Posted on 20th November 2010 by Heather in Thinking
I love sites with wish lists. They let you plan pretty projects and think of what you’d like. I like seeing the things I gravitate towards all together in one place. You really start to see trends. I’ve been browsing my Google reader, looking for great gifting ideas, reading e-mags and loving all of the gorgeous packaging ideas. Today I ran across this store and their lovely wish list feature, and went to town. I found I gravitate towards graphic prints in blues and greens with some other jewel tones thrown in. I’ve never purchased there before, I just found this store, but they have a lovely selection of designer quilting fabrics and some really pretty knits and apparel fabric as well. I hate posts without pictures, and I hate to run in after being away so long, but I really want to make a point of consistancy and discipline in my life right now.
I’m kind of all over the place. I’m an unproductive mess at the moment. With the holiday’s coming, I need some order. I want to be here more often, so this is a start.
This online magazine is beautiful to look at and has some wonderful ideas for holiday gift giving and keeping your sanity. Thought I’d spread the word since I enjoyed it so much.
It finally feels like fall and I am so excited! I’m worried we aren’t going to get much color in the leaves because it was SO DRY for the last 2 weeks. The last 3 days have been lovely, overcast, rainy and cool. Hits the spot, just what I’ve been craving.
I’m still working way more than I’d like to and I’m sorry I’ve not been around much. I’m hoping this isn’t going to last too terribly much longer, so I can get back to laundry and groceries and cooking for my family.
Posted on 3rd September 2010 by Heather in Doodling |Going
I’ve been walking around in a daze the last three weeks. I haven’t written anything or really lived anything worth writing about. Also, I’ve had a hard time writing a new blog entry and pushing my goodbyes down a level. But its time to move forward.
We spent a week in lovely San Diego, CA for the funeral. We had breakfast at the harbor with far-flung family members. San Diego sun, the flap of sea gull wings, the smell of the sea and the murmur of laughter and conversation. I was reminded how important family is to me. It was hot. I couldn’t believe it. The weather was gorgeous every day before we got there and probably every day after we left. We must have brought the a piece of the south with us on the plane. I didn’t feel like I slept hardly at all. It was a fantastic time of reunion with family and friends, but Sunday rolled around and I was exhausted.
My time since we got back is a blur of graphics work and fast food. I still don’t feel like I’ve slept and I’m looking more like a zombie every day. When I can spare a thought, my mind and heart keep returning to goodbyes and the legacy a transparent, earnestly loving person can leave on my life in very short time.
I don’t have much to say. But I can show you some of what I’ve been doing graphically.
Posted on 15th August 2010 by Heather in Being |Thinking
Saying goodbye is never easy. Saying goodbye to certain people is heart wrenching. Tonight, we said goodbye as a congregation to our lead pastor and his family. I’ve grown more in the last eight months than I have in 26 years of living. And its largely due to this families influence on my life. I’m grieving their loss and I wish I’d had more time. I take joy knowing they will be a rich blessing on many more people in their new home.
I learned from you the beauty of transparency, how being authentic can touch people deeply, very quickly. You showed my family how Jesus loves them and how to love that way. And I’ve learned to read with open eyes. Thank you. You will be greatly, greatly missed.
We also said goodbye to Casey’s nanna. She passed away Thursday night. She was dear to him, loved by many. Unfortunately I never got to know her well, but the one visit we had was a sweet time.
This is one of the only photos I have of her. This was from our visit. Thinking back on it, I have sweet memories of chocolate and coffee, laughter and the murmur of conversation.
I’m no good with goodbyes. My heart aches. My eyes feel full and grainy from holding back tears. But I know I want to live my life like this, mark the hearts of people around me with love. Live honestly and true to who I am and what I believe.
Drawn from a photo of Twiggy. I’m so pleased with how this turned out. I’m falling in love with pen and ink. I love the permanence of it. It forces your hand into careful considered marking. Its so much fun and more than a little scary. What do you think?
“To me, the most beautiful things in all the universe are the most mysterious.” This quote comes from this little gem of a short film. It’s by Pixar and it apparently is playing before Toy Story 3. So much wisdom and profound truth in a few seconds of speech.
There’s something to be learned from everyone. Every person has something beautiful they could share with you, some sweet nugget of truth that you couldn’t see on your own. What a difference perspective makes.
Ah, I’m done waxing poetic. Pixar shorts always speak to something inside me. I love them so much.
It appears to be far greener than I remembered it being. A month ago I planted an herb garden on our porch railing. I held off posting about it because I wasn’t sure it would live! But daily watering and love and I’ve gotten to watch all those gorgeous little green things sprout out of the dirt. I’m baffled by how much joy I’ve gotten out of just watching something grow. And I can’t wait to add fresh herbs to my cooking!
I planted cilantro, chives, basil, parsley and sage. The parsley got uprooted and torn through by some curious outdoor creature, but its starting to sprout now anyways!
Cute little sprouts!
Look at how awesome the Basil looks! I see pesto in my future.
The AC is fixed, thank goodness! With a heat index upwards of 110 I’m so thankful. In the blissful cool air, I got to work on my hexie project. The hexies were already all sewn together and the backing was pieced before the challenge. I got it sandwiched, basted, quilted and bound. Its not perfect, but I pressed on in spite of the flaws and ended up really liking it.
I wish I had made the binding larger and I would love it if I could figure out why my bobbin keeps skipping stitches every so often. All in all, I’m content with the final result and glad I had a deadline so I didn’t keep worrying over the imperfections without finishing.
I love it because the colors of the fabrics work so well together and its got a few little pieces of the very first quilt I made. I also love the bright blue quilting thread.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ~ Mahatma Ghandi
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