rattle song

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Today I was on a mission to find an oak branch that had fallen on the ground. It had to be the perfect size
to hold in my hand for my new project. Please note no branch was harmed in the making of this project. I found the perfect one rather quickly. Step one: sanding the oak branch.

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Step 2: I was gifted this piece of leather quite some time ago . I could not remember where I put it???
I literally had to go through all of my fabric boxes and  search everywhere to find it. At least I remembered I had it. Does that sound familiar?

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Step 3:  I drew a pattern for the leather. I gently taped the pattern to the leather and cut out my shapes.
I wanted to make sure I did not waste any part of the leather.

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Step 4: I am stitching up my new piece. (the butterfly is photo shopped in, due to my sparkle
nail polish not looking so great lol!)
I am creating a rattle. A rattle to put my sadness and pain in to. Then when it is played it is transmuted
into something beautiful.

My inspiration was from Lynn Andrews, one of my favorite authors:

                                                 http://youtu.be/bRcdtiJ7a0A

A nice "how to" video

  

                                                http://youtu.be/KAF7uJFgyOw   

                                      Have a great week!

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Firework

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I finished beading the fish pin and the colors reminded me of Fireworks.....

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close up of beading and stitching.......

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This is a close up picture I took of the book I am reading by Lynn Andrews, called
Woman At The Edge Of Two Worlds. Lynn chronicles her own journey as well as the experiences of women who have come to her for guidance. Lynn reveals that menopause is a time of a transforming process of rebirth. She shows how the actual event of menopause can come to mean not the inevitable onset of aging and decline, but access to a new and beautiful way of life.
Illustrations by Ginny Joyner.  I highly recommend all of Lynn's books. They are so well
written and offer so much beautiful insight.

After I took the photos of the beaded fish and looked at it, I thought of the song Firework by Katy Perry and how the colors reminded me of a firework display in the sky and then I thought about going through menopause and how sometimes it feel like "fireworks" going off in my body....

I love the words to this song because sometimes life is such a challenge and the words are so positive
and encouraging....

I like that!

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This is a cork from a french wine bottle.

I think it is one of the most beautiful corks I have seen...

(lovely little angel face).

Have you noticed  that most wine bottles are now corked with rubber corks.

Somehow that just seems wrong to me. Like drinking wine out of a paper cup or plastic

cup...

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and finally me with clouds...dreaming
of better days!

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