"Hope"

"Hope" is the thing with feathers --



That perches in the soul --
And sings the tune without the words --
And never stops -- at all --



And sweetest -- in the Gale -- is heard --
And sore must be the storm --



That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm --



I've heard it in the chillest land --
And on the strangest Sea --
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb -- of Me.

~Emily Dickinson

eternal illusion

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

"eternally loved"

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?”

~Friedrich Nietzsche


"pain and joy "

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. ~

"bright hope"

"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility."
- Mevlana Rumi


"your tranquillity"

A Charming Video and Giveaway for a GREAT Cause

Check out this video that Johanna shot of Kristen and I in Kristen's studio. The project we created was based on one of many amazing collaborations from A Charming Exchange written by myself and Kelly Snelling. Stay tuned for more information on the wonderful auction which will take place in October benefiting breast cancer.

The necklace created by myself and Kristen (seen in the above video) will be a special give away; to enter the give away post about the Charming Exchange Breast Cancer Auction on your blog making sure to add a link that takes readers to www.acharmingexchange.com. Leave your link in the comment section on A Charming Exchange and good luck. The drawing will take place on October 30th.

Thank you so much for your support and feel free to copy and paste this post directly to your blog.

trust your heart

Be



follow your heart be quite a while first, ask question then feel the answer. learn to trust your heart.

poetry scarf's

I attended a bead show this weekend along with Kristen and Jenny .
I came home with some amazing stones.
Yesterday I had every intention to make jewelry today for Kim's

Market Soiree
were I will be selling on September 18th.

"Eden"

but somehow my sewing machine whispered my name.

I will fully admit that I spent some hard times with my machine yesterday as thread jams and stitch ripping was occurring much to my dismay that I got the clue and took the time to clean it throughout and oil it and all was well after that.
(sewing tip of the day: when all else fails CLEAN IT!)

I have been making these poetry scarves for almost a year, but they are just so hard to photograph that I have not really shared them...
this one has quoits from one of my favorite author Helen Keller.

"Helen Keller" Poetry Scarf

each one has so much stitching and because of the size its almost imposable to show the details and all the writing.



today I felt very cleaver as I came up with a new way to add a little more movement when wrapped around the neck with panels and flaps.

It Reads:
Once I knew only darkness and stillness...
my life was without past or future...
but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness,
and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.



the second panel reads:

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.