tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1574447358884786022024-02-18T17:58:00.810-08:00The Keltic KnotAll those things that are near and dear to me. Costuming, cats,and the love of whatever it is that keeps me going. Some of which I'll not divulge. The rest is fair game as they say. So on with the show, let the game begin, and let me out of the fast lane, I need to rest.
Oh, and not to mention my own little fantasy world that makes up the rest of the story.Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-29863550833415636542016-03-22T12:32:00.000-07:002016-03-22T12:34:54.202-07:00Easter doesn't have to be pink.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I decided to use a different color this year to decorate my table . Last year it was pink and green, and all the traditional colors one thinks of when thinking of Easter. So this year I went with a different color.<br />
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Yes, Orange… as in carrots and bunnies.</div>
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Then I added a wide band of cream colored lace. I think nothing says Easter like lace.</div>
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I made the under layer in plain orange {I can see halloween coming}. Then found this wonderful flowered print with an orange background that matches the orange color. I don't think it could have been any better suited. </div>
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The little sheep are so cute, and there are little fluffy checks, as well as a bunny or two in the basket.</div>
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My Easter basket has a collection of flowers, berries, ribbon and an egg or two in a natural colored basket.</div>
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Even the tea towel is orange with a carrot design woven into the fabric. I guess one doesn't have to use only pastels to show off an Easter basket after all.</div>
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When you have a limited amount of space, and a lot to put into it… that's what you call it.<br />
I've been looking for a sewing table that would fit many needs. Yesterday, after UPS brought my new table, and I put it together, came the crazy part. How to get it all in there and not feel cramped.<br />
My sewing/computer room has it's limits, but I had faith it would all fit …. somehow!<br />
I'm still moving stuff back in, but at least now, I don't feel like a sardine in a tiny can.<br />
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The new table….<br />
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A new table for my old Singer</div>
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storage….</div>
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A workbox {stuffed with scrapbooking supplies}</div>
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The computer section...</div>
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More storage….{ one can never have enough}</div>
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And the new table opened out into extend space for cutting or working on a scrapbook...</div>
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-2608860193200459442015-12-23T20:44:00.003-08:002015-12-23T20:44:42.901-08:00Nothing to match, a Montana snow flocked tree.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Of all the pictures I've taken over the years, this one reminded me of the part of the Christmas story about the star in the east.</div>
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Right above a tall tree, snow cover, that stands next to the end of the house.</div>
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Here is my mantel with the stocking I just finished to go with my tree skirt. And one pillow to match the colors.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-44885961673260016182015-11-18T17:22:00.003-08:002015-11-18T17:25:42.530-08:00Here we are again…..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Time for Christmas decorations {and yes they are already in the stores.} lol.<br />
So for this year, I had a change of plans. I had planned to use an angel theme.<br />
However, something else came up. In the spring I had started to work on a project with<br />
peacock colors. Then it seemed everywhere I looked there were peacocks. The colors, the bird,<br />
and on just about everything. Then I decided to make my tree and decorations with peacocks.<br />
Love the richness of the colors.<br />
When the ornaments came out in the stores, there were peacocks everywhere. So here is what it looks like when peacocks and christmas combine.<br />
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First was the door wreath…<br />
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Then I started with putting up the tree, and it's explosion of colors.<br />
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The tree is green, but more like a different shade of the usual green tree. I had more ornaments from past trees then I could use.<br />
I love the way it turned out. I still have the tree skirt etc to make up, but I so enjoy seeing the christmas tree and I almost always take it down very soon after christmas. This lets me enjoy the tree dressed in all it's finery, and just maybe encourage others to be thinking about their tree.<br />
So here it is…. peacock heaven.<br />
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There are birds, and fish and even a dragonfly or two. Lots of colored balls, and this year the lights, fade from white to blue and back again.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-73842429314323953142015-09-29T21:06:00.000-07:002015-09-29T21:06:59.128-07:00The Last rose of summer…..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One last red rose bloomed. Against a backdrop of leaves in a riot of color, it stands out reminding us another summer is at an end.<br />
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The rose hips are not quite a deep red.<br />
