Semi wordless Wednesday - I'm Packing

Rocks in boxes...

Packing up for some special VT time. 

Summer is precious!

Enjoy this fine July day, Beautiful Ones!

Share the Joy–Dear Hearts

From this week’s Joy List :

My great joy is realizing how many sweet places my heart calls home.

(self-portrait and message to my self, heading north to visit family and friends)

(Beautiful birch at Lac Vezeau, Quebec)

(My favorite 4, almost 5 year old in the world, Katie !)

(Happy Breakfast from bro-in-law, John to his son, Thomas on Easter morning)

(Felted fun with my friend Suzanne, the felt artist)

(Tea for me from e.b. – a delicious time.)

(Lake Champlain, with winter winds fighting off spring in vain.)

(Sweet Chica-Lulu, welcoming me home.)

For me, Home is where the dear Hearts are.

And I am so blessed with so many amazing Ones in my life.

 

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Settling back in at home after an amazingly sweet time away.

I think spring may be arriving today in NH.

Better late than never.

I hope your Thursday is filled with heart-felt joy !!!

Big Love !

Rocking Relief !

As of Saturday afternoon, my Etsy shop is officially sold out of the 37 Days Rock My World rocks that benefited the John F. Ptak Relief Fund.

My awesome computer geek and right hand man in rocking the world, David, calculated all kinds of juicy statistics for me.

128 orders were placed

for 232 bags of rocks,

all to give financial support to John and Patti as John undergoes treatment for kidney cancer.

(John and Patti, photo by Patti)

(He had his surgery last Wed. and is healing,resting and in amazingly brilliant spirits at home. Can you say clean margins ?!!!)

That means that these Rock Fairy hands painted over 3000 rocks with messages of love that are now all over the world !

And, after shipping costs and materials, it allowed us to donate $1500.00 to the John. F. Ptak Relief Fund !

David and I are unbelievably proud of all the hard work we put in to be able to give to this awesome family in this way. It has been an act of joy and an honor. Our thanks and gratitude to all the people who placed orders with us and made this more special than I could ever have dreamed. Thank you too, to the great gang of Rock Fairy friends who helped me along the way.

You all rock !

I have put the Etsy shop into Vacation mode as I rest my wings for awhile.

What better way to rest than to head to a week-long visit to the Lake House on Lake Champlain, and enjoy a workshop with the amazingly talented, magic maker,  e.b. ,

who just happens to be a sweet soul sister friend that I adore ?!?!

I have gratitude in huge abundance !!!

 

Rock on, Beautiful Ones !

Sending much love and light !

(Ps - The John F. Ptak Relief fund is still collecting donations until the 14th of September. Wouldn't it be amazing to reach that $100,000 goal ???)

Just the half of it !

The breathtaking views…

my sweet charge, Luna-girl…

Creative juices flowing and flowing…

Visits from bunnies…

and hunny bunnies 

(I know, gag, gag, gag, but he is the sweetest hunny bunny I know !)

Journal pages coming from a whole new place and voice and inspiration…

Feeling as beautiful as the sights before me…

Gathering up the sweet, sweet energy…

and knowing what it feels like to be completely alive.

And that’s just the half of it!

Honestly !

My ten days in Vermont paradise

at the family home of my beautiful artist friend, Elizabeth,

brought me back to feeling like Mother Nature’s child.

It was a precious, precious time and I am so very grateful and blessed.

And full up !

Let the flow continue…

Share the Joy–I find My Self Alone.

So because of some unforeseen circumstances,

I will be spending a couple of days alone on the shores of Lake Champlain.

Well, alone except for my sweet furry companion, Luna.

Let me tell you,

this is filling me with a great deal of JOY !

I have filled my Rogue-y with a mini-studio.

I will have all the inspiration of the place to fill me up,

not to mention e.b.’s incredible creative energy that the house just oozes…

Oh, yes, this Queen is an extremely happy camper !

I know when Colleen joins me later on,

she will find a very full-up friend to spend the week with !

Filled with gratitude and feeling more blessed than I can express.

I will have very limited internet access while I am away (added alone time joy !),

so no blog posts until I return.

I will kiss the Lake for you !

Big Love, Beautiful Ones !

for more joy, visit Meri and the gang at Meri’s Musings.

Nothing but blues skies….

So far this summer is a real treat.

I feel so very blessed and filled with gratitude!

Not only was last week with my sister and the kiddos, and my short visit with e.b. wonderful,

but yesterday, I spent my Monday afternoon here :

on North Beach in Hampton Beach, NH with my pal Colleen,

followed by a trip to Portsmouth Fabric, which is like the very best candy store a child could imagine but for fabric.

Colleen and I spent way too much money on these luscious pieces of silk dupioni

but how could we resist when they were 20% off !

In this photo, the darker one reads as cobalt but really it is the most delicious shade of royal plum !

Plus we are going to need them where we are going to spend next week.

We will also be bringing a few speckled NH rocks across state lines

when we go to provide care and love to this sweet creature :

Miss Luna,

and gaze at this view for a while…

Not to mention make great use of all the skills and techniques our teacher taught us

while she is away gathering with her family.

Colleen and I keep her home fires burning with great pleasure.

Actually, no fires but definitely a happy puppy, some dyeing pots simmering and some bees wax melting !

So many blessing have come from this connection.

I am kind of in awe about it all a lot of the time !

I was also blown away by a treats that was in my mail box yesterday as well.

This beautiful envelop

from my gloriously talent artist-friend, lynne hoppe.

It’s this angel stamp amazing ?

Inside was this beautiful little piece that I had noticed on lynne’s blog a few posts back.

I wrote to her, asking if I might have a colored copy of this mermaid creature called “happy girl flying” and what I could swap with her for the copy.

Well, my generous friend tore the page from her book and sent me the original !!!

I am so in love with it !!!

I cannot wait to take some time and find the perfect frame and matte and hang it somewhere where I can love it every time I walk by !

Thank you so much, beautiful lynne !

So yep, my friends, Summer 2012 seems to be a treat for me !

And it isn’t even July 4th yet !

Happy Tuesday, Beautiful Ones !

I hope your day feels like a treat too !