how to say HELLO in different languages ;-)
abrazos,
(means hugs)
Carmen
I love paper
My most lovely affair is with paper. I think I have one of the most pretty collections ;-)
You can read more about it if you click here.
I love it, i love it, i love it!!!
Have a beautiful day.
Carmen
UPDATE:
I was asked why I think I love paper so much?
I learn to read since a very early age and for some reason the touch and the smell of paper felt good to my senses, i guess that tells you that i am a very visual and my senses are awake and ready to perceive and enjoy beautiful things like paper ;-)
Thank you for asking.
You can read more about it if you click here.
I love it, i love it, i love it!!!
Have a beautiful day.
Carmen
UPDATE:
I was asked why I think I love paper so much?
I learn to read since a very early age and for some reason the touch and the smell of paper felt good to my senses, i guess that tells you that i am a very visual and my senses are awake and ready to perceive and enjoy beautiful things like paper ;-)
Thank you for asking.
Yay for Girl Scout cookies!
Yep! It is that fabulous time of the year for GIRL SCOUT COOKIES!
Yay!
Which girl scout cookies are your favorites?
Mine are Do-si-dos, Samoas and Dulce de leche.
p.s. Please support your local girl scouts troops. Thank YOU!
Girl Scout Cookies are a familiar part of American culture. For more than 80 years, Girl Scouts, with the enthusiastic support of their families, have helped ensure the success of local Girl Scout Cookie activities. From its earliest beginnings to its current popularity, the sale of cookies has helped Girl Scout Brownies, Girl Scout Juniors and Girl Scouts 11-17 have fun, develop valuable life skills, and make the world a better place by helping to support Girl Scouting in their communities. Girls are proud that their efforts provide resources for their local Girl Scout councils and for their own Girl Scout troops/groups.
Mi casa es su casa ;-)
If you come to visit me, before you knock my door, it is for sure you will notice right away sitting right there by my little garden some of my hearts ;-)
And you know, I think the mailman loves my hearts, he makes sure when i have gotten special packages from some of you, to put them down very close to the hearts.
And of course the bills go in the box. Smart man ;-)
Hoping your weekend went well. Mine was good, I slept lots! and it was full of dandelions, art journals, some cleaning, lots of cooking, and for sure, lots of pictures ;-) Here are a couple of more pictures I wish to share with you of my dog and his love for dandelions, or better said, my love for dandelions ;-)
And, this is for my blogger friends: Mi casa es su casa.
Also, I thank you Gemma and Meri, I got the art tags and goodies! I can't wait to show everyone here in my blog our parade of your art, yay!
hugs,
Carmen
p.s. I have a dentist appoinment Today, yikes!!! Anyways, I am going to say hey and keep on dancing ;-)
And you know, I think the mailman loves my hearts, he makes sure when i have gotten special packages from some of you, to put them down very close to the hearts.
And of course the bills go in the box. Smart man ;-)
Hoping your weekend went well. Mine was good, I slept lots! and it was full of dandelions, art journals, some cleaning, lots of cooking, and for sure, lots of pictures ;-) Here are a couple of more pictures I wish to share with you of my dog and his love for dandelions, or better said, my love for dandelions ;-)
And, this is for my blogger friends: Mi casa es su casa.
Also, I thank you Gemma and Meri, I got the art tags and goodies! I can't wait to show everyone here in my blog our parade of your art, yay!
hugs,
Carmen
p.s. I have a dentist appoinment Today, yikes!!! Anyways, I am going to say hey and keep on dancing ;-)
Black and White
I have been playing with these watercolor pages, and with black and white gesso. I am not sure what would be next but I kind of want to add some color too, I think I want to experiment with pastels and see what comes out of them, I am sure, Color would be super cool in those black and white backgrounds.
Am I having fun? You bet I am!
Also, this week, my weather has been the loveliest and warm, almost in the 80's! shorts and shirts are a must to play around in the garden or just laying down in the grass watching the blue skies.
Mmm.... Sighs!!!
