Artist & Illustrator
We took a little extra long holiday over at Small Fancy, but this week we’re back! The theme is “Reasons against/for getting a dog”…
Oh yeah, we’re getting a puppy! We don’t get her until the middle of Februrary though, not sure how we’re going to wait that long.
A certain little girl will be turning 6 in less than a week and the birthday party preparations are in full swing!
January is certainly not the most fun month for a birthday, so we thought a rainbow theme would be good. Boy, were we right! (Instructions for hanging rainbows can be found here, link via Elsie Marley)
I love getting the decorations up early, so she has all week to feel special and excited… and who doesn’t love giant tissue paper pompoms hanging in their living room?! (instructions here)
We still have lots of our sleeves, like a rainbow pinata, rainbow face painting and a rainbow cake! I’ll keep you posted.
I just finished this for a little girl just born in Vancouver.
Work ‘s been slow going in these parts. I’ve had my girl home with me for almost 2 weeks. Her school was closed due to mould. She starts tomorrow at a new school, where her 11 year old cousin also goes… she’s pretty excited about that!
What do you do when the world gives you snow, snow and more snow? You go snowshoeing!
We spent most of the weekend exploring the forest in a close by park. So beautiful, quiet and other-worldly with all the snow. Sosi decied to wanted to live there and even had a home picked out for us under a large pine tree… she cried when we had to go home.
One of my gifts to the girls this Christmas were matching Bigfoot tees. Trying to get a picture of them both in them has been a challenge! Ila loves the shirt but wants to wear nothing but “monkey jammies” and Sosi doesn’t like pictures being taken of her lately.
The shirts are beautifully made, I’m really happy with them. You can get yours here.
Happy weekend folks!
Hers.
Mine.
(Both drawn with Clementine Soy crayons, so smooth and nice to draw with… too bad Ila has broken all of ours already!)
I’m finding it hard to get back into the swing of things after such a wonderful blur of days. Sosi’s been doing most of the drawing around here these past couple weeks, it’s now my turn to get back at it!
Life and work are a little hectic at the moment. I hope to be back here soon with some things to show you.
Hope all is well in your corners of the world.
Oh my gosh you’re 2!! … boy oh boy do we ever love you.
A trip to the Charlottetown airport is always exciting, even more so when you’re there to pick up your Nana and Pop!
This arrived in the mail from Grandma a couple of weeks ago. It was all I could do to keep Sosi from it until today. She gets to open a window and get a new Playmobil toy each day. I don’t know who’s more excited, her or me.
I think this may be the earliest we’ve ever had a tree up. I couldn’t hold her back any longer. Sosi decorated the entire tree by herself this year. I found her and Ila later that evening lying on the floor together looking up at it in the dark. Ila looked over and smiled and said “beauuuful!!”. Yes, beautiful indeed.
This week at the Small Fancy we both took a picture “from the hip”. I had a hard time choosing… this is the that one didn’t make it.
While there’s no doubt Sosi likes the little mini albums I made her last year, I’d have to say Ila LOVES them. She sits and looks at these photo albums (that have no pictures of her) over and over. It’s a little sad really. So I decided for her upcoming birthday (!), I’d make her some of her very own.
I decided to give them to her early (maybe because she was sitting beside me as made them). As I explained what they were and that they were full of pictures of her, she just smiled so big and started hugging them. I can’t think of a better reaction to anything I’ve made.
8 Years ago I held on tight to Paul on a beach in Hawaii and we were married. Here we are this many years later living on another island. Our life is not at all what I dreamed it would be back then… it’s so much better.
Our house is beginning to feel a little small for us, but I can’t imagine moving. We live impossibly close to the main library, which to me, is pretty much a dream come true. I think if we had a bigger living space we’d still all be cuddled together in one room anyway, so what’s the point?
During one of our recent visits I noticed this amazing french magazine and quickly scooped up all the copies. Sosi is in French immersion so we are trying to find fun French things for her, and this is a huge hit. Such great illustrations and colouring pages, but my personal favourite is the Oukilé family search spread in each magazine (very TinTin-esque). A quick google search found books! I think these will most definitely be on our Christmas wish lists.
Lori Joy Smith
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