just a cuppa thoughts

having my second cup (always constant comment)

with a slice of barm brack

and thinking these things ...

... how lovely to have sunshine,

the trees are nearly leafed out,

and Dad's key collection will make an awesome windchime

*

what are your random thoughts today?

kitchen table

I made myself a cup of red zinger tea this morning 

with the sole purpose in mind of staining the right hand side of a stitched piece I worked on this week

while I was waiting for it to dry and sipping my tea I thought of you

 I had such kind words of encouragement yesterday about the blog and the mom thing and tea and tutorials and more .... I realized how connected we are in so many ways .... I guess I had lost sight of that .... I've just been overwhelmed lately with the thoughts of how fast the kids are growing up ... and how much of it do I miss while I try to create art every day, run my shop, and blog about it?

the fact is, art is where I speak my hard to express thoughts 

and this week is no exception

all the while I worked on this, I was thinking about the love of siblings

(the children in this piece are from some of my "sad, anonymous, lovingly adopted by me" photos)

and my come away thought is that as long as they love each other, I've done well

 thank you for listening

thank you for joining me at my kitchen table

let's do it again - ok?

staying in and getting out

back to that ball of luscious raspberry colored yarn:

I've got one sock done and one on the sticks

this is my 4th pair of socks this winter and I'm happy to say that after knitting 6 socks, my 7th is perfect and my 8th is (fingers crossed) coming out perfectly

(thanks to: Judy's Magic Cast On;Wendy's Short Row Heel;Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Cast Off)

meanwhile:

this afternoon is supposed to turn sunny

(after this fog burns off)

and then I'll be headed down to the beach collecting flotsam and jetsam 

(actually, I'll go whether the sun makes an appearance or not)

.... are you able to get outside today?

inspiration

a recent conversation posed the question,

what do you do when you're needing inspiration?

my answer was 

getting out in nature

today, it was a 30 minute walk on the trail

and I took my camera

so, if I were to revisit that original conversation,

the more complete answer would be

getting out in nature with my camera

life has been 

T O O

hectic lately

time to slow down and take time to see

a cloud in my coffee*

my tea is not tea

and it's not tuesday - it's saturday

so what's up with that?

I've gained some blogging perspective over the summer

and want to keep blogging with joy and without obligation

so, tea on tuesday is no more

which is to say there's nothing stopping you from posting about tea and doing it on tuesdays

... and my morning cuppa is frequent inspiration for me ...

photographically and philosophically

... so you can still sip with me - it just won't be every tuesday like clockwork ...

*"Clouds in my coffee" are the confusing aspects of life and love. That which you can't see through, and yet seems alluring...until. Like a mirage that turns into a dry patch. Perhaps there is something in the bottom of the coffee cup that you could read if you could (like tea leaves or coffee grinds). Carly Simon 5/17/01