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I really, really enjoy making these hand stamped bags for my awesome Etsy shop customer's orders. My heart goes out with every single parcel I send. Thank you so much for buying & supporting my art!

Remember these tiny books ? It has been too long since I've made one so I got to work this weekend and finished a whole new batch of tiny book covers. Each little cover was painted by hand and no two are alike. As soon as I finish them they'll go into my shop . There will be tiny books of birds, flowers & butterflies :)

Manolo & I went on a market hopping adventure looking for Ceylon cinnamon. We came back home with bags full of fresh goodies. The markets we visited were: Mercado de San Juan, Mercado de Sonora & Mercado de la Merced. Hope you enjoy these pics as much as we enjoyed our outing.

Here are the journal pages from the past two weeks and the layout I made today for the next two weeks. Hope you have a beautiful Monday!

I'm in completely love with the new studio Manolo built for me in our home and I could spend all day in there but at dawn... it really turns into a remarkable space with the golden light of the low sun streaming in.

I'm very excited to announce that I'm working on a line of stamps in collaboration with Magenta Style . Early next year you will be able to purchase rubber stamps with my artwork at select stores and directly from my shop :) I'll let you know as soon as they become available.

Seven brand new archival quality prints will be available at my Etsy shop tomorrow at noon :) That will make the total 70 different prints available for you to choose from.

New stamp I carved to decorate my shop envelopes. I love how the black ink looks on the kraft stay-flats. Hope my lovely customers like them :) If you are interested in carving your own stamps, I wrote a book about it: "Making An Impression" published by Lark Books. You can also check out all the posts I've done about carving on the blog by clicking here .

This is the archaeological site of Calixtlahuaca . We had the whole area to ourselves yesterday morning, we only encountered three local women gathering wild capulin cherries and tejocotes . It was amazing to walk the trails from temple to temple teaming with colorful wild flowers, agaves and maize fields.

This morning we went on a short car ride to Calixtlahuaca and hiked up to the archaeological site. The whole area is really fascinating. This is a bit of what I saw. I'll post photos of the actual ruins tomorrow.