It is very clear, you see, that you and I might be quite kindred indeed…
Although, I thought we had a few things in common, the more I type, the more I share, the more you share, the more I realize that for the most part, you get me, and I get you. And we love many of the same things and ideas.
Perhaps all it comes down to is that, we all just want to voice and live the same thought, which is…
I want to be free, to be me -
All I know about this little life, is what works for me. Mostly I feel my way around this fairytale world with my eyes closed, bumping into things. Carving out a path with a sand shovel…
But some how, on that path, I bumped into you. As we together carved out a little world in the virtual woods, that feels quite cozy it seems.
Silly stories, and enchanted creatures. Paper and glue. Paint and seashells. Where DIY rules and where junk shows its true face as treasures that gleam.
What I am trying to say is that as time goes by, I feel like we are so lucky to have this world filled with folks who understand the creative world that we live in, and how precious it is…
Plain and simple.
Thank you for being you. For peeking in here. For playing, and sharing your true colors.
This week marks my third year in this virtual land. I hope there are many more to come!
Below is a party in a picture (nevermind that it was from this event ;). It is meant as a little sporadic party for you. Thank you over the moon for your kind birthday wishes. I was so overwhelmed (with joy) from the lovely vibes dancing around me. I hope I thanked everyone, I sure tried to. If I didn't, I meant to, truly. I can't ever thank you properly, or share how I felt this weekend, but it was deep…
Here's to a continued world of enchantment, created by all of our imaginations grouped together, much like the imagery in the video below.
I have enjoyed watching this video all year, I hope it makes you smile too 😉 ~ It gets even better middle to end.
I will be back real real soon with some fun sharing.
🖤 ,V
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Hola preciosa! Kindred spirits, indeed. And what joy your imagination and whimsy bring to us all! Lots of Love to you. xoxox
I loved the video! Now I need to show it to someone! have a great day Vanessa!
hugs
vivian
What a delightful video! Thank you for sharing it Vanessa.
I love your reference to kindred spirits.I think that, through our blogs, yes indeed, we allow ourselves to be ouselves. Most of the time, I feel like the odd one out out there.I feel like belonging to another planet.Here, in our virtual space, we “bump”, as you say, in people who are like us…”where have you been all this time?” I just want to ask them sometimes,but I just shut my mouth,no sound can come out because my heart is crying with joy and there is nothing to say…we just know that we have met one of us…
This is also how I met the man I love.There are several years between him and I, but…I just knew he was the one…
Keep on spreading your joy Vanessa, there will be more kindred spirits to come to you.
Patricia X
What a beautiful blog!
Your blog always takes me away to a enchanted place. I thank you for that.
xoxoxoxo Sonia
Hi Vanessa,
What a lovely video! I adore Angus and Julia Stone, but I had never seen any of their videos. This one is just divine! Pretty much sums up what you’ve been chatting about. Wish that we could meet and have a chat about art and whimsies in person. 🙂 But at least I have your wonderful blog to cheer me.
Have a great day! Theresa
What a magical little film, indeed! 🙂 Thankeee with bells and bonnets for sharing it, and for all your loveliness Miss Dearie Pie! 🙂 Happy New Week!!
LOVE the video – I’m off to share it on facebook!
What fun! LoVe the elephant on the guitar. I want an elephant. Just a wee one like that. Wishing you a magical day, Princess of the Royal Gypsies. **blows merry kisses** Deb
Happy belated birthday! Your blog is always a delight to my soul, Vanessa.
V,
“I get you, you get me.” Ahh at long last, a band of fellow travelers who just want to be who they are and are more than ok that I want to be who I am. Your blog makes me feel like I am home. I am waking up to who I am and I am so overjoyed to have found people like you “out there” who think like I do. My sweet darling husband has been more than supportive of my creative journey but it’s nice to have other creative people out there who “get it”.
Love to you Miss V!
V
PS~ Don’t forget to come over to my blog to leave a comment for a chance to win my BIRTHDAY WEEK prize!
Aw, happy third blog birthday! You always have such a lovely little world here. Thank you for sharing with us!~
You’re so sweet! This post gave me a ton of warm fuzzies ^__^
You have such a lovely and vivacious spirit bursting with imagination. It’s such a pleasure to spend time here on this blog. It makes me feel rejuvinated.
