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they said it best

a collection of my favorite quotes...
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"And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom."
~Anais Nin
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
~Galileo
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"The lovely flowers embarrass me,
they make me regret I am not a bee..."
~Emily Dickinson
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"Speak French when you can't think of the english for a thing -
turn your toes out as you walk -
and remember who you are."
~Lewis Carroll
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"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook.
At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.
And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
~Salvador Dali
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"When you come right down to it all you have is yourself.
The sun is a thousand rays in your belly.
All the rest is nothing."
~Pablo Picasso
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"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
~Lewis Carroll
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"Clouds are so beautiful I could bite my toes."
~Matthew Howe, age 4
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I hope you have a really great day today.
xo

and a well rested morning to you too.

I love how moms and dads always know what to say to make you feel better.

"It's not so much a loss of self but a gain of dimension. The trick is the definition. You may not always have a choice in the priority of the day but the YOU that is present is what makes it all happen."

"You" will never disappear; you are reflected and multiplied in all those you love, and who so love you."

xo

p.s. breakfast did help. It was the best eggs benedict in the history of eggs benedicts.

stinky

I don't know what happened but at the end of yesterday I found myself in the most rotten, foul mood yet.
I can't think of anything that triggered it and there was definitely nothing that seemed to help. So this morning I am waking up with a bad mood hangover. Does that ever happen to you? Where, you just feel wiped out because you wasted so much energy wishing the world would just shrivel up and die the day before...

Here's a couple of things that may help:

Breakfast. And I'm not talking a piece of toast with butter. I'm thinking eggs benedict with hashbrowns, fruit and chai tea. (none of which I actually have the means to prepare, so maybe a field trip is in order)

Making myself a dress (that fits). Sometimes it feels so good to spend an entire day doing something for yourself. And the last one I made; not so cute with a basketball in the front. Look for it on my new pine & hanker etsy site.

Other than that I've been having scary baby dreams lately. In the first one, me, my brother, and my husband were house sitting this huge expensive house and in the middle of the night a gang of thieves (hooligans!) broke in and we had to keep running from room to room to hide. I finally made it downstairs to the kitchen where I saw my brother and right as I whispered "hey, Tay" I heard a gun click, I turned to my left and there was the meanest of the mean guys pointing a gun at my head. I felt my hair move as he shot me in the head (ick, I know, but it gets worse). Taylor yells "Nooooo" and as I fall to the floor he runs over and holds me in his lap and I tell him to save the baby. So he grabs a kitchen knife and cuts open my stomach and right as Luke (my husband) walks in he is lifting the baby out of my belly.
ooh, I get chills just re-telling it. It was an awful dream.

Then the next night I dreamt that me and Luke were playing with our new beautiful baby boy when all of the sudden he started having seizures. He would get the most awful look on his face and then shake and twitch like crazy. He had three of them in a row and then he was fine.
Not fun either.

Then last night (ok this isn't a dream) as I was out driving around trying to curse my bad mood onto someone else, I started thinking about how much I am going to change as a person when this little guy arrives. So far all I have really thought about is how our immediate world will change. The new, foreign supplies. The stinky diapers. The lack of sleep. The leaky boobs. All of the sudden I was overcome with complete sadness when I thought of the fact that I will disappear.

I will cease to exist.

I will become someone's mother.
Then I'll just be someone's daughter, someone's wife, and someone's mother.

It was a sad moment, and I think I'm still trying to figure this one out.
Words of encouragement greatly appreciated...

xo

week 30

10 more weeks to go.
Part of me feels like "Ack! wait, slow down."
And the other part remembers back to week 20 and how long ago that seems and thinks, "oh ok, I got plenty of time."



I thought I'd throw in a frontal belly shot, it looks different from this perspective.


xo

salvation

or is that salivation?











www.wondercabinet.etsy.com

I often find things I like.
But I rarely (and I mean very rarely) find things that make me swoon.
I absolutely love these prints.

xo

week 29

mick likes my belly


gretta does too


blurry, I know


We started a new project this week!
We have a two bedroom house and currently one of the bedrooms is my studio, a small room, out of which I do everything. Or at least try to but inevitably I spill out into the kitchen and the living room and the bedroom... Well, we also have an old 2 car garage out back that we have been using for storage. We are going to turn that garage into a finished studio for me and my old studio will become little baby Ray's room!
So this weekend we moved everything out of the garage and into storage, we stripped the whole thing bare, and went window shopping (literally).
Next step will be to frame in the front and cut out some windows.
I'm so excited, I keep dreaming about what it is going to be like to have a place to 1. keep everything of mine and 2. a single place where I can accomplish everything, from making a necklace start to finish, to packing and shipping etsy orders. I will be so productive. And at the end of the day when I'm done, I can shut the door and walk away.
Ahhh..

the new studio


the old garage


xo

p.s. thanks to everyone who read my blog last week. I had 98 hits in one day!