YEI!!! some Work in Progress that I can show , with Gary gone all the time its hard to find the time to work, by the time I put the wee ones in bed I usually fall asleep with them... but here is some work...

To everyone that has come through Whiff of Joy I thank you from the bottom of my heart, I have seeing some of your cards and you guys are amazingly talented, I totally love what you guys do and I feel honored that you have chosen some of my designs to use in your cards!!!

So Welcome to all of you to my little world and anytime you want feel free to say hi!!

Some things we have done during Fall:

hide and seek during our hiking

pumpkin picking and hayrides

pumpkin carving

watercolor

candleholders

corn necklaces

Autumn equinox dancing

I can believe we are half way the season... so many more things still to do.

Wishing you all a happy season!!

Waldorf play around the house

1.Waldorf Finger Puppet - Moss from paintingpixie
2.Root Children and Mushroom Child from Rosemary4Remembrance
3.Gnome Set from ZooLooNaturals
4.toddler baby Rose from babyrobots

oRange.

Our daily green smoothie, this one has Romaine lettuce, Spinach, Pineapple, Cucumber and some wheat grass juice.

cherry tomatoes ready for a mid morning snack

Apples, Watermelons and Golden Tomatoes!!!

Everything organically grown in our backyard.. mm yummmi!!!

speed 5.2 (avg)
miles 4.28
time 54.20 min

Bare with me, I'll be writing some words that eventually will became thoughts and I'll explain in the next couple of posts... but for now only to remind me of all the things I want to share ... not only with you but with myself..

wife
motherhood
lost
moods
sickness
raw food
earth, nature,
love
kids
jogging
religion
spirituality
trust
husband
kids
principles
craziness
morals
beliefs
past
new
PRESENT
future....
Perfection
acceptance

Its being a while since I have written something, and not because I didn't want too, but because my brain has being all over the place...
You see I've being LOST for a while, and in the process of finding myself I became first an artist, then a traveler, then a WIFE then a MOM.. I'm still lost, some days a little bit less than other days, and for a while I didn't care I was lost, I was just going with the flow, very sad really .. but no one knows how much other lives can affect our own lives even if we really don't know each other ... what I'm trying to say is that you never now when or how there will be a sign in your life that hits you so hard that you start opening your eyes... anyway I don't want to open my eyes because of a tragic event that happens in my life ... I want to open my eyes now so I can be aware of every little tiny detail that surrounds me, So I can say at the end of my life that I did live and not just dreamed... you see there are really people out there that spend there lives dreaming .. dreaming about tomorrow, there is always a tomorrow.. I know because that has always being me.. either I dream of my past or I dream about my future... but what about my PRESENT!! I'm not saying is a bad thing to dream, is not bad when you apply some action to make your dream come true ... but when there is no action there is no reaction...

Life is not PERFECT, and that is what makes it beautiful.. but that simple little truth goes back and forth in my mind and every now and then I forget about it and stress starts building up... life is about practicing MINDFULNESS all the time and ACCEPT and EMBRACE the times that to my eyes things are not going the way they are suppose too, and then just release them and let them go so I can continue with good vibe without going in a vicious circle...

One of the reasons I being lost is because I stop learning... every day I need to learn new things.. I need to keep the excitement and the curiosity to keep going ... another reason is FEAR and this one is the most powerful and awful thing that someone can get in their soul... FEAR of EVERYTHING!!! Yes, I am one of those fearful persons... no, Im not afraid of spiders but I'm extremely afraid of 1. DRIVING... yes you hear that well I do drive but only in a 25 mile ratio and only in roads that I have already mastered.. ONE DAY I KNOW I WILL conquer THIS as I conquered my fear of heights, elevators, airplanes, dogs..
my first exhibition in a gallery..etc but my biggest fear and from which all my fears come is the fear of dying... ALL my life ever since I can remember I'm afraid to die....and because of this I haven't live my fullest./

When I was little my Nana (Babysitter) used to ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I would answer her "I'm going to cure the blind" and she would say "oH you want to be a doctor!!'

