Paint Party Friday - Lamppost

Welcome to December and Paint Party Friday! This piece is called 'Lamppost', based on a photo I took in the neighbourhood. It is an ACEO art card (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") done in acrylic on canvas.

I am excited to show you my new high quality acrylic paints that I decided to invest in.  Michael's arts and craft store will often run 50% coupons on regular priced items so I took advantage of this.

Chocolatier

Purdy's Christmas catalogue

Husband M and I were at the mall. We stopped by Purdy's chocolatier for ice cream. There was a nice young man working inside the store. He mentioned that Purdy's chocolate was made from sustainable cocoa. It is a Canadian company from Vancouver since 1907. The young man said he loved working there, knowing that even if the prices were higher it was for the best cause. He even pointed out no sugar chocolate options for M who is diabetic. He gave me a free chocolate sample , their Sweet Georgia Brown, which tasted like a Turtles chocolate. When I asked, he told me he was allowed to eat one piece of product a day and he is given a 30% discount on their boxed chocolate.  It was obvious that he loved his job.

Scribble Picnic - Generous

Welcome to Michael's Scribble Picnic! This week's theme is 'Generous'. I had an idea to do an Iphone X as a generous gift, it is surely expensive! So here is my piece on textured coloured cardstock (6" x 6") done with my permanent markers and outlined with a black pilot fineliner.  I wonder who was inspired to take a less materialistic take on the theme, lol.

A nice gift

My sister who lives near me had been in Italy on vacation this summer. I finally got her little gift last week, it is some olive oil and a sachet of lavender. It's always nice to receive thoughtful gifts!

And what exciting news about the engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle yesterday!  I enjoyed watching their first interview, so romantic!  Meghan lived in Toronto for many years and in fact they said that the white coat she wore yesterday was sold out at the Toronto designer.  They plan to make more of the coats and will rename it  'Meghan'.

Craft sale

Husband M and I went to the church Christmas craft sale the weekend before last. It is always well attended. They had many baked goods for sale, M picked up some oatmeal cookies. There were gift baskets and seasonal floral arrangements for purchase, a raffle, a silent auction, knitted items, scarves and so on. We ran into some friends, new grandparents and they had their adorable 2 year old in tow. I had to remark on how beautiful he was. Yes, it's a wonderful time of year!

Mall Decoration

Everyone was taking photos of this moose all lit up now for the season. Speaking of moose, one is loose in our city, he was seen bounding across a busy road and ended up along the river.  He had even been in someone's back yard, having broken through a fence.  They said moose can die of stress, which he was evidently under.  It was thought to leave him alone as much as possible and hope that he could make his way north eventually.

Daughter L recently made us some restaurant quality ravioli stuffed with ground pork.  After boiling them, she sauteed them in herbs and olive oil.  Her cooking trip to Italy this summer really paid off!  The ravioli disappeared before I thought of taking a photo.

Tote bags

Santa's House at the mall

all lit up

I read this article saying that complimentary tote bags are overwhelming us now that they have taken the place of plastic bags. Come to think of it, I do have a mountain of them, how about you?