Off

Yes…. to be able to catch me is by appointment or by chance :)

 We are off on a break for a week…or so.

Civilization….here we come!

Time to breathe

 

  We are taking a break next week so I have been literally chained to my laptop and sewing machine, finishing due dates and any other projects that I can.

I am overwhelmed with the business. I have found a part time reliable assistant who helps me so much with the shop. I came across trustworthy seamstresses that are able to sew my projects and I could just concentrate more on the pattern making and cutting.

Little hiccups here and there. Nothing I can’t handle.

I am enjoying the bliss and embracing the hardship.

And I am definitely blessed.

Advising a bride to be: the aftermath

Discourses with Rumi

Oh, if a tree could wander
     and move with foot and wings!
It would not suffer the axe blows
     and not the pain of saws!
For would the sun not wander
     away in every night?
How could at every morning
     the world be lighted up?
And if the ocean’s water
     would not rise to the sky,
How would the plants be quickened
     by streams and gentle rain?
The drop that left its homeland,
     the sea, and then returned?
It found an oyster waiting
     and grew into a pearl.
Did Yusuf not leave his father,
     in grief and tears and despair?
Did he not, by such a journey,
     gain kingdom and fortune wide?
Did not the Prophet travel
     to far Medina , friend?
And there he found a new kingdom
     and ruled a hundred lands.
You lack a foot to travel?
     Then journey into yourself!
And like a mine of rubies
     receive the sunbeams? print!
Out of yourself? such a journey
     will lead you to your self,
It leads to transformation
     of dust into pure gold!

 Look! This is Love - Poems of Rumi,
Annemarie Schimmel

 

 

White Fetish

 

Everybody I know will nod in agreement that I have become obsess with hues of white when it comes to buying most of goods for my house. It’s just easy to mix and match things. It makes the house look clean and inviting.   

 

  

Ok… I must admit it is also not easy to maintain because stains or dust can be viewed from far away but a wise friend once told me it is hard work to be beautiful. ;)

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