wonderful way to help us get our work in front of new eyes. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhieZzGPHy57JZJZMmfdj2rr9aYUJdA97V00fpko23-wyAnS8_l9i4vmZZMMOyrJrCSDe9XNvHlp_fSl5XsNQ8GaQQHEJ66WeQywmNKEeeKyCB3YJQDiFzxsgKg0SJ12DyETk0B9yQZNrLn/s1080/New+Packaging+03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhieZzGPHy57JZJZMmfdj2rr9aYUJdA97V00fpko23-wyAnS8_l9i4vmZZMMOyrJrCSDe9XNvHlp_fSl5XsNQ8GaQQHEJ66WeQywmNKEeeKyCB3YJQDiFzxsgKg0SJ12DyETk0B9yQZNrLn/w480-h640/New+Packaging+03.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Also signing up for our newsletters</div><div style="text-align: center;">and encouraging friends and family to check out our work is all super helpful. Any and all of these actions are a wonderful way to help us indie businesses out but are also great reminder to us to that someone out there is indeed paying attention and liking what we're working so hard on and in many ways that is just as important as the sales cause goodness knows we need cheerleaders, especially today in these turbulent uncertain scary & unprecedented times!</div></span></span>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-53458186702562425392020-11-06T17:36:00.001-05:002020-11-15T20:19:19.301-05:00Meet The Maker - Day 5 - Community Over Competition<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Todays Meet The Maker Prompt is "COMMUNITY OVER COMPETITION".</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">My experiences with this has been a mixed bag to be truthful.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;">I really think finding community instead of competition is a matter of finding and approaching the right people. You have to approach people you admire but you also have to get lucky in that those you approach are friendly & willing to share. Alot of people won't actually be able to find the time to converse and connect but don't get too discouraged when someone doesn't respond to you in a positive way, just move on down the line because some people will be happy to connect and answer your questions. It's not always easy to find your own tribe and I admit to still being in the process of seeking out mine!</div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-IR8JhP9zQ0Kvkhiv9uqgKt3Wu3vtFjqFcLRjZMBeqipJcJ-szQqC61vvluy0HokE1D6OgwRznyjHJJvrSmjWJXlaVsTpZW5-i3QSgv5dTAeS11tR4izjl0zaRHwsGoLzr085vcCbnlL/s1080/Mandy+Saile+Community+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-IR8JhP9zQ0Kvkhiv9uqgKt3Wu3vtFjqFcLRjZMBeqipJcJ-szQqC61vvluy0HokE1D6OgwRznyjHJJvrSmjWJXlaVsTpZW5-i3QSgv5dTAeS11tR4izjl0zaRHwsGoLzr085vcCbnlL/w480-h640/Mandy+Saile+Community+01.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;">I personally have been happy to share my knowledge BUT I am careful with my time these days too because simply my chronic pain takes alot of my time in the studio away and my studio time tends to be shorter than a regular artist who isn't chronically sick. I used to respond to every question like 'how did you start your Etsy shop' with sooo much detail & length and then I would often not even get a thank you in return! So now I am also more careful with whom I spend my time responding too. But yeah, I think it's important to share the knowledge but there's also something said in trying to figuring things out yourself first too!</div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;">So whiles I have myself unfortunately experienced way more Competition over Community, I still remain hopeful that that's not always going to be the case & my experiences so far sure have made me appreciate any connections & sharing of knowledge that I do experience, that much more, especially online, the online community can be just as supportive, if not more</div><div style="text-align: center;">than those physically around you....</div><div style="text-align: center;">My advice is take it where you can get it, appreciate it & make sure to give back!</div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;">.</div></span></span>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-24458774073913806142020-11-05T12:42:00.001-05:002020-11-15T12:43:40.563-05:00Meet The Maker - Day 4 - Silver Linings<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"> T<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">oday's Meet The Maker Prompt is 'SILVER LININGS'.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;">This one is easy cause I am a Silver Linings kind of person.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I live with two neurological diseases and a disease of the nervous system</div><div style="text-align: center;">but despite the chronic pain that's constantly ravaging and testing my body, finding Silver Linings is essential to maintaining a positive mental attitude</div><div style="text-align: center;">through the storms. It might be something small like "Hmmm okay I might feel like I was run over by a truck" today BUT at least I have a wonderful honey who loves making me wonderful healthy meals to help me get through and that fills my heart. Or maybe I am stuck in bed feeling like my head is going to explode BUT all of the bunnies are eating and I can hear them eating and that's one of the best sounds in the world, it makes me smile right through the pain.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Or perhaps it's a really bad fibro flare day</div><div style="text-align: center;">and it's one of those days where it feels like it's taking effort just to breathe!</div><div style="text-align: center;">BUT I've got all of the Whimsical Colourful Joyful Artwork</div><div style="text-align: center;">I know I will get back to the second I feel better and that's surely a Silver Lining.</div></span></span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilGIqfsA9-3cOYOn_tozhCyH9uuUM1aVa-h4kG0vXBE8ZqPlIGkAAcHdDCCN1ywRft9UDidcdChr1yau4bVw7_M-OElxD_Yg6dnNmbrE07aMteGPKVyQdTtXPMdWkUWnh6PBRHkkarBGw3/s1080/Meet+The+Maker+Day+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilGIqfsA9-3cOYOn_tozhCyH9uuUM1aVa-h4kG0vXBE8ZqPlIGkAAcHdDCCN1ywRft9UDidcdChr1yau4bVw7_M-OElxD_Yg6dnNmbrE07aMteGPKVyQdTtXPMdWkUWnh6PBRHkkarBGw3/w480-h640/Meet+The+Maker+Day+4.jpg" width="480" /></a></div> </div></span><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;">I think too in this unpredictable and scary time with the pandemic</div><div style="text-align: center;">Silver Linings can be found all around if we really look hard enough.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have been latching onto the extra uninterrupted time at home</div><div style="text-align: center;">with my family, that's been extra heavenly.</div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;">And I have been feeling so very grateful to all of you lovely souls</div><div style="text-align: center;">who are supporting us Indie businesses...</div><div style="text-align: center;">especially all of you who have understood that I needed to shut down</div><div style="text-align: center;">my online shop during this turbulent awful last year with our cancer fight</div><div style="text-align: center;">but you still showed much needed support with DMs</div><div style="text-align: center;">and emails asking after and buying original work, which has been amazing,</div><div style="text-align: center;">that has truly been a HUGE Silver Lining in all of this unstable upset.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank You 💖 SO much.</div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-61389287537457133892020-11-04T12:25:00.000-05:002020-11-15T12:28:37.101-05:00Meet The Maker - Day 3 - New For Christmas<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">The Meet The Maker Prompt for today is 'New For Christmas'.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I am super excited to get not only my brand new and refreshed website</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">up in the next couple of weeks</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">(I hope!)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">BUT also my new shop...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">It's been slightly overwhelming & confusing to me</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">to figure out but I am getting there, there's so much to work out!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I have decided to move away from Etsy and have my own shop on my own website AND the first batch of whimsical goodies I will be posting is a bunch of</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">my limited edition hand-pressed lino cut prints.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUt04qloMcMkzPnYfGIK9oNkL7oKzCHz7Cuh6FzeYrKVIQ1lbZluQcOx3vWiGwCGj2dhcdM9j0q9iyE499DObez5q4_neD-O31P61Yw4BfHk0SzbZpfasJ9Nzvl4RU1PoXrBnroSXZQUKi/s1080/Joyful+Misa+Lino+01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUt04qloMcMkzPnYfGIK9oNkL7oKzCHz7Cuh6FzeYrKVIQ1lbZluQcOx3vWiGwCGj2dhcdM9j0q9iyE499DObez5q4_neD-O31P61Yw4BfHk0SzbZpfasJ9Nzvl4RU1PoXrBnroSXZQUKi/w480-h640/Joyful+Misa+Lino+01.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">I honestly don't really know why I've never listed my linos,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">I have always just sold them locally. But I have SO many new designs and people seem super enthused with them so yeah,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">I am really anxious to start running the editions off and getting them listed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">and then to keep doing so instead of just squirreling them away!</span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">As always, because of my chronic pain life,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">I always run slowly and behind everyone else,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">but if you bear with me, these will be the first thing I list and I am hoping</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">it'll be in time for Christmas... I'll do my best! But in the meantime you can order</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">some of my colourful & whimsical goods from my</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"> Society6 shop.</span></div></span>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-65262711255615679332020-11-03T13:19:00.001-05:002020-11-04T13:28:25.910-05:00Meet The Maker - Day 2<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Today's Meet The Maker Prompt is "PIVOT".