What a delightful post, I always get such a creative boost when I visit with you! 🙂 Happy virtual anniversary! 😀
I love these kindred spirits that I have found in the blogdom…you, my dear, were the very first blog that I started reading after reading your article in the Artful Blogging mag a year ago. I consider myself incredibly lucky to have stumbled upon your wee little world and to find such a kind and generous friend in the hostess with the mostess…you! Thank you for being such a creative light shining for the rest of us to follow and dance with in the moonlight, wiht our sparkly shoes and one too many tiaras on our heads (really, can there be one too many tiaras!??)
Love you lots.
Enjoy the day!
xo
E
smiles all around, thanks for being out in blog land and sharing all your wonderfulness
You are a true Princess of fun
Happy Holidays
filled with sparkles
your fairy friend
Karey
Happy Belated Birthday! Happy 3 years of blogging, too! Thank you for providing us with your sense of joy and creativity and endless hours of enjoyment! Your blog is a pleasure and so are you! Have a merry week! Twyla
Happy Belated Birthday to YOU!
~*~Loved the video~*~
Wishing You & Mr & family a Very Merry Christmastime
Rainey
wonderful video!!!
Kindred spirits, indeed! Isn’t bloglandia absolutely magical??!!
I’m so sorry I missed your special day (general life-craziness has kept me from checking in as often as I’d like) but I so want to wish you a very happy belated 34th!
And thank you as always for your enchanting words and photos and art!!
🖤 Carolee
Vanessa:
Oh my gosh, I have so much to say about your post and about the video, but I know I can’t fit it all into this teeny little box. I’m gushing right now. I know exactly what you mean about this electronic society of like-minded hearts. Honestly, as an artist, and with that truly quirky artist’s personality that I have (or so I’ve been told) I can’t imagine not having all of my like-minded friends through my blog. I’m sure that a large majority of my “in real life” friends don’t really get me. They see the world through a whole different view finder than I do. And…that’s okay, but we surely don’t have much in common. Can you imagine how hard it must have been to be a creative soul living in the suburbs 20 years ago? Oh it just makes my heart stop at the thought of it.
The video that you shared is the world inside my head. Always has been. I just want to dance my dance and play all day.
And here’s my confession for the day. I’ve done something that I swore I would never do…I’ve opened a twitter account. I don’t really know why, but it’s scaring me. I’m awfully intimidated by it. I’m following you so I might be able to understand it more. If you get a chance, would you mind following me just so I can get the hang of it?
Thanks so much:
Kim
Gerushia’s New World
There are always fanciful twists and turns in your neck of the woods. I come back and visit to see which turn you’ve taken and which way the path twists into the woods, where fairies dance.
Brenda
And I’m so glad I ‘bummed’ into you in this fairytale world too Ms. V 😉 So glad you had a great birthday weekend!
Jamie 🙂
Sweet Vanessa, I know I have thanked you before, but I shall do it again…it’s lovely to come visit somewhere so magically wonderful, sometimes to escape, but sometimes to remind myself that there are other kindreds out there. Even though you live an ocean away from me, I cherish the moments I spend as your virtual friend. I see your beautiful heart in your posts, but also in your kind emails…it means the world to me and I honour your creativity and sensitivity in bringing joy to others…
dear vanessa! oh my! you are too wondeful! your’s was the first blog i read and you are the reason i am blogging. you are such an inspiration to all of us to live in our lovely imagined magical worlds!! thank you so much, for sharing your enchanted life with us! your are so much fun and i always smile when i visit you at your blog. you throw the best parties! bubbly, sparkly love wishes to you, shari
This is one of the very bestest posts you have posted…why, it makes my heart all toasted…..cause we all love you the mostest!
Like attracts like. So all of us faerie gypsy people eventually find one another.
Happy 3 years of blogging as well. I can’t remember when I first came to your blog, when I did I know I felt like I was home.
The video is so sweet.
Yes, I’m grateful we artists and art-lovers can connect here in blogland. Thanks Vanessa for presenting little bits of your world, like wonderfully packaged presents, with us. You didn’t have to, but you do.
What a sweet song and video.
Words cannot express the feelings this post brought up in me. So, I’ll just say Thank-you!
Lovely pictures, wonderful post. And the video indeed maked me smile 🙂
I wish I had the time to play more than I do. It is hard being an adult, full time working engineer and mother. I’ll play with the children most of the time. Have a beautiful day /linnea-maria
I dont got the words….cept
🖤🖤XOXOXVIIVVIIXOXOXOXO🖤🖤
I am so distressed I fear I may have broken the chain for you Birthday posts. I have been living at my parents house taking care of them while my Mother recuperates from knee replacement surgery.
