Summer is coming to a close and school will be back in session soon. While I look forward to having some extra time on my hands, I sure will miss these fun summer moments…

Well… Hello Wheatabix!

Even the dogs have a blast down at the beach. Woozle’s off digging for gold…

Has sprouted… her own home grown beans fresh from the garden! The one she and Daddy grew for the very first time.

It was a very exciting moment for this little proud mama!

A storm was a brewing in the distance, but there it was… the silver lining. Not nearly as beautiful as in person.

I just finished a sweet set of handpainted canvas art for a customer. From left to right - Made in Heaven, Sweet Child of Mine and Always & Forever.

For each, I use a print on canvas as the underlay and then add a load of handpainted embellishments… by the time it’s finished, it really is a painting.

The canvas is then wrapped around a wooden framed with the sides painted black so that the art just pops in contrast.

These are some of my very favorites!

Tonight Tabytha and Austin met up with one of their favorite friends. Her name is Samantha too. ;o)

After hours of chasing and climbing, it’s wonderful to watch them playing quietly together… laughing and smiling. Reminds me of some of my favorite childhood moments.

The hard part is leaving… of course. That’s when we get the infamous “not happy” faces and “but mom”s.

Okay… Just five more minutes.

Most afternoons we end up heading over to one of the parks in our neighborhood. Tonight was the Marina Park which is just down the street and within walking distance. Good exercise for us parents.

In keeping with the theme, the play structure is a marooned pirate ship with multilevel decks, ladders… the works! Needless to say the kids love it.

And the view is spectacular as boats sail in and out of the marina.

Well it’s finally finished and I just love how it turned out. A birthday present to myself perhaps? These are some of my sweet blessings…

Some things are so important to our being, we know not what we would do without them… Sweet blessings from Heaven.

Prints available…

• My Website
• On WinkElf
• On Etsy

Always love to hear comments on my artworks!
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Five years ago we took in a stray cat my husband John found wandering the streets of Ottawa. We called her Wilbur… not a very feminine name, but it just seems to fit her.

She loves to hide in the strangest places…

Of course this makes it really hard to find her because, as it turns out, she’s absolutely deaf. So every night we all play a game…

Where’s Wilbur?

Just added a new print to my shoppes. It’s Back to School… And that includes fairies too!

Somewhere deep in the forest, hidden within the flowers, little fairy girls have gone back to school… Learning to flutter and fly, casting magical spells and all those secret fairy things.

The perfect way to treasure those first days of school!

• On Etsy - 8×10 Fine Art Print - $15.00
• On WinkElf - 8×8 Handpainted Canvas Art - $25.00

Summer has arrived!

We’ve had a couple of weeks of beautiful weather. Sunny and warm… perfect beach weather.

We’ve been spending most of our afternoons at Point Pelee… The water is clean and the waves are big!!!

It’s like being at the ocean!