{Sun Prints Inspired by Nature}

Good Morning!!

How are you!?!?!?

It was a spectacular morning yesterday!

The kind of morning that just makes my soul sing:)

I poured my morning cup of joe and just took a little nature walk around the yard.

It's amazing what you can find in your own backyard.

It makes me feel proud because almost everything in it.....are things I planted with my own two hands.

and since I like to purchase the cheapest plants I can find...it takes years to see the pay-off!

Gardening can teach you a lot about patience.

I like to think that gardening is a metaphor for life..

to grow strong roots....you have to water plants well:)

In life....to grow strong roots....you have to nurture your spirit.

Follow your heart and spend your days doing things that truly make you happy....regardless of what you "think" you should be doing:)

In fact....just get rid of the word "should" from your vocabulary..:)

Live in the present and "just do" 

I am old enough now to know what my soul needs....

and I can tell you that I am a complete introvert that gets "my cup filled" by being alone.

by watching the day slowly unfold...

I am also a morning person...

I can't think of anything else I'd rather be doing then just watching the birds while taking a nature walk around my yard with my morning cup of joe:)

and if it's the afternoon....well then...it's with my lovely glass of vino.

I am completely inspired by nature....

the ebb and flow of life

 The flowers in my yard inspired me to do a little project that i've been wanting to do ...forever:)

 I am sure most of you have tinkered around with Sun Prints...but I never have:(
Maybe I was out ill in elementary art class on the day they did sun prints!!
But either way...how can you not be happy with art from nature powered by the sun!

 They were so simple to do:)
and I have no doubt i'll do more!!
Lots of ideas swirling in my head....

I ordered the sun prints from Dick Blick

and just a couple of hints....because the first ones I did ...didn't turn out:)

....be sure you are using flat items/plants/whatever...

just make sure they are flat...

I pressed my plants in a book for awhile to flatten them out:)

....be sure the sun is high in the sky....

the morning sun caused shadows and so the first ones I did were crazy looking:)

....don't let them process too long....

in other words....follow all the directions that come on the package:)

I am not always good with following directions

 Anywho...I just did 4 to practice and used flora from my yard...
but really you could use any flat item:)
letters...doilies...clothes.....whatever makes your heart happy!!

 I think they are so sweet:)
and of course you can frame them when you're done!!

I am just tinkering with ideas for our spare bedroom...I think indigo and white might be the color scheme i'll be going with:)
and these happy little sun prints will be perfect in that room:)

Happy...Happy Saturday!!

Now get out there and do something that makes your soul sing today!!

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about

the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."       - Buddha

{happy day}

Well hello there!!
Happy Sunday to you!


Guess what....the SUN came out today!!
I was soooo excited! We haven't seen the sun since......well since the last time I posted about the sun:)

I love the sunshine...it just makes me so motivated! Even with a terrible cold right now...I still accomplished a lot today:)

Blue skies! I love them! And January in Indiana....really makes you appreciate them! It really is the little things that mean so much  in life!

We were all happy today! Even the birds were singing more than usual! Who cares there's a major winter storm on it's way....today I just enjoyed the moment!
Another good thing to remember....sometimes you just have to live in the moment:)

I was super busy with Simple Daisy today!! Thank you... Thank you:):) I can't even tell you just how happy it makes me to keep on moving forward in the direction of my dreams!!
And you know what...I have you to thank for that!!!!

Thank you Becky at Beachsnaps for doing a little post about Simple Daisy packaging!! So nice of you:)

And I finished up some odds and ends in my plan to spruce up our bedroom!
It's funny how when the seasons change I want to completely switch up my decor!
I just painted some things white, got a new duvet cover and changed out the bedside tables!
Still more to do...but it's a start!

Aren't those little tables cute!! Someone in our family built them......out of paneling and junk wood...they were pretty sad! My husband brought them home and couldn't quite figure out why I wanted them.....but look at them now! Nothing that a little paint and sanding can't take care of:):)

Can't wait to show you this little bathroom when it's finished! It's actually our master bath....I guess in the 70's {when our home was built} people just weren't into grand master baths!

It's so small you can barely fit 2 people in there at the same time!!!

It won't be the beachy style I like...it is afterall my husband's bathroom and he likes a little more modern style...and well.....he wasn't in love with the baby blue shower, toilet, and sink....me...I could have worked with it!! So it was time to make a change!

Hopefully we'll be done in a couple of weeks....still have to tile the shower!

but back to the bedroom!! It really should be your little happy space! Is your bedroom your happy space!?!?

Even Ruby approves!
Now if she would just stop leaving her black hair everywhere....I would be a lot happier:)

I hope you have a happy week! It sounds like we might be snowed in:(

I know I am still holding onto the thought that there really are daffodils underneath all that snow...just waiting to peek their pretty little heads out of the ground!!!

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds;
it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities
that were somehow absent before the change."
-Earl Nightingale