Nemo – Just A Little Fish For Us!

~Shine~

sunset on Sacandaga Lake

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves,  Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We are born to make manifest the glory of  God that is within us…. and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~Marianne Williamson~

” Shop Talk “

Amidst the cold winds of winter, many projects are underway.  A chair painting process is midway, I’ve run out of the right color of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint which I buy here, so more on that in a later post.  We’ve hit several auctions thus far, many little treasures to show for it. But, alas, when it’s in the single digits outside crocheting by the fire sounds the best.

I did snap a few pictures this morning in the store while getting ready for a couple customers.  So take a peek…..

Garden Dreams…..

I know it’s just the beginning of January…… but the seed catalogs have been arriving in the mail and my thoughts are turning to dirt, or what I will plant in it this year anyway.

seed catalogs

Where to begin!

I was thinking of my garden the other day and a song popped in my head from my childhood, that I can’t stop singing.  My grandmother, whose house we now live in, would play her piano and sing this song called,  “I Come To The Garden Alone”.  This has stayed such a strong memory that as I write this it’s as though her and her pink piano are still in this living room with me.  So for those of you who don’t know this song, I went searching for it.  I’ve found a slightly different rendition than my “Gram’s”, but nonetheless a good one.  So enjoy some tunes while you browse some of my last year’s garden shots…..

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creeping phlox  patricia garden  patricias garden (7)

Baby it’s cold outside!