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And the leaves are putting on a show. One tree in yellow and the other flaming red, they provide a fall fashion show next to the koi pond.<br />
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High up in the top of the choke berry trees, the last of the brilliant red berries seem to be holding on to their thorn spiked branches. It's as if they mimic my very thoughts of just one more day of sunshine before the snow flies, and winter arrives in all it's ice and snow.</div>
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Not to many left up there, but the trees produced a lot of berries, of which I did share out around nine gallons. I put another 8 or so in my freezer, and have picked smaller and smaller bowls full every time I go out to walk in the garden. I really believe those trees tried to keep me out of reach of the berries, as my hair tie was pulled off twice in one day, and I have more scratches then any time in the past. lol.<br />
Aren't the berries a beautiful red?<br />
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Others said they tasted really good.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-68382648471179543002015-09-24T01:39:00.003-07:002015-09-24T01:40:49.361-07:00A different night sky<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A couple of nights ago I went out at twilight to feed the Koi and this is what I saw in the southern sky.<br />
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That is the moon, and sunset was well on. Montana isn't called Big Sky Country for nothings.</div>
Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-32658178330047415392015-08-27T17:42:00.001-07:002015-08-27T17:42:09.115-07:00Blue Moon…. ok, but…..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
have you ever seen a red moon?<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-12835095949905302612015-08-13T19:20:00.004-07:002015-08-13T19:24:59.944-07:00The Glacier Fire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When there is smoke in the air, the sun turns red. I got a better picture of the sunset tonight. Perhaps you can see this one better.<br />
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The smoke was heavier today, and now that is all I can smell. You can see it just above the fence line. It sure makes for a spectacular sunset.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-82335874449466249622015-08-02T20:36:00.001-07:002015-08-02T20:36:23.728-07:00That is one busy gofer.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is the last ditch I am going to dig this year. And for all the world it looks like a very large gofer had been very busy. It has…. me!<br />
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The ditch is for an electrical line to be laid for a plug, in the garden for the train. It got harder as I started up the hill toward the house. Nothing but rock and gravel. I thought it was going to get easier… but it didn't. I still have about 3' to go.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-76190129199623325092015-08-02T20:29:00.003-07:002015-08-02T20:29:49.788-07:00When the sky is on fire…...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
and the sun is setting, it turns to the most beautiful red flame color. We have a fire burning somewhere and with all the smoke in the air, the sun was flaming red tonight.<br />
I caught some of it as it was slipping below the horizon. I hope you can see it….<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-79072968624987627862015-04-12T15:09:00.000-07:002015-04-12T15:09:03.362-07:00As the saying goes….<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Do you remember old saying from your childhood? I have one I have always thought of at varies times. I did not know who said it, until now…<br />
Do you remember this one?<br />
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Use it up,<br />
Wear it out,<br />
Make it do,<br />
Or do without.<br />
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Guess who said that? President Roosevelt<br />
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You can't be any more surprised then I was when I found that bit of information. Who knew?<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-2807585873741993812015-02-17T12:32:00.000-08:002015-02-17T12:32:18.220-08:00The Road Not Taken<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When I was in high school, I entered a couple of interpretive poetry contests. What you had to do was speak for X number of minuets on a subject using poetry to express yourself about a subject. You used poems already written, and one I have always felt was special to me, was called "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.<br />
I don't think at that time I felt it would really enter into or play an important part in my life. But many times now I have thought about it.<br />
Take a look and see what your thoughts are on the subject.<br />
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,</div>
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And sorry I could not travel both</div>
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And be one traveler, long I stood</div>
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And looked down one as far as I could</div>
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To where it bent in the undergrowth;</div>
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Then took the other, as just as fair,</div>
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And having perhaps the better claim,</div>
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Because it was grassy and wanted wear;</div>
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Though as for that the passing there</div>
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Had worn them really about the same,</div>
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And both that morning equally lay</div>
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In leaves no step had trodden black.</div>
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Oh, I kept the first for another day!</div>
