What I Wore Wednesday - Playing Catch Up

So between getting sick (and the whole family being sick and I mean the whole family including my parents and brother), then having no Internet for almost a week I am finally posting my pictures.

So I am getting more active as my leg heals but not as creative as I use to be so I do still have lots of time on the couch creating away.  You can check out all my projects  here where I hold myself accountable on a weekly basis and post my pictures on facebook and twitter daily. 

 

  As with previous weeks I'm linking up with The Pleated Poppy , and the Transatlantic Blonde.

Before Christmas

Earrings and necklace - Forever 21

Sweater - Lane Bryant

T-shirt - Walmart

Flower pin - Made by me

Belt and pants - Penningtons 

 A trip to Brickworks

hat and cowl - made by me

jacket - from a friend

jeans - MXM

Here are some pictures of the kids from the day and my brother, he is visiting from Vancouver. After 11 years he came home for a visit.

Christmas Rock Monkey and myself got really sick, my father and brother were already sick at this point. There wasn't very many pictures but here are a few of the kids.

The top picture is from Christmas Eve, in the Polish tradition we open the present then. In our house we open presents many times. On Christmas Eve the kids open presents from their grandparents and my cousin and the pj's we get them every year. Christmas morning they get to open their presents from Santa (the bottom pic is the tree in the family room where Santa leaves his presents because that's where the fire place is), when everyone else is up and over we open stockings and after breakfast the rest of the presents get opened. It makes for a nice pace, no one is overwhelmed with all these presents at once. 

 

 

Thursday

 t-shirt - from a friend

scarf - made by me

pants - Addition Elle

Saturday - My mom's birthday

earrings - made by my mom

necklace - Christmas present from my cousin

dress and cardi - Target

flower - made by me

 

Sunday - trip to the zoo

 

cowl made by me
cardi - Target
shirt - Lane Bryant
jeans - MXM

 

And a picture of the kids

Monday

 shirt - Addition Elle
necklace - gift from my cousin
belt and pants-Penningtons

 Tuesday

cardi - Target

shirt - Fashion Bug

pants - Penningtons

And I took a side view to show how long my hair is getting. I can't believe it's like mid back when not in a ponytail. For most of my life I had a pixie cut so having long hair is way out of my element and I am enjoying it right now.

  
  I hope everyone had a creative and productive week, and the upcoming week is as productive and creative.

 Ania

Brickworks

As I mentioned here, we went down to Brickworks on Saturday so we could enjoy the Farmer's Market, spend some time as a family and take some cute maternity pictures of my cousin. When rock and I use to live downtown Toronto in a cute little condo pre-kids, we use to drive past this place all the time. Not once did we ever stop to check it out, wow were we missing out.  What a great place to visit and take pictures.


It's such a neat place, you have both a urban and nature setting in one. It was amazing. we got there early at 8:45 and the parking was already full. We wandered through the famer's market, we picked up some treats to  each and then the photos began. I got some great pictures, then we wandered through the Weston Family Quarry Garden. We checked out the wildlife, took more photos and then headed over to the Chimmeny Court, where the kids water the plants,dug in the sand and played in the teepees. They had so much fun they didn't want to leave but it was starting to get really hot so we went back to the market picked up some fixings for lunch and dinner and headed home. The fresh strawberries and cherries we bought didn't make it home the kids devoured them on the car ride home.

Muffin was my best child subject

  Having fun while waiting for daddy.

 We saw turtles, frogs and fish in the ponds.

The girls getting in on the action

I tried to get a picture with Rock and Tutu but Tutu was more interested  in all the dogs he saw everywhere.

but he loved checking out the fish and turtles

and the plants

 

 because there is rarely a shot of me in front of the camera

the girls jumping and having fun

And we spotted a Blue Heron

A Lilly

And the best part of the day according to the kids....

Some really cool art

And last but not least another picture of me in front of the camera (this might be a record)

If you're in the GTA or visiting Toronto it's a great place to visit. We can't wait  to go back and explore some more (and wear the right shoes for exploring). I think the fall would be the perfect time, see all the pretty colours.

Maternity Photoshoot at Brickworks

This morning the my cousin and my family went down to Brickworks so we could partake in the farmer's market and I could take some maternity pictures of my cousin. I was excited to put some of my new found knowledge to practice and take some gorgeous photos of her. Here is a snake peak of some of my favorite pictures I took today.

I'm going to have a hard time narrowing down the pictures. I always have a hard time with that.




Note: None of the photos have been edited.