Spring is here!
I am also loving this song a lot. It is stucked in my head!
Have a wonderful time, enjoying life and following your bliss. Create something, doodle, crochet, play with your scissors and old magazines or just make a little mess with your fingers ;-)
Also, I started a new book, women who run with the wolves, and so far, I loved the introduction by the author, and it seems to me this is going to be a very interesting reading and a great approach: A yes to be daring, to be caring and to be a women!
Hugs,
Carmen
p.s. now back to my song (click the link! It is a super cool happy song and lyrics)
I love Dandelions!
Just one wish....
only one!
I promise!
...or just daydreaming, perhaps? ;-)
are you ready?
I am ready!!!
now!
blow away beautiful dandelion!
... into the magical wind!
MAGIC is in the air ;-)
hugs,
Carmen
only one!
I promise!
...or just daydreaming, perhaps? ;-)
are you ready?
I am ready!!!
now!
blow away beautiful dandelion!
... into the magical wind!
MAGIC is in the air ;-)
hugs,
Carmen
Dear God:
If this wish-dream I have is for my highest good, please show me a way to achieve it.
Help me to have passion for this dream, to have courage and persistence.
If this dream will not benefit me and others, redirect me.
I surrender this concern to you and ask you to fill me with peace.
Amen
Tarot Thursday: Major Arcana part 2 ~ Archetypes
My homework was to pull all the cards from the Major Arcana speaking to me .
I pulled about twelve, oh yes! I have had the most unusual and interesting kind of life and for sure, lots and lots of things happening to me during the last few years of my life, sometimes I feel like all those things you see on tv or movies, maybe is too daring to say but I can’t believe that they happened to me! experiences most women don't have in a lifetime...
Yes, I did listen to all of those cards for quite a while.
This was a very positive examination for me because while trying to narrow my selection of cards, I can see that after all, after I have experienced life’s joy and life’s pain, and embrace them! I have learned to find balance, to develop some kind of a new wisdom EVERYDAY, to be aware of the illusion, to transform the intense emotions and feelings into positive energy, but please know that honestly I have not repressed any feeling or instinct, and even nowadays bravely I celebrate the memories and the past, at the same time I realize that althought they may bring a little bit of conflict some days, that’s okay because after all as a human, with a very feminine sensitivity, trying to reason, trying to figure out the why’s, and at the same time, doing my best to find a way to see the light, like I said before while remaining true to my own nature, and no desires to cause hurt, and with only the best intentions.
That’s why, I have decided to keep those three cards with my hearts: The High Priestess, The Empress and the Star.
And I am not sure, what's the next step, one thing for sure those three cards are very full of good energy and wishes for me to keep becoming a better me.
Hugs,
Carmen
p.s. Thank you Elena! again! If you are interested in following her journey with us, click HERE
Thank you everyone for reading my blog ;-)
work and play are the same
When you are following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves."
-Shakti Gawain
-Shakti Gawain
decisions, decisions, decisions
Hey Scarlet, Do you remember these photoz?
;-)
Oh my! they brought me very lovely memories and smiles! In fact, I feel like I wanna play, with my jewelry tools and colorful beads again! and with my mini collages on pendants, too ;-)
oh yes! maybe this coming weekend ;-)
There are many things I say yes, there are things I say maybe ;-), there is a couple of projects in hold and then there are the ones i have to say no because I have very good reasons.
I have decided that I am going to let go of one of my dreams, and it is okay, it is not causing me any sadness or anxiety at all.
Funny? Ah?
I think I have been exercising the letting go muscle quite often for the past year, probably that’s why I am doing good with this decision.
All of these years, I had fun dreaming about it, planning it, learning, preparing and becoming, all of this in order to be ready and help it to make it come true.
Right at this moment, or better said, for the past several months while pondering and checking mostly my finances I finally have realized that I have to be more honest about this. And I can not make this dream of mine come true on my own.
