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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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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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Love to do Custom Work!!

Wow…it’s Thursday.  Where did this week go…oh yeah Valentines’ Day hit and the world and all of those with open hearts just loose time and space.  Is time really important…is space really important.  Probably not, but when you are going away for a weekend then there are things to do like get you blog written…oops… you should pay attention to some time…lol. 

 I have featured a photo of one of my favorite pieces that I do.  I call them collars with a twist.  They have the feel of vinage, very vintage (18th century vintage) with a bit of the present  added to them.  This was a special order fo a great friend/client.  When I saw the purple swarovski crystals and they were what I would call on sale….I let my friend know.  Actually I had already bought them because I knew that she wanted one of these awesome necklaces.  I was told to put it together with whatever finish I thought best for her…and she has her favorite stones!!  Well when thinking about this lovely lady, she just reminds of a bunch of love herself.  She has a bunch of kids,  a great husband and like all of us…those moments.   She is one of those that can loose time and space even with all that goes on in her life.  So when I found two awesome strands of rose quartz tear drops, well I just knew!!   I finished her collar off with those fabulous rose quartz drops because of the size of her heart…not that she needs help, but hey it never hurts!!  Anyway…to those that didn’t know…yes I do custom work.  Something just for you that will make you feel like the princess, queen or lovely maiden that you are…just contact me!!   And that whole thing with time and space…sometimes we just need to loose it for a day or two!!   Sandy wear her in great health and with the love she was made for you!!   many hugs with much love to you all…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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Resolutions and regrets…

With most of the December holidays behind us, many of us are now moving towards the New Year.  I say many of us, because while most of us recognize January 1st as the beginning of the New Year many have New Year celebrations at other times of the year because of their religious beliefs.  No matter when you celebrate your New Year it comes with the thoughts of the year in passing…the changes, the challenges, the gifts, the people that are still in your life…and those that have left our lives for what ever reason.  The things you wished you had done, the accomplishments that you did get done, the things you wished you had said to that someone special or the things that you bit your tongue and walked away from. 

Regrets and resolutions…I have no regrets over the past year, and a great deal has changed for me.  There have been challanges, gifts, hurts and loves…but through it all I feel as though I have grown.  I have my list of resolutions started for January 1st, but then I always seem to add resolutions, usually  as my year passes I seem to have more and more to come and work on.   One of my big resolutions for this year will be to hold everyone I know and love in their highest and best light!!  For no matter what we think we see, we should not do anything but wish them to be the best they can be…and wish them goodness to be with them on what ever path they choose to take.  I choose a tiger iron and garnet bracelet to feature with this article…a very grounding bracelet that will help anyone to keep to their resolutions…many hugs with much love to all…~Randi

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