getting ready for Christmas

my first Christmas ornament for this year...

My nephews were born today!!, and ohh the JOY of having teeny tiny babies around the house again, I'm in baby heaven!!.. it was a hard pregnancy, my sister in law had to spend almost six months on bed rest but she delivered two healthy gorgeous little ones and she is doing very well too!

Mikel and Lukas

Welcome to the world wee ones!!

"...together they traveled over the rainbow bridge and down the spiral staircase until they came to a big gate. The heavenly child felt a little bit anxious about leaving his wonderful heavenly home but with courage in his heart and his angel beside him, he went through the gate ... a little baby was born upon the earth! ...

as told by Barbara Patterson in the book Beyond the Rainbow Bridge

WIP

Winter Walk

Father Winter is getting ready, the winds are blowing and the air is getting chillier and chillier, I think we are going to have a very cold winter this year.

Almost done but still needs a little bit of work, I'm hoping I'll be able to finish it in the next couple of days so I can put it in the shop by the beginning of next week.

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Autumn Friends..

A new painting, a new style... I wish I had more time, the days should have 36 hours instead of 24. Months have passed, my studio and my blog have being sitting here waiting patiently for my return and believe when I tell you I miss my work and I miss you guys, but only time knows when I will be able to make a full come back, too many new things in our lives that require 100% of our attention... all wonderful things but nevertheless I wish I had more time..

Talk to you soon..

Happy Birthday Mateo!!!

WIP

Rainbows and Children

Happiness is...

bubble baths!!

face painting...

and an unexpected visit from my nephew. A couple of years ago he lived with us, today he is a pilot with a very busy schedule and we were blessed with his visit. He has so much love to give, and the kids had an amazing weekend with him. We were in heaven!

Hope you had an amazing weekend!!!

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New drawing

SummeR Reading

Spring... we love You!!

And we have a winner!! actually 2 winners:

Congratulations to :

BRITTA

Ohhh my Dear

I love your creative pictures! I whis me many stamps from you!

Have a nice day
Hugs Britta from Hamburg

and to

TANJA

Hay dear.

I most like your Good thing we are not in a hurry print. I hope I will be lucky enough to win one. I love you pictures and I eaven have two of your stamsp.

Best regards,

Tanja from Slovenia

Today we get ready for Spring's arrival, and here are some things we do to celebrate Imbolc .

We light candles around our house during the day.

We do our first spring cleaning: I invite my kids to sweep the house and we open the front door and sweep the dust out, this is to symbolize that we get rid of the old and we welcome the new in our lives.

Today is when we prepare the seeds we want for this years vegetable garden and start planting some of them indoors.

We hang Brighid's crosses in the doors that we use the most and above our chimney, and we have a small celebration before the day is over where we write one goal that we want to accomplish this year.

I also want to remind you about my GIVEAWAY so don't forget to leave your comment in the post below for the chance to win 2 of my prints.

Have a wonderful day!!

As I said a couple of days ago, tomorrow February 2nd, we celebrate Imbolc and my wedding anniversary, so keeping with the tradition of the 2's (we got married 2/02/2002 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon) there will be 2 winners!! so if you want to enter this giveaway go to my etsy shop browse through my prints and let me know which print you would like to receive if you were the winner.

So for the giveaway there will be 2 illustrations (of course), the print that you pick from the shop and this brand new one that I made for our Imbolc celebration:

Don't forget that if your Blogger profile is unavailable, you need to leave an email address so that I can contact you to let you know that you have won.

We are trying to get back into our rhythm, this week has being super hard but 2 things were accomplished, we got a new cabinet for our everything room!! and oh! it makes things so much nicer:

but the most wonderful one, (which I have to add here that I had nothing to do with this) Our little Mateo decided 4 days ago that he didn't need any more diapers, Yea!!! no more diapers !!!! (and just one accident!!!).

Anyway I hope that my almost daily blogging gets back in routine.. for now I want to let you know that next week, February 2 we celebrate two important things in my home: Imbolc and our wedding anniversary, we got married 8 years ago : February 2, 2002 at 2:00 P.M so its the perfect time for a Giveaway!! so next Monday I will post the pics for it!!!

The reason of my absence.. we took a little trip to energize ourselves for this new year, we are still traveling, but here are some pics.

We'll be back in a couple of weeks and I will have my first giveaway on my return!! in the mean time I hope you had a wonderful holiday and a gorgeous beginning of the year!!

Our Winter Solstice celebration...

we light our sun candle, we sing songs and read solstice stories

We make ornaments that resemble the sun

we eat apples

we wait patiently for the longest night of the year

we make our Yule log , this year with holly and cinnamon.

and after we burn it the kids go to bed ... Gary and me while we wait until morning, I light 12 candles with the fire from our log that represent the 12 days that the log is supposed to burn continuously and we meditate and do a recap of our year... tomorrow before sunrise we will drive up to a high spot and wait for sunrise. We will greet the newborn sun with songs and dancing and the kids will receive their first present of the season.

wishing you all a beautiful celebration!

and don't forget that

Linda from Natural Suburbia is doing a GIVEAWAY!!!! run run to her blog!! her goodies are just absolutely gorgeous!! I know you are going to love them and her blog is such an inspiration to all of us, me and my children just love to peek at her blog all the time.

Loving my little time at my studio, have to take advantage of it,Gary will be traveling this week again...

what do you think

(a child and his moon)

I will have prints very soon at my etsy shop

this week we celebrate the animal kingdom, so yesterday we put our animals on our Advent Spiral...

We made window paper stars as ornaments for our tree...

We made for the very first time ballon lanterns!! ohh what a mess it was, but soooo worth it and even though they didn't turn out the way we expected them, candlelight is always candlelight beautiful and warm!!

too much excitement for the wee ones ... Good night to you all!!