So, that dream of going to live in a farmlikehouse and have my own life coach business somewhere out there can’t be. I need a lot of money for that and right now, with this me starting again in a new place can’t allow me to save for that dream for a good couple of years. I guess, life is pulling me into this new direction and like I said, I am letting go of this for good ;-)
I humbly know that I have every single qualification and belief in myself, specifically in my heart, soul and spirit that I can help others and myself. I have this firm belief that the majority of my passions in this life lead to creativity as a spiritual healing tool, because yes, after all, I am a living proof of what creativity can do for people and what has done for me, specifically when I have hit bottom floor.
I am so very proud of myself.
I know that I have studied every single possibility. And there is no way, so that’s okay.
At least, to my heart’s content, I dreamed and tried ;-)
And I have a lot of satisfactions, one of them, I have been told me that when I talked of my dreams, or noticed the new leaves in a tree or singing of birds, my eyes are the most beautiful, and my joy is contagious.
Yes, that’s me! living a very juicy life, admiring the little or big wonders and beauty of nature and believing that there is good on people and there are many ways to help.
And I think maybe that’s my mission in life keep transmitting this joy (and hope) of mine with others in a blog!!! and that’s what I am going to keep on doing so for now, please know that there is going to be Carmen blogging for a while, you will get to see what I am into or trying to make, with my mermaid hands and maybe one of these days, I may create a digital art surprise, you can never tell, my curiosity is out in the look ;-)
Always playing and listening...
listening to all and every single message for me and only me from the universe because I am loved and I am not alone ;-)
And for some of you who have inquired about an etsy shop, please know that I do make and sale my jewelry, mostly door to door to some local boutiques but I am not planning on any online shops for a while. My plate is very full right now ;-)
I ab-SOUL-tely will keep participating in art and craft challenges with my creations and for sure, I will create to donate for the benefit of any charities.
Hugs,
Carmen
p.s. once I went to this boutique and when i saw this display (picture below), i was very content, I knew how good of a seller I can be, I can still remember my feelings that day and my very big high hopes.
this picture, is one of my favorites for sure ;-)
this journal page is for you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
-ee cummings
Happy Birthday sweet daughter of mine!
aDRESSing the situation
This is my collaboration to aDRESS the situation.
ReDressing Injustice is a dramatic art installation that generates public awareness about the hundreds of unsolved murders perpetrated against women living in Juarez, Mexico.
Rows of colorful dresses, hanging from 400 pink crosses, form a compelling visual testimony that honors the victims and conveys the complex political, social, and emotional issues surrounding their violent deaths within this border city.
Are you ready to join us?
Do you want to know more and what all of these dresses are about it?
Please visit these two websites to read more:
reDRESSing injustice and Monica
And please know that I am wishing with all of my heart that you too, join and make a statement with a dress, too.
My dress has a pair of wings and a face, a hopeful face wishing that with our help, all those dissapeared bodies will see the light.
Hugs,
Carmen
p.s. i find this documentary-movie in youtube if you wish to watch it and learn more, click the link. Thank you
ReDressing Injustice is a dramatic art installation that generates public awareness about the hundreds of unsolved murders perpetrated against women living in Juarez, Mexico.
Rows of colorful dresses, hanging from 400 pink crosses, form a compelling visual testimony that honors the victims and conveys the complex political, social, and emotional issues surrounding their violent deaths within this border city.
Are you ready to join us?
Do you want to know more and what all of these dresses are about it?
Please visit these two websites to read more:
reDRESSing injustice and Monica
And please know that I am wishing with all of my heart that you too, join and make a statement with a dress, too.
My dress has a pair of wings and a face, a hopeful face wishing that with our help, all those dissapeared bodies will see the light.
Hugs,
Carmen
p.s. i find this documentary-movie in youtube if you wish to watch it and learn more, click the link. Thank you
Peace, Beauty, and Fortune
This is what I want with all of my heart:
* PEACE
* BEAUTY
* and STABILITY
And I am NOT settling for anything lesser than that ;-)
What Do YOU want?