</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I had to think on this one as I didn't think it really applied to me at first &</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large; text-align: left;">then I realized, wait a hot minute Mandy, you literally and figuratively pivot your butt off every single day!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Firstly, I swing around like a fan all day everyday in my life as a bunny mama. Doting on NINE rambunctious cage free buns, most of whom hate each other & most who are special needs is often a full-time job and I can only manage it successfully by pivoting constantly in an effort to spread myself as evenly as possible between them all.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-msp2V1kV6FhLaxIfYX1OFp1PR2e17bqQlUXOkYubwuApxTd9vT0cDLCkqoQ9jA310ORIGs4BzbPejMloY_UGqEaxidlfg6e-f3zsLLpBFbQIDGlPdc9Rr-E-NQB_GDet9x885U6MrDGZ/s1080/2016+-+Selah+Staged+In+Bedroom+03+for+IG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-msp2V1kV6FhLaxIfYX1OFp1PR2e17bqQlUXOkYubwuApxTd9vT0cDLCkqoQ9jA310ORIGs4BzbPejMloY_UGqEaxidlfg6e-f3zsLLpBFbQIDGlPdc9Rr-E-NQB_GDet9x885U6MrDGZ/w480-h640/2016+-+Selah+Staged+In+Bedroom+03+for+IG.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Secondly, my broken and misfiring body gives me no choice but to pivot. It's a delicate circular dance of turning away from the pain that ravages me & with much tenacity plugging away at my craft (or else I would never get anything made) but then being willing to turn away from my beloved work to rest, regroup and take care of my body so that I can indeed get back into the studio sooner hopefully than later!<br style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-3nVt_BcIIcWDIUyOXgKIB1FwY-SDOaKnbtlXquqDU4zS0TM1lo19CBbTU6uCktMvqe-904DcTlq_xT1GWGeYh92RXamo6BdCKZaiabgOS7gYKQbE9QOzNh3qbfdy5K2S5pGIJ59StjAR/s640/Glitter+Bug+8+Styled+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-3nVt_BcIIcWDIUyOXgKIB1FwY-SDOaKnbtlXquqDU4zS0TM1lo19CBbTU6uCktMvqe-904DcTlq_xT1GWGeYh92RXamo6BdCKZaiabgOS7gYKQbE9QOzNh3qbfdy5K2S5pGIJ59StjAR/w428-h640/Glitter+Bug+8+Styled+01.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Last but not least Cancer. It's been my biggest pivoting point. Last December 10th, a day before his 44th birthday my brilliant honey was diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of cancer. We pivoted instantly from a near perfect life to one full of constant pain, crippling fear & deep exhaustion. And Cancer during Covid well that's been a beast to conquer all of its own! We've had to constantly turn away from all of the scary big bad stuff to make sure we were still functional in life in general, still taking care other (because cancer really shows who your friends & family really are) and also of course taking care of all the demanding buns too...in fact our latest rescue arrived in our front yard the night before the very 1st big surgery!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcTekUEA22998CSB0yO3_raE8x5X5rqkQ24Y6mwTk81kO6GZlzomkrNCBC-Y2nqTLbGsGvUsoIcKzEpTPrnxQpn3eq-drBQBuHVTWNISdfuZZIM6PmYs8Aw2ybkvijJv-7vaVRxJ5SmeQb/s1613/2017+-+Leaping+Into+Gratitude+Staged+In+Black+Frame+In+Bedroom+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1613" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcTekUEA22998CSB0yO3_raE8x5X5rqkQ24Y6mwTk81kO6GZlzomkrNCBC-Y2nqTLbGsGvUsoIcKzEpTPrnxQpn3eq-drBQBuHVTWNISdfuZZIM6PmYs8Aw2ybkvijJv-7vaVRxJ5SmeQb/w428-h640/2017+-+Leaping+Into+Gratitude+Staged+In+Black+Frame+In+Bedroom+01.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Now at the 11 month mark of my husband being cancer free, after my shop being closed up for over a year (somethings did have to give!), I can more easily pivot away from the fear of the unknown & happily find myself SO ready to relaunch my website, reopen a brand new shop full of all kinds of whimsies & to brave the post office once again but also to pivot away from all that wasn't working...and that's exciting don't ya think???</span></span><p></p>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-11768018872552435402020-11-02T13:05:00.002-05:002020-11-04T13:18:41.475-05:00Meet The Maker - Day 1<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;">I am excited to participate in on </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Meet The Maker Week on IG</span></span><span style="font-family: Quicksand;"> this week<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;">.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">So Day 1 is to introduce ourselves so let's give it a whirl!</span></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I am Mandy Saile, I am 42 and work mostly with coloured pencil in a very whimsical style. My work tends toward the very detailed, my palette is usually super colourful and I love to create stories about animals, the beauty of them and the importance of better/kinder relationships with them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I am also a printmaker working in linocuts and sometimes I enjoy ink pens too.