Wild Hearts!

Friends found on cottage roads.

Back from the cottage. Sun kissed, lake washed, and full of radiant horizons.  I took along my sketch book and camera.  Found so many wild flowers along the roads that weaved around our home in the woods.  I can't seem to get enough wilderness right now.  Oh and there were ducks! 

And I must pass on some blog love (i am a little behind due to all the vacation...my apologies!)
1. a big blushing thank you to Crystal from the lovely blog House of Hearts for her post about my Kitten Face blog!
2. thank you thank you to my newest twitter pal Kye, for her post all about inspiration and zines!
3. Jeanine also made a lovely mention of my wolf zine on her Saylor Made blog, which has become one of my favourite places to visit! Her newest post about polaroid week got my brain spinning!
4. Robyn is next, who was the recipient of my Raccoon diorama! Her blog is filled with so much mail art awesomeness it makes your heart swell into the shape of an envelope!
5. Huge Thank You to Simone for her post about the Wolves zine...I heart Simone's videos! Watch them!
6. And finally to Sophie from So Lovely Decoration, a site I frequent everyday to dream at, for her post of my work up on an awesome site called 'Ohlesgirls'...so awesome!   

Happy times in the grass. We wear tiny flowers in our hair.

Hiking to the edge of the lake, grass under foot, green stained soles wash clean in water.

Wild flowers, tamed.

Group hug.

The curious one.

Picnics in Letters!

Picnic Time!

I am so happy that the postal strike is over, because now I can get back to filling envelopes to all my lovely penpal's with mini picnics and many other wonderful things! 

We are all friends here!

Canada Day

Journal stories.

Kyle and I spent our Canada Day sprawled out on a picnic blanket in High Park.  The weather was perfect! We sipped on fizzy water, chomped on some delicious pesto pasta, a variety of cheeses, and some blazing fruit salad.  It was positively perfect.  I hope everyone else had a fabulously Canadian day as well.  Oh and of course I took some time out for my journal as well...

A parade of one.

Green Study.

Foxy Fox.

Blue lines.

Random sketches.

Love Letter!

The love letter is thanks to the most wonder Lindsay Zier-Vogel, who gave me a few of these beauties to distribute while I was out and about.

Picnic perfect.

Scruffy days.

I love to bike...a lot! I cycle to and from work everyday and though I absolutely adore getting lost in my city streets, I could do without my scruffy helmet hair.  Unfortunately, style comes in second to safety, so until they introduce a helmet that does not cause me to have crazy tripped out bangs every morning, I will just have to keep rocking my bent up hair do!

Nature walk.

A bright blue bird who excels at jumping and hop scotch.

So i am back from beautiful British Columbia.  What a trip...I attended a most memorable wedding, with a surprise lantern parade that I will never forget, baked pies with my bestie, picked strawberries with my brother, and spent a very relaxing time in Whistler with Kye's family.  I am supremely satisfied and ready to attack Toronto life again.  While in Whistler, Kye and I took a long nature trek.  I was inspired by all the flora and fauna along the way.  Here are a few of the sketches that fell out of my journal....hopefully soon to transform into lovely dioramas. And can we also all cheer for the end of the postal strike! Mail art will resume again! 

Bunny-ish and full of berries.

Cloud gazer.

Bertie, the talker.

The bashful one.

Home Again!

Night Whispers.

Windy hours.

Home on the horizon.

On Vacation...

I think Kitten Face says it the best.

I am off to the west coast! So excited! But when I get home I am hoping that this postal strike will be resolved, and that I will have my next envelope diorama ready for it's blog debut.  Until then, happy June to all.  Now bring on the mountains!

Found.

Blossom hunting.

I leave on vacation in a few days.  Off to a wedding and to see family and friends! I can't wait to give those big mountains and the ocean a huge 'Hello'!  Also, I am really excited to write letters while on vacation and hopefully make a trip to the regional assembly of text.  And most of all, i can't wait to have some time to write and journal in another place.  It is always exciting to get inspired by a new location...hopefully there is also some time to dedicate towards little Kitten-Face as well! 

Falling from trees.

Finally, a few shout outs to some new friends who received their 'wolves' zines in the mail recently and graciously shared it on their lovely blogs:
1. The awesome Robyn!
2. The fantabulous Jeannine!
3. The super sweet Kye!
Thank you so much you guys! I can't wait to see what hits my mail box next:

Post-It Notes.

Friend Confirmation.

So a few weeks ago my excellent friend and biz partner Bliss, bought us some new post-its for the office. They look just like little miniature letter stationery and are ridiculously cute,  I couldn't resist drawing on them! So here is the current collection of my office post-it doodles. Does anyone else doodle away on scraps and post-its? It would be cool to see other examples. I know GR had an entire show dedicated to them which was pretty fantastic!

Next step is to write some mini letters and send them out...three cheers for post-it mail!

Happy Thoughts.

Verklempt.

Are you bear claw approved?

Sketching in Trinity Bellwoods

Fox Park.

Tonight, due to my lack of organizational abilities these days, I found myself an hour and a half early for an art opening.  I figured this was a great time to grab my sketch book and hit the park for a little impromptu sketching!  It was beautiful out tonight...Toronto hot with a warm wind rolling around the park.  I had forgotten to bring my sketch book with me (bad rhya), so I dipped into a corner store and bought some lined paper and ball point pens for supplies.  Here are the results of my sunny sketching session, which I spent on a park bench until I was scared off by some very very very dark clouds accompanied by long and flashy vines of lightening and lots of thunder.  I never made it to the opening...instead I raced the rain home on my bicycle. 

Mr. Pinecone in a bad mood.

Kitten Face sketch.

Don't worry, the grass will catch you.

Sketching in Trinity Bellwoods, before the storm.