Rejuvenation {Corner View} and the Little Things

I got to chose the them for Corner View this week! So fun! I chose rejuvenation because I love to see what people love to do to re-energize, rejuvenate, relax ... you know, those sorts of things.

One of my favorite, most relaxing things that helps me rejuvenate is taking a bath! With bubbles! Lots of sweet smelling bubbles! I take long baths ... I can spend multiple hours in the tub if I have a good book!

And continuing my quote painting series ... I thought today's went along nicely with the theme.  Enjoying the little things ... for me, is rejuvenating!

 

You may notice that this one is different to the other ones ...
I had some bookmark sized watercolor paper laying around so decided
some of these could be bookmarks! 

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Corner View was created by Jane at Spain Daily and is now hosted by Francesca.     It is bloggers from all over the world, posting photos of a specific    weekly theme.  To join, just post to your own blog and then link up  over   at Francesca's Corner View for the week.  Then, visit the other  Corner   Views ... that's my favorite part !  Seeing the interpretations  of the   themes, visiting different cultures, learning something new ! 

No Act of Kindness {CV} Close By

This little guy is always close by ...

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Corner View was created by Jane at Spain Daily and is now hosted by Francesca.     It is bloggers from all over the world, posting photos of a specific    weekly theme.  To join, just post to your own blog and then link up  over   at Francesca's Corner View for the week.  Then, visit the other  Corner   Views ... that's my favorite part !  Seeing the interpretations  of the   themes, visiting different cultures, learning something new !

Possibilities {Corner View} In The Distance

Corner View:

I love this rainbow ... over our house ... in the distance ...

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Corner View was created by Jane at Spain Daily and is now hosted by Francesca.     It is bloggers from all over the world, posting photos of a specific    weekly theme.  To join, just post to your own blog and then link up  over   at Francesca's Corner View for the week.  Then, visit the other  Corner   Views ... that's my favorite part !  Seeing the interpretations  of the   themes, visiting different cultures, learning something new !

Little by Little {Corner View}

 

The theme of Corner View this week is travel.  Oh how I love to travel!  If only I had traveled recently and could post a fun photo for you!  Instead, I decided to share another of my little quote paintings.  I love this quote ... I think it is so true.   At 40, I can look back and see the 'little by little' that has gotten me to where I am today.  I look forward to another 40 years of 'little by little' and can't wait to see where that takes me!
 

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Corner View was created by Jane at Spain Daily and is now hosted by Francesca.     It is bloggers from all over the world, posting photos of a specific    weekly theme.  To join, just post to your own blog and then link up  over   at Francesca's Corner View for the week.  Then, visit the other  Corner   Views ... that's my favorite part !  Seeing the interpretations  of the   themes, visiting different cultures, learning something new !

Corner {Experiment} View

 On Feb 7th of this year, I posted my first 'quote painting' as I'm calling them.   They are tiny little things, about the size of my iPhone. I've been painting as I feel inspired and then  posting one a day to my blog, and to facebook and to instagram, and when I remember I throw them on my pinterest page too.
I have  been sending them to friends as  they comment that they like  a particular one or sometimes the quote  just makes me thing of a particular person and so I send it their way.  It has been so fun and a really good  creative outlet for me.  I'm  loving the experimenting that comes  with it too .... I've not worked with watercolours much ...  kind of makes me feel like a kid again!!

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Corner View was created by Jane at Spain Daily and is now hosted by Francesca.     It is bloggers from all over the world, posting photos of a specific    weekly theme.  To join, just post to your own blog and then link up  over   at Francesca's Corner View for the week.  Then, visit the other  Corner   Views ... that's my favorite part !  Seeing the interpretations  of the   themes, visiting different cultures, learning something new !

Live There {Slow} Corner View

Is there a better way to slow down than to climb inside a book and live there for a while?

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Corner View was created by Jane at Spain Daily and is now hosted by Francesca.     It is bloggers from all over the world, posting photos of a specific    weekly theme.  To join, just post to your own blog and then link up  over   at Francesca's Corner View for the week.  Then, visit the other  Corner   Views ... that's my favorite part !  Seeing the interpretations  of the   themes, visiting different cultures, learning something new !

Become a part of the silence ...

“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”  Robert Lynd

Grevillea

All my life, I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and in mind. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Coming {in for a} Landing

"When the dog bites. When the bee stings.  

When I'm feeling sad.  

I'm simply remember 

my favorite things 

and then I don't feel so bad"

~Oscar Hammerstein~

Simple Charm

 

"The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob 

the little violet of it's scent nor the daisy of it's simple charm. 

 If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring 

would lose it's loveliness." 

~ Therese of Lisieux ~

Picasso Moon

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Camelia

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."

                                                                                                                            ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Quotes {I} Love

This is me ... I am who I am ... nothing more ... nothing less.
(ok ... in recent years, a bit 'more' than I'd like ... but I'm working on that !)

I love being me.
I love being a the daughter of Jim and Kathy
( you may see them comment as 'Sabba and Nanny' and 'Kath' )
I love that who I am is so much because of who they are.

I have two great quotes from them that I want to share.

One from my a facebook status my Dad posted ...

"After dinner, we read together for a while, basking in the glow of an evening well spent and sharing thoughts, feelings, laughter, warmth, appreciation for one another and our appreciation of the love of one who loves us more than we can ever comprehend. Finally, I spent a marvelous time with my son on the back patio, braving the cold and continuing our conversation, enjoying our time together and sharing our hearts with one another, our appreciation, our lives, our love. How long? Who knows? Thirty minutes? An hour? Time is meaningless. On Shabbat, we have a taste of eternity. That time together ... "

And one from an email my Mom sent me ...
It's a small quote from a big conversation we had
back and forth but you'll get the picture ...

"One gets tired sometimes, but life is for LIVING, and for sharing, seeing, trying, tasting, helping……..you get the picture! It’s part of the dance ………."

Yeah.
They are special people.

Extraordinarily so ...

Truth

"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, it is the realization of how much you already have. " ~annonymous~

but cannot explain

Simple Days at Home

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.
One is roots; the other, wings.
~ Hodding Carter ~

Straight Out Of Camera ~ Pink

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

~ Claude Monet ~

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Visit Melody for more Straight Out of Camera shots.

{en francais}

was feeling a bit crafty today

made this little sign to go on the door of my pantry

it says

"Tout est question d'equilibre !"

know what it means ?

no ?

come back tomorrow and i'll tell you ...

{soul}

You don’t have a soul.

You are a soul.

You have a body.

~ C.S. Lewis ~

{cherish}

a small reminder


my baby girl loves her daddy
pictured here holding his hand on a fishing expedition
with him and uncle eddie