I have been practically non-existent out in the blogosphere this week. Wow, it has been a wild week. With all the moving and packing and work and glitches along the way… But I had to stop by and have tea and treats with you.
I truly thought that while packing, I might want to get rid of things, that they would feel like a burden. But instead, I was like a kid in a candy store. Treasured items were refound and secured in safe places. Like my Grandmother’s album (which was safe and now even safer), with photos that are truly incredible…
What also happened, was that, I moved in really slow, numb & calm paces (while packaging fragile items). And through the packing process, I grew to love all my treasures even more, and appreciate them, and value them more. I can’t wait to unpack them when all the plumbing is done.
Little creatures & treasures sometimes come marching into my life. And, I almost always embrace them completely. But sometimes, when you get home after a day in the real world and you have to make dinner and ten million things are happening, you forget about teeny tiny purchases. I am finding things in hidden spots. You see, I am one of those people, that hides things for protection, and then forgets all about them… Case in point…
The teeny tiny little loves…
Of course, these loves were easy to put away in a very safe place and forget about. They are so fragile and so teensy. They make me smile so much!! I just wait for them to start talking to me. Can you just hear the Donkey telling the cow, "Come on, hurry up." hahaaaaaa
Teensy things are lovely indeed.
On another note, I was thinking today, about handling things well (as you were all so very very nice to me, encouraging my positive attitude about the unexpected plumbing fiasco). About taking deep breaths. About letting yourself go through the motions. And, I realized, there is something I allow myself to do all of the time. Something that is so relieving for me. I allow myself to cry.
I cry lovely little tears in abundance sometimes. I crawl into my big white bed and let the tears out. When heavy things happen what do you do? Do you get enraged, do you fly off the handle? Do you swallow it all and go for a long walk.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t just start crying in a public place like a mad woman (unless I am in a cafe with a friend and we are talking, and crying together and laughing together…). But I do leave the situation right away and get in my car, or walk down the street, or like I said crawl in my bed and weeeeeeeeeeeep. I never realized until talking about it, how much I loooooove to cry. I don’t love the sadness that made me cry, but I love the emotional outlet.
I am a pretty sentimental girl 🙂 And, if I feel full of emotion, the tears will roll out… I don’t think it is a bad thing. I think we shouldn’t supress our feelings… Again, that is just me…
Do you like to cry? Send your letters to crybabies dot com, we will read your letters on the air. JUST JOKING. I don’t even know if crybabies.com exists (and sadly, I don’t have a radio show, waaaaaaaah…) Hahaaahaaa! See you soooon!! xo
Hi Vanessa! I do know what you mean by the little treasures you adore and then seemingly you get too busy or overcrowded and you hardly pay any attention to them. i love my littles and cherish them so much! Recently I reinvented my kitchen with paint.( I posted it on flickr) Inspired by you, I painted a lot of black and antique finishes. I am excited to see what you think! ANd thank you, I am always inspired by you! Also just today I went shopping with my sis and bought the teensiest tiny treasure, it is only an inch tall! A red bubblegum machine. The gumballs inside roll around, it gives me so much delight, and I did cry when I found it! Have a wonderful day! Suzy
Miss Vanessa, you have the most beautiful treasures. I love when you post photos of the things that are dear to you. They are all so lovely, sparkly, beautiful, and rare…they are all so you!
You are so lucky to have your Grandmother’s photo album intact. So often albums such as yours get taken apart to give photos to different family members only to end up in scattered shoe boxes.
We have 2 more things in common….I swear, no one can put something away to “keep it safe” like me! Because it is then so safe it is never to be found again! I hate that I do that!
And I am a huge crybaby….oh well! Life is sometimes hard, or sad, or disappointing and there is nothing better than a good cry to let it all go!
