Snugs, Plants & Scones Oh My!

I hope your having a cozy cozy weekend all wrapped up fully in your favorite things...

For us it's rabbit snugs, movies, homemade scones & Sundays are my plant care day.

Simple Quiet Weekends

We've all been pretty sick the past month so our weekends have been quieter lately...

homemade pizza nights, lots of snuggles with buns & movies in our home theater...

and a bit of time in the studios since my heads been so bad during the weekdays.

How have your weekends been shaping up?  What's your most favorite thing to do??

This Kinda Weekend

It's been a really rough month physcially, mentally, emotionally
so this is the only kinda weekend I am planning and hoping for...

Lots of time in my studios...time snuggling up with my guy and all nine buns...
and if all of that can hopefully be peacefully head pain free than this is the simple life for me!

Twiggs, Twine and Train Bridges

Busy busy busy...

cleaning up the yard...hanging with bunnies...finishing last minute yard projects...

 

 

 

Bundling up twigs to burn this winter...painting a train bridge...feeding the squirrels...

Hope you having a great weekend too XO

New Inkling With Weekend Wishes

Just hopping in quickly today to show you a new little rabbit inkling

(these will be making their way into my Etsy shop as prints of various sizes VERY soon).

 

 

I wish you all a wonderfully awesome weekend, super busy or really relaxing, however you prefer it.

Ours will be full of rabbit bonding time, BBC travel shows & some gardening if the rain lets up.

 

Baby Yuuji & Weekend Plans

Just hopping in with some favorite baby shots of our sweetheart Yuuji...

(He hadn't started growing his mane and beard yet in these photos)

For what's a better way to wish you all a happy weekend than with sweet rabbit goodness, ha ha!

 

 

We are going to be busy in the yard with rabbits romping & gardening this weekend...

I am ready to get my fingers all muddy & green and

to stay outside until hardwork, beautiful garden beds and the fresh spring air exhausts me, ha ha.

 

What are your weekend plans???

Happy Weekend All

Thanks so much to all who hopped in for a visit this week.

The rabbits & I just wanted to wish you all an amazing weekend.

 

 

We'll see you next week with new art, new prints & of course more happy bun stuff.

Love & Light from my sweet little warren to you & yours.

Wishing You A Happy Weekend...

...Just hopping in to send you all a "Happy Weekend" shout out from Ella Luna and Me...

...I am doing the Symphony garden show/fundraiser all day today, well from 10-4pm. I'll take lots of pictures so I can show you all what the event looked like...Wish me luck, I am not used to demonstrating my 'watercolour' skills in front of people, especially next to the master himself, Arlie Hoffman (if you click here you'll see Arlie's amazing work & 1 of the Carousel Projects we did together)...kinda nervous about that, ha ha but looking forward to the day. Be Well everyone, see you Monday....

Just Some Life...

Jonathan and I love living in a beach town...sure it has lots of negatives like lots of kill-bambi type of losers, a serious lack of vegetarian restaurants and being a solid 4 hours drive from any major hub BUT it has lots of benefits too like lots of deep green forests & numerous fresh water lakes all around...oh and being able to drive not even 20 minutes away to pick over 20 litres of strawberries...

...and getting to take a fun tractor ride out to the fields...

...here's my honey on the wagon with me:D I was abit worried because he's still recovering from a major back pull, but he did great.....

...I got such a kick out of this giant straw man, I just had to have Jon take my pic with him...too cool:D...ha ha...

...and of course Jon is forever teasing me about my draw/pull to water...what can I say, I am happiest & most calm when I am near it...it's like my skin can sense when water is near by..seriously!...

...we had lunch by this view one afternoon this weekend....

...and many other lunches at one of our favourite new spots called "The Narrows"...we plan to bring our kayaks here as soon as we get em:D....

...and what could be better but to close an awesome weekend with a double rainbow....ahhhh a good omen for further goodness to come I am hoping....

This was abit of our last weekend & the perfect soundtrack from it still echoes in my head....how was yours??? what did yous do? See you soon with another new illustration...

Happy Weekend...Happy Easter...

Ahhh Happy Easter Everyone...it will be a very good long weekend I think...not only do I get to have Jonathan home with me for 4 days straight but also... ...this past week Ella and Roo said goodbye to the very last snow hump and look forward to a weekend of romping around in the yard whiles we start spring clean up...

...some new books were purchased this week which I can't wait to dive into...also newly purchased was a pile of wool so I can start to crochet us a new blanket:D....

...bunny blankets have been freshly laundered and Jinster just loves her fresh and clean and puffy binkies so we know she'll spend some happy dozy hours this Easter Weekend in the sun and on her binkies...

