It’s time for the One World One Heart 2011 event!
This is a really, really big international blog event and it will be the last year. It’s hosted by A Whimsical Bohemian and I had a wonderful time at the past event and will be ready to go this year. Each participant offers a giveaway and last year mine went to a blogger from the Netherlands. Click on the link above or the sidebar button to find out more!
Brownie and I say Happy New Year!
Woof, woof!
Here’s some Christmas cheer from my house to you…
Enjoy the tree…
Have a seat at the table…
With a vintage plastic crèche…
A napkin holder dressed for the season…
And goodie bags to hand out…
Blessings of the season!
Crafting My Best Life, continued…
One of the projects was a starfish of felt with arms to hold messages of love from those we hold dear – I had forgotten how cheerful red felt is! Specially with yellow buttonhole stitch. Now I want to make an ocean full of cheerful starfish!
Tags to remind me of goals, a book for journaling
But the main goal: mission statements. Business on the right, personal on the left. This is a box lid, for the class we decorated a shoe sized box to hold the projects. I didn’t have a shoe box handy so I used the box from a Diwali Barbie who now dances in my studio (and looks exactly like Aishwarya Rai).
Keep howling!
The next “Crafting My Best Life” project was to find out what we value, distill those values into single words and put those words on painted rocks. Painting rocks is fun!
Finding the values meant answering questions like : when have you felt needed by others…, if I could muster up the courage I would …, when were you inspired…, and then condense the answers into a single word. Rocks were used because values are solid, what a great way to express that! I put the value of creativity on the big rock, because that’s so important to me now. Compassion is on the smallest rock so I can put it in my pocket and take it with me always. Hozho is a Navajo word that’s translated as “beauty” but it’s like the beauty of being in balance with the universe. Sangha means community, it’s a value learned from Buddhism. The muslin bag came with the class kit – to hold our rocks, on it I wrote I will remember.
Next: Starfish
Oh my! It was storming here recently and I’m glad we didn’t end up in Oz – though I am in Az. A tornado warning was in effect, the night before was sleepless – constant thunder roaring like a stormy sea, one hail storm after another, lightning shivering through the sky and a poor dog shivering all night. But what a chance for pictures!
St. Cecilia’s Catholic church in Clarkdale
Old Town Cottonwood – the wind was really blowing
On the way out of Old Town
Raindrops on the windshield
The ghost town of Jerome looking spooky in the mist
