Christmas Craft show No. 1

Last weekend we had our very first Christmas Craft Show "West Shore Christmas Wonderland" at the Eagle Ridge community centre in Langford, BC.  It was in a Hockey arena, so you can imagine the size of it, and the set up was lovely.

Here are some photos of our booth for this show. We had two tables; one with all the embroidered cotton products, another large table with all the jewelry, ornaments, calendars, photos and prints, and a big wall that we packed full of framed artwork on both sides.

Jesse, my hubby, and I.

Some ornaments and cushions.

Earrings, lockets and pendants made with my photography and mandalas.

One side of the wall and the embroidered bags and cushions.

My friend Campbell from Labyrinth Leather and Kristy from Soak Essentials.

Happy Day Of The Dead!

from Flickr

Today is the Day of the Dead, a national Mexican Holiday, and I am missing my Mexico so much. All the color, the celebration, and the food!

The Day of the Dead is such a beautiful tradition. People build and decorate altars for their loved ones that have passed away. They fill the altars up with the deceased's favorite things, foods and drinks. During this day relatives and friends stop by their house and visit the altar bringing more items to the collection. I remember in school every class had to make their own altar and work as a team, and at the end of the day, the best altar would win a prize. We would get creative and choose some famous Mexican person to dedicate the altar to and remember funny anecdotes about that person. My favorite parts were writing the "Calaberitas", which are funny poems that sometimes made no sense, and making a path with marigold petals to welcome visitors. My hands would be so yellow and smell terrible even after washing them several times lol! And, of course, after the winner was chosen we would eat all the delicious food :)
I love this tradition of building altars on the Day of the Dead because it brings out the artist and crafter in everyone!

Here are some cute Etsy finds to commemorate this day.

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And my favorite find are these mexican skulls rings aren't the awesome?!

Feliz Día de Muertos!

Autumn Colors

Autumn is such a magical season! My eyes cannot believe the burst of color everywhere I look. The air is so crisp and chilly, it breaths of change. The squirrels are hyper burying nuts for the winter. The rain causes decay of the fallen leaves and mushrooms grow where it is dark and moist. I love it! I love all seasons and all changes in life and nature, but autumn' s colors and feel is so special to me. It screams of change, it is an explosion before it all shuts down to sleep in white silence for the winter months.
Canada is so beautiful! I am so fortunate to live here in British Columbia and connect so deeply with nature during the seasonal changes.

Here are some photos I have taken this year I hope you enjoy them :)

The first ones are around my wonderful neighborhood and down at the beach.

These photos are at Beacon Hill Park. This very cute squirrel posed for a photo!

And these ones are around the city, the Empress Hotel and at the Governor's Gardens.

Birds and Numbers

It has been over a year since I last saw my little niece. That is her in in the photo with my sister Anna last summer in Old Quebec City. That crazy little ball of happy colors is Isabella. 

They used to live in Montreal, but moved to Bangalore, India, earlier this year. She is over two years old now and has a little sister on the way! and I am so excited about it!! I don't plan on having kids any time soon but with this two little girls in my life I have been inspired to design more prints for babies and toddlers. So I have been working with numbers. With birds and numbers to be more specific.

What do you think?

Birds and Numbers

 Hope you like them and I home you are having a beautiful Tuesday :).

Enjoying The Fall But Preparing For Winter

That's right. Fall is so beautiful! I am a Mexican and I cannot be more impressed with the Canadian fall. Every time I go outside my jaw drops, specially before the sunset when the light is yellow, all the golden and red colors feed my eyes and soul. I will soon be showing you some photos I have been taking around the city.

I am really enjoying  this autumn, I have a wonderful tree changing colors just outside my window. But today I stayed inside, it's been raining and it is cold. So I prepared some winter photos.

Winter Tree

Round Rock

Winter Rocks

They are now in the shop. Larger sizes available.
Thanks for visiting and hope you are having a great weekend :)