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Home sweet, sweet home. 🏡 Extreme close up of my "birding" print before it was inked for the first time. 🌻🍄🌿🐞🐝🐛🐤 The sun is finally shining and you can find me outside creating a wildflower labyrinth in my garden 🌼🌷🌻🌸 which means lots more inspiration for new prints! ☀️ New favourite spot in the house 🏡 Coffee and plants: could there BE a better combo?! Go support @drinkwhitecap at @newleafgardencenter in Winkler, and sip your iced coffee while filling your soul with inspiration, all while supporting local. #notanad #justlovethem Just. Keep. Going. 🌱 Im soooo looking forward to all the suppers and gatherings of friends we will have in our gazebo this summer! It may not be the summer we had pictured, but good food, wine, close friends and fires are definitely things to be grateful for. 🍔🍷🍺👯‍♂️🔥 Listed a few more of these big 16x20" beauties in my shop! These archival 100% cotton paper, hand printed linocuts go fast, so if you've had your eye on one I suggest you snag it while you can 😊 (Link in profile) Morning light 🌞✨ My mantra lately: "We craft love from heartbreak, compassion from shame, grace from disappointment, courage from failure. Showing up is our power" -Brene Brown. (And yes, that is a trap door, going into our cellar. Our laundry used to be down there 😬! Love small houses!) We've been trying to get a baby in our arms for almost 4 years, and in that time I've gathered quite a nice collection of baby things to symbolize hope. Some of these are without question, Anouk's things... the first onesie I bought when we found out we were 'expecting', the Inuit storybooks, the burp clothes my mom made, the little sparrow rattle, gifts we received to celebrate we were getting a baby, the baby book I started writing in and will never get to finish, and my new painting from a dear friend of Anouk's due date constellation. I will always treasure these items dearly, and I hope one day there will be a baby for us, but in the meantime, I'm going to keep collecting, and gathering sweet items to help me remain hopeful that a baby is coming. Super cute lil flatlay by @carrielynnu featuring my florist print in 5x7"! My new "birding" print framed and up on the wall! There is ONE left in the shop!!. Framing tip: you can get this frame at IKEA for $20 and it fits the print perfectly! Close up of my new "birding" Lino print. Hand carved, hand pressed into archival 100% cotton paper. 16x20" and in the shop!! Thank you so much for all of your wonderful support, kind and encouraging words, and extended grace over my last post. Side note: this Boston fern is getting a little large, and I don't know how to stop it from growing so much! Do I prune some fronds back or? Announcement: I know lots of you are looking forward to seeing me at @thirdandbird, but sadly I will no longer be attending as a vendor. Losing our sweet little sparrow has kinda flipped life upside down. Life doesn't look the way it is 'supposed' to look, and I'm finding myself needing to practice lots of self care this month. Thank you so much for all your continued love, support and prayers. They are so, so appreciated and deeply felt. P.S. we felt naming the baby we carried in our hearts for 28 weeks was significant and important. We chose the name Anouk, which means grace 💙 In continuing with National Infertility Awareness Week, I wanted to share these words by @amandabaileyleach : "If you'll allow me, I'd like to speak to you about anyone you may have in your life who's experiencing infertility. . She will let you down. The best thing you can do is give her unlimited grace. If you are pregnant, she may miss your baby shower. If you get pregnant, she may cry when you tell her. It's not that she isn't happy for you. It's that when she tries to go there in her heart, she keeps falling in the cracks of her own sadness. . If you are a friend you may think she's changed. She has. And it hurts her more than it hurts you. If you're a family member you may become annoyed that this is all she ever thinks about. Believe me, she'd rather think of anything but this. . Grief is the steady-unchanging-constant in her life these days. It's often accompanied by fear and shame. And, after enough time passes, you may notice that she seems hollow. There is a part of a woman's heart that dies in this journey. . Her pain is sacred, so don't try and take it from her. The best thing you can do is stand beside her in the midst of it. And, although she may not act like it, she'll be glad you're there. . Let her cry. Let her pull back. Don't be offended by her mourning. One day, in one way or another, she'll pick herself up from the ashes and she's going to need a friend." A size comparison that shows how large the new "birding" print is. Pictured here is an 8x10", 11x14" and the 16x20" beauty which is now listed in my Etsy shop! (Link in profile!) It's National Infertility Awareness Week. It's been 3.75 years on this road and these words from @waitingforbabybird really hit home: What is infertility, you ask? The dictionary would tell you that it is simply being unable to conceive within a year of actively trying or being able to carry a baby to full term. But it's far more than that. And it's far more than just an inconvenience. It's a disease of the reproductive system that affects 1 in 8 couples. And like any other disease, it is frustrating. It is gut-wrenching. And it is depressing. It’s like a grave that keeps following you around day after day as it swallows your hope and buries more and more of your dreams with the tears you just shed. It is desperately longing to be pregnant. Wanting to know what it feels like to have a life growing inside of you. A life that has your eyes and his smile. A life that you created in love. It is walking down the baby aisles and touching the onsies, picking up the booties, and wondering when. And asking why. It’s loving a child you have never met. And missing them fiercely every day. It’s emptiness as you walk by the bedroom that should be a nursery. It’s loneliness as your house is absent from the pitter patters of tiny feet in the morning or giggles from bath time at night. It’s frustration that leads to desperation as you try every vitamin recommended, test suggested, treatment procedure offered, medicine given, and diet instructed. It is feeling unworthy. Because maybe your faith is too weak. Your prayers are not enough. Or your past too damning. It’s a constant war between your body and your soul. A war that you must fight to win daily and a war that is exhausting, yet you battle on. It is trying to remain hopeful, yet realistic. And failing to find the balance. It’s hearing the words, “I’m sorry, but there is no heartbeat.” THAT IS INFERTILITY. It's more than just an inconvenience. It's more than just the inability to conceive. It's dream shattering. Soul crushing. And heartbreaking. And that is what 1 in 8 couples deal with on a daily basis." My new print "birding" is 16x20" hand printed onto archival 100% cotton paper. Hitting the shop tomorrow! (Message me to pre order yours! These are going fast!) A HUGE thank you to everyone who came out to the @luckygirlpopup (which is on again today with different vendors!) yesterday and supported local. We are so appreciative that you, our customers, allow us to live out our dreams 🌏🌳🌖.