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Life is a Carnival

The Band sang a song once talking about Life being a Carnival…Take your best shot was one of the lines in the song if memory serves me correctly.  Well life is a carnival, and sometimes at the carnival we have a blast and sometimes we eat too much cotton candy and get sick as a dog!!  I have been there on both sides of the fence.  I have also been on both sides of the life fence…and can imagine that I still will be.  How we look at our life is what is important!!! 

As I write this right now there is a young woman who is on her way for chemo treatment…she is a bright star…and today while she is sitting there with a machine hooked up to her arm….I can imagine that she will make everyone smile.  Tomorrow or the next day she will not feel so well as this chemical goes into her body to do what it will do to help the battle this disease.  She will most likely go into her self and deal with the after effects of the “treatment” or the day at the carnival where we ate too much candy.  I know that during this down time, this young woman will take to the time to realease  some old stuff and continue to do what is best for her…because this dis-ease has taught he to do just that.  She will take these moments of being low and let herself be surrounded by love. 

 We plan these great lives for ourselves, and I am not saying that we shouldn’t, while we thought we were writing our own play, and in complete total control and balance something comes along and knocks us on our feet…well folks it is called life.  How we handle that is part of our learning.   At 50 did I write the story of being divorced twice and no longer owning a home…maybe I did and maybe I didn’t, but the one thing I can tell you is that we move on.  it is our life and we can see it as a great day at the carnival or a day where the fried Twinkies and cotton candy got to us.  Live you life with grace and ease,  look at your down days with a smile as much as your up days…because those down days as a friend of mine has told me…give us time to come back to who we really are…many hug with much love to all… Randi

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Inner strength…

Again it has been a few weeks since I have been able to blog.  The world, atleast mine seems to moving at a fast pace, and I am keeping up and just amazed at all that is going on.  The show season has been wonderful in so many ways this season and for that I am grateful. 

Now it is on to a move…this was something that has been planned since the first of the year, not really ever knowing when exactly I would have to be out.  Just trusting that all will happen as it is supposed to…and ofcourse it is.  This is about letting go…and moving forward.  Sometimes when this happens we get scared.    We look at ourselves and wonder is this the right thing to do…but we might forget to add the words…”for me”.  There are moments when you feel like you are all alone…well trust me you are not.  It is at those dark moments, that a trusted friend calls…yeah they knew.  It is at those  moments when you feel the sun hit you in a way that you have never felt it before, or hear the wind blow, like it is really the first time you heard it…these moments get you through those dark places of feeling alone.  Because that wind blowing and that sun hitting on you…well it just means you belong to a bigger picture…and then that move, or that letting go seems to be a bit easier.  No one ever says it is always easy, and there are those times when it is down right sad.   That is when we find our inner strength and know that whatever we are doing…it is the right thing for us to do at this very moment in our lives. 

I have chosen this awesome turquoise, amazonite and pearl necklace  to show.  Turquoise will help us to recieve the guidance we might need,pearls to keep those obsticles out of our way, and the amazonite will give us the strength and the calmness…helping us to get through some of those moments where we need to find our inner strength.  If you find your self on a journey…and you aren’t sure exactly where it is going…just know that you will find your inner strength.  Many hugs with much love to all…Randi

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Choices…

While walking on the beach today I was wondering what I would write about today.  Let’s start with it’s St. Patrick’s day…so Happy St. Patrick’s day to one and all.  Then I thought that I could write about the Renaissance festival that I will be at as a vendor this weekend.  Then I really took a look at my life and realized how much it has changed and that I could really write about anything.  Three years ago, I didn’t know what a blog was and now I write one.  I create very cool, natural stone jewelry,  photograph that jewelry, manage my site and which  includes doing all of the writings and description and uploading all of the work so that you can all view it.    My how things can changed.   I am reminded everyday that we have choices to have our own life.  Speaking of choices…it is show season for artist in Florida…and there are shows every weekend.  The question, which one(s) to do?  Last weekend I was at the Apollo Beach Manatee Arts festival.  While the weather was very cool in the morning, the days were awesome!!  It was a great show for so many reasons…some of the artist I had the pleasure to meet, the staff that worked tirelessly to put on the event, and the patrons themselves, and oh let’s not to mention the business!!  This weekend I have chosen to be a vendor at the Bay Area Renaissance festival.  So I will dress as a wench or something festive for their wine, romance and chocolate weekend and get to be a part of olden days…How wonderful this will be…choices!!  I will be showcasing my vintage collars this weekend like the one in the picture.  Choices…I am really glad that I have them and that I can enjoy them as well as this new life!!   I hope that you have choices and that you are taking advantage of them. Many hugs with much love to you all   ~Randi

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Kindness to ourselves…

The last couple of days have been very interesting…actually the year has been very interesting!!  Some of us barely made it through last year, one could say crawling out of it on our bellies.  Well we are now 6 weeks into 2011…WOW!!  I am one of those that really had to come through last year looking at where I had been and where I am going.  We really are what we want, and our words…they are a powerful tool…not to mention our thoughts!!  Our past is our past, and the future has not been written, and when we try to write it, well it might not turn out exactly how we thought it would.  All of that being said, let me tell you…being kind to yourself is the most valuable tool in being what you want to be. 

At the ripe young age of 50, I am finally figuring out all of this.  Lately the smile on my face has been huge…some would say that I am in love, some would say that my stress levels are down…some would just wonder…what am I up to??   Well let me tell you, my heart is happy because I am finally easy on myself, love who I am and what I am doing.  I am going to school, learning my new business and creating amazing jewelry.  We are what we want to be!!    I get to create beautiful pieces of jewelry and they get shown at all sorts of events.  I get to share them with lots of people and they create happiness to those who see them and take them home.    In all of this what I am learning is,   be kind to yourself and be what you want to be and do what you love to do and all the rest of it will come to you!!   I can also say that amazing friends will help you because they will remind you to be kind to yourself!   If you have the vision to do it and are not afraid of what you want to accomplish…  Yes you can be what you really want to be…!!    many hugs with much love…~Randi

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Fortune and Gratitudes…

For the last couple of days I have had difficulty figuring out just exactly what I would write about.  The hoopla of me turning 50 is now past and I am in the throws of the number.  In just a few short weeks I was  re-introduced to ego, vanity, self doubt, and trust.  These are things that we work on understanding and then with all of our might let go of.  Well some of us do anyway.  While it was awesome to be the center of attention, the cold hard truth is that I am now 50.  My life doesn’t look like I had planned…oops I forgot we shouldn’t steer, because when we do…we get reminded and there goes ego.  The vanity was not so easy to re-let go of.   Not caring what people think…that is a bit tougher, being an Aquarian, I have always been a peace maker…well I am but not so much anymore.   I am happier than I have been in forever…and we have to be comfortable with who we are even if it doesn’t look like we thought it would.  Self-doubt, don’t we all have it at some point in our lives, then we get reminded of something that we did to help someone else…or to make someone happy or make them smile or something that allows them to receive…in someway we are fulfilling what it is we came here to do.  While we might not understand it, just know that you are on the right road and just continue it as long as you are true to you!!  So self doubt…see ya!!  Last but not least trust…the toughest, but yet the easiest…trust…do you trust enough??  I have asked for trust and it is coming back to me is spades…and I am grateful for all the teachers that are helping to remind me of this trust…I am so very grateful, and I have trust.   Being able to remember these things, letting to of them and having a clean slate is part of what this 50 is about!!  I am in fortune and gratitude for all that is occuring.  I no longer wonder…I  live in joy, bliss and trust…with much to be grateful for everyday!!

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