On hand beauty…

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So my mom’s birthday is in May and this year we dug into the drawers and cupboards to create a farm themed table for her birthday dinner complete with pork chops, homemade cinnamon apple sauce and corn. I love creating beautiful things from what I have on hand already. This was fun and inspiring to do and was finished off with iris from the yard in a milk glass jug. Call me compulsive, conservative or just quirky but I really object to having nice things and never using them. Hearing things like “that’s old and fragile, let’s use something else instead” makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end (in a not so good way). Remember those e-mails circulating that spoke of wearing your best, most expensive perfume or nicest clothes, using your best dishes, sharing your affections on those close to you, living in the moment always as if it were your last? I need more of that in my life. More of really living and savoring what’s right in front of me and appreciating it to the umph degree (that’s a scientific term you know). Tell me your favorite thing to do or create, make, etc… without spending and using what you have or share an insight about why or why not to save great treasures for “later”… I’d love to hear.