Carmen
p.s. and that includes everything! and mundane things, too. Start making your list, writing down things helps to make wishes, dreams and other things come true.
things i love today
Another thing I love today is thinking of saving room for a piece of chocolate cake that i am planning to have sometime as soon as I get home, oh yes! ;-)
hugs,
Carmen
Tarot Thursday
Brought to you by lovely blogger, writer and artist Elena.
About two years ago, i wrote about Tarot in my old blog, and to tell you the truth, i received the most emails ever!
Some were bad news. About three ladies told me that they could be no longer commenting or visiting my blog.
I did feel very strange but I did let it go.
Please know, the tarot for me, is a fountain of inspiration and one of my spiritual tools but my power is in me NOT in the cards. And I am a believer of Jungian theories, feminine mystique, and nature, and of course intuition.
One summer, me being a 13 yr old girl, my beloved very eclectic catholic grandmother, introduced me to the tarot ;-)
And I am very very glad, thank you Grandmother!
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
-Albert Einstein
If you are interested in learning more about Tarot, lovely blogger Elena is offering her help in a new blog, she has a lot more experience on this since she offers her service to the public so if you wish to visit her and learn with her more about tarot, please click the links.
This is my homework for last week's assignment for the Major Arcana.
I kind of had it ready because as I mentioned before, I am familiar with it so choosing my favorite tarot and cards was already in my head when I read her "homework" instructions. Also these cards (inner child cards) by Isha Lerner are my favorites and the Osho Zen Tarot cards are ab-SOUL-tely my very big favorite, too ;-)
Okay, my very favorite cards are the High Priestess and Strength. But lately, I have been attracted to the Empress and Death cards.
I think the main reason of this attraction to these four first cards is: The titles! and that's it!
They are strong enough to make me choose them as my cards.
They involved quite a lot of meaning:
wisdom. intuition. insights. authority. influences. guidance. knowledge. inspiration. solutions. decisions. right and left brain. feelings. instinct. dreams. integration. energy. calm. progress. courage. positive. transforming. love. compassion. spirit. ideas. risks. confidence. abilities. rhythms of life. joy. pain. memory. conflicts. words. fertility. abundance. blossoming. creativity. power. nurture. growth. passion. embrace. endings. beginnings. change. protect. care. give and receive. birth. mourn for the old. transition. excitement for the new. consciousness. movement. release. free.
Like I said before, if you wish to join Elena in her blog Tarot journey, contact her or just go and read her teachings ;-)
Stay well, hugs from me,
Carmen
p.s. Thank you Elena for sharing this with us.
And please my dear friend readers feel free to email me with any question you may have.
This is me still. And you are you and I love you all in any way and I know you do too ;-) We are all okay and perfect ;-)
Sprouting wings
sprout
–verb (used without object) 1. to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.
2. (of a seed or plant) to put forth buds or shoots.
3. to develop or grow quickly: a boy awkwardly sprouting into manhood.
or a woman ;-)
wings
1. one of the movable feathered or membranous paired appendages by means of which a bird, bat, or insect is able to fly
hugs,
Carmen
p.s. made by a mermaid with a moleskine (as her art journal), gel medium (Liquitex or golden), UHU glue, scraps of paper, music notes, junk mail, stickers, goodies by other bloggers, my own handwriting ;-)
Mail time
And ab-SOUL-tely enjoy your mail time!!!
Yay!
Look what I got in the mail ;-)
Martha and Scarlet Thank YOU very much!!!
Now, please know that you both made me feel very happy and special, I wasn't expecting these goodies at all.
And Martha, dear you are super talented, I love that mermaid art tag very much!
And Scarlet, in your honor, yes, I am going to wear red more often, did I mention that I color my hair BURGUNDY!!!!
LOL and I love it, I love it, I LOVE IT!
yes, i am having fun!!! I am super cool and my friends are super cool, too!
yay!
There are some more pretty things Scarlet mailed but I am saving that surprise for a blog parade coming very soon, very soon!!!