</span></div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #262626;">A large part of my creative journey and life is dictated and ruled by the chronic pain I live with. I suffer from Chronic Migraine, Fibromyalgia and RLS (etc!!!) The pain I live with does hugely inspire my work. My art is like a life preserver, the whimsy & colour of it, keeping me afloat amidst all the suffering.</span></span></div></span><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCr2wY-9S6ieF0angxo0KlJ5qq-Ff5LEnSRCkgXvVGXeFPu8XZ7SY1fhnJYIe7Z4v-e77nhEvkbxK87s48M08F09aXQQruEVSFEN7Fo1VwbnQiOHYjFCIKq7e3MpQMuNuY4wy2uOXRmFuY/s2048/%2528Note2%2529+20180802_155530c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCr2wY-9S6ieF0angxo0KlJ5qq-Ff5LEnSRCkgXvVGXeFPu8XZ7SY1fhnJYIe7Z4v-e77nhEvkbxK87s48M08F09aXQQruEVSFEN7Fo1VwbnQiOHYjFCIKq7e3MpQMuNuY4wy2uOXRmFuY/w640-h480/%2528Note2%2529+20180802_155530c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">I am also a Micro-Sanctuary Mama</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">. We've made our family with rescued rabbits for many years now & currently we dote on 9 cage free rambunctious souls; Flynn, Barnaby Fizz, Yuuji, Lesiel, Mooshi-Haroo, Lydia, Korra-Soleil, Misa Adora & Higgins. I can't imagine life without them. They inspire everything I do, to be vegan, to live cruelty free of course to draw lots of buns! They also make for a unique studio schedule as I don't just work in one spot but in several because I need to spend time with them all but they don't all get along, so I rotate between art projects as I move from room to room throughout a day, it's a really fun way to work & my inspiration is never ending thanks to them.</span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">I live with my honey of 28 years in a small city by the lake in Northern Ontario Canada. We are surrounded by a sea of trees and are called The Land Of A Thousand Lakes. We've had the hardest year ever as the past year + my husband has been fighting cancer...it's a long exhausting story but he's cancer free now & I am super excited to get my shop etc back up & running & for things to get back to 'normal' as much as it can after cancer swoops into life!</span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">When out of the studio you'll find me kayaking, diving into books & just being embraced by home, I LOVE just being home with my hon, buns, books & art!</span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">So nice to meet you & thanks for hopping by💖.</span></div></span></div></div></div>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-37667397363848210512020-09-29T16:09:00.000-04:002020-09-29T16:09:01.618-04:00Teela In The Garden Watercolour<p style="text-align: center;"> I finally finished the watercolour version of</p><p style="text-align: center;">"Teela In The Garden"</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihOb9Oq2PqTTmSDsKkZCHbYjJw_j1Z9LSN8yl5bDey2QqTSMqqs0J63_9Ob-GkJHIvRTXYEvM8BFuZOOGdUBOkzQZ0GZZ9fq9hfJVqK3gmzEi_akmBBHAFPl7xYhkLb5AZDKV8uZRrTPpR/s1080/Teela+In+The+Garden+Watercolour+8+x+10+%252872dpi%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="864" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihOb9Oq2PqTTmSDsKkZCHbYjJw_j1Z9LSN8yl5bDey2QqTSMqqs0J63_9Ob-GkJHIvRTXYEvM8BFuZOOGdUBOkzQZ0GZZ9fq9hfJVqK3gmzEi_akmBBHAFPl7xYhkLb5AZDKV8uZRrTPpR/w512-h640/Teela+In+The+Garden+Watercolour+8+x+10+%252872dpi%2529.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">I am not sure if I'll be putting her on products or listing it for sale yet etc...</p><p style="text-align: center;">We face another surgery, a 4th resection next week, bear with me in my blog absences!</p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-48147161869819865402020-09-16T13:35:00.002-04:002020-09-16T13:35:42.735-04:00CP Treasures<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The book I am in is ready to ship out you guys.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I saw an advanced copy and holy smokes my fellow coloured pencil artists in this book are amazing,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I am quite humbled to be among them as my whimsical style and palette stick out quite abit</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">as it's mostly high realism work but I am in seriously talented company, wow.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbPlmXbh3vjloj0-BmES1_XQp8GLMmX_gwL6uiTjMPfD8b6AuUbNJYcuOwgKOphImRB_NR84jpwWojQmuiI7sOnJvbmxCkcx41fj8Z4kAY_hxqrtIRwbRIEfjOrctec-bXx4wVlCozx65N/s500/CPT7-FB-image+%25281%2529.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="500" height="613" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbPlmXbh3vjloj0-BmES1_XQp8GLMmX_gwL6uiTjMPfD8b6AuUbNJYcuOwgKOphImRB_NR84jpwWojQmuiI7sOnJvbmxCkcx41fj8Z4kAY_hxqrtIRwbRIEfjOrctec-bXx4wVlCozx65N/w640-h613/CPT7-FB-image+%25281%2529.webp" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #262626; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HTP4QW4" target="_blank">Click Right Here</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> to buy your copy today....</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Enjoy!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And Thank you for the inclusion Ann Kullberg...YAYYYY.</span></p>Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-85141807735634702552020-08-21T11:28:00.000-04:002020-08-21T11:28:10.002-04:00Hay In A Micro-Sanctuary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We appreciated that info, as the buns can go a spell without veggies & pellets etc</div>
