Another year...

It would seem that another year has come to pass and so shall one get added to my age soon...birthday's are a strange and quiet thing to me now, for with children come the excitement, fun and festivities around another year passing & the anticipation of becoming another year older...

however, 

as i sit amazed at the speed with which the year zipped by, I try to put into place the things i have done in that year behind me...

did i do all i set out to? 

did i take time to take care of me? 

did i meet my potential and go past any of those walls that seem to pop up in my way? 

did i  listen less to the voice of doubt, to that stinkin thinkin that sometimes takes over? 

was my year filled with as much love as one needs..meaning giving and receiving, did i reach out enough and tell those i loved them that i do? 

did i give up the things i wanted to?

 did i let go a bit more of the sadness from loss and fill that space with light? 

i do not care for fanfare around birthdays, but rather would like to find some quiet, bliss and calm to surround myself,

and perhaps i shall do just that...

dreaming...

Well, it would be quite clear that as of late, this blog is but a dream..meaning it hardly seems real...sometimes it is a push to come to the table (or keyboard) and flow with thoughtful, helpful, interesting tidbits of material...sometimes life just zips by in spurts of getting laundry done, groceries, bills, daily stuffs and wee ones...so, coming here is not always an easy task...and then mix in trying to balance creative time, lack of creative space and well, sleep....hmmm seems like it's a bit of a venting zone here right now...

new by Still Lily Designs

I  am very taken these days with metal, silk and the flow of designs in my mind...and

 then trying to find a way to make them all come 'real'...

so here's to the dream, the one that brings you light(ness) and clarity and makes you wake up feeling like a star, like you can do anything...dream away fine folks...dream away...

13...

That's how many years ago today our dearest family and friends joined us to celebrate our marriage..

as the sun set, a talented friend played guitar, another married us with our handwritten vows, we laughed, we cried, we danced, dined on food catered by our fav mexican restaurant, we soaked in the day and the company of all those that came from near and far...

what a splendid memory of a day...

Seeing things...

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

~Anais Nin

I see a creative woman, hair blowing in wind, embracing life, taking chances and being free...

now, your turn...what do you see?

love works...

sometimes...i don't know about you...but i think often of love, present, past, love that might be...in my heart, beyond my soul, love lost, love captured and then vanished...
have you ever loved someone for too long? yep...check. loved not long enough? been there... love that let you down so? check again...love that you could not keep up with? you bet...love that overpowered, love that undermined, love that (i just remembered in a dream) was too much for me to handle (should i have let him slip away? no idea)...love of a child..don't get me started...love that makes you get goosebumps and then love that makes you want to throw up the contents of your stomach...ooooh i have been, felt and loved everyone of them...so it was time for me to make some love...real love...

so here you go...

made from a loving heart, with vintage kimono & up cycled silk, glass beads and hand forged, formed and uniquely designed with my own wee hands...

how you over there? yep, you lovely one?

brilliant...

'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?

And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.'

~Marianne Williamson 

Here's to you...you brilliant, gorgeous talented & downright fabulous one...

Bon Weekend

hmmm....

To sew or paint? I asked myself this morning...hmmm...

then it came to me

Sew AND Paint silly girl...

here's wishing you a day filled with all you enjoy.