Happy Long Weekend

The 9 buns and I hope your having a wonderful long weekend...

May you be surrounded by nothing but love, peace and kindness XO

Lake Life

We are so lucky to live pretty close to this big beautiful lake...

it's only about a 10 minute walk away...

We go here a lot after work to decompress, for sunsets, for short breaks from the buns,

after, before & in between errands...

it always seems to beckon "Come sit and breathe for a spell.."

Our 2nd date was here, along this lake, a long leisurely stroll at night in thick heavy fog...

almost 25 year ago now...

we love it so, it's part of us. I tell my hon, when I die, he's to spread most of my ashes in this water!

It's a place that soothes, refreshes and amazes us with it's always changing beauty.

I hope you have a special place like this in your part of the world XO

The Way Of Waves

If your like me and stress about pretty much everything under the sun!!! (I am working on it!)

 

I highly recommend going to the water, clearing your mind & just watching the way of the waves!

Spectacular Beauty

It amazes me, how different each and every sunset is, the beauty is so much I can't take it all in...

I hope I never ever ever become the kind of person who doesn't notice all the spectacular beauty!

Run To The Water

When the world gets to be too much...

I don't walk but I run to the water!

Suntastic Sunset

I am just beyond words that I get to have this kind of beauty in my everyday life.

This is the lake near our home, just a 10 minute walk away, there are plenty of public accesses.

 We keep our eyes peeled from wherever we may be and if it looks like it'll be a decent sunset

we head to the water (when my head allows).  My heart fills with gratitude for all this beauty!

Home On The Blue

More from the water...

 



Can I just say again, how much I adore my kayak and these views!

The Fresh Green Rushing Kind

Wherever you are in the world, no matter your job or age or sex...

I hope that you have a ready and steady source of soul refreshment always there for you.

 

 

This is my kind...the fresh green, rushing water kind....ahhh.

Thanks a million to all of you lovely souls who join me here, I'll see ya tomorrow I hope XO.

Sharing A Muddled Day...You Don't Mind Do You?

You know by now that here on this blog of mine,  I tend to keep to the joyful & cheerful.

You get yucky days.  I get yucky days.

But I always figure that if I am lucky enough to have you visit me here, I want to offer you

positive things like inspiration, joy, colour, whimsy, purity & sweetness...

if only but to momentarily take you away from your present muckiness.

I try not to complain or vent, it's not why I invite you here.

But, I am having one of those days where things are feeling muddled & messy.

One of those days where everything I touch screws up.

(Like my printer...I want to mercilessly murder it right now or at least kick it down the stairs!)

The smallest everyday studio task suddenly today feels like climbing a mountain with bad shoes on!

I am feeling stressed all the sudden when yesterday I was feeling blissful & balanced.

I know it's for all kinds of reasons,

poor sleep, headaches & allergies are contributing no doubt but really it's nothing in particular at all.

It's just one of those days...one of those days that every one gets.

Chaos of house renos is getting under my skin too.

I try not to dwell because I know how lucky we are to be doing house reno's at all.

To be making our sweet little home even lovelier is gratifying & great...I know this...I do.

 

Yet, dust covers everything.  Everything that I just cleaned!

One big thing leads to 10 small things before you can get back to getting that one big thing done!

With house reno's things always have to get worse before they get better, I know this too.
(it doesn't help that my upper studio is all messed up right now due to a big window installation we undertook last week! We can't decide on something, other things pulled us away, so it to sits undone).

It's just one of those days where my energy just isn't matching up with all that needs to get done.

I just wanna nap!

and truthfully my head is just abit too sore to be the 100% that I wanna be today!

But in writing all this, I realize, I am not complaining or venting or bitching, I am sharing & that's ok.

Because what's the point of blogs if we're not sharing from our authentic selves right!?

Maybe knowing that I am stuck in muckiness too will help you outta yours?  who knows!

And in writing this, it's focused me enough to realize that I need to stop.

I need to stop & go to the water.  Because being near water always soothes me.

How do I forget that though!  How on earth does that happen!

I am in the middle of messiness and dust, yes...but I'd really rather be nowhere else.

So, I am stopping...just for abit.

I am going to pop some codeine, grab a bottle of water & I am going to go sit by the water.

It'll help balance me & help me to steep in the gratitude that I should more easily be soaking up.

 

What do you do to get yourselves out of muddled times?

 



Kayaks

We've wanted to get kayaks for years now

and everything happily aligned just right a couple weeks back

that allowed us to find the perfect ones for us.

Up until then every time we looked, nothing ever worked out...nothing felt quite right.

This time not only was the decision on which kind of kayak seem super smooth, but also the timing

was perfect & the price just right AND we also got the custom roof rack we needed for the Jeep too.

Cherry on top type of stuff, ha ha.

 

We've been having sooo much fun & are out on the water every chance we get

and oh what adventures we are having together.

Since we can't travel anywhere this summer because of the new bunnies...

this fills our wanderlust beautifully.

 

We chose a hybrid kayak and we're so happy with that decision.

They are a cross between a touring (which is what you normally see)

and a white water rafting one...

which was perfect when our glass smooth lake suddenly turned into 2 foot swells the other night!

We can enjoy smooth water but also do class 3 rapids with these guys.  Wohoo, ha ha.

I am so excited to have a kayak finally.  I am now a Kayaker...ha ha.

 

I was super worried about my bad shoulder and my bad wrist BUT both seem to love the motion.

And those close to me know that being near water always heals & centers me...

so being right out there smack dab in the middle of it is even better....Wow.....

I am a HAPPY GIRL.



Fergus Fennel

He prefers to swim where it's really quite cold,

for he says the cold cold water helps keep his colours bright & his brain sharp as a tack.

Though he admits that the top hat does nothing for warmth, it's all just for show.

Everyone, meet my newest finned friend...

Fergus Fennel

He is done in coloured pencil on an acrylic painted canvas with a ribbon.

I know many of you like to see the progression of my artwork so I snapped a few shots along the way.

(Mind you some are taken during daytime studio hours & some at night time...you can tell which is which!)

Prints of him are already in my shop.

Thanks so much for swimming along for a visit today.

I myself am in the studio finishing off a green & blue bunny and starting in on a new rabbit lady, yayyy.

Have an excellent & most wonderful day.