So Cute It Hurts

Tiredness

This Sunday, i decided to just feel (instead of think) ~ feel the heat, feel the soft warm breeze, feel the floor i walk on, feel the calm and quietness, feel the air, feel the rain, feel alive and feed my energy into the knowing, into the passive awareness and take away from the doing too much or over thinking. To my surprise, my tiredness starts to go and i feel awake. This feeling of freedom is just beautiful. No pressure on me to get any where or to achieve anything. No deadlines No appointments. Going with flow and bending with the wind.

I am reminded of a story i read from Winnie the Pooh:
“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought.
Piglet was comforted by this.”

Fear is looking into the future with negative mind ~ thinking about all the possibilities of things that might go wrong.Hope is looking into the future with a position mind ~ thinking about all the possibilities of things that might go right. Looking at the future with hope increases the chances of success, good health and happiness. And you don't get so tired and worrying for what will happen. Often times, we tend to do far too much and being far too little.

Give yourself a little break this Sunday.
Have a restful Sunday.
Love to you and yours.

Friendship and community in this World

Friendship comes when we develop a beautiful mind with respect, understanding, love, and see the good in the other person. Your friendship and the sense of this community here transform me. You have given me a safe place to share my thoughts and things on life. You just listen and support me without criticism and judgement. Having friends from all walks of life with different philosophy, different ideas and believes but still share the same quality of compassion, kindness and trustworthiness, allows me to become mellow, to see a winder view, to see deeper into my own views and to see the brighter side of life. I am forever grateful.

Small acts of kindness and generosity is what friendship really means. I have a friend for life. You came to me and saw my beautiful qualities, my good qualities, my kindness and generosity and for a few moments you were blinded to all my faults and the stupid things i have done in the pass. Imagine that was you that people could see the goodness in you, how would you feel? And what would that change in you? This degree of friendship and this sense of community here, allows me to take away all my fear and let my defense system down. And i realize you have given me the gift of fearlessness. Whatever i do or whatever i have done, you do not critic me and you make no judgement. It's so beautiful to be around you who sees me for who i am, allows me to feel relax and feel appreciated, understood and accepted. You heal me by giving me a sense of fearlessness in your presence ~ you allow me to open up, you allow me to release my pain and just be free.

This week i received these beautiful thoughtful handmade keepsake lockets from sweet Lori. It reminded me that when you give that degree of acceptance and unconditional love to the other person, you help to heal the person by giving her/him a sense of fearlessness. The most amazing feeling about this community is that when i go to bed at night, i know you will be there in the morning and i know you will support, care and guide me along this life with kindness and compassionate. A reassurance that people are generally good.

Hope you get some sweetness in your world today too.
Happy Sunday.
Love to you and yours.

in the holiday spirit

Hard to believe the year of the Goat is already over. It was a pretty great 365 days. There were of course the challenging parts ~ some days are just harder than others, although looking back i'm grateful for the hard days too. Thank you so much for dropping by throughout the Goat year -- it has been fun sharing bits of my world with you. I'm looking forward to another year in this space.

This year for the Chinese New Year holidays Vera and I are doing things a little different. We're on an adventure to visit the sweet mister. Our plan is completely open except for a couple of musts : sleeping in way later than usual and taking our sweet time eating every meal. I will continue to savor the slow, stay in your pajamas a little longer days of holiday hubbub.

Vera is quite fond of my new adorable socks slippers booties.

Wishing you and yours many beautiful moments in the year of the Monkey.
Taking it easy this week.
Be back soon.
Stay warm, folks {I'm freezing over here}.
Love to you and yours.

I'm still here.

I hope your Thanksgiving was full to the brim. I feel so much gratitude for every moment -- even the challenging ones, of which there were plenty.

We're savoring the wonderful lazy days of the weekend. Naps have been very popular around here and a Christmas holiday tradition ~ pulling out our handmade Macaron ornaments out of the box and decorating the little Christmas tree. The crafty corner is starting to shimmer and twinkle. My sweet girl, Vera and her bear, Sofia, took part in decorating. Sofia was quite fond of the Macaron. And ALL the Macaron must be used. That is a rule here. Not mine, theirs. Vera's, actually. The second order of business is Christmas gift countdown. Back to knitting for the Mister.

Hope your first day of Advent was fun, friends.
See you in December. I do like the sound of that, don't you?
December, i adore you. 
Love to you.

Inspiration.

A beautiful thing that runs my life. It is these acts, body and speech that spread that inspiration to others ~ by doing something way above than the expected normal. Every now and then, i come across stories that i witness or hear of other people acts of great generosity and kindness that just move my heart and encourages me to add my acts of beauty to this world.

Inspiration is the complete opposite of thinking, Inspiration is something inside of you, some wisdom, some kindness, and deep understanding to tell you to stop the thinking and just do it! Because it feels good and it's a beautiful positive source of energy.

How many inspiring things can you remember this week? How many inspiring things have you known in your life? How many inspiring things have you done? If you haven't done any yet, get into it while there is still time. It's amazing what you can archive when you follow your inspiration and trust it. Rue is feeling inspire that she decides to just drop her Sunday plan and spend it with her little friends.

Happy Sunday sweet friends.
Love to you and yours.

Hope.

Spring brings new beginnings and new hope. It's about looking at life in a positive wave. It's about feeling good to spend time outside being warmed by the sun and getting loads of dirt-under-the-nails-projects done. Life is a work in progress, there is always obstacles but there is always honey dripping down somewhere (enjoy it).

Spring calls for beautiful floral dresses that don't cling in any way. Ryan is pretty pleased with her new Moshi-moshi lounge dress. For fun ...i will leave you with a favorite from today's photo shoot.

Have a wonderful Monday out there.
Love to you and yours.

My little Cupcake Curio angel

Hello out there. I'm still here, just feeling a bit quiet lately. The heat is making me want to hibernate a little. After two and half months, one airplane ride, and a boatload of excitement, my little Cupcake Curio angel arrived home.  

Her name is Keni after my father (Kenny) who so kindly and patiently inspired and taught me so many things in life. Keni is inspired by my father's many angel stories during my childhood days. Seeing this little angel was sweeter than any candied yams! 

Keni is a little shy but perhaps she will show us her little angel wings later when she is more comfortable. So very thankful for this little angel and my wonderful family.

Playing with Keni made me want to SEW! I'll be back soon with some new sewing projects ~ i think my motivation to sew might be returning. I've been in a sewing slump for a while now.

More to come, Soon. More. To. Come.
Be well and love to you.

Noodle : You Glad It's Wednesday?

I've been dabbling in a variety of lounging lately. Not much sewing but i can feel a sewing urge taking shape.

I had some time with my new little Tiina girl, Noodle. ahhhh...
Noodle arrived last week and she still make me squeal with excitement. 

Hope you're having a good Wednesday.
Love to you and yours.

happy girls

Hope your weekend was swell. 
I managed to sew a little along with some serious lounging.

We've been waiting for this sweet dress from Jo of joeykblythe. I'm really happy with how it turned out and it fits her so well. She can't seem to stop wearing it. It makes me happy.

 

I also treated myself to one gift in the form of a couple of adorable Lego minifigures - The Simpsons Series.  I am in LOVE and i hope to get a few more.

Have a beautiful new week.
Love to you.

a little flower cart

I gave it a quick sanding
Added a few coats of Wedding Cake white paint by Martha Stewart.
It pretty much glows.

I have plans to distressed the wood a little.

More soon.
Happy Thrusday.
I am enjoying this light morning rain shower.