Pause & See ~ haiku

spring! peepers, puddles

sprouting, flowing water, mud!

to do list can wait

orah

 I try to see something new each day. The art of seeing is essential to any creative work in my humble opinion.  My favorites are the ones that stop me in my tracks!  Like so many folks I have a very busy mind that I struggle to quiet.  By creating this practice it has given me many opportunities to pause and be with a new wonder.  I love to wonder about wonders.  These little seeings can be just the jolt my creative process needs to get out of a rut.  But mostly, they provide a pause which is that moment of peace I need to heal from a frustration. These seeings are grounding for me and bring me to the present.  I will admit to laughing out loud with joy over some of my discoveries, they are a moments of childlike wonder!  

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky"     ~~~Buddha

~~~~~~~~~~~My Lively Life~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fiber Art, Weaving, Hand Spun

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Hand Made Eco and Upcycled Cutie Buntings, Clothes, & Toys

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Vintage Collectibles, Buttons, Clothing & MORE! 

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Sea Glass & Copper Wire Ornaments with things I have gathered

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyGatherings

My Blog~~Makings, Musings, &  Lifestyle on the Land:  

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"Be Joyful because it is humanly possible"~~~Wendell Berry

Pause & See

breathing earth & pine
what is greater joy than this
grounded by sunshine

Orah

 I try to see something new each day. The art of seeing is essential to any creative work in my humble opinion.  My favorites are the ones that stop me in my tracks!  Like so many folks I have a very busy mind that I struggle to quiet.  By creating this practice it has given me many opportunities to pause and be with a new wonder.  I love to wonder about wonders.  These little seeings can be just the jolt my creative process needs to get out of a rut.  But mostly, they provide a pause which is that moment of peace I need to heal from a frustration. These seeings are grounding for me and bring me to the present.  I will admit to laughing out loud with joy over some of my discoveries, they are a moments of childlike wonder!  

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky"     ~~~Buddha

~~~~~~~~~~~My Lively Life~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fiber Art, Weaving, Hand Spun

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoyemporium

Hand Made Eco and Upcycled Cutie Buntings, Clothes, & Toys

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyEcoCutie

Vintage Collectibles, Buttons, Clothing & MORE! 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoytreasures

Sea Glass & Copper Wire Ornaments with things I have gathered

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyGatherings

My Blog~~Makings, Musings, &  Lifestyle on the Land:  

http://injoyemporium.blogspot.com

www.facebook.com/injoyemporium

http://instagram.com/injoyemporium

http://www.pinterest.com/injoyemporium

"Be Joyful because it is humanly possible"~~~Wendell Berry

Pause & See

April snow...again

windowsills, fluorescent lights

where I find my spring

orah

little tree 

 I try to see something new each day. The art of seeing is essential to any creative work in my humble opinion.  My favorites are the ones that stop me in my tracks!  Like so many folks I have a very busy mind that I struggle to quiet.  By creating this practice it has given me many opportunities to pause and be with a new wonder.  I love to wonder about wonders.  These little seeings can be just the jolt my creative process needs to get out of a rut.  But mostly, they provide a pause which is that moment of peace I need to heal from a frustration. These seeings are grounding for me and bring me to the present.  I will admit to laughing out loud with joy over some of my discoveries, they are a moments of childlike wonder!  

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky"     ~~~Buddha

~~~~~~~~~~~My Lively Life~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fiber Art, Weaving, Hand Spun

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoyemporium

Hand Made Eco and Upcycled Cutie Buntings, Clothes, & Toys

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyEcoCutie

Vintage Collectibles, Buttons, Clothing & MORE! 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoytreasures

Sea Glass & Copper Wire Ornaments with things I have gathered

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyGatherings

My Blog~~Makings, Musings, &  Lifestyle on the Land:  

http://injoyemporium.blogspot.com

www.facebook.com/injoyemporium

http://instagram.com/injoyemporium

http://www.pinterest.com/injoyemporium

"Be Joyful because it is humanly possible"~~~Wendell Berry

Pause & See

spring fertility

giving egg gifts to raven

wait...see what might hatch

orah

***UPDATE***

Last Weeks Tree!

 I try to see something new each day. The art of seeing is essential to any creative work in my humble opinion.  My favorites are the ones that stop me in my tracks!  Like so many folks I have a very busy mind that I struggle to quiet.  By creating this practice it has given me many opportunities to pause and be with a new wonder.  I love to wonder about wonders.  These little seeings can be just the jolt my creative process needs to get out of a rut.  But mostly, they provide a pause which is that moment of peace I need to heal from a frustration. These seeings are grounding for me and bring me to the present.  I will admit to laughing out loud with joy over some of my discoveries, they are a moments of childlike wonder!  

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky"     ~~~Buddha