But I want you to know that although your post seemed a bit less light-hearted than usual, in the end you left me laughing! Because I can not get the absurdity of a donkey telling a cow to “hurry up!” out of my head! 🙂
I do this too – put treasures away and can’t find them. I did this recently with one of your paintings! I’d taken it out of Jordana’s room/my studio space while she was home and put it somewhere for safe-keeping. It took me ages to find it again! 🙂 And yes, I cry – not often a big cry that’s a good release, but my eyes often well up with tears when I read/see/hear something that touches me. And this happens all the time! I’m very emotional too – and maybe that’s a good thing, especially when you’re an artist or a writer! 🙂 xoxox
P.S. Wonderful treasures – especially your Grandmother’s album! xoxox
I like your little treasurers and you are a lucky girl indeed. So lovely that you have your Grandmother’s album…don’t you just love the old black and whites? My Mother loaned me her black and white album so that I can scan the photos…that will be a fun project…I can enlarge some of the images and see the people that were so tiny on the original photo.
Fabulous Treasure Troves you always share with us.
Love Jeanne
I’m a crier, I cry when I’m sad, I cry when I’m happy and I cry when I’m mad, I cry when I read something sad and I cry at the Tv and the movies.
Hi dear one. I used to cry more, big wailing on the bed kind of crying. But no more. Now I just get teary all the time. Commercials, movies, seeing my kids, thinking, reading a card, whatever. But if it is expected that I cry, I can’t. 🙂 I end up emotionless. Whatever. Can’t figure it out.
Take care and don’t work too hard! This must be hard for you, being all out of sorts! Big hugs coming your way…
xo
melissa
I can just hear the donkey muttering to himself – “whose idea was this silly creature that has to eat his food like 4 times before it’s digested properly? does he even understand anything I’m saying? all he ever says is ‘duh….'”
I think crying is very healthy… though almost the only things that make me cry are music and film. Music does it to me all the time… I wonder if people notice me crying a bit on the bus sometimes listening to my iPod… I think it would be good for people to see others crying in public more often – I think it’s just a stigma we’ve developed that makes us uncomfortable with it – I mean, if something made you deeply sad (or happy) at any given moment, I don’t think it shows mental instability to cry, even if you’re in public. Let ‘er rip, I say.
You should definitely have a radio show, hair and hat like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Vilmabanky.jpg
it could be called “Little Loves and Twisty Tales” – and it would just be you telling stories.
I’m glad that through this whole process, you’ve gotten to become re-acquainted with things you love, and gain a new appreciation of them. I’m of the opinion that it’s important to appreciate the things that you have – not just to be thankful for them, but to appreciate them actively, as you appreciate a friend 🙂
Hope you get moved back into the house smoothly and that this whole thing isn’t too terribly wearing on you.
Cheers!
Do you suppose the whole plumbing thing was brought on by the donkey telling the cow to hurrry up…you know a fanciful twist?
I suspect they had something to do with because you know nothing ever happens before it is time.
Me too VV. I never yell, I always cry. Even if I’m mad. Crying is the souls way of healing. Sending you a Sugar Plum Fairy to dry your tears and tickle you to pieces!!
xox
Constance
Awww…this is sweet! You really do have somne fabulous treasures. Crying is definitely a good thing….however, I have a bit of a temper, must be the Irish in me, because when I get upset, I usually break stuff or slam things and yell. Mostly break stuff though…hahaha I know it’s ridiculous and my dad always says “what did i tell you, don’t break your own stuff, that will just piss you off even more.break someone else’s stuff”hahaha yes, well now we know where my cookyness comes from! hahaha
I am glad to hear that you cry. So many people have forgotten how to cry and THAT is sad. I don’t cry nearly as much as I used to but PMS is sure to bring on the tears!hehehe
i know what you mean about discovering little treasures – i did recently after clearing my stuff for our recent painting of the house…i did get rid of a lot of stuff that was wearing me down…so much better now!
i think crying is good…when I get down I usually swallow it all up until i explode and have a good crying session…thats just me I guess but breathe in and then slowly breathe it all out *the negative stuff* that is…
I cry TOO much. First of all, when I get really angry, my eyes tear up which frustrate me even more and I cry more.
But then I also cry when I watch Charlie Brown cartoons, or the old Rank n’ Bass specials like Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer. I’m a big sap.