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So this is what $600 of top quality hay looks like!</div>
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This was Lovefest in Dorset last season...no festivals this year because of Covid19!</div>
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I've said once & I'll keep saying it "Tofu has never caused a pandemic"!!!</div>
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Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-89398780313528041542020-08-13T13:32:00.008-04:002020-08-13T13:36:43.111-04:00Struggling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">I am so sorry to have disappeared on you all.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have no excuse other than life's busy-ness swept me away...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Life with cancer swept me away...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Life with 9 bunnies, many whom are special needs, swept me away...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Life with chronic illnesses & fighting them on top of everything else tuckered me out & kept me away.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-55534185025585118762020-07-09T14:41:00.000-04:002020-07-09T14:42:04.782-04:00Back To Posting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lydia and I wanted to let you know that we're back to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mandy_saile/" target="_blank">Instagraming on our art account!</a></div>
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I think the last year just threw me for such a flip, big time, it's been alot on top of just life in general, there's been new rescues & losses, a new disease for me, cancer for my honey!!!</div>
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It's been alot to deal with & whiles I have been creating, I haven't been sharing it in my usual way.</div>
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I think I just needed space to be creative in a quiet solitary way in order to heal & re-calibrate.</div>
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I am still healing, still re-calibrating...big time!</div>
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Things aren't perfect but they never will be, things are still scary & I am still struggling</div>
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my 'The Golden Monkey King" is now on beach goodies & doesn't he look sooo great?</div>
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You can now get him on beach towels, sling chairs, folding tables and more...</div>
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I am adding new images soon & I can't wait to show you more...</div>
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<a href="http://www.mandysaile.com/keepintouch/" target="_blank">Sign up to my 'Keep In Touch' e-news</a> & stay tuned for more colourful whimsy coming your way.</div>
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The Jeep is our valiant steed during our Northern winters & crazy snow storms,</div>
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it's a cozy favorite spot to curl up together by the beach during rain storms.</div>
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And it's also the perfect totally neutral area to begin bunny bonding!</div>
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Lydia liked Mooshi right from the get-go but he was apparently still too hormonal last we tired, ugh!</div>
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some point, when this heatwave is over, we can give it another try because they'd be a perfect pair.</div>
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I wanted to share some of my absolute favorite plant-based/vegan products in case you were looking for something in helping you or/and loved ones adopt a kinder, healthier way of eating.</div>
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Our favorite go to 'milk' is Silk organic soy milk.</div>
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My absolute favorite coffee, now that I am off of caffeine, is Starbucks Decaf house blend</div>
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but it must be with my absolute favorite creamer, also from Silk, their almond vanilla flavored creamer...try it, you'll never crave 'real cream' again and it's so much better for you.</div>
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We recently, just in time for summer, discovered that Nestle makes a vegan drumstick</div>
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and as far as we can remember what the dairy ones taste like, these taste the same, super yummy.</div>
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One of my favorite plant based companies is Gardein (they are Canadian by the way whoot whoot)</div>