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I doubted if I should ever come back.</div>
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Somewhere ages and ages hence:</div>
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—</div>
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And that has made all the difference.</div>
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I am still taking the road less traveled, and I really have no regrets as there has been nothing in my life or that might have been down that other road that would have made any kind of difference. I am still me, life is still yet to be lived to what ever degree that is left to me, and I have honored my values and beliefs to the best of my ability .</div>
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I have touched some lives in a positive way, influenced others to become a better person, made some mistakes, and to my own self been true.</div>
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Once in awhile, I have seen in the distance one or two of those other roads, but I am glad I was not tempted to chase a rainbow. There is no pot of gold there. One can almost never count on another person to help you find your way, or succeed at what you work to complete. What they deem as more important will always be what they choose, as will you also do the same. No-one is better or more important, it's just the way it is.</div>
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There is still time to complete some of my dreams and inspirations. As my cats and dolls keep pace with me, I would have it no other way. For it allows me the time to complete whatever I work on, dream up, or am inspired to do.</div>
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My wish for you, is that you find your life as complete, and have no regrets about the road not traveled.</div>
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Well snowmen anyway. lol. This year I decided to go with the to many men theme. I have been sewing and making up ornaments and other things with this in mind. Well, the tree is up. For now anyway, as the two youngest persian kittens think I just put the best toy around right in the middle of the floor for them to play with. LOL.<br />
This tree is not my usual style of trees, but that's ok because it's kind of fun to do something different. You be the judge and tell me what you think.<br />
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Nothing like fur balls to make it interesting. There are three of them under the tree.</div>
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Well this one is big enough to jump to the top of my building. And….. He's a Halloween cat guarding his magical pumpkins. From the dark of night one see's glowing eyes.<br />
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This cat swings his head from side to side just looking for something or someone to pounce on.</div>
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I loved dressing up on Halloween and running around collecting candy. Back then we could do the innocent things like that and didn't have to worry about the stuff that happens today. I miss the old times and the fun we had. There is nothing like it today. And by the way, there is no evil intent here, just plain old fashion fun from the 50's.</div>
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-56786567839843396142014-04-15T00:39:00.001-07:002014-04-15T00:39:19.398-07:00I found a Dragonfly!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well, four to be more specific. I call this Golden Dragonflies. I decided to make this one for myself. I love dragonflies, and this has been turning out to be wonderful. Fall colors and that time of the year is my favorite although I would have an Indian summer every year, if I could. So using these colored dragonflies and a madrid of real and glass stones has created a really stunning piece. It's not done yet, however, as there is still a lot of beading to be added. For now thought this is what it looks like.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-91514045237141847552014-03-07T02:13:00.000-08:002014-03-07T02:13:07.884-08:00In Search of a Firefly,<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
and mid-winter musings.<br />
One day the snow was coming down to form deep banks of mid-winter drifts, and the next it was forty Five degrees and a threat of flooding, as the sun broke through the clouds to melt the ice covered roads. Lack of sunlight often causes depression, and feeling over tired. It makes you want to crawl back in bed and pull the blankets over your head. Of course it doesn't do much for you. Only facing the day head on will make any kind of difference.<br />
However lingering awhile, never hurts, and at these moments a mindful thought chases daydreams into a realm of fantasy. Where do your thoughts turn? Years gone by, of loving memories with which to dream of special people and events. Even yesterday is part of the past now, to be forgotten or kept as a fragile silken strand now twisted into your very being. Do we choose to hold first this strand and then that colorful one over there? Gathering as many as our grasp can hold then twisting them into the toughen cord of our life's pleasures and dreams. Dropping the ones less cared for {perhaps even painful to hold onto} or losing our tight hold as age descends upon us making it difficult to remember.<br />
Sometimes an overcrowding of illusions and dreams take their tole as well and we forget some small thing once vowed always to remember. At time the lesser of these can be recovered, when we glimpse some small part thereof and the gates open to flood our hearts and souls of that which we thought lost.<br />
At other times, the greater thing will push past all else, and stand demanding entrance once again, into our threads held tight with-in our overflowing and stranded cord that makes up one's life long existence.<br />
How often do we look back, and upon seeing the past rise up behind us like so many hills we have climbed, stay awhile and renew acquaintances. Or do you turn quickly toward the future wishing only to forget what should have been all that has made you into your very complex and individual reality.<br />
