If Trees Could Cry

Little drops of chlorophyll attached to healing copper chain, with a copper oak leaf to help dry those tears. Dedicated to all of the trees wrongly chopped down.

I rescued these beautiful green glass beads from an old sweater from the Goodwill. They reminded me of tree teardrops.

I thank the trees that I have helped to destroy for the life and love they have given to us.

Namaste.........................G

365 Challenge....

I have been reading about the 365 challenge and decided to sign up to do it thinking it was a set daily challenge of trinkets, not realizing that it is really a challenge to do what one loves to inspire creativity and to challenge one to push one's self beyond the humdrum routine of what life can become when inspiration is allowed to slip away

For years I have specialized in craft supplies aquisitions, and then it sits languishing in my studio...I'm inspired at first and then like "Sands through the hourglass..." hehehe, inspiration slips away. So I am truly challenging myself to do something I need to do, I want to do and what I hope will in fact take me to a higher level loving my planet and using my resources well, and put me to the test of what I truly believe which is recycle, reuse and repurpose and reduce!!!

So I am revising my Daily 365 to include what inspires me....it might be a trinket, it might be a poem, it might be a cape, it might be a brilliant photo, basically I want to have a daily inspiration. I want to create something every day over the next year. Something that will make me smile and hopefully make someone else smile a little bit too, AND HELP ME TO DESTASH!!!!

Beth, I am still a trinketeer,and VERY much thank you for the inspiration and the idea. I want to thank you for directing me to where you also got your inspiration. Great site everyone...very inspirational (how many times can I say that word in this posting??)

So hopefully if you choose to follow my blog, you too will be inspired to do what makes you smile: draw a portrait, bake a new cookie, get up every day at 5 am and take a photo of your birdfeeder. Whatever stimulates your creativity, what ever awakes your muse, what ever makes you feel alive and moving forward in your life...I hope you too will consider doing that for 365 days this next year!

Blessings to all who read and share their inspirations!

G

My First Trinket/Destashing!...Just wanted to get started.

Want to give a thanks to Beth Brown for starting the "trinket" idea. I hope you don't mind other joining in. Now on to the first trinket for 2011. I know it is still 2010, but thought I'd do a few extra for sick days in advance.

Just a couple of birdies sitting on a branch over small cubes of Moss Agate. They are done in burnished copper. I chose these metals and stones for my first Trinket to symbolize, the Healing of the Earth and letting my dreams and creative thoughts take wing.

I have been stashing these stones for about a year wondering what to do with them, and now I found out what they wanted to be!

I hope you like my little trinkets! Check back for more!

Hmmm...wondering what I am going to do on my first day of trinketing. I have a good idea and have decided to keep a written journal as well just describing my little trinkets and the thought process that goes into each one.

I think I need to revel in the minute' for once rather than worry about it. Embrace the impossible as possible and allow my creativity to retake my thought processes.

I shall use the items I already have, so that means I need to create trinkets from my stash...which is considerably smaller after the move from VA to NC last year. Gone are my gorgeous vintage fabrics. I take solace in knowing that they went to a wonderful cause. I donated my whole stock of fabrics, laces, unique trims etc to a charitable group who does quilts for cancer survivors and mothers of babies who have nothing and also for battered women's children...giving them something that someone put lots of love and caring into. So I leave that behind and look toward the future and know that those things were just that, things. So on to better things with a cheerful heart and busy hands. Thanks for blogging with me tonight!

Love and light and happiness................G

Thank you for visiting my New Aunt George's House!

I am moving in here because my old blogger account has lost functionality because my life lost functionality for a long time! ;) I am starting over here in the new year with a new blog and hopefully fun and positive things going on. There will be a few giveaways....of the things I make in the Trinket a Day for 365, musings and hopefully lots of photos. I hope you will share this journey with me, to win something, just post and I will put names in my hat and pull them out at giveaway time... Welcome to my new house!! Love and light, Georgann