It Was A Good Summer

It was a good summer...

Everyday I felt glad that we had a yard for us & the buns.

Pencils & Bunnies = My Happy Place

Bunnies + Pencils...

= Happiness.

Grateful For Green

Are you like me where you just have days where your heart is flooded over with gratitude...

gratitude for green!  For fresh greens & beautiful kind healthy food and beautiful new plants!!??

Higgins Is At Home

Higgins is all settled in and doing really really well. 

He's not half as nippy or dirty as the shelter peeps found him to be which is a huge relief.

  

He's still on a special diet because he still has lots of calcium in his pee

but he's looking super duper comfortable & content and that means the world to me to see.

I soooo highly recommend adopting from a shelter...

it's the best feeling to make such a difference in an animals life.

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

This Is My Life

This is my life...one of the biggest and most important parts of it anyhow...

My arms & heart & soul and body were made for holding & caring for there precious furry hearts.

Prepping Pretties & Feeling Grateful

I've been spending a lot of time preparing/finishing up linears and transferring them to paper.

I like to do this in piles so that I have a huge stack of work all ready to go for when my desires

switch from working with lines and pencil to needing to work colour and shapes.

(as you can see from my studio bulletin boards, I always have a lot of drawings & linears on the go)

This week as school begins again, I am reminded of how amazing it is that I get to make art full-time.

I've come a loonnnggg wwaaayyyy, I've worked my ass off, I've paid my 'dues'

but knowing all that I am still so aware every single day of how lucky

I am to spend my day with art & bunnies and my working-from-home honey.

Gorgeousness & Waves

I get my butt to the beach as often as I can, sometimes it's daily, if my head cooperates enough...

besides the incredible beauty of it all...I also sit there and appreciate that gorgeous guy of mine XO

Leaping Into Gratitude

I've been anxious to show you all this newest image of mine, I am really happy with it's sweetness.

 

 

It's called Leaping Into Gratitude 

 

It's a small 8 x 10" mixed media on a cradled canvas, the original is up for grabs if your interested,



 or art prints will be in the shop soon-ish for all my fellow life loving gracious souls.

Snuggly, Soft, Sweet and Sleepy

This week I am working on these, a realistic colored pencil, an acrylic on wood & a teacup bun...

 

 

But you know, it's awfully difficult sometimes to be good and forge ahead with work and art

 

 

When you've got snuggly, soft and sleepy sweet souls beckoning to you to join them for a snug x 8!



A Perfect Day

Back when Matilda was here

This was one of my most favorite days of summer...

 

I worked on a piece with a tight deadline surrounded by buns, a sunning pigeon & my handsome hon.

It just felt like a perfectly perfect peaceful day.



Sometimes You Just Gotta

Schedules are I think, more often than not, a necessity for full-time artists...
especially those of us who have our studios in our homes
where we face a thousand distractions throughout the day!
Strict routines are key to getting everything done, or at least a fair amount done.
 

As much as I may want to, I have a really hard time keeping up with routines and schedules.
I am in fact envious of those who can invent their own schedules and keep to them,
for my headaches and migraines are typically the scheduler of my days.
But if I am having a good pain-free streak
I do often find myself snapping into a routine very easily & quickly
and I get SOOOO much done...but for me, that can sometimes be depressing too,
depressing because I realize how much further ahead I'd be if I could stick to a schedule!

But head pain aside...
even on the best of days where your feeling like a million bucks and like you could tackle anything,

Sometimes you gotta throw the studio schedules to the wind
and just let the day take you where it wants to go...

 

 

Maybe it's time to transfer some lovely local honey from your big honey pot to your smaller one...

 

 

Than maybe the day will find you sitting on the floor

to let your little furry buddies climb all over you as laughter bubbles up from your tummy...

 

 

Than perhaps because you skipped breakfast your tummy starts to growl on top of the bubbling,

so you take just 30 or 40 minutes to take in a healthy snack...

 

 

Than maybe for creative clarity, you find yourself cleaning up your workspaces...

 

 

...and letting your buddies help you out with some organizational ideas...

 

 

Than just maybe the day encourages you to snuggle that every so helpful bun for a short spell...

 

 

Than opps well my oh my look at that it's way past lunch time
and your starving so it's time for a late lunch with a book before heading into the studio
at least for an hour or two before the sun starts to go down!
And before you know it, the blue hour arrives...
it's time to start dinner...it's time to settle into the evening.
You reminiscence on the day you just had
and you do a mental check on what you've accomplished
and you realize with a happy heart that it's okay that you diverted from your plan...
it's more than okay because you enjoyed the day, you went with the flow.

Because as much as you want to have studio days full of accomplishments

you did accomplish something by filling your well.
And you filled your creative well by making your day as sweet and as good as possible
by dipping your ever so winter-dry toes into the lovely wet softening flow
of just letting things just be exactly how they wanted to be every moment of the day...
and how often do we do that!  Not often enough if you pay attention to how stressed everyone is...

So I am a firm believer, oh yes I am, I believe that sometimes you just gotta let go
and enjoy a day that meanders along slowly around unknown corners...
you just have to enjoy a day that slowly milks the sweetness out of every hour
as you embrace the beauty and simplicity of letting each task lead gently unto the next.

Ahhhhhh.....yes...sometimes you just gotta.