Day 15: 31 Day Writing Challenge:: AWESOMENESS:: More on Beads

I know that for everyone,

AWESOMENESS 

is not found in making beads of any kind.

Creativity comes from using the beads,

painting the beads,

using beads in jewelry.

Others find the 

AWESOMENESS

of beads

just by looking at them,

touching them,

collecting them.

For me,

I am happiest when 

I make beads.

I find that to be an

AMAZING activity.

Look at these polymer clay beads.

I used copper leaf on the outside of the beads.

I made these beads using copper, too.

This time, 

I mixed the copper 

INTO the clay

before I made the beads.

Look at the sparkles!

I love both effects.

Do you see what I mean?

I find this AMAZING

and 

pure

AWESOMENESS!

Day 6:: AWESOMENESS in a Hospital Gift Store

So many people don't know how

AWESOME

a hospital thrift store can be.

I hate to confess this, but I have found some

AWESOME

and

UNIQUE

jewelry, purses, and clothing

at 

HOSPITAL GIFT STORES.

 

Here's the gift store at 

Regions Hospital 

in 

St. Paul, Minnesota.

It's amazing how much

AWESOMENESS

is found in this gift store.

 

   Not only did I find some

AWESOME

holiday decorations and purses...

  I found some snacks, stuffed animals, sleep pants, robes,

a-a-a-a-n-n-n-d

some absolutely

AWESOME

outwear jackets!

ummmmmmmmm!

 

 What other 

AWESOMENESS

do you see here?

 

I see soft drinks, amazing gift bags, and soft, cuddly toys.

Can you believe all this is in a hospital gift store?

And there is more...

 

 

Keep looking.

I am.

There is just so much 

AWESOMENESS

in this gift store!!!

I hope you enjoyed your tour! 

Come join the fun.

Search your local hospital gift store for some

AWESOME

finds!

 

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Index

 

 

Day 1: Simple Blessings 

 

Day 2: How can you say a Rainy day is Awesome? 

 

Day 3::Three Beautiful Things This Week. 

 

Day 4:  Happy Birthday, Pixie Marie

  Day 5: I Heart Macro: More Awesomeness in Color!

31 Days of Awesomeness:: Day 3:: Three Beautiful Things This Week

Three Beautiful Things This Week was inspired by a wonderful blog that Three Beautiful Things. Everyday, Clare writes about 3 Beautiful Things that happen each day in her life. It's a wonderful blog! I can only hope to imitate her in a very small way.


This is Day 3 of the 31 Day Writing Challenge.  

Today, I look at my week, and share with you 3 of the  Awesome
things that happened this week.  

1) Marvin, my dear daughter's cat shown in the photo, now considers me part of his "clowder."  (A clowder is a group of cats, a family, so to speak.)  He is now "talking" to me.  (I don't speak cat, but I try.)  He is also allowing me to scratch his back and rub his belly.  After all these years, I think that. is. AWESOME!

2) I'm working with polymer clay and making beads again.  I plan to make a bird, too!  The bird will be a sculpture similar to these birds:  

 This is Chesterton.

This is an aging flower child.

They are made with polymer clay.  

I think they are 

Awesome!!!

3) Two rainy days in a row!!!!  I would say:: DOUBLE AWESOMENESS!

 

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Day 1: Simple Blessings 

 

Day 2: How can you say a Rainy day is Awesome?

 

So, it Begins:: 31 Days of Awesome! Today, the Simple Blessings

31 Days of Pure

 AWE-SOME-NESS!

I hope to share with you the PEOPLE & THINGS I think are::

AWESOME!

 

The Simple Blessings

 

"Even in the simple things, the blessings will blind us with their joy or be hidden from our sight.

We must choose to find them and be grateful for each blessing!"

Each morning brings new sights and sounds.  Each day brings a new beginning, a renewal.  What we didn't see yesterday, we can see today with the clarity of morning.  All we need to do is open our hearts to these blessings.  Even in our darkest times, a return to the simple, the ordinary frees us from the complications of our daily lives.  The simple awareness of the smell of a good cup of coffee, focusing on the taste of homemade jam or jelly or filling our lungs with the scent of the day:  these are the simple, ordinary blessings in our lives. 

Each blessing can be a fleeting moment to enjoy or an hour to savor.  Having time to spend with our families, our children, our friends, opens a door on to which we can cling or release.  Each moment in these specks of time can be frozen in our thoughts to reopen when the flowing waters of blessings seem distant and far away.  Not everyday can be a day full of overwhelming joy.  Life is not that way.  In each life, in each time, there is both joy and sadness, elation and disappointment.  Life is balanced.  There are mountains to climb that seem to reach into heaven.  There valleys so low that the human spirit is challenged to its limits.  Yet, even in the darkness, there is good.  The darkness which we feared becomes the sacred darkness of night that allows us to embrace that which we feared and rest in the softness of sleep, ready to restore and refresh us for the newborn day.   

When the ordinary becomes the blessed, then we can revel in the simple which opens our senses and our hearts to the day.  The burden becomes lighter.  We are able to travel further on less.  When a leaf on a tree makes us smile at the wonder of nature, then we begin to see the blessed in our days.  When we open our hearts to the ordinary, the simple becomes blessed.  The song of a bird, the fire of a sunset, the sigh of a child: each of these blesses us even on dark days.  As we open our eyes, we find the

AWESOMENESS 

that reminds us that our journey here is filled with more than we can hold in our thoughts, in our hearts, and in our desires.  Stop.  Breathe.  Then move on with your day. 

I challenge you!

Embrace the blessings you find.

Write down your blessings and savor the memories.

You will find yourself growing in 

GRATITUDE,

STRENGTH,

AND

COURAGE!

YOU WILL ALSO FIND THAT

YOU 

ARE

AWESOME!

"Every day might not be good, but every day has something good!"

Deb  Batten

 

 

This, That, and the Other

There are days just like this!
Everything goes well.  You just feel great! 

Then there are days like this, when all you can do is stick your tongue out to life.  I'm not sure what kind of day I'm having, but it is one of those days!

Tomorrow, the 31 day writing challenge begins.

Be there or be square! 

My category is:

Too AWESOME to Categorize!

You'll learn more about what is too awesome too categorize!  Click on the button in the sidebar.  It will take you to the challenge.

See you there!

For now, that's it!!!