...I just finished a little side project, which was painting this little shelf Jon made ages ago, it was for plants outside but I brought it into the house and put it in the dining room, this was part 1 of a 2 part project and part 2 will get finished over the weekend....

...and Jaks seems pretty content to head into another weekend of sun napping and human snuggling after a good week and lots of treats stolen from the kitchen...if you think of Jaks I think it's safe to picture him in a similar position as seen here, ha ha....

...it was a good week full of much needed relaxation, productive work and promising warmth, despite the head pain...now onto a long weekend with much to be grateful for and look forward to...wishing you all a good one... Happy Easter and Happy Spring and See you next week XO from all of us in The Land of Bijou:D

A Good Mail Day

Good Monday Morning, it's a gloomy and wet day here today but that's not dampening my attitude towards work today. I plan to get alot done on my newest image "Miss Penelope Posy" and she's so sweet, I can't help but smile as I work on this image. If I get it done today, I will add another post because I am excited to share her with everyone.

This weekend was an excellent one. I planned to get alot of drawing done but in reality the weather was beautiful for a change so we were beckoned outside for the whole weekend. Ella and Roo enjoyed the yard and ate lots of grass, whiles Hazel & Jin enjoyed the back deck with their hand-picked and express delivered grass, ha ha. Flowers were planted, new garden tool purchased, dandelions picked, grass mowed, composter set up, etc...It was one of those wonderful first days of summer when you come inside and your body is just exhausted, your hands hurt and your legs ache but it feels great because you know you accomplished something and that your yard looks that much nicer and is that much more enjoyable. I also spent some time curled up on the front porch with my current read "Maid Marian" and had the pleasure of watching a zealous robin bathe in the bird bath, I just loved that. So overall a great weekend.

Last Friday was a great mail day. My lovely friend Maria sent me this beautiful card (above). I don't know where she finds these rabbit-filled cards but I adore them. She also included some photos of her with her old rabbit name 'Bunny'. I just loved seeing these photos, I loved putting a face to the name of this furry heart and I was touched to share these memories with her. I feel so thankful for the friendships I have, the strong women that surround me make my days so much better and blessed.
Well, I am off to fulfill some orders, respond to emails and get to work on Penelope, but first a tea and bowl of oatmeal with Hazel & Jin await me upstairs. Until Tomorrow be well and happy creating.

Pink Jinny

Good Monday Morning Everyone. Our weekend seemed to whip by abit too quickly, but it was good. The weather was wonderful and we spent most of our time outside with the 4 bunnies. The 'cabana' and 'gazebo' are pretty much all set up now and just awaiting some plants. We even had our Sunday dinner out there which I just loved. Whiles we ate Roo was sleeping almost upside down under my chair and Ella was eating any little piece of green grass she could find.

Finally I finished the pink bunny painting. I had fun with it. My work is usually very detailed and quite abit larger but I've been wanting to do some simpler, quicker things and this was a successful attempt I think. I called it "Pink Jinny". It is painted on kiln-dried pine with acrylic and has a uv protective coat. It's only about 5"x7"x1.5". It will be available to buy through my Etsy shop in the next couple of weeks.


With the sweetness and loveliness of the weekend however came some bitterness and stress. Friday I had a scare with Jinny. I was sitting at my little garden table finishing up my pink bunny...which I had just entitled 'Jinny'. When I turned around to see Jin laying in the corner of the room with massive tremors shaking her whole body. It was a double edged sword for me, first I couldn't remember seeing these symptoms before so my mind went to the worst case scenario and 2nd, laying there sick and being Noo's sister and looking alot alike, I just had a very vivid moment that I was there again with my sweet and dying Noo. Luckily, my husband rushed home when he got my urgent message. The rabbits are as much a priority for him as for me. I do think that Jinny favors Jon over me, just alittle bit. Anyhow, it just meant the world to me that he rushed home to help me and Jin. He reminded me that we've seen this before, that it is probably cramps and gas so we hurried Hazel and Jinny outside right away and made Jinny run around. The more she ran the better she looked, the shaking stopped and after about an hour she was playing with Hazel and jumping in the air ever so slightly.


Here is a shot of Jinny sitting on the window bench in my painting room. I took it yesterday in the evening and she just looked so peaceful and I was so grateful she wasn't sick after the Friday scare.

Well, with an eventful weekend like that I am looking forward to a hopefully quieter, event free week. I have alot of sketching to get done as I am off on a 'mini vacation' soon and I must bring some work to do whiles I am away.

Be Well Everyone and Happy Creating.