I keep my promises !

Auntie Kimmy : “I miss you so much!”

Kate : “I miss you too. Come to my house !”

Auntie Kimmy : “Okay ! As soon as I can ! I promise.”

Off to fulfill a promise to my favorite 3 year old on the planet.

Plus visit with some other awesome people that I love.

Have a great week!

Big Love !

Haiku My Heart–Life’s Work

Blooming in glory.

A storm of change comes on through.

I learn to let go.

 

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My Mommy-Guru often says “In this life, you are never unemployed.”

Today, I have been issued my tasks very clearly.

One is letting go.

The other is sending LOVE.

Not bad work, if you can get it.

Happy Friday, Beautiful Ones !

 

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Share the Joy Thursday–A fine mingling…

I will admit that sharing the joy and staying in a place of joy this morning is a struggle.

That is because somebody really pissed me off.

They treated David and me with disrespect and rudeness.

Grrrrrr…

That is the struggle when you really, truly believe that LOVE is the answer.

What do you do when someone pisses you off really badly ?

Love still has to apply, right ?

If I am going to stick to core beliefs, which I want to.

So I am working on making my own mingling of letting go and holding on as fine as I can this morning.

For that is the Art of Living.

In that vein, here are a few simple joys that filled me up with Love…

- arriving home after an evening with a girlfriend to find that my hubby had re-attached our twinkle lights over the bed totally of his own volition. Love him so very much.

- celebrating my friend Lois’s birthday with her yesterday with chatter, laughter, yummy supper and dessert and of course, candles and wishes !

- art journal pages that just flow out of me – like the one above that came together this morning as I worked through some anger.

It went from this :

to this :

in about 35 minutes. Love it when that happens !

- and finally for today, my joy resides in my friendships and connections with my blogging friends. Please know how much I appreciate your hearts !

(There. That ought to zap the anger out a little more, right ?)

Have a joyous Thursday, Beautiful Ones.

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What blooming ?

This is my piece for my Sisterhood of the Traveling Sketchbook project for the month of June.

I was lucky enough to contribute something for the gorgeous book that Lisa from Priti Studio created.

I was inspired by what is going on in my very own garden this month.

My piece didn’t do it justice at all but look at this :

Isn’t she magnificent ?

I think that this Seashell Peony is the most beautiful flower in my whole garden.

Those soft pink petals with the frayed edges…

and that center with a riot of chaotic pistels in bright yellow…

and that mysterious bit of red, deep down in the heart of the flower…

So beautiful.

So June is Peony Month for me.

And a celebration of this beautiful bloom…

What blooms are you celebrating, Beautiful Ones ?

Big Love to you !

Sometimes, there’s a hole…

Yesterday, I spent Sunday afternoon  facing this view…

North Hampton State Park beach, NH.

How blessed am I ?

I was in a bit of a strange mood.

One that I will choose to blame on hormones.

You see, 97 % of the time, I am utterly and completely fine with the fact that David and I decided not to have any children.

But every once in a while, I hit a day that falls into that 3 %

where the fact that I don’t have a child to love and to be loved by for the rest of my life

is like a hole in me.

Maybe it is because this gorgeous creature is turning twenty today :

(my sister Nat and Jessica from Fall 2010)

and she was the first baby that I ever really, really loved and was loved back by…

(Happy Birthday, Beautiful Jessie ! I love you so much.)

or because I am missing this 3 year old niece who is the best niece since Jessica, and who I haven’t seen nearly as much as my heart wants to lately :

(Katie – April 2011)

(I am coming over soon, Katie ! I miss you !)

Or maybe it is because I am 45 and my hormones are getting ready to bring me out of my childbearing years into the next phase of womanhood…

I don’t know but man, oh, man did I want a kiddo yesterday !

I spent a lot of my time at the beach watching a family of six play,

two sets of twins, I think, two girls and two boys about a year apart.

They were so cute !

One thing I learned from watching them was that there is no way I would never want to have had 4 kids as sweet as they were…man, that is a busy life !

But maybe, if it was just one…???

Okay, enough !!

I think I will just have to head up north asap, and get me some good niece and nephew loving to fill in that hole a little more.

And in the mean time, I will go back to creating in other ways !

Here is another Sunflower Girl that I did last week.

I think it may just get framed up and given to Jessie as a birthday gift…

And here is a work in progress journal page :

I did the yellow background a while ago – extra paint from the palette smeared here and there..

The circles and the sequin waste pattern are actually rubber stamps with StazOn ink in black.

The marionette figure came about in kind of a cool way.

I ripped shapes from an old dictionary page to form a head, a torso and some arms.

And then the figure just needed a torn skirt to become the puppet that she is…

Twinkling H20s added color to her…

Maybe I will add this quote to the page somehow :

“How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!” -  Carlo Collodi

We shall see…

Today will be about some mundane Monday things like groceries and stuff.

But also Meditation class tonight.

I have been a lapsed meditator these days and it is time to get back to practice !

I hope you are feeling fulfilled this Monday, Beautiful Ones.

Big Love !

Haiku My Heart Friday–Sunflower Girl

Imagine the Strength

Growth from seed to tall flower

We have it within.

 

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I am feeling strong today.

Know why ?

Because I feel really loved.

Isn’t that why we are here ?

And when we feel Loved, we radiate more Love back out and keep the whole thing constantly a-flowing…

Like I said, Powerful Stuff.

 

I am going to use my Powers for good today.

And fill some more people up.

It doesn’t cost me anything at all.

In fact, I get paid back for giving it all away…

Ten-fold.

 

Have a super Loving Friday, Powerful Ones.

An Atmosphere of Love…

So the lovely Carmen lives at the opposite side and end of the country from me, in California.

I am not sure how we met in Blogland – perhaps One World One Heart ?

All I know is that I consider this beautiful, imaginative life-lover of a woman a friend.

So when she ordered some Rock My World Rocks from the Etsy shop, I added in some extra bits of Queen of Arts love into her package.

And in return, my friend Carmen treated me to an abundance of sweet gifties all put together with such care that I was completely blown away !

Lovely wishes…

some even carefully wrapped in ribbon and pins…

Stuff gathered by the sea, so different from what I can gather here in New England…

And Carmen’s own handmade goodies :

            

a sweet mermaid pendant (love it !!!) and a perfectly pink bracelet !

Extra bits and bobs to add to collages – so fun  and all packages with an artistic hand ! Love the birdie and all the great tape!

A ton of lovely inspiration…

                

and even a beautiful place to keep it all stored…

Many of the treasures have already joined the good stuff on my altar in the studio…

and the inspiration has already started filling me up and spilling into my own art…

My friend Carmen created an atmosphere of Love in one big juicy envelope !

How can I help but thrive with such gifts ?

She sure knows how to Share the Joy !!!

Thank you, My Friend.

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I would also like to thank all my friends who sent me such currents of love, prayer and calm last week when I was facing my wisdom teeth extraction and also a lot of fears that welled up from the past.

I ended up going to the appointment in a Zen-like, acceptance mode that was remarkable for me ! I even shared rocks with all the staff there, including Doctor Abel, who took the rock “patience” from my bag.  How funny and appropriate!

There was one moment when I lost it just a bit as we were getting started. The Doc said “Take a deep breath.” and when I did, I closed my eyes, and asked for help from all those who were sending me Love to carry me through.

I felt it. I felt the wave of Love come in and say, “You are okay. You are not alone.”

It was a miracle that I will never forget.

Thank you for our connections and for the Love you put out there for me to receive when I needed it.

Thank you for the joy.

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