Strawberry Sweet

Just a day back in the summer when we went strawberry picking.

What's your favorite thing about picking your own strawberries???

I love the drive with my sweet honey, the tractor ride out to the fields and

finishing off a whole basket together on the ride back home to the buns.

Create A Life Of Purpose

Recently I was chatting with my friend Yan about the animal sanctuaries we've created,
theirs with farm animals, ours with rabbits (and with some other creatures along the way as well).
We chatted about how support for our animals families can often times feel very thin
and how it's next to impossible to travel because that external support can be very hard to find.
But Yan put it like this "We've created a life with purpose and what's better than that",
no trip around the world can ever replace this life we've sculpted for ourselves &
our animal friends and family to have beautiful safe sanctuary in constant love and peace.

For me, my life of purpose also includes learning, almost on a daily basis to deal and contend
with all the pain I have to live with & to maybe inspire other sufferers along the way.
To carve out time to create happy images that may just add some charm to this big bad world
on top of creating this loving cozy kind vegan safe home and sanctuary for my love of 25 years &
all of our wayward misfit buns.
I am loving my life...this life of purpose...there's very very little I would change about it.
Are you loving yours? & if not what are you waiting for??

Bunnies, Shadows & Beauty

Some days you just have to tell all the things on your to-do list to *#&@ off
because some days are just for playing your favorite music...basking in beautiful scents...

Snuggling up with you loved ones...petting sweet precious never here long enough soft bunnies...
& watching the slow passage of lovely shadows...I am taking more days like this, hope you are too.

Sweet Saturdays

I LOVE these freezing cold winter Saturdays (as we rest up from a big scare with Yuuji this week)

you know the ones that are just drenched in sunlight

where it's too damn cold to go out anywhere...

where you stay inside all happy as clams...all warm and snug...

My New Year head-pain wise hasn't been off to a cracking start,

I've been having more pain-filled days than not BUT that's okay because in between that crap,

I get all of this too...sun-dappled precious as pie bunnies,

a cozy sweet home and a gorgeous kind sweet vegan man waiting for/helping me. Ahhh Good stuff.

Share Sunday

It's that time, I hope your had lots of beauty in your week....

In case you need a dose of good... it's time to share some sweetness...

time for Share Sunday...

Link 1:  A Beautifully Bonded Bunny & Pigeon

This news story is from last year but it still makes my heart happy.

It's a short tale about a orphaned baby bunny and a pigeon that bond and help each other grow & heal.

Check it out, I bet it'll make you smile.

Link 2:  Iron Rich Kind Choices

It really irritates me when people assume us vegans and vegetarians are starved or unhealthy.

Here is a great article about all the delicious beautiful foods that are actually

higher in Iron than any meat sources...it's especially good reference for my fellow veg-head XO.

Link 3:  Help For The Sensitive

If your like me and are super sensitive and are a heart-on-your-sleever, this is for you.

I myself practice all of these self-kindness tips & they all in their own way help my sensitive heart.

If you have any tips, leave a comment and tell us.

Enjoy and a Happy Happy Weekend is being wished your way XOXO

Sketching With Fruit & Bunnies

Just give days full of sketching time, bunnies to snuggle and fresh fruit

and I am one happy and content gal (even with a sore head!).

It's been a pretty rainy summer

but I honestly don't mind one bit really because it just means more of these favorite things!

Christmas Gratitude

I think about other people & other families a lot at this time of year
not all of us are embraced by big beautiful families...
not everyone is all cozy and snug within holiday sparkle and cheer.
Some of us face the holidays with great sadness,
some will be saying goodbye to loved ones & will be facing a New Years all alone...
For me, it's important to remember that because it makes me so much more grateful
for the family that I do have and for the cheer and beauty that does surround me.

 





  



 

 

So as much as we miss Teela & Frenwyck, which is like mad,
(and as we watch dear ones spend this Christmas for the last time ever with their loved ones)
we're still feeling so so grateful & embraced by each other & for the long-eared family we've made,
it might not be a normal family in everyone else's books but for us it is and it's everything.

We're enjoying a house decked out in red ribbons, twinkle lights & poinsettias
and I am truly hoping so hard everyone out there finds kindness and beauty
and compassion and warmth in some lovely way or another, no matter how small.

Well I will be taking a blog break really soon...
but I hope you'll join me for the rest of the week until than
XOXO



Stringing The Sweetness

Most of the time it's all of the little beautiful things,

a bunch of loveliness all stringed together that makes for amazing days...

 

 

Like a beautiful and inspirational new book to soak in...

 

Taking time to watch your sweet pea help you sort through groceries...

 

sitting down to enjoy a tea and a plate of healthful yummies...

 

Gazing with a smile at some lovely flowers your honey brought you just because your you...

 

 

letting yourself push away all that's not necessary right this minute to enjoy these last few warm days.

Sometimes it's just grabbing onto gratitude and squeezing super hard to the happy

as much and as many times as you can throughout a day.

Hope your enjoying yours XO

 



Seek The Splendor

The buns and I hope your having a beautiful week...

 

 

and are able to, amidst all the craziness of a normal week, enjoy some of the splendors too.

A Grateful Maker

These days are mostly filled with bunnies...

some stress circles but luckily mostly sweetness surrounds us.

Some sadness floats about still...
like seeing Jaks have bad days or having to move on to enjoy summer days without Frenwyck.
 

 

But mostly we steep sweetly in happiness, espeacially when we get to watch

Emmett & Korra-Soleil bounce around the yard together for their first summer as besties,
or as we see soul-buddies Teela and Yuuji chum around like they are tied at the hip (like their folks).

 

 

Where we were slow to get outside, now we seem to spend more time outside than in.

These days seem to be embracing slow delicious (currently bug free!) evenings spent outside as well.

We've now gotten everything out there set up and it's proving to be insanely heavenly.

 

 

In between normal stuff like getting groceries, running errands, paying bills, picking up rabbit meds...

there's still plenty of time to sit and enjoy and take in delicious beautiful food and snacks together.

 

 

I am feeling so grateful for the routine of my life right now...

because even artists with the most wildly successful art careers often crave nothing more

than days in their studio where they can create just whatever they want,

where they are not having to bend to the demands of clients and commissions...

 

 

and right now, during these days, I am blissfully able to create exactly

what I am called to create (when pain doesn't derail my creativity that is).

I have well over 20 images coming up that I am just buzzing about...

 

 

it's an amazing feeling to want to jump out of bed in the mornings and get straight to your studio.

The pull to my studios is very strong right now

but I have to say that I am happy to have all this other abundant beauty balancing me out.

Ahhhh.

 

What are you loving about your routine/days right now?