Oh I’d be clawing that album away and having a good looky! I adore old pictures…they in themselves are such irreplaceable treasures. So glad you were able to save them from the flooding.
I am a huge crybaby too, I just posted about it two posts ago, about how I was sitting and watching a movie and lettin those big bad rolly tears just fall. The movie crept into this place inside my heart and started to push on the walls. I could feel it breaking! We all need to let our emotions just happen, we’d all be healthier for it.
Your little moo cow is divine. Just a tiny little treasure.
If it were in my house, it would have gone up the vaccuum long ago. ;D
xo
Gillian (Not intentionally of course!)
Hello dear! I do the same exact thing. Sometimes I don’t even get the treasures outta the bag and then I stash the bag away and totally forget about it! But, when you find it, Heaven!!!!!!!! Take care sweet one!!!!!
Oh, I am so glad you are having fun finding old treasures! Silver lining right? Let’s see,crying. Well, I don’t love it, It almost always gives me a headache and I don’t cry lovely tears I go straight to the ugly cry. But,I do know what you mean, sometimes you just feel so much better after a good cry!
I’m also sentimental and have many special treasures with meaning attached, whether because of the memories they invoke or because they were given to me by someone special or just because the treasure spoke to me.
I love all the little treasures you share with us, (especially if they’re sparkly hehe), but your grandmother’s photos are especially precious. I love old photos, I like to wonder about the people in them and their lives, and what was happening in the moment the photo captures. Modern technology and digital cameras are a wonderful and convenient thing, but I think we’ve lost something special because of them. There’s just something magic about those old, imperfect photos and family albums with their old book smell and hand-written captions. I was looking through my grandfather’s album one day and found an old piece of paper that had been tucked in there and been forgotten about. I never did work out what it is- something dull and mundane probably, but the time that has passed has made it mysterious and precious. It makes me sad that in this age of keeping all our photos on our computers that future generations won’t be able to flick through our albums and stumble across hidden and forgotten treasures like that.
I would say, “Cry me a river”, but that you don’t need.
D.
Hey venessa, just look on the bright side of life, I mean that Album. I have one fro the 1920’s full of Home photos and photos of people that we dont know who they are and ugh Creepy Gravestones…..
PS. Its Snowing, Yahoo at last we just went sledging!
PS PS. I took lots of photos to Show you!
Oh! Isn’t it wonderful to rediscover little treasures?! I always love when I’m going through boxes of my “stuff”, and find something I had long forgotten about, but fall in love with again. That little donkey and cow are too sweet!!
I agree: good cries are good for the soul! I tend to be one of those people that bundles it up for ages and ages, until something comes along and just makes the burden too heavy. And then I tend to wail, and get red in the face and mascara smears… generally making a big fuss and muss! hehe. But in the end, after all that loudness (I am not a quiet person by nature, so extreme emotions usually mean I get *loud*!) and drama, I feel *so much* better. 🙂 The world just seems aligned correctly again after I have a good cry; I swear it is therapeutic! 🙂
Hope you have a lovely, *restful* weekend, Vanessa!! You have been through so much this week you deserve it!!! *sends hugs* 🙂
I love old photos..I would still be look through it!! ha ha THe teensies are so inredibly teensy! Wow! … Glad you are rediscovering things…The universe has a way of making things happen….the plumbing thing was a bit BIG though! …I hardly ever cry anymore. I don’t know why. I used to cry a lot.
Yes, I cry a lot…moreso these days it seems..but I blame that on my hormones. I am very sentimental too and the least little thing can make me cry. It is a nice release if you can let it all go and move on.
I loved your last paragraph…it made me laugh, not cry, and I love to laugh more than cry! Thanks V!
Oh, isn’t that the way of tiny sweet treasures isn’t it? I constantly find little things in bags…just waiting to be discovered! I swear we have some of the same rhinestone pins…
Oh, I love to cry, it lets out so much! Although, I usually do my most serious crying alone…but, I find that if I am quite sad about something it is very hard for me to keep the tears from flowing, no matter where I am.
