Trees Drop Leaves...Why Dont We?

I have been studying trees so much this rather busy week collecting leaves and wondering about their process of shedding old used leaves,

taking a breather

and then growing new ones..

and why it is that us humans are not following suit. 

Can you think about the process further and see the leaves falling, decaying back to the earth and being a clear space by spring, it naturally clears its slate, branches and ground every year.

We make new years resolutions but they are piled upon last years and all the other old stuff we are holding onto, and surely some day it will all have to give..our bodies are small, our brains are large but our cells can only hold so much and the emptier they are of negativity the better we can function and flow.

Hence my rather dramatic, violent and painful Transformation that started with me a year ago exactly this weekend.  I was a holder on, I layered and layered so much crap upon crap and never let anything go, when I started to feel panicked and uneasy I just looked around for more to do to take up that idle time that was letting me see inside myself and giving me glimpses of all the pain I was in. My to do list was insane, actually I had lists, lists upon lists of things that were going to make me feel better once I had completed them.  But the list never got smaller at all, I would complete one thing and add five more, no body could make me see what I was doing, I hated that others were trying to slow me down when I was obviously on top of my game just getting things done.

As bad or good as a breakthru/down is, I never ever would want to go thru this process again, I now wonder how I survived and didnt die, so that is why I have taken it so head on and are learning from it....My new lesson is

"Being Like the Trees"

It is Autumn here and I am spending time with the trees, collecting leaves that speak to me with their unique beauty, some I write things on, others I just hold as I talk/pray/wish away, all the things that I no longer need to get me thru this year, I will be shedding things so I can have a peaceful winter concentrating on my absolute pure core base.  And the less I have inside me the more simple I become and the more simple my surroundings become and I can also go from being upset to content in a much simpler way, my pain body is not grasping at the stores of information stored in my body.

Some leaves I burn, some I crush, some I throw away or bury or just leave back on the ground to decay with the natural seasons.

So is it time to free yourself?? and to let the light flow thru your body more easily??

I read thru blogs and see other women going down my path but I know they would not want to be told anything by a stranger, I just hope that some may recognise my earlier traits in themselves and rethink where their motivation for absolute busyness is coming from.  If you cant sit still for, say 4 hours and be peaceful without worrying or planning what to do when you finish relaxing, well that is a  little shining light just there.  Being able to be still and do absolutely nothing I have learnt, is an achievement equal to a hard days work, and most people will find the relaxing part harder.  I always thought it was being Lazy! and I had such issues with lazy people.  Thank the heavens that has all gone now.  Sorry relaxed people for judging you so harshly! eek!  I should have been learning.

 Why this post today??, Im not sure, I just had a great bonding weekend with some friends who I love, we opened a shop together for 3 days to sell our creations and made much more than money, we made a connection, something I felt I would never have again after being left with major friendship trust issues, but I am letting people in again and it feels wonderful, so wonderful I cant wait to get outside and find more leaves to let more stuff go and make room for more love.

Let it go people, not everything has to be held and said.

Here is a photo from the girls easter egg hunt yesterday, pure magic, they were so well behaved, it reminded me of a favorite Louise Hay quote.

"I am happy to see other people enjoying prosperity.  It is a mirror of my own rich abundance"

There was no competition, just excitement!

These three flower children have such a special bond, and they will grow up knowing all our lessons, surely that means humans can only get better and better as the generations go along.  Our teachings of emotional wellbeing are so important...but are we teaching them??

well I will leave you with that

a huge pun intended!

and have fun letting things go

xxx

Sheree

Harvest Moon Goddess

This is a story about sweetness, the absolute sweetness that comes from the sweet treats of nature.  Gifts to the world that come in cycles with the moons....

She was a collector of such sweetness, filling her skirt every day with the little treasures that the birds flying over in the skies compete for...

Nestling in the trees, whispering thankyou's is what she enjoyed most about Autumn days... 

Always so greatful for what was offererd and allowed for the taking...figs...



 She travelled her way thru the fields to get back to her beloved kitchen...

Her homely wonderland where all her gathering really turned into magic thru the art of love..

She lovingly prepared her chosen fruits, splitting, peeling, slicing and all the time thinking of how her friends the fruit trees have provided something so delicious and ask for nothing in return, just unconditional giving to humans and wildlife alike...



She collected bloved spices, broke and crushed them together with the power of earthly stone to release the warm scents of exotic lands and hot sands...

Together these boiled with the fruits and yet more sugar goodness.  The smells were magical, the ritual a joy.  The fruits boiled and became one with the spice of ten thousand years of traders...

After a small eternity, she put spiced fruits into jars of pure glass....



Whispered a loving life spell into each jar of goodness and sealing them up tightly...



While they cooled she took her Indian wooden stamps and decorated fabric in the spirit of beauty...