~~~~~~~~~~~My Lively Life~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fiber Art, Weaving, Hand Spun

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoyemporium

Hand Made Eco and Upcycled Cutie Buntings, Clothes, & Toys

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyEcoCutie

Vintage Collectibles, Buttons, Clothing & MORE! 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoytreasures

Sea Glass & Copper Wire Ornaments with things I have gathered

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyGatherings

My Blog~~Makings, Musings, &  Lifestyle on the Land:  

http://injoyemporium.blogspot.com

www.facebook.com/injoyemporium

http://instagram.com/injoyemporium

http://www.pinterest.com/injoyemporium

"Be Joyful because it is humanly possible"~~~Wendell Berry

Pause & See

patient wait for spring

winter's persistence lingers

bending not breaking

orah

 I try to see something new each day. The art of seeing is essential to any creative work in my humble opinion.  My favorites are the ones that stop me in my tracks!  Like so many folks I have a very busy mind that I struggle to quiet.  By creating this practice it has given me many opportunities to pause and be with a new wonder.  I love to wonder about wonders.  These little seeings can be just the jolt my creative process needs to get out of a rut.  But mostly, they provide a pause which is that moment of peace I need to heal from a frustration. These seeings are grounding for me and bring me to the present.  I will admit to laughing out loud with joy over some of my discoveries, they are a moments of childlike wonder!  

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky"     ~~~Buddha

~~~~~~~~~~~My Lively Life~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fiber Art, Weaving, Hand Spun

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoyemporium

Hand Made Eco and Upcycled Cutie Buntings, Clothes, & Toys

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyEcoCutie

Vintage Collectibles, Buttons, Clothing & MORE! 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoytreasures

Sea Glass & Copper Wire Ornaments with things I have gathered

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyGatherings

My Blog~~Makings, Musings, &  Lifestyle on the Land:  

http://injoyemporium.blogspot.com

www.facebook.com/injoyemporium

http://instagram.com/injoyemporium

http://www.pinterest.com/injoyemporium

"Be Joyful because it is humanly possible"~~~Wendell Berry

---Shop News--- Buy a Haiku ~ Get TWO!

Makers can be a little obsessive.  That is how so much gets done!  But, sometimes, maybe, a maker goes off the charts a bit.  I sort of over estimated how "popular" Haiku would be on Etsy.  Personally, I adore Haiku.  As far as I am concerned, it is the quintessential form of poetry.   I love the rhythm of the 5 - 7 - 5 syllables.  I will clap them when I am creating a Haiku.  The structure is like weaving but the subtle meaning is like the heather of handspun hand dyed wool.  Well, anyways, that is what inspired me to make so many! 

I have been running a buy one get on free until they expire or are sold out.  I have 12 left in my shop right now.  If you want to get some before they are gone I will GIVE you 2 extra Weavette Haikus when you buy ONE for only $8.00!  Just mention BLOG in the note to the seller at checkout.  You will get 3 Weavette Haikus for the Price of ONE!  Each will be different.  

~ BUY 1 HAIKU get 2 FREE ~ Mention BLOG in the Note to Seller

These sweet little hangings are handwoven on a weavette loom with my handspun yarn. A traditional Japanese Haiku is digitally printed on to vintage cotton and sewn to the woven piece with a 1957 vintage sewing machine.

This is a Favorite!

...but the Dragonfly is my favorite insect....

~~~~~~~~~~~My Lively Life~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fiber Art, Weaving, Hand Spun

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoyemporium

Hand Made Eco and Upcycled Cutie Buntings, Clothes, & Toys

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyEcoCutie

Vintage Collectibles, Buttons, Clothing & MORE! 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/injoytreasures

Sea Glass & Copper Wire Ornaments with things I have gathered

http://www.etsy.com/shop/InJoyGatherings

My Blog~~Makings, Musings, &  Lifestyle on the Land:  

http://injoyemporium.blogspot.com

www.facebook.com/injoyemporium

http://instagram.com/injoyemporium

http://www.pinterest.com/injoyemporium

"Be Joyful because it is humanly possible"~~~Wendell Berry

---Shop News--- Poem in Your Pocket Day!

Next Week is Poem in Your Pocket Day April 24th!  Check out the link for fun ways to celebrate!  It is a great way to introduce kids to poetry!  If you have been following my blog you know, by now, that I adore poetry.  I have since I was a young girl.  There is something about so much being said with fewer words that has always attracted me to poems.

