A,B,C's Life's Lessons on Counting your Blessings

A ~ B ~ C ............Life's Lessons on Counting your Blessings

May your day be filled with A ~ Z....................Pay it forward!

Are You Overwhelmed? How To Overcome #DIY #ultimatediybundle #ebooks

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The Best Presents Are Brought On The Wings Of Angels #hope #joy #love

The past few week have been particularly difficult with so many deaths, negative news topics and others memories surfacing that have underlying emotions that I forgot were there. My youngest daughter started crying for her grandmother one day making it harder for me to console her due to my emotional instability. I did manage to pull myself together proudly and not have a meltdown this time.

Then as I was taking a trash bag outside my eye focused on a green vine sprawled out on the ground in a neglected flower bed near my garage. Could it be? A cardinal or hummingbird vine growing up from a tangled mess of weeds. Yes it was! The only way this vine was growing here now was from seeds I may have spilled out back in Feb. After my mother passed away, we moved many of her household possessions and treasures from her garden to my house. One of the bird feeders spilled out in that flower bed and must have contained seeds from her cardinal vine, since it was one of her favorites.

The only other explanation I have is the seeds arrived via the wings of Angels, maybe my momma or grandma, planted to give me hope and joy for each coming day.

The vine has grown even more since this picture and the hummingbirds are enjoying its nectar now.

May hope and Joy Fill your Day.........

The American Kitchen: What's Inside Yours?

For many households in America the kitchen is the hub of the family. What is inside your kitchen usually depends on your taste in food and decor. My kitchen is crawling with chickens and roosters, because of my love for the feathered art of "chickeness" lol.
No matter what your kitchen is filled with it can be a place of danger or delight. The infographic below is a prime example of both.

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Quote Of The Day: Laughter

Laughter is the best medicine, make a point to laugh daily.

 

Win An Leather Ostrich Bracelet #Shebusa #fashion

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Sticks and Stones, Lessons are endless

I thought this collection was most interesting, the creative nature of stones, painted and placed perfectly to make some neat images of villages, trees and whatever your eyes want to believe. I love art that is formed by something so simple and from nature. A perfect lesson for your kids in colors, numbers, contrasts, depth, seasons, day and night , the possibilities are endless.

          

             

Inspiring Our Younger Generations~Musical Talent

Who inspired you when you were young, a parent, a mentor, a teacher, maybe nobody bothered to inspire you at all. Artists are creators of inspiration in many media, some use paint, pencil and paper or canvas to inspire, some photographic artists use a camera lens to capture precious moments in time for years to come to enjoy. Music tends to sooth a savage soul, calm a inwardly deep thought and inspire us to flow upward, not downward in a spiral. Music can change lives.

Even the musical artistry of a novice 12 year old can inspire you, make you wonder, where does this inspiration come from? Did someone or something inspire him to create? How we can keep this creativity flowing.........spiraling...... upwardly........... in a direction of positive life changing momentum.

Please head to You Tube and "view" this young artist's video, he will celebrate his 13th birthday very soon and to inspire him as a birthday present his mother requests as many "views" to get to 100,000 if possible. He is creating music with a free web program and wants more professional equipment to work with, as he needs and deserves. This is a surprise for him, as he does not know his mother's "mommy friends" are sharing his work all over our social media.
As an artist in many different media myself, I rely on the inspirations of other artist's, positive role models, musical artistry to keep me motivated, creating, writing,blogging, painting, designing more and more. We must keep our younger generation inspired so art, no matter the media, will live on for many centuries to come to enjoy and be inspired.

Got Chickens? We have Swiss ones

Source: clemenceg.typepad.com via Leslie on Pinterest

ClémenceG.: Wrath budding artists in Switzerland, such fun and such a variety in hens done in mixed media.
Credit to http://clemenceg.typepad.com/blog/ , you need to see all the different images done by children.
Can you duplicate some of these cool chicks with your at home artists? Get together some mixed media of all kinds, paint, papers, fabrics, wooden sticks, glues, eyes, felt, feathers, Mod Podge, you name it and have some fun trying to create some fun chicken/ hen art. Dance the Funky chicken dance while you are at it.

                                                                       Source: clemenceg.typepad.com via Leslie on Pinterest

An Attitude of Gratitude

 

A Dose of Positive Attitude

Shared from Godvine website ~

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood... or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim... or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining... or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.

"Yes, it is," Michael said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."

I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied. "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon to be born daughter," Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live... or I could choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.

Michael continued... "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read "He's a dead man. I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Michael. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. "Yes, I replied." The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, "Gravity." Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."

"Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. Matthew 6:34 states: Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

After all, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Enjoy each day, each breath and mostly... each and every friend.

And remember to start each day with an "attitude of gratitude!"

 

 

Mondays in the Parallel Universe still Suck!!

This pretty much sums up my Monday's perfectly, since I work every weekend Saturday and Sunday at a fast pace, by the time I get home on Sunday nights, this chick is worn slap out, tired and head bobbing as she sits on the couch trying to catch up work that I might have missed. Savage Chickens is prefect to depict my mood right now at 2:22 am........Zzzzzzz, image a mommy head bobbing back and forth now, a mommy head who needs to close the computer and get her butt in bed.
 

 

I do hope to turn my Monday around into a more positive light that will shine for others, especially my children today.

Have a blessed day!

Numberical Intricacies in Art and Nature

Have you ever thought about Math as Art, No, I had not either until I watched this
incredible video on Google + and saw just how amazing numbers can actually be, how intertwined, intermingled and woven together they are to form such natural objects and shapes. Amazing how intricate, yet so simple these things can be and how nature rises up from the stiff, straightness, curved sharpness to form beauty and grace.

Enjoy and let me know what you thought