Took her grandmothers pinking shears and siccors and cut fabric hats for the jars...



Using her water colours she painted sweet labels...



And dedicated each jar of preserve to its ruling goddess....

Finishing with beautifully made stamps...

 Fig Jam for Goddess Juno, protector of all women and womenly things..

Green Love Apple (Tomato) Chutneys....

and peaches for Venus, goddess of spicy love....

She finished off all the jars of other preserves with all the love a girl can give ....

matching all her hard work to that of natures hard work...



and her buzzing friends too.  What a wonderful group effort that had taken place...

It was time to pass the love on to others...to keep the gifting cycle going...in a hope that what goes around comes around and would somehow become a never ending task...just like the moon. x



I do hope you are making the most of your Autumn Harvest, there seems to be more fruit than ever, And we must not forget in our story all those on the other side of the seasons who are about to welcome Spring.... I hope you see the new scented blossoms as the divine stage of gifts to come...will you be regifting them along??



 Natures Treats For Everyone

(pssst, this is my happy fork, its a cutie x)

Nothing like Madeira Cake with whipped cream and Peaceful Passionfruit Sauce

Ohhh just as good as gifting your treats is eating them yourself! eek gobble gobble

I hope you are all having something yum for dinner,

 I have had the whole day to myself and it has been wonderful, I could have crammed in 1000 things but chose to just do a few and have a cruisy nice quiet filled day.  I do miss my wild child by now though, only an hour and she will be home from a fun filled day with grandma, with plenty of crazy stories to tell.

She wouldnt go to sleep last night because her imaginary dog Toto had just died, what do you do?? umm, I tried to explain death a bit more and that its ok because when something dies something is born, it was just handy that her friend had recieved a new baby brother yesterday, so he solved the problem and she lay there, happy thinking her dead dog is now Lilla's new baby brother??? hmmm not really what I meant but we will roll with that my sweet, in the end she went straight to sleep!

Fresh fish for dinner here, Im off for a long walk on the farm before its full on again.

thanks for reading

PS. Seeing as I cant send any of you my sweet treats, i will do a draw of all the comments and send out hand painted labels which you can write on when you make your own Autumn preserves.

and lets choose two lucky people!, Im feeling a little bit crazy woo hoo!! xxx

Birthdays, Prayers and Cutlery Wares

Busy busy busyness that I feel may finally be over.  All the birthdays are done and I can get into preparing for winter.  The weather has done a huge shift, I usually love Autumn and its slowly turns warm and cozy and next its cold but we have gone straight from sunburn to cold winds.  Summer is over, just like that : (

Still me and my big girl are busy painting prayer signs for the garden which will have all 18 virtues from the Bon tradition.  Once your body flows with all 18 of these you will have serenity, so we want to remind ourselves daily...and in nature.

For little Miss Indis birthday yesterday all she wanted to do was go and milk a cow! and work with daddy so she got her simple wishes and had the best day.

working hard to relocate the baby Pheasents into their new pens...smile birdie, your being squeezed to death! eek!!!

and then off to a friends to watch milking, aint she pretty..

a great thing for kids to understand where everything they love comes from, not from the shop or bottles!

mmm fresh warm milk..

and then to help collect the eggs for her egg business, lucky Indi is used to birds, there is a lot of noise in here!...

baaawwwkkk!

and we filled up the trays..

with some to take home and make a birthday cake with.. yay!

and that was all she needed to be satisfied on her birthday.

Its nice to watch a 3 year old and remember that happiness lies in simple things

like nature and animals and natural gifts

so hello to the big 3 year old, so long terrible twos! haha

I have finally put new stock in my ETSY shop, its just something I find so time consuming, so I make things, like the prayer flags in February! and never get time to put them up.  So here are two new things Ive done.  Prayer Flags which I intended for childrens rooms but so far have been selling them to adult collectors.

in qute a few colours..

more in shop

and I have finally returned to the engravers to get my cutlery sets, the poor man must have thought I had moved countries I had left them there since June last year. You can see my intentions in this post here, and this is what became of them, (not the original idea at all!)  Awareness Cutlery, which I just love. There are 6 sets, all with different intentions.

The knife has the Awareness word, the fork has the words initial and the spoon says 'Raven Moon Magic'

Grace

Magic

Gratitude\

and more in the shop..

 Im off for a much needed lie down, I dont know how you mothers of multiple children do it, what an amazing stamina, I am so zonked.  Mis is at grandmas playing with the new baby budgie x

wishing you all the best weekend

with an adventure or two

xxx

Sheree

PS.  and i would like to say that I have just done an ETSY trade, so if anyone is interested in this way, I am too, all my ETSY sales that go thru Paypal get spat back into ETSY anyway, when I splash out on beautiful things.

xxx