I like to work with my hands.

Contentment comes in many forms; a new stitch sewn here, or a brush stroke there, the click of a shutter, and a written word.

Display [the Holidays]

This year I am participating in three holiday set-ups, hooray! One will take eight hours and run from Thanksgiving Eve to Thanksgiving morning. The other two will be at Anthropologie for their Holiday Display Workshops. The first is tomorrow, the second is in November. I am hoping to be helpful, to learn new things, and to try to walk away without buying anything [fail].

cover.

Rarely do i found music that I can stomach. Classical leaves me less stressed on my commute to work.
But this, this is perfect.

Closing @ work tonight- which is OK.

I close once or twice a week & have grown to enjoy it.

This morning was so quiet. Joshua left early and I slept.

He left the pot of coffee on for me to have a cup.

I fed myself and read.

Did dishes & a load of laundry.

Was thankful and quiet.

There was enough time to feel and be inspired.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

-Dostoevsky

Lost.

I lost my glasses two days ago, perhaps on the way to work?… It’s just as well.

For my birthday I was going to buy new ones & maybe it can come early this year (hinthint).

It is between three pairs @ Classic Specs.

Round would be a nice change.

They are in the mail for “try on”, so we shall soon see.

“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”- V. Van Goh

Summer Days

My first day off after six working- not too shabby, but new jobs make me sleepy…

So today I am:

Cleaning out my closet.

Making a giant cookie.

& dreaming of the beach!

P[Interest]

Some of my fav. pins

To Enjoy:

Party:

Putting Together Outfits:

TED [Sarah Kay]

Listened to this, found on Cup of Jo.

Here goes the exercise…

Three things that I know today:

- I cannot cure your grief, I can buckle down and work, hard, beside you, but the sadness isn’t going to go away, it may just seem to fade softly with the minutes going by.

- Tomatoes need sunshine. and so do I.

- Pinterest is addictive (more later)

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.
- Joanna Macy, writer and teacher (1929- )

Clive Staples Lewis

I love good scroll work.

 

 

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” C.S.L.

Thanksgiving

Most gracious God, by whose knowledge the depths are
broken up and the clouds drop down the dew: We yield thee
hearty thanks and praise for the return of seed time and harvest,
for the increase of the ground and the gathering in of its fruits,
and for all other blessings of thy merciful providence
bestowed upon this nation and people. And, we beseech thee,
give us a just sense of these great mercies, such as may appear
in our lives by a humble, holy, and obedient walking before
thee all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom,
with thee and the Holy Ghost be all glory and honor, world
without end. Amen.

Taken from the Online Book of Common Prayer

Happy Thanksgiving!

35.

Almighty and most merciful God, we remember before you
all poor and neglected persons whom it would be easy for us
to forget: the homeless and the destitute, the old and the sick,
and all who have none to care for them. Help us to heal those
who are broken in body or spirit, and to turn their sorrow
into joy. Grant this, Father, for the love of your Son, who for
our sake became poor, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Taken from the Online Book of Common Prayer.