images from a friday in may...

hi my lovelies, 

i thought i'd share a few images from yesterday.  it was a really good day all things considered...

the license tag on this cool hot rod said, "yard art".  i wonder what that means.  

hope you've had a good week, and you have a great weekend.  i'll be back soon.

love & kisses & magical wishes...

~*~

percolating in my brainpans...

happy saturday am, my lovelies!  between trying to get everything planted in the garden, trying to get the blackberries and hydrangea under control and migrainlandia visits it's been too long since i was able to be here.

in all my little projects and my constant flitting around doing this and that, i found an old notebook i started back in july of 2020.  i remember thinking it was a great thing to do to get myself in a good headspace.  haha...well...

fast forward through 5 years and here we are.  i've picked it up again and am really enjoying myself. i thought i'd share a little about it with you today.

this is the cover (which will be painted or covered at some point to make it pretty):

have you ever done a vision board? i used to do them with my friends for each new year and sometimes for the month, etc. i would end up with these large pieces of cardboard/posterboard that i had nothing to do with.  i remember when i moved from the little cottage with the blue door that i had to toss a whole stack of them in the trash which made me sad but also a little relieved. 

anywho, i decided it made more sense for me to put it in a book so i pulled out a $store composition notebook and got to work.  like i said earlier, i started in 2020 so the first 4-5 pages are from then i think, maybe a few more.  the rest are recent.

if you haven't done a vision board before, basically you tear images and words from magazines, mail, newspapers and paste/glue them to your board.  each board should have a theme.  obviously, from the very first photo my theme is "dreaming to reality" which is making what i dream my life was like to making it real.  i have scads of old magazines that i have collected over the years and will go through them, every once in a while, and tear out images that strike me and words too. 

this project serves several purposes for me. one - is the vision board act of seeing what you are wanting to manifest. two - it helps me get rid of those old magazines.  once i've gone through them and torn out any words/images (and recipes) that i want to save, i can put them in recycle without feeling like i'm wasting something.  three - it is helping me to reduce the "clutter" in my home and in my mind. and four - it is a short creative act i can do every day if i want that makes me feel good.

anyhoo...that's it for today.  a little glimpse into one of my ways of creating in both a physical/mental way and a spiritual way.  to me these little boards are acts of magic. and i'm always up for making magic. :-)

i hope you are ok in your little corner of the interwebs.  i'll be back soon i hope with more garden updates and i have a few other ideas percolating in my brainpans.  

thanks for being here, 

love & kisses & magical wishes...

~*~

ps...forgot to add that all the images are from old issues of various magazines like victoria, country gardens, country living, better homes & gardens, southern living, etc.

 

ruminating...

hope y'all are having a great saturday.  i spent a whole bunch of time in the garden today and enjoyed every bit of it.  i feel like all i ever post anymore are garden photos, but y'all.  it's so wonderful to be out there.  this time last year i was in the bed all the time and wasn't even anywhere near thinking about trying to be outside.  

i've also been working on my whole clean, clear and organize thing.  there hasn't been much time for getting to my art table.  but i've been taking a little time each night for the last week to doodle in one of my little sketchbooks that i carry around with me.  

i started with little fleurs, because of course...

this was done using posca paint pens

this one with colored pencils...

and with pitt pens...

i don't know what it is, but these are so soothing to me right now.  i don't really have to think, i just grab a pen and color in a section.

anywho...

i'm also ruminating on something i want to make to take with me as a gift to the attendees at the last ghost ranch red thread retreat in september.  every year i've gone i've wanted to take a gift for everyone but i never get it done in time. so this year, i'm working on it early.

i won't be able to share here until i return from my trip cause i know of at least one person who sometimes reads my blog who might be at the retreat and i don't want to ruin the surprise.

the next 4 to 5 days are supposed to rain and thunderstorms, so i'll have to give up my garden time (though i'll be checking on things in the rain).  hopefully i'll be able to use that time to clean up the art table area and get to work on my idea.

well...if you're a mom, i hope you have a lovely and happy mother's day tomorrow.  and if not, have a great sunday.

thanks for being here, 

love & kisses & magical wishes...