Your little loves are adorable and so tiny. All your treasures are beautiful and the photo album reminds me of old photos I have. As for crying….I can cry over just about anything! I agree with you that it’s a great emotional outlet. The only thing I hate is the aftermath when my eyes fell puffy!!
Hi.Reading all these comments seems we all love to cry! I usen’t to so much as now, now I do, as a release. Just wrote about it in a post about sorrow/happiness a few days ago! Something is in the air and the wild winsome women are letting it all flow out.
Sounds to me that your plumbing disaster is turning out to be a blessing from the universe. A chance to take stock and see who you have become and re-explore those forgotten places. Good luck! and have fun in those moss lined fern furry corners. You never know who you will find! x
I used to cry like a mad woman in public when I was pregnant, once I had a full blown 2 year old tantrum in the supermarket and sobbed my heart out because they had no more chicken and mushroom pies, hahahaha.
Crying is indeed good for the soul, glad all is well in your world, and I am SO jealous of your delightful treasures, mine are still packed up and reading your post made me want to go rummage and discover long forgotten pretties, alas I must wait…..
Oh my … I love to cry. It is the most cleansing thing ever. I have been so overwhelmed lately … I feel tears brewing inside; they start to come to the surface and then get stuck somewhere. I need something to trigger a good sob. Not a bad something, though. I have had enough of that. Perhaps, a sad, sad movie would do the trick. Do you know of any good sad movies?
Sounds like you have good reason to cry. Ugh with all of the interruptions going on in your life. When little or large roadblocks enter mine, I get angry and cry..often in the shower. I tear or choke up when certain movies or songs some on. Better to get it all out than keep it in as I did as a kid.
I love the old photo album! You’re so lucky to have those photos and being that they’re yours, you can always use them in a collage or for inspiration. Maybe that’s one reason it was meant to come back into your life at this time along with all of your other treasures!
Thanks for stopping by my blog..nice to know I’m not along regarding ghosts/spirits!
Hey, this space is like a comforting psychiatrist couch, yes we shall begin…:)
I am not a very emotionally person, sometimes bottling things up too much (I should really learn to let go more), thanks for the reminder. Loving your treasures esp. the teenie animals and album. Beautiful cry baby picture, love the patterns.
I love your tiny little treasures. How precious! I’m also with you on the crybabies.com team. I need to cry when I’m sad or stressed or when someone pulls on my heart strings. I don’t have a problem with letting the tears flow at all. In fact I believe we emailed each other about that. I will cry when I’m happy, sad, stressed or hormonal. I do have to tell you that crying is absolutely important!!! My degree is in Psych. and I remember reading a research article on the subject of crying and tears. The researchers took samples of people’s tears, the tears from laughter, tears from something in the eye and the eye cleaning itself out and tears from sadness and stress. What they discovered was that the tears from laughter and the tears from clearing the eye were neutral. They then went on to test the tears of sadness and stress and discovered something very interesting. They were filled with toxins!!! The researchers concluded that without a doubt, tears of sadness and stress are the bodies way of cleaning itself from toxins that have built up from our emotions. So shed your tears friends and be sure to tell the men in your lives to shed their tears as well. Many men were trained not to cry. How many times did you hear the phrase “Boys don’t cry or don’t be a cry baby” Well, these are dangerous things for men believe. Please be sure to tell them to be healthier and shed their tears. Really just tell everyone that it’s ok to cry when the urge comes on. They’ll feel better and there is a proven scientific reason for it. I hope that was ok for me to share. Take care and thanks for making your blog such a lovely place to visit.
Well I do definitely cry. Sometimes I get mad and then cry. I always try to keep everything in check until I’m alone or with people that are okay to cry/be mad in front of (i.e. not the people in my office).
Karla
I have to admit when i read the part about crying i was surprised, because i cried a lot last Sunday and yesterday a bit. The first cry was a wailing, cry your guts out kind and the second, a cry over being hurt by someone who said something cruel to me (although thankfully that person apologized and didn’t intend to hurt me). So my dear, it has been quite an emotional week here too!!
