Happy Birthday to you .....

Janis' Birthday yesterday. She chose her favorite restaurant "Tio Lucas", and off we went. The atmosphere was beautiful, service top notch, food, over the moon and company , divine. We had a lovely evening.

Drinks arriving!  Jackie wearing her beautiful hand beaded necklace.  All the tiniest of beads, made in the old tradition of the  Huichol indigenous tribes.  Very cool!

Miss Sylvia graced us with her presence.

Food arriving - Sylvia has fresh Tuna.

Ah!  Nothing like being serenaded!

Janis in 7th heaven.

Lovin' that musica.

We were sitting at a table located under a gorgeous big tree decorated with electrified stars.  LOVE!

Making our dessert crepes from scratch - table side.  Love it!

Janice with the card I made her (from scraps)  

My dinner divine.  Bakes potato spinich and as you can see - absolutely huge butterflied shrimp.

Now for some close ups of the card a made with the scraps!  So much fun to work with.

I constructed the card out of chipboard so it would stand up.  The last photo - the size of bag you get to stuff as many scraps as you can get in there (which believe me is quite a few) for $8.00 of fun which will last a long time.   

Glad you could come over for a visit.  Thanks - hope you enjoyed the Birthday Party.  Bob gave Janice the most gorgeous silver dragon fly earrings with a drop of amber hanging from the bottom.  Drooooool.  Sylvia gave her a gorgeous hand blown glass hummingbird for the garden, and I'm not sure what Jackie gave her. Have to be nosy and find out.  Take care - see you again soon.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige 

A photo shoot in San Miguel with Jackie ...

What a lovely day. Jackie invited me to go with her on a photo shoot around San Miguel in a Taxi. We just drove and every time we saw something we liked we screamed stop! Didn't drive anywhere in particular - just the ordinary neighbourhoods - nothing fancy. We enjoyed ourselves and each others company. Jackie graciously took me out for lunch at a lovely little restaurant we are becoming addicted to.

 Here's a little peek at the some of San Miguel.

Only in Mexico ...

If you made it this far with me, congratulations, and thanks for coming along for the ride.  Take care.  See you soon.

"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold.  That is how important you are!"
~ Eckhart Tolle  

 

A Happy Mail Day

A little while ago, Carolyn Summers wrote to ask if she could donate a journal for me to decorate to sell. I said I would love it! Today it arrived. Much to my amazement, it is a chipboard journal and the cover had 'Mexico' cut out of the board. I couldn't wait to get started - having just bought a bag of scraps. Off I went - and I have the cover completed.  Have a peek.

These scraps are so much fun to play with, I can't believe it!

The album has four more chipboard pages, and of course, Carolyn could not resist sending me some beautiful papers.  Thank you, dear friend!  You are simply the best.

No more for today.  I've been working on a birthday card, but can't blog it for a couple of days, until after the birthday get together.

Thanks for dropping in again today.  Thank you for your comments.  They always give me a lift.  And friendship!  A strange commodity isn't it.  Never having met Carolyn, I feel like I know her and love her like a sister.  Thanks again for all the lovely goodies.

“There is a destiny that makes us sisters, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.”

Edwin Markham (1852-1940)

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A very quick block in ...

When you're down and troubled and you need a helping hand and nothing, whoa, nothing is going right. Close your eyes and think of me and soon I will be there to brighten up even your darkest nights.  

You just call out my name, and you know where ever I am I'll come running to see you again. Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you have to do is call and I'll be there, yeah, yeah, you've got a

friend.

James Taylor's famous song, "You've Got a Friend".  And he's right, we all require someone to love and support us in our lowest moments.  My question, and the question that these women in the painting put to me today is this.  "Does it always have to be a man?"  They are right!  Women are very good listeners, very good at coming to your aid when in difficulty, and of course we could not do without our dearest women friends.  Then why are we so afraid to touch each other?  Why are we so afraid to put our arms around each other and just let the love flow, the support flow,  Everyone needs touch.  With so many women alone these days, especially as we age, sometimes days go by without even a touch on the arm.  This needs to change.  Comfort and support through touch is one of the needs of women and it's simply not there.  I have no trouble holding another woman, if indeed she is open to it.  It seems to have always come natural to me.  Nothing sexual about it.  Just sheer love and support.  Think about it, 'cause we desperately need touch to survive.  It's part of a good quality of life.  I'll leave you with that thought.  This painting came through me yesterday - just a very rough block in with corrections still visible.

Some people don't like to be touched.  I miss it terribly.  Honour what the other person needs and wants, but please, don't be afraid of it.

Thanks for dropping by.  It's a beautiful day here today, so I hope you enjoyed the sangria on the covered terrace while you watched the hummingbirds.  Drop by again soon.  Love seeing you here and reading your beautiful comments.

We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth. Virginia Satir