Manifesting A Dream

We sat down for a coffee while doing some gardening and I looked up and noticed two trees growing through and over the power line coming to the house. Problem fixed now but I sure am glad that we noticed it and could cut it down safely before a storm knocked it over and ripped the lines from the house. Very Thankful.

We got home from our Christmas away and sat on our back step to have a cuppa and these two beautiful Kangaroos came to say hello. We have seen Mama since her baby was in the puch and they now come to visit as a pair. Baby is growing so quickly.

I just had to share this photo - I love it. This is my nephew and my grand daughter. Do they look like they share a secret. Even with 8 years betwen them they seem to just "get each other".

This photo just makes me smile.

" ALL SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE HAVE A GOAL.

NO ONE CAN GET ANYWHERE UNLESS

HE KNOWS WHERE HE WANTS TO GO

AND WHAT HE WANTS TO DO"

Norman Vincent Peale

I was given a lovely book by my cousins Patti and Ron for Christmas. The Complete Pocket Positves. This verse was one I read this moring while having my morning cuppa. It made me really stop and think. I am in no way complaining about my life thus far but I realised quite profoundly how we often get what we subconsciously dream and crave for. My life thus far has been a maze of unseen roads and tracks that I have taken quite literally at random and with very little thought as to where I was actually headed. I seem to have been quite impulsive at times and have never had my feet firmly planted in the ground. I have often made plans and yes to some degree stuck to them but generally they are simple plans that are easy to achieve or larger plans and goals not yet achieved, if ever they will be. I just thought about how my life has had no real direction. I thought of goals and plans but ended up just drifting from one thing to the next.

Then it struck me very clearly that in many ways I have lived a dream. ALWAYS in the back of my head and in my inner heart I have craved the life of wandering. I even use that name as a user name often. Wanderer. I have over these many years quite often daydreamed about the wandering life. The gypsy life. Taking a fork in a road just to see where it ends up. No real set plan. Just travel around this amazing country of mine and just wander. My favorite weekend away is to just jump in the car and drive and just see where I end up. Who I will meet and talk to.

Somehow - and I am not sure how to explain it - but I think this dream has been manifesting itself in so many ways throughout my life.

I have changed this year past. I am more than capable of staying at home. Of staying put in one place. Of enjoying my own company and of always being able to find something to do which entertains me. I was giving up on my dream - my hidden desire to wander - and over the past year I have come to make a decision for myself. And that was that I was going. It may not be forever but it would be at least for 12 months. I may do this and then do it again. I do not know. All I know is that I am going to go. Since I have decided that that is it and that this will happen I have become more steady in my actual day to day life. I  often daydream a little about traveling but I feel calm and centred in the knowledge that it will happen and will happen within the next few years or so.

I am so glad that I was paying attention when this insight was shown to me this morning.

Cheers,

Wendy

Take Time To Create

I have been busy finishing of all the Christmas presents. Only two more sleeps and we are of to Brisbane to spend a few days with family and friends.

First up - you just gotta try this recipe - sooooo easy and quick and super delicious. I found this recipe for Peanut Brittle on Liss's blog Frills In The Hills - 15-minute-microwave-peanut-brittle  I have just made two batchs of this and bottled the pieces up in old coffee and olive jar and decorated with piece of fabric on top and tadah - another 6 gifts to go along with all the other goodies I have made.



Photo is sideways and I am not sure why - anyway this is a gift wrapped in a beautiful scarf for my Aunty - I picked up a few gorgeous scarves at the op shop ($2 each) and they make the perfect wrapping paper is completely reusable.




Another photo to look at with your head tilted - I have made up a Christmas Bingo game to play on Christmas day. I have other things as well but my sticky beak brother reads this blog so I am not telling yet.



Just one of the basket of homemade goodies. Still got a few things to add to this basket but they are stored in the fridge until just before I give the gift.

Homemade cookies in a jar. These are choc chip and pecan. All the jars I find at the op shop. I just love some of the finds I make and I am recycling and giving something that can be used over and over again.

It is hard to see but this piece of bright fabric is something I picked up at the op shop for $1 and I turned it into a big tablecloth and because the colours are so bright I will take it down for Christmas dinner and maybe we can use it on Christmas day. On the chair is another couple of barrles of cookies - some homemade shortbread in there as well in the most beautiful jar and the large glass jar is filled with prunes in port for my Dad. Soooo Yummy.

Homemade spice rubs. I made quite an assortment of these.And again the little jars can be reused again.

Another gift wrapped in a scarf for my friend. The gift is an old carved wooden frame that I picked up from a garage sale and then I inserted a piece of gutter guard mesh. When hung on the wall you can hang your earrings on it and never have to search for just the right earring again. I have one hanging on my wall in my room beside my mirror.

Anyway I have had so much fun making all of these goodies and can't wait to hand out the gifts. I have so many more ideas for next year and the more I do this the more confident I get and the more organised.

I read this in a book the other day -

"If you are fuelled with predominantly female energy, then excercising you feminine energy can uplift and strengthen you.

Feminine energy strength is in Creation.

If you can make time in your life to CREATE, even a little, it excercises that feminine energy, and you will become spiritually strong, feel balanced and fulfilment and peace follows.

Take time to create... maybe paint, or draw, or sew, or write, or cook, or landscape, or build.

Find time to create and become strong in your feminine strength."

FEELING PEACE by Karen Sonter

and it just stuck a cord with me. I have been creating - learning to sew - cooking, paper craft, writing - and it feels good. It feels really good. And it feels right.

Cheer everyone,

Wendy