January 16, 2011

Bowl #3 – honouring our Grandmothers

The joy, commitment, and love of a grandma…   Continue reading →

January 15, 2011

Bowl #2 – let it go

I feel constant tension in my shoulders, back, neck, held deeply in my physical body: fear, negative thoughts, darkest secrets, dishonesty with myself.

It’s time to release…  let it go!… one paper strip at a time.

A heart bowl … in honour of letting go.

Let us move freely as human beings. Let us flow and feel graceful without the weight of tension and stress.

Cheers…  to release! … followed by a deep long sigh.

“Learn to let go.  That is the key to happiness.”  Dalai Lama

January 14, 2011

Day one …   playful heart

Reflecting on Ethan, my two-year old…  how we play!

…Laughing, smiling, silliness, expression, unleashed creativity, spontaneity, all out playfulness, funny faces, crazy noises, freedom, FUN!  I’m beginning my month-long journey with a playful heart.  A bowl dedicated to all of our playful hearts, across the planet.  And, my heart is still light after playing giddily with him for 20 minutes, just now.  Perhaps one fence post has started to loosen in that gated heart o’ mine.

To the beauty of children … may their playfulness be honoured and lighten our hardened spirits.

“A light heart lives long.”  Irish Proverb

January 14th tomorrow.  One month until Valentine’s Day.  Celebrating our hearts.

I’m making a heart bowl each day, until then, in honour of our hearts, creative spirits, and authentic expression.

I’ve let my heart become deeply gated in steel, bolted shut, and I can’t even find the key.

I’m finally listening and the way to its release is to make bowls.  Papier mache bowls.  Heart bowls, to be specific.  Layer upon layer of paper strip dipped in glue to unleash my bonded heart.  I’m going to open it this time… really wide.  As vulnerable as I can be.  Strong and vulnerable.  Chest out, shoulders down. I want to leave it that way.  I’m tired of the gates.  The bolt and the missing key exhaust me.  I want to live fully and that has to mean open…  And, I want to listen …  to my heart.  To me.

No more excuses.  No more distractions.  I haven’t been able to hear my heart  for the gates, the bolts, the locks.  It’s been a long while.  And, it’s time…

Jan 4, 2011…  the process…  I haven’t yet clarified ‘my word’, ‘my words’, ‘my new year’s resolutions’.  I feel some pressure having read a number of blogs and newsletters to have it ‘done’ already and set into place for the New Year.   It’s not coming for me and I don’t want to have to find my New Year’s resolution a particular way. I’m not sure where to start after reading so many ways of ‘doing it’.  So, I let go of it all, altogether…

And then,… VOILA!   Continue reading →

What’s in a name?

I listened to my Dad telling my Grandpa a story over the Christmas holidays.  He convinced his hairdresser, Barb, to charge more for her services, in her small town.  With hesitation she finally did and was now driving  her dream car, able to renovate her house, take a holiday, and was very happy.  My Grandpa, at 92, says, “Yeah, Reg.  She needed to get out of that small town mentality that so many people have.” Continue reading →

2010…

a first blog and a Happy New Year!

My word for the year –  EXPRESSION!

Back to the good ol’ days of Madonna’s, “express yourself.”  I would love all of us, including me, to express ourselves this year.  And, that’s why  I’m heading to the National Stationery Show in NYC May 16th – 19th –  greeting cards, book blossoms, magnets, papier mache, and other goodies… wild blossom studios …   booth 1651.

What are you going to do this year to express yourself?!!  ….  mmm…   imagine the possibilities…