Blog readers:
Can you wait for this blog parade for about a couple of weeks?
yes?
Sure you can!
LOL
Stay in touch friends and Martha and Scarlet, once again:
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
hugs,
Carmen
p.s. Sorry I have been away these past days, my lovely mermaid life has been keeping very busy these past days ;-) I miss you all!
A colorful garden
Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
-John Muir
Memories
Memory is a way of holding into the things you love,
the things you are,
the things you never want to lose.
Ingredients ;-)
*moleskine
*pretty napkin
*watercolor paper
*crackle paint
*gel medium (Liquitex or golden)
*UHU glue
*ribbons
*vintage wallpaper
*scraps of fabric
*fabric decorative trims
*millinery flowers
And I LOVE IT! I love it! I LOVE IT!!!
LOL
xoxo
Carmen
brought to you by the letter "S"
I volunteered for this meme and Scarlet has given the letter "S" to me.
So here it is my SSSSSSSSSSSSS
LOL
(If you would like to play, leave a comment on this post SAYING THAT YOU WANT TO PLAY and I will assign you a letter. Then post ten things (or more, LOL) you love that begin with your assigned letter on your blog. Explain the rules with your ten things and when others comment requesting a letter, assign one to them; thus, the chain continues.)
I was given the letter "S"
But before I start let me tell you a couple of stories related to the letter "S"
*Skunk...in my deck!!! oh yes! every morning around 5 I let my dog go out. Last week, I was about to open the door when I saw something standing right in front of my door (it is a sliding window door), i got in my knees to see what could possibly be, and then suddenly a tail stands very high and tall with a VERY white streak! and oh my God!!! yes, it was a skunk! and yes it did spray and i just can't believe i trust my guts and didn't open that door! I hug my dog and was thankful he and I were okay.
*the second story happened about nine months ago. I grabbed a snake... "accidentally"
I mean, one night, I heard a noise around the birds cages and then I went to see and notice that in the bottom of the cage "there was a dead bird", I wrapped my hand with a plastic bag and grab it! when I was walking with it, I put it close to the light (remember it was night time) and oh my! there was a snake devouring or digesting one of my birds!!! don't ask me! I had for quite a while the most strange sensation in my hands!!! and by the way, Can you believe they both animals start with the letter "S"
Now here they are my FAVORITE things (for sure!) I enjoy starting with the letter S:
1. Simplicity - My very personal hymn ;-)
2. Sabor! oh yes! - everything I do has a flavor, it has been spicy seasoned ;-) see numero 3 for more
3. Succulent juicy life = my mermaid life ;-)
4. Sea - a mermaid habitat and lovely healing place for any soul
5. Seashells - children's treasures (and grown ups, too!)
6. Sanctuay - and I would say equals SECURITY, free to be: my home, my mermaid heart, my creativity and imagination, my blog!
7. Saiboats - dreaming of spending a very romantic night with a merman;-)
8. Sunshine - is my daughter's face
9. Spanish - is my first language
10. Surrender - a sweet one: I am!!! in order to become a better me
and here are some more extras because there are so many SSSSS in my life:
11. Spelling bee champion - I once was ;-)
12. Stars - two very blue ones twinkling in my life as I type this
13. Sandals - my very first choice from early Spring thru late November
14. Sunflowers - amazed by them
15. Sewing - along with gardening my very first loves
16. Songs - poetry!
17. Stories - all kinds! one of the reasons, i LOVE blogs!
18. Seven - fourteen and twenty one my very favorite numbers
19. Serendipity - I DO believe in this lovely BUT hard word for me to pronounce ;-)
20. Spring is almost here! Wheeeee!!!!
xoxoSSSSSS, lotSSSSSSS!
LOL
Carmen
p.s. Did I say SATURDAY AND SUNDAYS are my favorite days of the week ;-)
yes, I am here enjoying my SSSSS ;-)
The pictures in the beginning of this post are showing you how I spent my weekend mostly. Thank you for coming to visit my blog, and for your comments, too.
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