MelodyFreebird: May 2010 entries

We are all packed up...ready to go.

Brave Girl Camp is a HUUUUUUGE production......so much work...so much love...so much stuff...so much happiness.......

SO WORTH IT!

We have an ENORMOUS trailer full of bins full of goodies.......art supplies, beautiful decorations, gifts, bedding....food...........surprises....tables and chairs and linens and EVERYTHING it takes to have such a wonderful weeklong party for 32 incredible women from ALL OVER THE GLOBE.

SO looking forward to this May camp. We are on our way!!!!!! The Brave Girl Staff will be here in a few hours, just after dawn....headed up for our 2 days of set-up and anxiously awaiting the arrival of the busload of wonderful women who will join us tomorrow night!

DREAM COME TRUE! again and again...I can't believe I get to do this four times a year!!!

xoxo

melody

My Mantra as of today....

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As I have been thinking thinking thinking about my mantra...my mission statement...my vision statement....whatever you want to call it.......it's funny that I FOUND this.....something that I created at the end of last year when I was working on my new website...you know...the one that STILL isn't done (but will be SOON!)....anyway...I found this...and I think it's right on...at least...it's getting there....also found a few sentences that I jotted into my Facebook profile...just some belief statements...

I believe in being brave.

I believe in doing difficult things as joyfully as possible.

I believe everything we need most and will bring the most joy into our lives

is usually right in front of our faces.

I believe in sharing anything and everything that may be of value to someone else.

I believe in creating the things that I seek but cannot find.

I believe in goodness. It is everywhere.

I love that these are so much the same message. It makes me feel like I am making progress....like I know where I am going and what I am all about. I feel so on-track right now....on-purpose. I feel this PEACE that I don't know if I have ever felt. I feel like I am growing up. I like it.

This week has been good. VERY VERY VERY GOOD. I can't wait to share it all......so many wonderful things are finally coming together....so many doors are finally closing and so many doors were sitting there...all beautiful and bright, still waiting for me to open them........and so I did. Man did it ever feel good....still does. Like I said...I can't wait til it's the right time to share it all!

Here are a few things that are making me happy right now....

I made a collage that I LOVE LOVE LOVE...and I took photos of every step along the way that I will show you soon! But I love how it turned out and I love how it looks above my desk...it is HUMONGOUS and I made it while I was in the throes of making a very difficult decision.....so it was very meditational and therapeutic for me.....SO MANY LAYERS and SO MUCH TEXTURE...I love love love it!

I planted a WHOLE bunch of poppies.....I love them. I was blissfully surprised when they started making flowers in all different colors...WHO KNEW the same plant could bloom in all sorts of colors???? Kinda like all of us....

Christy and Margie gave me this cage when they came to visit.....I love it because the bird is on the outside....NO CAGED BIRDS.....

I am loving my ChipArt tools.....just loving them....even made a little vignette with them so I can have a little love photo of them.......so happy with how they turned out and how much fun everyone all over the world is having with them....

Just want to encourage you to explore the doors in your life. It is scary....I know. I am not sure what is scarier between opening new doors and closing old ones....all I know is that BOTH of these scary things are far better than doing nothing. Opening doors leads us to our new, beautiful life.........closing old doors allows us to let go of all that's holding us back........why are we so afraid???? Start with just exploring the doors that are there...then I hope you will promise yourself to open a few....and close a few.....as soon as possible.

You are very very very loved.