It's Been Awhile

It's been awhile since I've felt compelled enough by something to sit down and post.  Not that things haven't been happening, over a month of rain and todays dire warning of the rapture tonight, a party, job offers considered and rejected, the final countdown before a visit home.  Everyday things, beginnings and endings but somehow I have needed to stand still and take stock.  Today I close old emails and start fresh, I'll spring clean even though I almost forget what the sun looks like and the prophets (false or otherwise) wonder if this is the end of the world .

On a more concrete note it is fairytales and the the promise of magic that brings me to the computer again.  The above prints by dkim are just filled with wonder...and that is art.

Letterpress Wisdom

I like this artists way of succinctly summing things up.  The first was always a general dating rule of thumb for me, it has now expanded to include the population as a whole.  The second puts me in mind of 'Desiderata' "Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit"

Tea Time for the Mad Hatter types...

*image originally found here with the shop found here

I can't stop obsessing about unique, whimsical, up cycled jewellery and these bracelets are fueling an inferno... 

Thinkin' and thinkin'

*image and more fabulous pieces like it found here

"The reward for conformity is that everyone else likes you except yourself" ~ Rita Mae Brown

Taste Test on Etsy

Etsy Taste Test is a game of chance, and an accurate one at that.  Click on the images you like (don't like any shown, simply spin again) and end up with a fairly extensive list of new items/shops to explore...the above are some of my favourites from my most recent spin.

Kitty in all her fat adorableness.  Name yer Poison makes me wanna sidle up to the nearest cafe and the little bird ring was once a steel stamp in it's previous life...I do love new uses for things and people, re purposing ourselves is seldom painless but often necessary.   

Letting It All Hang Out

O.k maybe not so much, this is more of a putting it out there deal...First of all the lovely ring above keeps popping up for me so I thought I'd better heed the call and post it.  Lovely little thing that it is...maybe just confirmation to the fairytale dinner/cocktail rings I'm going to sell!

* post script to add the fox really is popping up a lot...just finished 'The Painted Boy' by Charles De Lint and it referenced the fox as an animal person/spirit, then reading a blog I enjoy The Fox, as a book comes up...somethings up for sure...

It's a Hard World For Little Things

*image and shop found here

Isn't it just though.  It's hard period.  The economic climate is not throwing out dream options and sunshine to just anybody right now.  The environmental, political, spiritual and just plain every day realms haven't been looking so on track these days.  This week I watched helplessly as an officer was laid to rest, dying in another senseless act.  Countless police, their families, friends, neighbours and shocked citizens shed tears together...'Let It Be' from Across The Universe by Carol Woods and Timothy T was aptly played...

My moment of silence will always be inside of me, Godspeed Sergeant Ryan Russell.  May your death and your families sacrifice serve as a catalyst for good, for change, a wake up call for action... 

Crow Dreams

*image found here
To begin; add a dose of courage and hope, a dash of inspiration, a handful of tried and true wisdom and mix it all up with a prayer, love, fun, some local charity and my unique brand of owness and I can see the future...