The Month of Impossible Waiting…

How does a warm weather loving Rock Fairy spend the dull, cold days of February ?

Rocking a new hairdo and puffy, chapped lips.

Lighting candles and sending love to friends in need.

Painting rocks.

Trays of them.

For a spring wedding of an old friend.

Spending time with fast growing and oh, so sweet little Jayden and his Mom.

Trying to take good time for myself and get back to some creating just for me.

A great therapy and escape from winter blahs.

Which I remember whenever I put myself into the studio and give myself a little push !

Creating without any goal in mind.

Letting the spray ink blobs guide me…

Adding in color where it wants to go.

And on this page, finishing it off with some found poetry.

Grabbing a bit of text from a book and circling words that want to fit in…

Leading to a little tale of impossible waiting.

A tale this warm weather loving, winter weary chickie can relate to.

I hope your impossible waiting time is filled with love and light, and sweet creating, Beautiful Ones!

Finding my shiny…

It has been snowy and very grey since Sunday.

Not the most cheerful weather for me.

I definitely feel the lack of light and how it effects my mood.

I am trying hard to use some of the tricks I know to keep me from sinking.

One is painting with bright colors.

I am so in love with my new “Fruits of my Labor” piece.

(11X14” acrylic on canvas)

I have to say that Golden Acrylics are such a joy to paint with when you need that vibrancy and saturation of color. Expensive yes, but they really are worth the money !

I haven’t done any Christmas decorating yet.

David and I always travel for Christmas,

and sometimes,

the decorating seems like more work than pleasure.

Maybe my Christmasy mood will increase this weekend.

But I have started lighting my sweet twinkle lights in the living room, my studio and our bedroom every day.

That is a light that makes me smile.

Another thing that is really good for me is to focus on giving.

Getting out of my own head and sharing my gifts with others in a genuine, no expectations way.

I did that at meditation class this week.

I brought my rocks with me and offered each of the 10 or so people in the class

to reach into my bag and choose three or four rocks for themselves.

The magic happened as always !

A couple of women were amazed,

and received just the message from the Universe that they needed

and I received loving hugs in return.

I am so grateful for those rocks and my Rock Fairy job.

I am working on other little gifties to bring smiles to some others in my life as well.

All so good for keeping Kimbo in a shiny place.

Today is sunshiny, even if it is cold.

I promise myself to get this head out into the sun and soak in some of those rays.

I hope you find your shinies today too, Beautiful Ones !

Big winter time love !

Semi-Wordless Wednesday–Cabin Fever

21 Days until the Vernal Equinox…

 

(PS : Thin Mints = cookie crack)

While the Muse is away…

Meet my new buddy – Mr. Crochet Hook!

Along with my friend Sonia who showed me how to use him,

he is helping me keep from going completely stir crazy this winter,

and also to fill in the blanks while my usual Muse seems to have recently flown the coop.

Has the bitch escaped to Florida with the Snow Birds perhaps ?

Traitor !

Any way, I have been crocheting up a little storm,

now that I have the basic stitches kind of down.

Of course, I am horrible at following patterns and directions so I have been making tons of circles and doily flowery things. I have also made some cuff length strips that I hope to stitch some eucalyptus dyed bits to at some point. Some are even made of natural silk and/or wool yarn and can be thrown in the dye pot too…

David asks what I am going to do with this growing pile of rounds…

I don’t know yet but I do know that making them helps me relax and seeing them in a bunch makes me smile.

Those are good enough reasons to keep at it for now, I guess…

Speaking of things that make me smile.

Every time I walk into the living room and witness this, I smile !

Boo loves his blond doggie and Cheeks is too kind to say no to a kitty cat snuggle!

I hope you find a lot to smile about today, Beautiful Ones !

Big Love !

Share the Joy - Celebrate it while you can !

Why make a Joy List every week ?

Well, this is especially important to me when I am dealing with hibernation mode/seasonal depression symptoms and finding joy sinking far down on my list of emotions.

The search for joy and little happies is a definite remedy for the big bad blues, even if it is only momentary or short-lived. It definitely helps !

I may look for bits of beauty like these red berries on the bare branches, bring spots of brightness to the winter landscape…

Or glimpse over at a feline friend who has made sunbeam sleeping an art !

I may go out looking for little happies that make me smile,

like visiting to A Well Kept Secret Antiques with my honey last weekend and finding

three “new to me” glass hands ! They now form a bouquet with my original cobalt blue one found at a flea market a few years ago.

Looking at them all together, filtering the sunlight in the studio bay window,

always makes me sing the Paul McCartney & Wings song “Uncle Albert”, “Hands across the water, ( water), Hands across the s k y….”.

