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23 December 2010

winter blessings...






This Christmas season, I am thankful and grateful for many things, both big and small....
  • handmade gifts from my daughter
  • the simple beauty of lights to bring cheer
  • painting toe nails and laughter
  • finding happiness in small things
  • pretending you sleep in a magical room
  • the children in your family
  • finding places you never knew before
  • gathering of very good friends
  • grown women loving funny socks
  • wishful thinking in beautiful photos
  • happy hopes for new endeavors
  • making due with what you have been given
  • home cooked food and delicious home baked goodies
  • the enchanting rain
  • thrift store seeking, shopping and gifting
  • tea tea and more tea
  • slowing down to treasure precious moments flying by
 and most of all, for Luke 2:10, 11


    Merry Christmas to all my friends...

    a holiday get together....

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    • home baked/made gingerbread houses
    • delicious appetizers
    • mulled wine!
    • the twelve days of christmas caroling
    • gingerbread house decorating
    • a cheeky little book from 1913
    • good conversations, laughter and fellowship
    • children's dance party!
    • feeling blessed...

    20 December 2010

    'the scent of a flower we have not found...'

    window

    “The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things– the beauty, the memory of our own past– are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
    Do you think I am trying to weave a spell? Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales. Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them. And you and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness which has laid upon us for nearly a hundred years.”
     –C.S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory,” in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: Harper Collins, 1949/2001), 30-31.

    15 December 2010

    Hello Hyde...

    My dear friend Helena has been brewing up some lovely perfumes for sensational olfactory delight! Her natural fragrances at Faunfare are my favorite and now she steps it up a notch with her luxury line, Hyde. Along with the sweetest little mandrake root ever (love him!) I was sent a lovely sample pack of the newest Hyde fragrances, all elegantly wrapped in black.


    It was so hard deciding which one I loved the most. Jack the Ripper was scarily inviting and smooth like the silkiest powder. Sorcery has the pleasantness of citrus and bergamot, very enchanting indeed. Opium also has notes of citrus with bitter orange and Japanese yuzu. I'm especially in love because it has the intoxicating and haunting fragrance of tuberose among it's notes. de Sade is delightfully different with black pepper and tobacco blond. It seems at once more serious and yet still playful (Rick really enjoyed this one). Initiation is a bit warmer, a soft embrace of red mandarin and cardamom. All in all truly enticing fragrances, each one!


    I'm also impressed with her Hyde business cards, mysterious and prestigious just like her fragrances.

    Helena, I feel so extremely honored to be blessed with these tokens of your amazing workmanship but above that, with your friendship...

    (You can find both Faunfare and Hyde at her Faunfare Etsy but please take a look at her Faunfare website as well. It is absolutely beautiful and she has a new Faunfare product, solid perfume in a most ornate antique silver cast locket. Gorgeous!! Hyde also has it's on site (currently being updated) at Hydonism.com.)

    01 December 2010

    she hides beneath autumn's leaves...

    can you spot my daughter beneath the leaves and laughter?

    she's under this pile

    sunday

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    Sunday after church, Nat found herself happily being buried alive under crisp golden leaves by her friends. Nothing like autumn, Nothing like childhood....