~*~

 

maybe too long, even...

hello, lovely people.

sorry i spaced out for longer than i intended.  some recent medication changes made for some cracks in the well cover over here so i had to get back with my docs and get that sorted.

otherwise, things are about the same here.  chaos in a chaotic world, trying to do my little part to bring good things to the interwebs and add a little love to the planet and people.

it's been hard, but i've managed to keep the Ancestors page going every day.  i don't want to let them down or have them get discouraged with me. so, if you don't see me here for a while know that i'm at least over there daily and you can see what is happening with that.

i thought today i'd bring some garden love i talked about in my last post.  i haven't spent as much time out there as i'd have liked (part of how i know the well cover was cracking open).  we had heavy rain and storms on saturday 😀🥰  i love me a good thuderstorm.  and sunday was a bit on the dark and rainy side. monday morning i went out to work in the garden but was only able to be out about an hour before i had to give up and come in.  those damn blood sucking mosquitos were all over me.  i swear i could be standing in a crowd of a hundred thousand people and i'm the ONLY one who would get bit.  those little f*kers love me and always have so it's not just being diabetic.  i can remember being a little kid and being covered with mosquitos and bites.  ick!

anywho...here are some photos from my garden as of today...

this is all i was able to get done on monday, a clean out of this pot (former home of the now deceased blueberry and some volunteer trees) with juliet (grape hybrid) tomatoes and marigolds.

my lady of shallot is still blooming and budding. i swear, it is heavenly to be near that plant and catch of whiff of scent from it.

the bush beans and the cucumbers sprouting. yay!

lemon tree no.1 that i found at the garden center back in very early spring.  i brought it home and too cold out to put it out, put it in the brightest spot in the house.  i was so sad with how sad it looked so when i found a larger lemon tree at the garden center last month, i bought it too.  i potted both up at the same time and put them out front where they'll get loads of sunlight and look how no 1 has grown!  i'm soooo happy!

lemon tree no 2 had blooms on it when i brought it home.  i think there is a tiny lemon growing in there somewhere.  so i'm being sure to give it lots of water.  i need to look up how and when to fertilize as i'd love, love, love, to grow my own lemons.  

see...chaos.  but it's a good, sort of, kind of chaos. lots of plants need to be planted still and once they are all potted up i can decide where they will live.  i've also still got pots that need to be cleaned out.  and i found that the love in a mist has returned this year.  not as many as last year, but i'm hopeful to have more seeds to add over winter.  

i still have so much work to do on that damned blackberry that wants to engulf my home.  

if i didn't have neighbors i'd leave it, but it is just in a very, very bad spot.  i still want to try to plant some in the woods out back and see if it will take up there, so i could still have blackberries. i know, i'm crazy.

anywho...those foxgloves make me so very happy.

well...i think this has been a long enough post.  maybe too long, even.  i need to get up and move around so i'll go now and hope to be back in a day or two.  i hope you are all well and i'll make the rounds of blogs i need to catch up on later today and tomorrow.  

have a great day.

love & kisses & magical wishes, 

~*~

 

happy progress...

blessed Beltane and happy May Day to you, my lovelies!

i spent the day playing in the garden for the most part.  i finished getting the veg bed planted with veg.  i've still to put in the basil and marigolds around the tomatoes.  but i'm happy with my progress.  

and of course, there was the tying of the May Day wish ribbons on my trellis.  i made a wish for each ribbon of what i'd like to see come true over the next year.  and no, i don't share the wishes, but i will say, they weren't all just for me.

yesterday was an early ride to hospital in the next town.  my neurologist works there, and it was time for a check in with her.  the appointment went well and there is a new med i'm on now to see if it can help with my condition.  on my way home i stopped at the big farmers market for some plants and ended up with quite a lot.  i also found some delicious fresh strawberries and i'm always stocking up on seeds for emergencies.

tomorrow is another errand day and then hopefully some time in the garden.  i hope you are having a wonderful 1st day of may.

do you celebrate in some way?  i'd love to know how.

love & kisses & magical wishes, 

~*~