I will now be on the look out for one more hand, in a color I don’t have yet, to complete my bouquet with 5. Odd numbers in art, you know.

I also was excited to find these three gold ceramic letters that spelled out :

JOY!!!!

A little Christmas-y perhaps, but I could so see them hanging on top of the french doors in my studio where I could enjoy them every day !

This morning when I was hanging them so I could proudly take a picture of them for Share the Joy Thursday,

the O fell to the floor and smashes to pieces.

I actually started to cry.

I had broken my JOY !

But then, after commiserating on the phone with my sweet hubby

(who will be getting out the Crazy Glue when he gets home, if I know him !),

I realized that

joy,

like sadness, or anger, or most of the experiences we have in this bittersweet life,

is fleeting.

All the more reason to celebrate it when it comes to you !

 

So now I am off to find me a new letter O. A different font or roundish object to form the center letter, and I can have my JOY back.

That and a few preparations for the snow storm expected tomorrow, which the super-excited weather people are touting as “One of the Top Ten Biggest Storms to hit New England EVER!”, is sure to keep me busy for today.

I will be on the look out for more joys to share !

Happy Thursday, Beautiful Ones !

Share the Joy Thursday at Meri’s Musings

Haiku My Heart–Making the choice

Happy sits and waits.

It is up to me to choose.

Let’s hang out today.

Doing my best to hang with Happy today.

He sure is a lot more fun than “Down in the Dumps”.

A whole lot cuter too !

I hope you find your happy to hang with today too, Beautiful Ones !

Happy Friday !

Haiku My Heart–This Small Universe

This small universe

Mine to live in and love

My one big purpose

 

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I am on a creative roll for the last few days.

I have been up and down (mostly down) emotionally, riding on the flow of life’s stressful stuff and dealing with the darkening time.

But I am so thrilled that in spite of the dips in my mood, the creative juices are still around.

I can lose myself and my monkey brain for a while, in the creating of something new, and that is such a comfort and joy.

The flow will be a bit interrupted as I head to Montreal for a fast but necessary trip tomorrow through the beginning of next week.

Oh, yeah, and then there’s Christmas to do !

Well, that’s okay as I have decided that Christmas will be a celebration of the light and love I have in my life and a lot less about what gifts are exchanged ! That is some more of that comfort and joy stuff !

Happy December weekend, Beautiful Ones, and Big Love !

 

BTW – I have listed a few new things in the Etsy shop including the Rock Being featured in the pic up above. Stop by and take a peek if that speaks to you at all.

 

More haiku my heart can be enjoyed at recuerda mi corazon

 

Comfort Rocking

Perhaps it is the effects that came into play with last week’s full moon…

Or perhaps it is the darkening time…

Whatever the cause, I have entered a pretty great period…

I have a million things I want to create and do but very limited energy right now.

Trying to surrender to that in the midst of this busy bustling time of year is not easy

but that is how it is for today.

One source of creative comfort is in my rocks. I began drawing on these white rocks from the shores of Lake Champlain at Elizabeth’s house last week when I was house and dog sitting.

I am blown away by the creatures and designs that came out of the rocks. They told me what they wanted to be.

I love them !

I played with a few more yesterday…

I have some beautiful plans for these sweet treats

but they will have to wait until the flow grabs me again.

For now I will just soak in the quiet joy of creating them.

Light and love to you, Beautiful Ones.

Haiku My Heart–For Real ?

Is that reflection

or real life before my eyes ?

Some days, I wonder.

 

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I was in a bad mood yesterday. Teary, angry, sad, irritable.

I didn’t have concrete reasons for being so in my own life

but there was a multitude of crazy, sad, scary, unjust, annoying crap

happening to some people in my close circles,

not to mention the bigger world I live in.

(Frankenstorm ? Really ?

Stormaggeddon didn’t finish us off but maybe Frankestorm will ?)

So I struggled all day with shaking off those ick feelings, that crabby mood.

A trip to the beach for rocks and some gull and sand piper play was a beautiful distraction for awhile.

But mostly, I was unsuccessful at keeping the big grey cloud at bay.

Some days, no matter how much goodness and Love you see around you,

the crap just gets to you, you know?

But I am glad to report that after having given into it yesterday, I am feeling a lot better this morning.

Stronger, surer of my purpose on this planet, ready to chase grey clouds away with more  Love force.

I think the ick was just a reflection of what was happening around me.

I am ready to get back to real life now.

Sending big Love your way, Beautiful Ones !

Happy Friday!

 

Rebecca from recuerda mi corazon is off to Mexico for a Day of the Dead gathering.

I don’t know if there will be Haiku My Heart postings in her absence but I will keep the Haiku fires burning here while she is away.