So many have been touched by your past, so should you be as well. One is and therefore lives to be.<br />
Nowhere else will there be anyone quite like you. No-one else will see as clearly through your insightful thoughts and dreams. Like a patchwork quilt, pieces sewn into the very design you have created by being what you are today, made from yesterdays flowing into tomorrows and onward into time it's self.<br />
The English take tea, and the french make love, I search for fireflies. Little glimmers of light like fairies in the night, all on a mid-summers eve.</div>
Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-76254302421609746612014-02-26T14:04:00.001-08:002014-02-26T14:04:32.688-08:00The pond in Winter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This winter has been really different. And I've been watching my pond close over with ice and then re-open several times. This is what it looked like today.<br />
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Is that a frozen pond or not? I love the way this looks and have never seen the pond like this before.<br />
-21 last night and barely above 0 today. Way to cold and to long a winter. I'm ready for spring.</div>
Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-30848499687472357162013-11-09T14:47:00.002-08:002013-11-09T14:47:18.343-08:00Jumping the gun….<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
OK….. I know this is early, but…. I really wanted to do my christmas decorating early this year so I could enjoy what I've done a bit more. I've had this selection of hallmark ornaments for a number of years. I think they first came out in 1991. I have sense made a few things to go with what I bought, and this year added the tree skirt, wreath and mantle decoration. I also made some new decorations which you will see.<br />
So to begin with, here is the front door wreath.<br />
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This year the colors are royal blue, periwinkle, and purple or lavender.<br />
All the colors for Hallmark;s Frost fairies. I really loved that collection and so have pretty much gotten everything they came out with.<br />
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Behind these doors….<br />
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Is a wonderland of frost fairies, Fairy dust and a silvery frosted fiber optic glow.<br />
L really loved the frost fairy idea, and Hallmark made some really pretty ornaments for this collection.<br />
So, open the doors and take a look…. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.<br />
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I forgot to tell you it's a white tree this year.<br />
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These little fairy tutu's were some I made, like the one I bought so long ago. I also added fairy wings as it just seems right to have them.</div>
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I also made little drawstring pouches that hold a tiny little glass bottle of magical Fairy dust. The one I bought was much larger, and I felt these tiny ones would be better.</div>
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These little lavender bags hold frosted berries as a late night treat for a hungry fairy.</div>
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These tiny lavender bags hold what the fairies find fallen from the sky on a cold frosty night. Perfect little frosted stars.</div>
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I also created frosted diamonds capped with a blue daisy & a satin flower and one little pearl.</div>
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There are some clusters of frosted candy pieces and crystal drops as well.</div>
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It is said that to have a bird in ones Christmas tree is to bring good luck all year. This pert little jay seems to agree.</div>
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The mantel was also decorated with silver and blues, and frost fairies.</div>
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The quite beauty of the frost fairies winter-wonderland.</div>
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From time to time, I get lonely. Just like everyone else, it happens. So today I went out into the cold air and sunshine to check on the pond and my koi. This is what I found on the rose bush over the entrance to my garden.<br />
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Last night there had been a hard frost, so I was really surprised to find this one last beautiful rose of summer in full bloom. A simple thing, but a very big surprise.<br />
Then, as I was trying to clean some algae from the pond I had another surprise. A Steller's Jay like this one…..<br />
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flew up and landed in the tree next to the pond. He sat there for several minutes bright eyes and watching me. Then flew off across the garden. A second little surprise out of the blue.<br />
So many people ask for big things to happen to let them know someone cares. I'll take these few simple little surprises any day. My belief in God and his caring has never stopped, even through the lonely times. He always seems to let me know He's out there, and by these simple little things… a rose blooming when it shouldn't be, and a beautiful blue bird {I call them blue birds of happiness} landing in the tree, when I hardly ever see them, let alone seeing a Steller's Jay.<br />
These simple little things lift my spirits and gladden my heart. I know someone cares, even if family or friends do not. So I guess I'm trying to say…. look for those simple little things. You will be surprised how many times there is a message just for you in them. And know…. He cares.</div>
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Like the threads of a spiders web, our lives have been a woven masterpiece. Even if one doesn't believe it to be so, there is no other like your intricately woven life.<br />
