JEWELRY
It’s that time of year, the holiday decorations are going up, everywhere I look there are twinkling lights and sparkles and, with just-perfect timing, snow.
Yesterday I decorated the inside of my house
while nature decorated the outside.
Dancing snowflakes flitted through a lazy breeze, slowly drifting down
in grays and blues that shifted into white on beds of snow.
I walked to my mailbox late last night and I could see everything
as if it were dusk and not almost midnight. All that snow
mirrored by the sky, lighting my way through the cold.
Jack Frost painted my windows while I slept.
The scenery changed in my dreams.
Soon, I will be dreaming of green, because I will miss it.
Soon, I will start buying flowers every week.
Soon, I will grow tired of the cold and wish to feel the sun on my back.
But before that I will enjoy the sparkling lights
and the scent of pine and cozy fires that dance to the carols I play
as I fill the house with pretty things and love and gratitude and giving.
Soon there will be The Cookie Marathon.
And The Wrapping Marathon.
And The Card Writing Marathon.
But this morning there is this icicle outside my bedroom window,
reflecting the branches it hangs from like lace,
reminding me to stop every so often
and breathe in stillness.
my little heron statue
sits outside my studio window
and he really shouldn’t be out there in this cold
usually by now he has been tucked away
put to bed for the winter
but all day yesterday
i kept looking at his snow cap
and smiling.
i am so easily amused.
Right now my mind feels like this field full of weeds.
It’s time to clean things up a little, pull out what is no longer useful,
make room for new things to grow.
Easier said than done, I know.
Winter stopped by over the holiday with a bit of snow for my birthday,
just an inch that did not last, but with that first sight of winter comes a shift.
The garden is officially dormant, and life becomes an inside pursuit
rather than an outside one, both literally and metaphorically.
A change I both welcome and wish away.
Wishes that will float out over the field of life, some to disintegrate
before they touch the ground, some continuing on to places unknown,
some landing gently, taking root.
I have to be careful not to pull these up by mistake as I weed out
the old no longer useful wishes that have outgrown their space,
gone to seed, or withered into dried bits of longing.
It is a cycle, a circle, this living.
New replacing old, fresh replacing tired, calm replacing chaos.
It begins again.
Hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving!
Because all our shows are over, because it’s that time of year, and because tomorrow is my birthday, it seems like a good time for a big sale!
everything in the etsy jewelry shop
plus free shipping on everything!
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all prints in the etsy art shop!
Now thru December 24, 2010
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I will be adding new listings all weekend!
Sorry for being a bit late with this, those two shows really took a lot out of me!
I will send you both an email so I can get your snail mail addresses
to send your prizes out to you.
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Thank you all for your support. I am feeling very grateful this year
for all the new friends I have made,
all the new things I have learned,
and just for being here.
I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving,
filled with all the things that make you grateful.
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Oh, and on Friday I will be announcing a BIG SALE
in both my shops! Stay tuned…
Missing my garden already, missing reading all your blogs,
missing having time to relax.
But this weekend is our last show of the year, and then the whirlwind
will calm down a little. It’s been a great season for shows, and
I am thankful and grateful to all our wonderful customers.
So, if you are in the area, please stop by and say hello this weekend!
Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY
Booth 112
November 19th • 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
November 20th • 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
November 21st • 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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And if you haven’t already entered, don’t forget to enter
our giveaways, one for this necklace:
And a second one for your choice of a print from my etsy shop.
Click HERE to go to the giveaway post,
you have to leave a comment there to be entered.
Happy Weekend!
The days have shifted into short and grey and cold and bare. Flocks of birds land on tree branches and pose as leaves. Winter has begun to whisper through the tall grasses in my garden, making plans for her arrival.
The landscape has once again changed its color palette, not asking for permission first, not letting us choose from paint chips or swatches, just taking it for granted that we will embrace these subdued tones. And we will seek out the golden glow of lamps and fires inside at night, we will huddle against the wind and rain as we walk from our houses to our cars, there will be homemade soup for dinner at least once a week.
November. No longer wearing the colors of autumn, yet not quite ready to pull on its winter coat. A month of thanks and transition, of putting away and settling in, another month of days and hours and moments. It’s harder to find the beauty in November. But not impossible.
There is a stillness in the air, a waiting. Nature holding its breath. I see old bird’s nests resting in the tops of trees, neighbor’s houses I can only find when the leaves have fallen, fields of soil, ploughed under, ready and waiting for spring.
November’s beauty is in the shadows, in the contrast of gold on grey, in the lace of branches silhouetted against the sky. November doesn’t have all the pretty accessories you find in almost every other month. No jewel tones, no flowers, no twinkling lights. No butterflies or daffodils, no rainbows. Just pattern and repetition, change and change and change.
I move through November, my birth month, quietly. December is a loud month, and I need to mentally prepare.
November knows this and holds me gently, easing me into winter.
There is strength there, just below the surface
of this month that knows me best.
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