Monday Morning

Last week was hard... I miss my Mowgli so very much. Not a day has gone by that I haven't cried for him. I'm sure this will continue for a very long time. But now it's Monday, last week is over and it's time to get up and live life again. I need to create, paint, knit, crochet, cook and sew. I need to go on adventures again, I need to explore and find some beauty in the world.

I can't wait until spring, where trees start to blossom and flowers start to grow. It's been very dreary all week. I'm lucky to have wonderful people in my life who have given me some cheer. Brad and my aunt both gave me some beautiful flowers which I keep in my room to keep it looking bright and happy.

It's time for me to work extra hard, and save up to get a vehicle and place to live... being in this house reminds me that he is gone. Where I would normally hear his footsteps I hear nothing... where he would normally be playing, I see nothing. And that is driving me a bit crazy.
It is time to get out of my parents house.. and start living a new life.

"Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you."
---Maori Proverb

Take Note

Flower Child

Oh how I love flowers. Walking in the grass barefoot instantly brightens my day. 

Nature's beauty makes me a happy girl.

Sometimes when I'm feeling a little down all I want is a flower. I can't just ask for a flowers..

But I can go looking!

"We often forget that we are nature.
Nature is not something separate from us.
So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature.
What we are really saying is
We've lost the connection to ourselves."
~Andy Goldsworthy

"Earth laughs in flowers."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. 

~Walt Whitman

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
~The Qur’ān

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.  ~Claude Monet

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...  ~Susan Polis Shutz

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.  ~Hal Borland

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!  ~John Muir

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.  ~Kahlil Gibran

The poetry of the earth is never dead.  ~John Keats

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.  ~Heinrich Heine

I know.. so many pictures! I'm not sorry though. Flowers cheer me up, I'm positive they cheer you up as well. These pictures are for you.
I hope they brighten your day. I hope they make you smile.

Your smile brightens up the room.

On another note...

Tomorrow 5 new hats will be listed in my shop!

These really are my favorite hats.

They remind me of flowers, laughter and skipping rocks!

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. 
~Rachel Carson