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!!

Advent, second week

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