Excited about heading to the beach tomorrow.

Looking forward to recharging and regrouping, and hopefully finding some inspiration along the way.

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy or too impatient.
One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach -waiting for a gift from the sea."

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

~ Thursday ~

I've been crafting instead of gettingthings ready for our trip to the beach.

I'm gonna pay for that!

Made this birthday bag for my friend, Juli. It makes me think that I actually enjoy that size surface, and getting sticky with modge podge. I always enjoy Pam Garrison's art journals. Maybe I will tackle that someday soon?

"Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure.

It's just not done."

~Elizabeth Fernea

Happy Fourth of July!

Did I meet you in that shop

where the book of love is kept behind the counter?

Impossible, except our names are there

in golden script upon the luminary page.

Who would have thought the string bean boy,

the girl who hops and squats like garden toads

would find each other in the deep immensity

but there you are, my fingers trace your name.

I see mine linked with your by radiant hearts

the shops' proprietor, his quiet smile,

before the book is closed, takes up the feather pen

turns the page, and writes our names again.

~Fred Andrele

~ For Lucy ~

Slightly crooked pics today of a card I made for a friend.
My favorite part of the 'poem' Imagine A Woman.
Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.
Imagine a woman who sits within circles of women.
Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.


So true.
So lucky to be within the circle.
Sometimes in the circle, sometimes in the center.
Sometimes we all need to be reminded.

I made this tin for a fellow Nancy Drew fan.
Therapeutic...

...to give...

...and to receive.

There are plenty of summer mysteries out there to be solved!