I have come to find out that I just might, maybe, be in some sort of minority when it comes to poetry love.  My DH & son considered my reading poetry aloud to them as a sort of punishment...which I admit to using at times when I thought there was some very minor & silly infraction.  Well, I can be become obsessed with an idea.  Like I did with my little Handspun Handwoven Haiku Weavette Ornaments at the InJoyEmporium Etsy Shop.  I sort of made a ton of them. I have new ideas brewing for the Emporium Shop so letting go for a song <---which are mostly poems with music added!

So in the spirit of sharing poetry for EACH $8.00 Haiku Ornament you purchase you will receive a FREE Haiku Ornament!  The perfect gift for Poem in Your Pocket Day!

Here are just a FEW examples of my Japanese Haiku Creations

https://www.etsy.com/listing/186590931/green-turquoise-ocean-trees-ornament?ref=shop_home_active_9

https://www.etsy.com/listing/108591005/pink-ornament-wedding-favor-haiku-small?ref=shop_home_active_12

https://www.etsy.com/listing/186586688/pink-peony-siamese-cat-wall-hanging?ref=shop_home_active_8

In Celebration of National Poetry Month an Etsy POEM Treasury!

https://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTcxMjU5OTF8MjcyMzQ5MTU2Mw/april-national-poetry-month?ref=pr_treasury

HAPPY POETRY MONTH!

Pause & See ~~~ April Ice

You know that old saying..."If you don't like the weather just wait a minute"?  Well, that is the story of our lives here in Maine.   Plenty, of variety and surprises, like April ice!  Do not believe I have ever seen ice this late into April!  Glad to see the sun this morning and hope the rest of the snow will melt away before the day ends.  But a first, for me, is an icicle on April 17th!

Ice in my garden paths!

This is a very brave garlic emerging from my hard scrabble soil and the spring ice!

Tonight will be the first OUTside aired Clean Sheet Night! 

(Sheet look a little stiff? Yes, they are frozen!)

morning field view

first I heard your name

bringing my mind back to spring

thaw recall, Phoebe

orah

This is a regular feature on my blog.  I try to see something new each day. The art of seeing is essential to any creative work in my humble opinion.  My favorites are the ones that stop me in my tracks!  Like so many folks I have a very busy mind that I struggle to quiet.  But by creating this practice it has given me many opportunities to pause and be with a new wonder.  I love to wonder about wonders.  These little seeings can be just the jolt my creative process needs to get out of a rut.  But mostly they provide a pause which is that moment of peace I need to heal from a frustration. These seeings are grounding for me and bring me to the present.  I will admit to laughing out loud with joy over some of my discoveries, they are a moment of childlike wonder!  

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky"             ~~~Buddha

---Shop News--- Spring?

Well, folks this is how it looks out of my window today.  Yes, that is snow falling out of the sky...again.  It feels so odd to be this late into March with such a snowpack.  The Polar Vortex continues~~~~ I have to admit I feel a bit of wanderlust, lately.  I have been home on this land for 14 days without leaving.  But it is not leaving I desire, it is getting off my beaten path.

 On Tuesday it was a brilliantly sunny day but it felt like I was in refrigerator when I stepped outside.  With the cold I thought I might venture off my packed snow path.  It was great to be somewhere else!  I went into the field and stayed close to the woods edge.  I took my steps carefully....

Finally, I needed to head back into the woods in order to get back home...

I sunk repeatedly up to my knees....this is not pleasant and a bit uncomfortable since you never know which step will be a sinking one...(my snowshoes are broken)

So back to my well worn path.

Today I was reluctant to go for my walk even though it is above frigid today...I  went out with a lightweight hat!  Just weary of winter, I guess?  But, Runa must have her romp and her joyful spirit helped me along.  The snow is starting to rot.  So even on my packet path a slight misstep and wham-O I am down.  Akkk!  Finally, I made it to my sitting place and sat.  Some quiet and breathing restored my spirit.    Out of the Polar Vortex of the Mind!

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus

Oh yes...SHOP NEWS!  (It is 2 blogs for the price of one today!)

There are some signs of SPRING ~~

Bunnies!  Bunnies!  Bunnies  Bunnies!  Bunnies!

Easter Bunny puppets have been multiplying like Rabbits!  

There are a dozen available in my shop!

Vintage Rubber Stamps in InJoyTreasures Shop

For a bit of a Summer Feeling Fresh Sea Glass in the InJoyGatherings Shop

And Finally some Spring Haiku!  April IS Poetry Month!!

Celebrate with my Haiku Obsession ~ buy 1 Haiku get 1 FREE!

All Haiku's are buy 1 get 1 until they are gone!