Show me your true Heart.
I can be trusted with it.
For Mine feels the same.
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Go and show that beautiful heart of yours to someone.
You could start at Recuerda Mi Corazon and enjoy some more haiku love if you want.
Happy Friday, Beautiful Ones !
(PS : Can you tell I am having a ball with my new IPhone photo apps ?! This photo of one of my rocks was edited with Snapseed. Beth, you created a photo editing fool ! )
From this week’s Joy List…
1.Loving friendships that grow and fill us up…
Heart shadows from FLA 2012, for Colleen, photographed by Beth.
Heart shadows from Cape Cod 2010, Colleen, me and Linda, photographed by me.
2.Gadgets that help you capture beauty and play with it…
Chica and my new IPhone, complete with super photo editing apps !
3.Mementos…
like this lucky Sea Heart from Seaside, FL…
4. Unexpected blooms…
My hibiscus plant in the studio surprised me with the burst of red this morning!
5. Homecomings and Love Celebrations…
The card in the beautiful roses that David gave me for Valentine’s Day…
A detail of one of the roses…
This week was full of so many joys…the list is very long.
Recognizing them and celebrating them helps take the edge off the sorrows and hardships that accompany them in this bittersweet journey.
I am sending out light and love extra strong right now to some dear ones who really need it.
And focusing on the joys in my own life gives me the strength to do that.
Thanks for letting me share the joy with you, Beautiful Ones !
Let’s keep adding that sweetness to the world.
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More joy sharing at Meri’s Musings.
A few little glimpses into what a treat my trip to Seaside, FLA was…
My hostess with the mostest, the kind, generous, funny, talented, beautiful and brilliant, Beth !
(Yes, I love her to bits !)
Sunshine at the beach…a delight in spite of the cool temps in the 50’s and below.
Sherry and her hubby Al, who drove down from Toronto, Canada to meet up with us.
It was a sweet, sweet thing to see my fabulous Warrior-Woman, Sweet Heart again.
The three of us made quite the team !
Our specialty ? Girl talk, I would say, and of course…
Shopping !
The three of us did well at the annual Seaside Flea Market on the Green.
It was a fun scene and Sherry and Beth got to go a little hog wild as they are both driving home and didn’t have to worry about luggage rates on the plane !
Oh, and did I mention that I love, love love the sea ?
I find it so inspiring,
unbelievably beautiful…
and a place that fills my heart with peace and love.
I feel so very, very blessed to have had the chance to go to Seaside again this year and spend time with my friends in such a very beautiful place.
It made me feel alive and vibrant in many ways.
What more could any of us ask for in the one precious life ?
I hope you found things to make you feel vibrant and alive today, Beautiful Ones !
Big, big love !
This is where I will be for the next little while thanks to this awesome friend of mine.
I promise to hug her and another dear friend really tightly while I am there.
Oh, and I promise say hi to the sea for you!
Big love, Beautiful Ones !
While I love the arriving part when you see dear hearts who you haven’t seen in a long time,
I really don’t like the actual travel part of traveling.
The organizing so that you have what you need on the plane in the container with the right amount of ounces,
the security at the airport where you feel like you have done something wrong though you haven’t,
what to wear on your feet that will work from NH winter through airport security and onto FLA temps,
the take off and landings that make me nauseous (don’t forget the Dramamine!),
the claustrophobic feeling of being in an enclosed space where I can’t get out when I want to…
Okay, I am basically a whiney, neurotic mess when it comes to the traveling part!
I am really excited to be leaving for Florida tomorrow.
And I can’t wait to get there!
But I think my neurosis came through a little in my art today…
One Sketch a Day – Day 2
Art Journal Page…
Phew ! Now that I got all of that out on the pages,
hopefully I can take my Artist Self’s advice,
and concentrate on what is oh so good about this situation !
I am sure it will all be fine…
(image from http://www.getcapewearcapefly.com/)
I just remembered my cape !
Happy Tuesday, Beautiful Ones !
Welcoming the day.
(sticky note pad found at Michaels Craft store for $1.00)
Black kitty in the studio, ready for anything on a Monday morning.
Toes painted and toe ring on for FLA in two days.
Saw this at Barnes & Noble yesterday for $14.95
Decided to make my own out of a Strathmore 5.5X8" Visual Journal (Watercolor) hanging around the studio.
Today’s sketch – India Ink and dip pen – “Seek”.
Today’s art journal page “Love is a Super Power”
– inspired by a heart-felt Lovefest I experienced this weekend.
(Acrylic paint background with ink blobs, hand carved stamp houses, trees and flower on dictionary pages, photo of Kim at 6, India ink & dip pen with large nib details, white gel pen)
That’s Monday morning, February 6th, 2012…
‘Round here….
Happy Monday, Beautiful Ones !
Last year, I “met” Ross Kinney, who was running one of his many 26.2 mile races to help raise funds and encouraged awareness for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
I donated some rocks to his project to be used as talisman gifts for his supporters.
This year, Ross is supporting a 15 year old wonder woman, Cassandra Perkins, who is running in the Colorado Rockies later this year for the same wonderful and inspiring reasons.
Ross asked me if I would like to help out again. I mean, how perfectly do the Rock My World rocks fit with Cassandra’s tag line, “Cassandra Rock the Rockies !”
The only thing that gave me pause was when Ross gave me the numbers.
He was thinking about 500 rocks…
or even 1000 rocks if I could do that.
Could I do that ?
I have to say that I almost said no.
But then I thought, the Rock Fairy doesn’t have to spread the love all by herself ! And many hands make very light work ! So I called on my wonderful group of arty friends to help out with the rocking task.
Yesterday afternoon, Patti and Terry,
and Barb and the other Terry
all earned their Rock Fairy wings when they helped me paint the base coats on
885 rocks !
(David and I counted them this morning)
We had a delicious lunch of quiche (store bought life-savers !) and salad provided my me.
And then we had got our hands dirty…
And of course, there was a sweet break in the middle of the afternoon, for coffee, tea, chocolate and the cutest little cupcakes that Terry H. brought. (Which I forgot to take a picture of but man, were they cute and yummy !)
With the help of these beautiful, extra sets of hands,
the Rock Fairy’s work was made a whole lot easier !
And the message of showing Love for One Another
will get spread a whole lot further !
Cassandra, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society,
the Rock Fairies have your back !!!
And this Rock Fairy in particular
is feeling so very, very blessed
to have such wonderful, generous, loving and caring women in her life.
And also to know so surely in her Soul what her job is on this planet.
LOVE is the answer to every question, Baby !
I hope you find some simple ways to join in and spread the LOVE today too, Beautiful Ones !
Happy Weekend !