I know how you feel about treasures too. Sometimes i forget what i have and am delighted when i find them again.
Oh Vanessa, please send me your mailing addy!! I have a treat to send to you!!! It’s something I am sick of but i know you will love it!!!! heehee…that’s the clue. Maybe i’ll give you another clue later….
A good cry is good therapy: it’s cathartic, makes you feel lighter, and it’s heart-healthy! that’s what I do.
When people need to cry, other people try to shush them; I encourage them to get it out.
So, hermosita, I’m with you. xoxo
Well – I never used to cry easily but tears have been coming of late and I think it might be related to hormonal changes at mid life.
I think crying is good, too. When I do tear up I feel alive… like I’m really FEELING something.
I cry… last week sunday I had major melt down,locked myself in my room and cried till I almost couldn’t breathe.. those kind of cries don’t happen often for me but I think I was long over due for one. Such a release of all the sadness I was carrying, the next day, besides being exhausted I felt 110% better. We all need to cry.
Hooray for rediscovering lost treasures. Although you were sort of forced into it, it’s important to take the time now and again to reflect on where we’ve been and how we’ve gotten where we are. And, as an added treat, just imagine how clean and well organized your place will be when it is all said and done!
I too love a good cry. My most satisfying cries happen in the shower…a thorough cleansing of body and soul.
I’m crazy about your tiny donkey and cow.
xx
I gave my Mom the picture I got from you for her Birthday and she LOVES it!!!!!!
I love the picture with the little animals on the typewriter keys..sooo cool
XO…Kimberlee
So beautiful… all those treasures! Love that photoalbum, makes me think of Amélie!
And I agree with you that crying is just a very good thing. Indeed it’s not good that you feel sadness but you can let it out that way…
Hope you feel allright again and hope everything is going well and that you had a great weekend!
xxxxx Lots of love
Les
Oh, you do that too? Hide things in a safe place and can’t find them? I found the cutest silver frog bobby pins for my daughter and I don’t know where I put them. They were so cute with green jewels. Arghhh
As for crying, my mother taught me not to cry. Mean mother, just kidding…kinda. But, ever since I had a Hysterectomy I cry at the drop of a hat. Oh well!
OH….the tiniest donkey….that is the MOST precious thing I think I’ve ever seen!! 🙂
oh Vanessa,
I feel your pain! Last I was sitting in my office hearing a strange noise when I decided to go into the other side of the basement and see what it was. I looked over and saw that my furnace was steaming and so I called my husband who then told me to call the oil company. When they showed up the man told me that the fittings were rusted and the whole furnace should be replaced.
Lord we thought that is going to cost some serious money, and well of course it just had to be extra cold that week and the week before it was relatively warm. It was right smack in the middle of winter so we had to fix it. Since we had thought of adding on to our house we had to naturally get a bigger one which costs much more than we anticipated. It took about a week for the whole thing to get fixed so some nights were spent at my parents until I could no longer take it and decided to go home and just deal with space heaters.
Since I work at home, that was a problem, I cannot work well with cold hands especially since I paint all day long.
So all I can say after our big problem is this too shall pass, and when all is said and done you will laugh about it. I wonder why we struggle but I guess its during these times that we are tested to see how we weather the storm and just think how boring life would be if everything was soo easy. Well this is what I tell myself as I have watched my career take a dive these past 2 years. I cannot see what in the world I could have done wrong but then I talk to others who do what I do and they too are having rough times, so at least I am not alone.
Vanessa, you will overcome this obstacle and become stronger, wiser and learn from it and because you have such a fun, playful,
creative talent and personality I have no doubt that things will be looking up soon!!
With much love and sympathy your blogging friend,
Ellen
I just looked at my entry and forgot to say Last “year”!! opps
Ellen
Ohhhh, those sweet sweet tiny little creatures!!! You would need 3 or 4 homes to display all of your wonderful possessions!
Oh, yes, I am a cry baby! I get emotional at EVERYTHING….mostly happy things, people overcoming obstacles….things that touch me, it can be ANYTHING!!! Both Mr R and I are cry babies…what a pair 🙂
To let yourself cry……I think you know something very important there. You are a very wise girl, I feel blessed to call you my friend…..in spite of the very different lives we live…..