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I don't think I've disliked anything that they make. They are on the pricey side for the amount you get but well that's unfortunately the culture of vegan food right now because it's not subsidized like dairy and meat products. These pork-less bites are my honey's favorite,</div>
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they have a really nice spiciness to them with a ooey gooey sauce and very tender 'meat'</div>
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and I love the crab-less cakes, they are creamy and as far as I remember, taste quite a bit like crab.</div>
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Califia Farms makes these cold brew espressos that's just dreamy.</div>
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I admit, I had to add a bit of sugar because I like my coffee super sweet.</div>
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I can't have it now because I am off caffeine for my migraines & chronic pain but</div>
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if your a coffee drinker, love your summer time cold cafe treats, I highly recommend them.</div>
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(If you've never had salted dried broad beans, find them, they are delicious).</div>
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SoFresh's cold brew coffees are really tasty too, they just aren't as strong as the Califia</div>
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but when we can we stock up on SoFresh's oat milk, oat milk it one of my favorites,</div>
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it tastes so fresh and just so nourishing for the body.</div>
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Earth Island makes one of my favorite cheese, a provolone and a cheddar.</div>
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We are also huge fans of Sheese's cream cheese, it actually tastes like real cream cheese,</div>
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the slices not so much but we love love love their feta too.</div>
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Vegannaise is my favorite mayo, especially the garlic one but nowadays even Walmart has vegan mayo and they are all wayyyy healthier for you than regular dairy mayo. </div>
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Now back to Gardien...the beefless tips are one of my favorite treats.</div>
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They don't look like they do on the package but they are yummy all the same.</div>
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We like to just cook up a whole bag & eat it beside steamed broccoli and mashed potatoes.</div>
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We recently gave the Emborg cheese a try on pizza and it did a really good job.</div>
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SoDelicious has so many super delicious vegan ice creams available,</div>
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we try every single new flavor and we haven't been disappointed once.</div>
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However one of my favorite all time ice creams comes from Ben & Jerry's, it's their Cherry Garcia.</div>
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I am honestly not a fan of any of the Halo ice creams...not after the other ones.</div>
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I am always so surprised that even in our little Northern meats & potatoes town,</div>
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plant-based options are quite readily available, not so much in restaurants sadly but in grocery stores, there is usually an option for most things I find, sometimes you just have to search.</div>
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You can't get attached to anything unfortunately because it seems that most things plant-based</div>
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seem to come and go without rhyme or reason (except for your big companies like Tofurky or Daiya) BUT it's always fun trying new products anyway.</div>
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You don't need any of this stuff to go vegan, this is all just extra treats but if your looking for</div>
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substitutes to make kinder, better, smarter choices, these are all a really great place to start.</div>
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If you ever have any questions about going plant-based, don't hesitate to contact me,</div>
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I am more than happy to try to answer any questions, to encourage you & to cheer you on XO.</div>
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Mandy Sailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227837904627132077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7253535543466412062.post-4026076282896624242020-07-04T18:55:00.001-04:002020-07-04T18:55:49.037-04:00A Promise Fullfilled<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Finally our Peonies budded & bloomed...</div>
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Promise made...Promise fulfilled & then some.</div>
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