Making My Dreams Come True: Caterpillers, Butterflies, Life after Death in Heaven

Making My Dreams Come True: Caterpillers, Butterflies, Life after Death in Heaven

Caterpillers, Butterflies, Life after Death in Heaven

Caterpillars transforming, Crystallise then a Butterfly,  An earthly Life transforms in death into Life in Heaven with our Lord.  Mom: You are at home now in the Lord, We will be with you in a blink of an eye.  Love your Mom, Thanks for being the best Mother in Law I could ever have.  Be Free in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Sewing Projects

Here are some pics of what I've been doing lately.  I am learning, expanding and figuring out my muse. 

This is strips of my hand dyed embellished fabrics with a squiggled free motion and applicated roses with metallic threads from creative challengers 2010.

Wonky house patches with Peter Rabbit looking out the windows from blocklotto.

Blocks from Kates Blog. 

Boy I have to learn to take better pics, these are awful.  Stay tune for additional musings.

Simple Life Urban Farmgal

This is a strange year for me.  Some of you know, I closed my consignment shop called "Just for You, Too, in January after a 7 years stint.  Since January I have been trying to figure out what my life's calling is now and how do I pay off my loan from the shop that I took out to make it rich, but ended up making me poor.  Simple living was what I wanted.  Back to gardening, eating healthy, selling on e-bay & getting exersize.  But instead, I have been learning- Learning to accept an angry middle -dementia mother (85), learning to support an end of life Hospice mother-in-law with ALS (78), & learning to help a 86-year old neighbor, whose family have all passed on, who lives in a nursing home.  I am exhusted with dealing with their issues.  Add to that watching my two grandchildren once a week, helping my other daughter with our new grandson and being there for my other children and husband; has left me wanting to run away or get a real job so I can really say No to everybody or, or what?     Who am I, What do I want to do??????
My older and much wiser sister told me this morning that where I am at, right at this moment' is where I am suppose to be.
Just Be,  Be Available, Be Open! 
            I guess like a flower?

Simple Living-Just Be, Just Be Open to the Universe, to Nature, to God's whisper & to my Inner Heart Beat. WAITING!

The book I am reading right now is "Twelve by Twelve - A one-room cabin off the grid & beyond the American Dream" by William Powers.  http://www.williampowersbooks.com/

A book about a 36 year old guy, who is feeling out of sorts with American Living after living and working with the Bolivia People trying to save the rain forest.  He stays in a 12 by 12 shedhome in NC near No Name Creek without electric, gas or water.  http://www.tumbleweedhouse.com/ ,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRvsWuWNUM
New word to add to my vocabulary:  permaculture farming-"the things your grandparents knew and your parents forgot,"   Holistic approach to sustainable landscape, agricultural, and home design.   
I just want to find a place like this to run to.  No phone, No emergencies, No drama, Just CALM!    Imagine my surprise as I thought about this!  

My 10 by 12 creative sancuary!

My fish pond with waterfall!

  Well imagine, to my surprise, that I am doing just that.  My sewing/computer room that I spend most of my time these last 8 months is a 10 by 12.  Even though I live in a suburb, geese & hawks & bats fly over head, my waterfall sounds comes from my small home-made pond filled with 20 or so fish, and even though I don't live in a forest, I have a small garden with 5 large trees on my small square of land.  The river is just a small walk away in which I can kayak in quiet solitude. 

The Mighty Maumee River.

This way of life has been healing for me!   Create, Sew, Paint, Write, Assist, Help, Listen & Just Be Open to what God has for me!
I am one blessed woman!  WAITING-Just Being, Just Open!

Hair color Bronze Copper Brown

Coming up flowers!

A lily for my mother in law!

A hibiscis for Lee!

A Rose of Sharon for my Mom!

August is coming to an end.  The weather is perfect 70-85 degrees.  Slight Breeze, Blue Skies, but soon Fall and Winter will appear.  And thoses are special times of the year too, but I love summer and this one in Northwest Ohio has been very hot, hot, hot.  But I just came back from a short trip to Florida and it is much hotter, humid and plain icky.  Flowers were few there but the were lovely tropical plants with a lot of color.  I love flowers.

Stenciled composition of roses.

Quilted, inked and gold sprinkles applied.  This is my Creative Challengers 2010 project that I am working on, Stay tunes and I will show you the finished project.  I'm not sure as what this will turn out to be. 

Feeling Better all the time

Well, the Health Department called.  The hospital reported my condition and they want to see if their is other people who have come down with this food poisioning.  After an hour interview on the phone, they feel I did not get it from the cooked turkey breast that was out dated.  Either I contacted it from swimming in a lake infected with the bacteria, or my cat ate a bird who was infected and I cleaned the cat box, or my feeling was my chickens who might be infected.  (I did not tell them I had chickens)  But birds of all kinds, ducks, geese, chickens, turkeys carry the bacteria, sometime it affects them sometimes not, and it is in their waste.  So after discussing this with my sister, who raises chickens and have never gotten sick, and after speaking with the farm I purchased the chickens from, I gave the chickens back to them, who will seperate them for observation, and take a sample from them the the University of Bowling Green to have them checked for the bacteria. 
I am sad without my chickens, but I do not want any of my grandchildren getting this bateria. 
I am back to creating a dress for Emma, fixing a groom's mothers dress for their wedding this weekend, blogging and doing a lot of yard work and expanding my small patio.  So things are back to normal, whaterever normal is.