I don’t have a good connection for the internet at their house and my computer kept crashing there. I took my computer to my own home. I come to my home only every so often to write my counting down to Christmas posts…I write several of them ahead and they are published by Typepad on the the designated date.
This is why I missed the e-mail about your party…I am so sorry…you probably would have had more posts about you had I not broken the chain.
I am writing this here as an apology not only to you but to your followers also.
I am sorry, I am sorry. xoxo Mo’a
V~
What a cute video!! Love it!!
OH and by the way…..your awesome!!
It’s so true…kindred spirits indeed! I think that inside each of us is a little girl who never grew up and longs to continue playing dress up, inviting our friends over for tea, and dancing in Gypsy gardens till the moon has gone to sleep and the elves have come out to play…they sleep during the day you know ;-).
I hope you have the most wonderful enchanted day today! Ooh! I hear our little bugaboo has made his way to you…YipppEEEE!!!!!
much love from me!!!!
i DO SO
want
a
wee
walking
elephant!
🙂
i would give my kingdom for one
right about
now.
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Hi Vanessa,
Thank you for the party, I agree that there are so many kindred spirits in the Land of Blog. So happy that I met you here. ooooo, I loved that video, it is wonderful! You always find such great videos.
Once upon a time in 1967, my dad who actually was a cameraman for CBS by mistake filmed right over a golf tournament. It was so hilarious to watch some little old woman walk right in front of someone trying to get out of a sand pit. He was a mixed-media artist ahead of his time. That video reminded me of my dad’s hysterical mistake! Thanks for the memories.
Karen
And there I missed the whole birthday!!!! I`m so sorry…but I can see you had a fabulous time….I wish for you love, prosperity and peace in this year my friend!!!!!!!
High and blue the kindred souls fly, with lanterns and music across festive skies.
The lights and the time making sense of our rhymes and it all weaves together in the tumbling spill of our laughter and love keeping our cups filled. Who grows tall and green and lets out golden with puppy dog barks and all well spoken? I think it is all those happy breezes living freed from the ancient bahzeezers freezers.
A magic touch and a hammer biff buff,bang bang- goes wonderful spray’s that tickles houses and fires and oh’ tomorrow and today.
Cradle thee in the tree, gypsy wagon circle teas. Trailing skirts and wonder moons free the souls -the flying leaves – grounding home in the snowy sugar camp breeze. Ahh to December births and the silver sea, kindred souls…..blow winds blow……from you to me, all seas breeze.
TAG! You’re it! http://hedgewitchhollow.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-got-tagged.html
Amazing and enchanting video, as are you and your wondrous blog!! Thank you for writing back to me – golly! Besides being a magical and kindred soul, you are also a thoughtful and a kind one. 🖤
Wonderful love your shoes..you’ll love this check out
Alice post I just put up..
“Alice in Wonderland Bride?”
http://vintagechicbride.blogspot.com/2009/12/alice-in-wonderland-bride.html
V, I want to wish you a very HAPPY christmas together with the ones you love and may this time brings to you much blessings.
Cariños
Maria Cecilia
3 years! you’ve made it ever so wonderful and deLIGHTful…here’s to many many more.
and I am loving Angus and Julia…thank you for the introductions.
x…x
s
“Just a boy” is fabulous! Loved all the marionettes…well I just loved the whole video!! Yes we do get each other and that is such a blessing!! As we travel our separate journeys of life…we bump into those we are supposed too! Making the journey rich and satisfying! I am so glad I bumped into you dear one.
Hugging you
SueAnn
Yay! kindred spirits, girly soul mates…I loved that video! So reminiscent of the ‘Flower Child’ days of the late 1960’s. The paper marionette’s were such fun and I loved the free expressive dancing of everybody in the video. What fun!
I just now was able to catch up a few posts of yours, and lemme first say HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, and send you lots of virtual hugs, handfuls of glitter, and bags of cotton balls to act as pretend snow! I want to also say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for sharing as you do and giving the message of “it’s ok to be your own wild self.” I always thought that my nutty creative impulses and wanting to live in fairy tales were my own kind of neurosis. I LOOOOOVE that I’m not the only one! Yaaay! Hehe.
Here’s to the past year of wonder, and to every year to come being full of wonder, whimsy, sparkles, and adventures!
Happy Birthday to you! Love your thoughts…each and every one. It’s always nice catching up with you …you make me smile and laugh and to you hugs and thank you!
oh.. I really love your post.. I’m actually envy of you because you get to do the things that you really love to do. 🙂 Anyways.. Belated Happy Birthday.. 🙂