So Cute It Hurts

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.

Contentment

This Sunday is all about the calm and quiet ~ a time to reflect on my actions and reactions. There is a limit to how much i can deal with negative people. When it reaches the limit, i tend to shut down and stay as far away as i possibly can. Perhaps i am just taking the easy way out. Thinking deeper, we always have a reason why we are being upset, or why we do things and say things that hurt each other. But isn't there something in life more important than just carrying around the pain and hurt we feel? After all, everyone makes mistakes and honestly, we all do stupid things to hurt one another.

Overcoming my pride and learning to forgive is one approach i can practice when it comes to dealing with negative people. "Whatever you have done by body, speech or mind, which irritates me or really hurts me deeply, i forgive you." Being content is another approach. Sometimes i wonder if i expect from life far too much ~ having all these plans and demands from myself and life. It's nice to remind myself to tone it down and have less expectation or no expectation in life. It's also nice to remind myself that whatever happens to me in life, always see it as something wonderful and to see the positive side of it Contentment is about being content and knowing what the possibilities are and working with these possibilities. If it is something i can do, give it everything i have got. If there is nothing i can do, let it go.

There, i said it.
And i'm going to keep admitting it.
Here's to a little calm and quiet coming your way this Sunday.
Hope you have a good one.
Love to you

 

 

Warm and fuzzy.

Thought i share this wonderful friendship story with you. My Friday started off with an unnecessary unkind event (deep breath), but i'll just say i really do have the most wonderful friends (both near and far). Just when i was feeling a little of both hurt and sad, a surprised message pop-up on my phone : "I know you haven't been feeling well lately, so I made you a little something to help cheer you up!..." i get teary writing about it.

My sweet friend Lori Patton made me two special photo lockets that featured my adorable girls. It made my heart swell as i lay eyes on the gifts. What an amazing feeling. I love this little photo locket so much it hurts. Pretty fantastic, wouldn't you say? I would. I'm over the moon.Thanks for your overwhelming generosity and kindness, Lori.

If you don't know Lori, you should drop by her Dearest Mine: For Keep's Sake page and take a look around. She's quite a sweet lady. I always enjoy her lovely posts, which happen to be full of beautiful graphic design and handmade goodies.

More soon, friends.
Stay tuned for a little something special later in the coming weeks.
The weekend is finally here, too.
Have yourself some fun,
Love to you and yours.

Photo by sweet Lori Patton.

 

 

that's the spirit.

This is our virtual holiday card this year. The girls are all dressed up. We're goofballs.

Feeling very bright and cheery around here. Our plan is completely open except for a couple of musts, which include : taking naps, eating lots of tasty food, and watching "A Christmas Carol" (Scrooge Albert Finney 1970).

Wherever you are, I THANK YOU for reading, for commenting, for emailing me just to say hello, and most of all, for reminding me that so much good exists in the world.

May you and yours have a wonderful Christmas!
Glædelig Jul.
Warmest holiday wishes.
Love to you and yours.

 

 

Happy Easter

"Easter is new beginnings. New life. Easter's about hope...."

It was a mellow Easter this year. No eggs were dyed and no chocolate bunnies were eaten. I spent time with my family and catching up with friends instead. It was super low-key and sweet, just the way i wanted it to be. 

Hope your Easter was lovely.
Love to you and yours.

It makes me really happy to say that i finished my first blythe summer shirred tube dress project. It has been quite a while since i made something, so i'm pretty pleased with Rue's new lounge dress.I called it ~ the foxes summer dress.

Don't get me wrong, it has a few flaws, but who the heck cares, it fits well and it looks super comfortable. The shriing part was fun to make ~ i had a little trouble with pulling the elastic wound bobbin from my sewing machine due to my rusty sewing skills.

I have had this foxes fabric for quite a while, i'm super happy with how cute the dress turned out. I even made a matching dress for my little tinny girls because they nearly beg for new dresses.

Happy Spring Sunday.
Love to you and yours.

so much love to give

and this sweet bundle arrived.

Rue, my first blythe, is a Manuheali'i Paradise blythe custom by the very talented Tricia of henriette❦jardin©. Rue has gifted us with more joy and beauty than we could have ever imagined since she arrived, and our love for her grows each day. We feel so lucky to get to know and love her. Such a wonderful treat!

I also changed Rue's pull charms. They turned out so perfect for this little girl. I'm pleased as punch about finding them for Rue.

Charlotte helped us welcome Rue into our home. Charlotte and Rue have already decided they love one another to the moon and back. Charlotte thinks Rue is quite possibly the sweetest and most adorable big sister she has ever laid eyes on.

The sweetness  never ends around here.
Our little Rue has so much love to give. Truly.
Hope you get some sweetness in your world today too. 

I made new hats

Happy Monday, friends. I hope your weekend was swell.

I apologize for the lack of posts lately. I think my motivation to sew might be returning. I've been in a sewing slump for a while now. Maybe my desire to sew over the weekend has to do with sewing while listening to good music?

What's important is that i finally sewed for a sweet friend two new linen mini Cherry Blossom hats and had a damn good time doing them. These hats have been on my to-do list for a few weeks now and on Sunday morning i finally managed to check it off.

These mini Cherry Blossom hats are also loaded in my shop as made to order if any one is interested..
Be well.
Love to you.

Hearts & Arrows

Happy Valentine's Day.
Happy CHAP Goh Mei (symbolizes the end of the Chinese New Year).
Happy Birthday to my sweet brother, Wesley.

A perfect timing for a colorful, cheerful and romantic holiday.
Bring on the cupcakes and the chocolates.
I hope your day is full of sweetness with lots of cuddle puddle.
Fondly.

wishing holiday like that could last a little longer

We're savoring the wonderful lazy day that often occur after the third day of Chinese New Year has come and gone. Naps have been very popular around here and a goodly amount of tasty food and drink has definitely been consumed.

Our first holiday of doing things a little different ~ calm and relax were extremely successful. Yes indeed. It was a great time full of sunshine, lots of good food with family and relatives. 

I hope your weekend was filled with some lazy days as well. ♥
Have a beautiful new week.
Love to you and yours.
Off to read a book i go...