Love 2 Upcycle Features

This is a great blog if you want to be up to date on great eco items at Etsy.

Plus there is wonderful environmental content.

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My Balsam Fir Tree Ornaments are featured at this link!

http://love2upcycle.blogspot.com/2012/10/its-beginning-to-look-like-upcycled.html?showComment=1351642250343#c434265259155932366

Rambles with Rumi

I started this blog....then I became super busy.  It didn't help that it was superb weather all week.  Things have settled a bit.  So thought I would get a post in on this rainy afternoon before Sandy hits and we possibly lose power.  One of the things that kept me away from the computer was a nice special order that is now on its way to a shop in San Diego!!!!

It was an order for 3 dozen of my Love Notes that I sell on Etsy.  Well it ended up being 5 dozen.  This is because I have 30 quotes to a page...the order needed 36...I could have printed another page...but started looking at Rumi quotes...so made another page of 30...so needed to weave 2 dozen more for my shop....one of the quotes is..."Let us Fall in love again and scatter gold dust all over the world" Rumi...so this quote inspired me to spin up some new yarn with gold lame' plied into it....my creative process is like a run on sentence at times.  If you want to see more of my quote obsession check out this link....Rumi for the are holidays coming soon!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/90449370/ornament-wedding-favor-love-note-little

But this is not enough of an excuse for neglecting this blog.  The weather was amazing this week.  It was that Indian Summer that makes you wish you hadn't put the hammock away for the winter.  The air had just a hint of chill and with a scent of spice.  I just had to take time to wander in the woods.  Here are some images from the week......                          

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do" Rumi

"What you seek is seeking you"  Rumi

"In your light I learn how to Love.  In your Beauty, how to make Poems"  Rumi

Hello World

This last year I have had many folks encourage me to write.  I have received comments like you should write or you should blog.  But it wasn't until recently at an Art Walk in Belfast, Maine that a friend I hadn't seen in awhile asked me what was new?  I told her I had opened an Etsy Shop and her immediate response was, "Are you blogging yet?!"  Ok, you know who you are...I am NOW and thanks for that final nudge I needed.

So what will this be about.  As I mentioned I have the ye olde etsy shop.  The shop is really about my obsessive need to create.  I will use this platform to explain a few things. I have a few unusual fiber art items that have stories.  I have a lifestyle that some find interesting.  I am very interested in daily seeing.  I have a practice of trying to see something new each day.  I feel so much about art, creating, & enjoying beauty is through the act of aware seeing.  I have more introductions but for now I think I will just share some seeing from earlier this week.

 I found a completely round piece of birch bark in the woods while walking.  I started to just looking through it and seeing how the world looked.  Since I know my trails well, I managed to keep my footing.  It was a calming experience.  A reduction of stimulus.

Vern the Cat

Runa the Icelandic Sheepdog

At my feet

ahhhhh

So We Begin