Not really, I never thought of becoming an MD... but I did imagined myself helping people... then life started and I haven't help the way I imagined but to do that I figure that first I have to help myself.. so how do I do that? when I have a husband, three kids, two cats, and a Brain that thinks way to much and at the end of the day I'm so tired that I just go to bed close my eyes and block everything until the next morning and the cycle start all over again...

After more than a couple of months of doing some mayor changes in our lives things are a little bit clearer and I think I can come back to my blog. I have miss The Blue Egg, but I was not ready for it, but now I think I can come back with baby steps...

So I hope to see you guys around here often... so I can share with you most of the amazing changes we have done around here..

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HOPE

The beginning of Advent.

When I was a little girl my Grandmama had the biggest nativity set I have ever seeing, it was really amazing.. she had a whole village set under her stairs, there were ponds made with blue foil and cellophane paper filled with ducks and fish, it had  bridges with  people crossing wagons pulled by horses, little children running all over the place, shepherds in different sizes and colors and of course lambs, lots of lambs and each of the grandchildren (12 in total)  was represented by one lamb, me being the littlest of my family I was the littlest of the lambs, and every day depending on how well we had behaved  we would move the lambs closer to the manger... I can still feel the excitement when walking towards Grandmama's house every night, (fear on those days that I wasn't that well behaved) but when that door was open ... the smell of all the lighted candles, the hot chocolate, the sweet bread, my Grandmama's open arms and the biggest smile that was waiting for us would make every December so very special.

At school we had an advent wreath, and every morning we would light it and prey, it was really beautiful. 

This year for my kids I was finally able to buy this advent spiral with  Mary and donkey, eventually and hopefully our collection will grow every year,  the girls are so excited.. we will read a chapter every night until Christmas, they love to move Mary on her donkey around the spiral and they love to listen to the story, I was afraid the chapters would be too long but they are just enough for the girls to want a little bit more so they are learning to be patient for they have to wait just one chapter a day.

And we bought also baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and three lambs, little by little I hope to be able to resemble my Grandmama's nativity set,  probably not in size but in memories, for now I'm making sure all the candles in the house are lighted and the hot chocolate is always ready on the stove. 

OOAK mini paitings

Picnic!!

Gee what an intense past days, between the holiday and the elections no time at all... a very quick post this will be..

I left my camera with el dia de los muertos pics at a friends house so no pics for now I promise I will post them when I get my camera back!

The good news is that my hubby shared the old camera with me and I was able to take pics of the new items that I just listed at the shop. Just a little peek, and an update with more necklaces and candle holders by mid week.

(a smallish mountain giRl) 

(thRee winteR giRl's)

I grew up in ''La capital" or "el Distrito Federal" .. Mexico city ... the 2nd biggest city in the world with 22.8 million people.
We don't really have Halloween. Halloween is a borrowed festivity .. on that day you'll have a mixture and it really depends on what social class you belong too middle class and rich people would go trick or treating dress in costumes yelling through the streets in every house "Halloween queremos Halloween" meaning "halloween WE Want halloween" and that of course means candy. But depending on the area that you live and if you are from a lower class you wont ask for halloween you ask for your "CALAVERITA" this means little skull.. and the candy wont be candy it will be fruit, like tangerines, jicama, oranges... and this kids the ones that ask for calaverita, because they don't have money for costumes they only paint their faces with a skull... so we would have tons of big, little and even the adults with their white skull faces, at least all this was when I was a little kid, but then november first and second is el dia de los muertos!!! that is our real tradition and what a gorgeous tradition it is.. We believe that the dead come back to us for one day .. the vail from their world to our world is so thin on those days.
So we make altares to honor our death people, we make a lot of food, food that has a special meaning and food that we know the dead person used to like when she/he was alive.. we put a lot of fresh orange and purple flowers around .. a lot of candles to guide them, we write funny songs and poems, we decorate with papel picado, calaveritas de azucar and paper mache statues of the skeletons dressed up as traditional mexican women and men, anyway you can find a lot of information in the internet about "el dia de los muertos" it is a beautiful tradition one that I really love and every year I do my altar . So today in the morning I will be decorating and getting ready for "el dia de los muertos" with festivities through the whole weekend and I'll come back to share all the pics..

Blessings to all, have a great Halloween, Samhain or whatever you celebrate this weekend.. if you don't celebrate anything have a fantastic weekend.