Camoflage Coasters

Camo Coasters

New today! Made with scrap materials from a good friend in town.

Being Helpful

Dalai Lama:

"Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartedness and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better."

Fresh laundry!

Ah! Fresh laundry!

I Feel like a Princess with a Coach!

My "Coach" Leather Hobo Handbag

True, it is a slightly used, yard sale find...but still! And it's not so much that it's a genuine  2010 Coach (No MO5S-5054) as it's that I love the feel and smell of the leather, and the workmanship is fantastic! I'm the kinda gal that has a few bags but sticks to the one for convenience sake. Just grab my bag and go! Now this is a special occasion bag, I think. <3

Sage Green Corduroy Zafu cover

Made one, and three more to finish up today!

New Zafu

I love Corduroy fabric!

Rose and Amaryllis Pix

A Rose by any other name is still a Rose!

Amaryllis

"A Touch of Whimsy" Treasury

Lovely items from the shops of the AWEteam members...enjoy!

Pony Up!

Morning walk...

Pony and Burro?

Side by Side

Garden Blooms

Comfrey Blossoms

The clay dish on the lower right contains the first celery plant I started this year by cutting off the bottom part of a celery stalk. Slowly it's growing!

Comfrey Blossoms  Close-up

My gardens have some rocks interspersed. I like rocks in the garden. They feel solid and comforting, and retain the sun's heat so on chilly nights they help keep plants warmer. At least, I like to think so!

Butterflies love these!

Comfrey

This comfrey plant is now beginning to look like the plant my grandmother had for years. Hers came back every spring. She made tea with the dried leaves for colds, and to boost her immune system. I love the blossoms!

Comfrey Plant in Bloom

I hope the deer won't find this one. I want to collect seeds and start more plants, and eventually sell the dried leaves in my etsy store. 

Oregano 

I was told by a local gardener that in Florida Oregano will spread and become a ground cover. I am delighted that this is what appears to be happening with my plant, and interestingly enough it does survive the summer heat very well!

Osnaburg and Taupe Cathedral Windows Pillow

Finished today!

Au Naturale Cathedral Windows Pillow

Full Frontal View

Close - Up

Education

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned." ~ Mark Twain 

Osho

"When you are not trying to become anybody else, then you simply relax, and a grace arises. Then you are full of grandeur, splendor, harmony." ~Osho


Sounds good to me! S.

the Grandeur of God's World

"Go beyond your little world, and find the grandeur of God's world." ~ Rumi

Inward Music

"We rarely hear our inward music, but we are all dancing to it nevertheless." ~Rumi

Breathing Room

"If you have a breathing room, you have a sanctuary, a place where you can return to yourself and restore your sense of peace."~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

The Fifth Agreement

The Fifth Agreement by D. Ruiz.

1. Be Impeccable With Your Word – Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don’t Take Anything Personally – Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don’t Make Assumptions – Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best – Your best is going to change from moment to moment. It will be different when you are healthy as opposed to when you are sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

5. Be Skeptical, But Learn to Listen – Don’t believe yourself or anybody else. Use the power of doubt to question everything you hear: Is it really the truth? Listen to the intent behind the words, and you will understand the real message.

Hats Off to Walt Whitman

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.” 


~Walt Whitman

Helen Keller quote

"Her Mind & Heart Knew" 

Navajo Way Blessing

Closing Prayer from the Navajo Way Blessing Ceremony

In beauty I walk
With beauty before me I walk
With beauty behind me I walk
With beauty above me I walk
With beauty around me I walk
It has become beauty again

Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me
I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body.
I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me.
I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me.
I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me.
I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful.

In beauty all day long may I walk.
Through the returning seasons, may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.

With dew about my feet, may I walk.
With beauty before me may I walk.
With beauty behind me may I walk.
With beauty below me may I walk.
With beauty above me may I walk.
With beauty all around me may I walk.

In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.

My words will be beautiful…