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Some spaces between events are perfectly spaced, even, and follow the pattern.<br />
Others are a little wider, not so perfect, and sometimes even distorted. But when you look at like this web, it can be no other way. It all comes together to form an artistic design, that will only be made and woven, once. You will have contributed your own unique outlook on life, and there will be many who will have been touched by your having woven the threads of your life in just such a way.<br />
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This web is bigger, and very different from the first. It evens looks imperfect. But is that because it catches more flies? Thus serving it's purpose, better? I don't think so. I think it's just different, but created with the equally same intent as the first.<br />
Our lives are all created as we direct them to be. To best of our ability, each web will be not lies and deceit, but an imperfectly woven design.<br />
May yours serve you well.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-30667789419716731002013-07-20T22:44:00.001-07:002013-07-20T22:44:05.328-07:00A New Look<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
At last, the house and everything has been painted, and it looks so beautiful! So like it belongs together, instead of a collection of buildings. Take a look and tell me what you think?<br />
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This is Koi pond green and tea chest brown, with a touch of alabaster cream.<br />
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It seems like it was only yesterday, that the garden was bare, trees and plants were dormant, and nothing looked very special. Yesterday I went out into the garden to look around and was so surprised to see green, and flowers, and a lushness everywhere. It has rained a great deal this spring, and turned everything a rich green shade. I can't help but want to share this with everyone. I have worked so hard to make this garden grow and turn it into someplace to enjoy {even though I don't sit still for very long.} So following are pictures of my garden….. and this phrase to remember.<br />
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In search of my mother's garden…..<br />
I found my own.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-29624130102835159002013-06-21T14:10:00.001-07:002013-06-21T14:13:48.820-07:00At long last…...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After 4 years of delays, problems, this and that, my swimming pool is done with the new cover I had decided tout over the pool to keep dust, pine needles and bugs out. As well as to make it warmer and perhaps more able to swim in in the spring and the fall.<br />
I am in the process of filling it up with water, and that is going to take a few days, as I can't let it run non-stop for fear of drawing the well down. The ground right now is really wet, so hopefully what's down there is running high, due to all the rain we have had. If this work as I hope it will, the pool should be heated by the warm air, as well as making it safer in the winter, and less likely to freeze.<br />
So here it is, at last the cover over the pool and it's my pool is done.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10041276838385969638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157444735888478602.post-1437019095920615752013-03-15T00:50:00.001-07:002013-03-15T00:50:19.320-07:00A Remembered Dream<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sometimes we get a chance to do something we could only dream about when we were younger. For me it was the trip of a life time to London, Paris, and Ireland. Every once in a while I can close my eyes and remember. Walking down the hall that Ann Boleyn reported to run screaming down to pound on the door when Kind Henry the Eight refused to see her, and she was to be taken to the tower before she died. Or walking in the garden at Hampton Court which was my favorite castle and place to visit. Knowing that within the walls of the Tower of London there had been many who died or pasted through on their way to another place, living or dead.<br />
Walking among the many treasures of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the two two hour appointments viewing the gowns in the back room. Never did I believe that would ever happen.<br />
Taking classes with the Royal Embroiders guild of England.Shopping for a new hat in a little shop hidden away in London, where the Queen purchases some of her hats. Staying in a 4 star hotel for the first and only time in my life. Gilding down the Themes river on a supper cruse and having Happy Birthday sung to me by everyone on board.Visiting Windsor Castle and seeing Queen Mary's dollhouse.<br />
Taking the Aerostar to Paris and visiting the palace of Versailles and walking down the great hall of mirrors. Creating my own perfume blend in a little room overlooking a street in Paris. Standing in front of the Eiffel Tower to have my picture taken. And buying champagne to celebrate my birthday.<br />
Spending a week in a little castle in Ireland where I had my pictures taken in the garden completely dressed in my Marie Antoinette gown, I created just for that purpose.<br />
As with all things, part of my trip was spoiled. But the rest of the memories will be there to touch upon from time to time, as I close my eyes and relive a time where a dream became real and something longed for was realized.<br />
We all have those moments in time, and it's a very good thing we do, as life rushes over us crashing into the realities of day to day living, and the moment we must face the road not taken.<br />
Where your dreams realized? At least some, anyway?<br />
Stop and smell the roses. I believe this is what best describes the remembrance of our dream realized. No-matter what it was, take but a moment to revisit that special place. It need not be shared with anyone, or perhaps in the sharing the reality will re-awaken a remembered past to full blooms of yesterday dreams.<br />
It lingers in the shadowy halls of our past and visiting is free.</div>
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