Making Of: Blue Wavy Earrings

I’m pretty new to crocheting, learned just a couple of months ago. It’s quickly become a passion of mine, but I’m the kind of person who likes to discover techniques on my own. So, when I’m making my earrings I kinda just go with the flow… the upside of that is I create unique shapes and it’s a lot of fun doing it. The downside is, duplicating a piece may be a little hard as I have quickly learned! Hehe! Case in point… I sat down with some lovely light blue yarn to make earrings. As usual I let my fingers do what they do and came up with this…

I loved it! Looked a little like the map of Africa! So I started to make its partner… that didn’t work out so good, because…

It came out larger than the first. So, a little frustrated, I had two choices; unravel the bigger one to fit the first one, or what I decided to do… make a partner for the bigger one. But would you believe it, IT CAME OUT BIGGER YET!

So now I had 3 earrings, none the same size. I toyed with the idea of having an uneven pair… But I decided to give it one last chance!! And thank God I did because…

            Blue Wavy Earrings
                      Ksh 350

YAY!! I finally got it!! I outlined them with a darker blue yarn and what felt like 50 tries later I had a pair of lovely yarn earrings!!

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Making Of: Yellow Orchid Earrings

I’m inspired by nature A LOT. I find that many people are, not just artists, but more and more people in different fields are because we’re all seeing the perfection in the designs in nature.
A few weeks ago, I was chilling in a friend’s gorgeous garden and I happened to see this beautiful orchid

My first reaction was, “EARRINGS!!”

Such a bright perfect design! So I stole it, Hehe! Lucky for me the Original Designer is very generous with copycats! But I didn’t create an exact replica anyway. Here’s my interpretation…

         Yellow Orchid Earrings
                    Ksh 350

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Fear covered my Light with it’s inky blackness,
Sucked the color out of my life,
Choked the vivacious joy out of me. I remember it so clearly ;
The feeling of fear, it’s dark looming presence filling my life.
Where there once was free, bubbling laughter and openness and confidence, now lay hand-wringing, gut-wrenching anxiety, mistrust and skepticism. Where had been hope, lay despair, as my once energetic demeanor deflated into a lethargic paralyzed lump.
Fear’s heaviness set in and I was terrified of its immense, seemingly unbeatable power…

I underestimated the power of Love, because Love…
Love called out to me, first as a faint whisper of a stirring of a memory of what it was to be governed by it. This memory came from a place far deeper than I had ever perceived; in some eternal place that understood beyond time and space.
The whisper grew into a roar of longing so great, it shocked my entire being. And just like a numb limb waking up with the little jolts of pins and needles, my whole body was covered in the pricks and jabs of lifeblood flowing back into what was once dead.
Love lit up, a distant fuzzy light at first… As I watched it it grew brighter, pushing the darkness away, obliterating fear with its gentle presence. Then I saw perfect Love driving out fear, I finally understood its unfathomable power. Love is all there ever is. EVERYTHING ELSE IS AN ILLUSION.

January Challenge

The thing I’ve done differently this year is make a plan. I’ve always been a “go with the flow” kinda gal, but I feel that I need to exercise discipline and dedication this year. So I actually sat down and wrote out my goals for 2013, and broke them down into time frames of six months, three months, one month, one week, one day. It actually feels so much better because goals that seem so lofty are broken down into bite-size pieces that are very manageable. I’m also trying not to be too rigid with my goals. I want to leave room for change, growth or magic!! One of my goals is to improve my fitness level and build muscle. I haven’t set a goal weight or size because I feel like whenever I do that I get so caught up in the numbers that I forget to be present in the experience! Setting specific goals definitely works for some people, but right now for me, since this is actually a lifetime goal, I’m leaving it open. One of the things I’m doing, which was inspired by the page Curvy, confident and FIT on Facebook, is giving myself monthly fitness challenges. This month of January I want to focus on legs, butt and upper body. So I’m doing 100 squats, 25 pushups and 20 calf-raises 6 days a week.

SQUATS.
I’m doing various types in one session because I get bored really fast and I prefer to work different muscles in one workout rather than just one I break up the squats into 10 reps of 10, and do a different squat per 10 reps… some of them are;

PUSHUPS.
I’m doing ordinary lady pushups. My upper body strength really needs to be built up, I’m much stronger in my legs, probably because I’ve been a runner for years In fact I’m thinking I’ll make February Upper Body month.

CALF-RAISES.
I read on a fitness blog that squats make your thighs and butt quite strong, but can make you look a little uneven because your calves aren’t getting any work… So I decided to balance it out by throwing in a couple sets of simple calf raises. I’m doing them without any weights for now.

So that’s my January challenge Do you have any fitness goals of your own?

((((LOVE))))

~T

Today’s Prayer 10/12/12

Teach me to love like you do. Let me love without trying to own or cling. Help me accept all as they are and see their beauty more than anything else. Teach me to allow them to be who they are without stifling them or trying to make them change. Help me give them the freedom to just be, as I celebrate who they are.

After My Run

This was the first thing I saw when I walked in through the gate after my run…

Gorgeous, huh? I love greenery! There’s something about trees and plants that just soothes me!

About Me…

My whole life I have been carrying this within me, for years I have been trying to make sense of it. It has been my blessed curse, hurting me as much as it inspires me, depressing me as much as its light has shone within me. I have carried this dream within the deepest parts of me and its birth has been extremely painful. But there is so much joy in that pain, because here it is, my baby, so real and beautiful!
The very thing that in my misunderstanding of it has isolated me from people, is drawing me back to them. I have searched for words to describe what this is; to explain exactly what it is that I want to, NEED to contribute to this wonderful world, and after hours of writing, speaking, typing and thinking so many words, it ALL comes down to one…. LOVE. That’s what I’m about. LOVE! In all its freedom, joy, vivaciousness, glory and all. LOVE. I just want to LOVE.
                            ♥♥♥