I was recently on Brandie's blog and clicked a link that lead me to this wonderful site by Paul Barbera where he features the studios of artists and creatives the world over.  I love it!

"I will not die an unlived life, I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.  I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.  I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."  Dawna Markova

Keep Your Eye on the Prize is the message and below is a wonderful poem written by Child Genius.

"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be."

Karen Ravn

"If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."

Nikki Giovanni

"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, inner stillness."

Eckhart Tolle

New in the Mi Sala Furnishings shop is a Slate Coaster series I call Street Scene.  This is the first in the series as there will be a lot more.

I have listed a new tumbled marbled coaster in the Mi Sala Furnishings shop it is called Craftwork 101: The Barber.

"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her.  She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight."

Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson