Listen to the Silence

This is what I was going to sport on Friday night for a gala event celebrating my

school's 20th anniversary as a French immersion institution.

While some of my colleagues chose plumes

dentelle et rubans

et talons féeriques

in order to celebrate a golden moment in our history

I permitted the trailing remnants of winter's slide down towards reflection

to beckon me to STOP

and LISTEN

to the SILENCE.

What did I hear?

I heard that 

"The best answers are NOT given

They are found." 

Merci Bianca, ma chère collègue et amie.

Vă mulţumesc colegului meu drag şi prieten.

  

Yes, there will be rare occasions to give me another reason to rummage through my glimmering wardrobe

but a missed moment of quiet inspiration

is all too frequent and leaves me in an empty state of mind.

Where do you unearth what YOUR'E looking for?

Find yourself a happy spot

or a serene and sparse retreat

and LISTEN TO THE SILENCE.

Photo Credits:

Aqua sled (Thank you, Erin) - Erin's Art and Gardens

Birds on a wire (Thank you, Karen) - Scrapbook of Inspiration

Feathered clutch - Via Greige

Turquoise office space - La Belle Vie

I Am Blessed

Just Be Splendid

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I'm Going Gray

Valentine Day's creative enchantment

is now an afterglow of sweet memories wafting in the cool wind

only to be pondered in quiet solitude

on something as  F*A*B*U*L*O*U*S  as this.

for like in the fairytale, my place of rest can't be too big or too small

but just right.

 

I don't know if I'm going gray 

because I'm going gray

but I need calm surroundings in order to honestly savor the beauty of winter

in joyful anticipation for the next season of life to reveal itself little 

by little

so that I can swing open my French doors

and join you in the garden to play.

We are on the shores of Spring my friends

and we're almost there, so let's drink an elixir of hope together

gazing at the horizon

of our destination to paradise.

Survive

Strive

and most of all 

thrive 

in the anticipation of the coming months of 

unfolding beauty!

First photo of heart - Eat Drink Chic

Gray velvet couch from Maisons du Monde

Beds in a Pretty Row Indulge

Gray Settee with gold velvet throw Bella Notte Linens

Pink Vespa    Creature Comforts

Tent Retreats         SFgirlbybay

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As You Wish

 A young girl commands the farm boy on her land to go chop wood for the fire.

Faithfully, he replies, "As you wish." 

After numerous bold requests, one day with great admiration she sheepishly whispers, "farm boy, fetch me that pitcher."

He turns straight to her and says with his eyes, 

"As you wish."

This Valentines Day, it makes 31 magical years that I locked eyes with the man that would always listen to my ideas, tell me if they were impossible, but with his actions always said,

AS YOU WISH.

We made our nest 14 years ago in an ordinary brick house where the vision for a serene homestead slowly became a reality.

And after months of shoving furniture into cramped quarters

and watching the construction workers brave the stillness of winter's bite

the portal into a new beginning

finally opened.

We have a long way to go until this

becomes this.

But the texture of worn beauty on the walls of a house

is hewn by days and nights filled with celebration

 and by coloring in your surroundings

  with the stamina to see the mélange

slowly form into one peaceful place of repose.

Happy Valentine's Day Ruben

and a splendid MONTH of celebration to all of my dear readers and friends!

I hope to be back with more pictures of our new living space as things take shape, but in the mean time, don't forget that

Photo Credits: Images of The Princess Bride - In.com

Home contruction - Castles Crowns and Cottages

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