99.5 FM, KMSV…Miss V radio! Because I don’t think you need just a show, I think you should have a whole channel 🙂
Good luck with the packing, and keep in touch.
xoxo
I missed you!! Glad your getting the packing done and finding all those wonderful treasures. I love little teeny tiny things and I tend to stash them away in safe places and forget about them too. I delight in finding them from time to time and knowing that they are safe to find again later:)
Janet
i have bawled in public on more than one occasion. it was sort of embarrassing and sort of therapeutic at the same time.
i love seeing all of your treasure. i am hoping to share some of my favorite family photos soon…maybe later today.
hugs!
Hi Vanessa!!! (yelling loudly, back;))
It looks like you’ve been busy packing up the precious little things you hold dear. They are such treasures and sooo teeeny. 🙂
Oh, I can relate to the crybaby thing- I cry at tv commercials, when I get really angry and when my sugar is low I’m finding out- lol. I like a good cry too- sometimes it clears away the pain and allows me to focus. Other times it intensifies the sadness and makes me feel weak. Ah, but then I remember how much it is I have endured and how much more I will face, and remember this crying is just part of who I am and that’s ok.
Thanks for asking that question- it was a good one, lady.
Hang in there and know that I could have a good cry right along with you.
(((hugs))) Eileen
so sorry that this happened…but glad you have had a chance to sort and find and see all your lovely bits and pieces…wish i could have helped…i would love to esacape…blessings, rebecca
so sorry that this happened…but glad you have had a chance to sort and find and see all your lovely bits and pieces…wish i could have helped…i would love to esacape…blessings, rebecca
Those are the sweetest little treasures.
All the best for a good week ahead.
I love your artwork, the one of the pretty girl crying because I know it’s good for her; that when it’s over, she will be cleansed and smiling again.
I don’t enjoy crying, but I like being in tune with my emotions and connecting with others in a deep way. Sometimes joy and laughter doesn’t touch the heart as much as a sympathetic cry.
I love the pictures of the little donkeys. Definitely the best thing I have seen all day.
You know I am a cryer as well…wait crier, yes now it is spelled right.
I have been crying a lot with housebreaking my little puppy he is so cute and sweet and a little dumb in a good way, it all just makes me weepy
oh Vanessa…I love a good cry. I’m so emotional though….I see an old couple holding hands walking down the street and I start crying:) I adore your little teeny donkey and cow. Could they take a boat ride with wee mouse and me?? xoxoxoxoxo
Curiosa I do love to cry…did I ever tell you about the circus room up in my uncle’s attic? and about the little dried kidney bean which has a wee top that comes off so the ivory elephants can topple out? Did I?
Oh, I love your teensy treasures, wow Pinkie Denise
It takes us losing something, or very nearly losing something, to realize how valuable “it” is (whatever that “it” may be) to us — and we cherish it that much more.
When the world seems ready to swallow me whole (today for instance), I just want to burrow and hide and find comfort somewhere. I like to cry and feel what I’m feeling and be ready to face the world again — gather my strength and carry on.
We sensitive souls do that, don’t we?
This post really touched me. And the one above with the photos of your grandmother. Made me really miss my granny. I have to search for some pictures.
And, for the record, I am a huge fan of crying.
oh dear! my heart is swooning over your little creatures. what a fabulous shot of 2 of them resting their teensy legs on old typewriter keys.
Yep, tears stream pretty easily from my eyes too! That means we have really BIG HEARTS!!!!! 🙂
Lord, I cry all the time! My husband thinks I’m the most emotional person on the planet and his family thinks I’m crazy because they never cry :). I cry when I’m happy and sad. I’ve on occasion gotten choked up while watching my 11 month old son Liam sleeping, I cried when my husband bought me a horse, I cry like a baby during movies. Yup, I cry more than most would think humanly possible :). But, it always helps me feel better if I’m sad. One good long cry and things seem so much better!
Kim McCabe
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