In the midst of a crazy week, there have been moments where everyone in the house is sleeping, and there are short, yet super silent snippets in time, for pondering all sorts of things. Some of the things I have been thinking about over and over, as I have been trying to get here all week, are wishes, hopes and dreams…
Although I don't think of myself as some magical being, that can actually make wishes come true…
I do think there is something about positive thought. Especially when a group of folks get together to think good things. Like we have in the last post, casting wishes out into the twinkling skies…
As I was pondering all of our thoughts and wishes…
I became really sensitive to the cycle of dreaming, and believing.
And then a really deep thought smacked me upside the head…
The thought goes like this:
It's interesting, and only natural, that we go through waves of feelings.
Ups and downs, and all arounds.
We go into new things with a light, beautiful, wishful heart.
Believing and hoping and dreaming….
And then, over time, we might start to lose little bits of those hopes and dreams.
Sometimes, we collect the ones we have dropped, and begin hoping and dreaming all over again.
Other times, life leads folks to lose sight of wishes and dreams that make up a part of who they are…
Sometimes we realize that we have lost some of our wishes and dreams along the way, and we go back searching for them….
Other times however, the passing of time, and life happenings,
leads some to simply stop believing altogether.
A long time ago, I made a decision about my life.
About how I wanted to live my life.
About, how I was never going to give up my hopes and dreams.
About, how for me to live a happy life, I had to let go of many things that gave off negativity. And, I had to hold on to whimsy and light. I had to live my life as I saw fit for me. Not as others might see fit for me.
And I do.
I hold on, and I believe.
But –
That's just me.
It's different for all of us.
Sometimes, for others, over time –
hopes, dreams, whimsy, and all that has a magical glimmer
seems silly and pointless.
I see how that can happen, in a world that doles out negativity all day.
But…
Somewhere in there, there's still light and hope, and dreams…
Wishes too.
Some might come true.
Some might not.
Some might have already come true, and we didn't even notice.
My opinion is that, life is too short to not wish and hope, and dream.
Even if you are only holding onto a strand of belief…
Hold on..
Keep dreaming.
And, from time to time, set your wishes free….
You never know what sort of goodness lurks around the corner…
Wishes and dreams are some of the greatest gifts ever.
Whether they come true or not…
Part of the fun is the fantasy, the dream.
Thank you for casting wishes and dreams with me…
I concocted a little dream machine,
that sets wishes free…
(or so I'm told)
😉
As I was taking these photos, a little poem of sorts, came to mind.
For you and for me, and for all of us.
So, I put it on a little winning ribbon, for you to print out if you'd like.
This is what it says:
I believe in a wish.
I believe in a thought and a dream.
I believe that everything good,
can happen to me.
I believe that I matter, and above all,
that I am wonderful.
I whisper a reminder everyday.
I am special.
I 🖤 me.
CLICK HERE FOR A PRINTABLE PDF
(give it several seconds to open)
I'll be back soon friends, I am a slave to fur right now
😉
They are both hanging on to my left arm as I type 🙂
Little rascals.
(I am so glad I planted winter rye grass seeds after Thanksgiving. The pups are loving it)
Much love, from our house to yours!
Wonderful words, Vanessa, and I have to say that I am, fortunately or unfortunately, someone that just holds onto the dreams, checks every so often to make sure they are still there, and then gets back to the day-to-day of life. Most of that comes from being unhappy in my day job, the peeks come when I am at home and able to be creative or when I take on an interior decorating job. I suppose if I look at the glass as half full {which I do try to do} I consider myself lucky that I am able to be creative through interior decorating jobs and that I am able to take some free time on the weekends or evenings and allow my creativity to flow. The new dream is that we will downsize, which will cut our expenses and I will be able to leave that job!
A wish and dream that fell to earth
Was found by a girl who gave it birth.
She twirled and played and gave it a name
And ever since then nothing has been the same.
She walked and talked in the morning light
Laughing and singing until the night.
She turns and twirls with play in her hair
And every morning she lives and dares-
To live in love and light with whimsy
Because she is so magical and mimsy.
She lights up everyone she meets
And makes the worlds bestest treats.
Maxten and Lucca and Ronald and Zeke
All love her baking 2x a week.
With all of the light and seeds shes sowed
Shes won many hearts with fairies in tow.
ANd if you listen to the wind
You can hear her magic going around the bin.
To the left and right it is spinning sound
Awww Vanessa you make hearts pound.
Happy New Year you lovely sprite and may the love of the season find you better than alright! xoxo
You are always so sweet to share your thoughts and ideas with all of us! Thank you sweet Vanessa! Enjoy your weekend…you’ve made it special for all of us! 🖤
Vanessa…
Seriously, do you have a peep hole into my heart? Everything you just posted hit me so close to home. I haven’t given up on dreams and wishes, but I did stop making them for awhile.
This year, I’m gonna get better!
Thank you for your words and thoughts and wishes.
Kim
Gerushia’s New World
Ooh Wee!!! My thoughts exactly!!! Life should always be filled with wishes and dreams and wonderful things and if it’s not we can always believe. For believing is the stuff that dreams are made of.
Had I not just found my wings, I’d ask if I could perch myself in your delightful little cage, or maybe just for a short while to send some wishes swirling into the sky.
You never cease to amaze with all your delightfully whimsical ways.
I love you my Fanciful Friendling
xoxo cori
Beautiful and full of promise! Wishes and dreams are the stuff life is made of. Thank you for sharing your insightful thoughts with us. I have been thinking along the very same lines, especially last night.
Your Dream Machine is delightful!
Hugs,
Terri
I LoVe the dream machine!
And, I love how profound thoughts sometimes scwitter (it’s a new word, go with it)silenty in one ear, and are quietly absorbed and digested….and sometimes they whomp us upside the head 😉 and how, sometimes,
when you really really need it most, ’cause negative thoughts are trying to creep in to the wishes and dream-a-sphere, and Somebody keeps putting the news on the TV and you just want to sit under a tree and sleep for forty years,
~*~*SOMEBODY WONDERFUL~*~*~
comes along and reminds you of everything you hold in your heart proving once again
that some people on the planet GET IT
and not only that
-I get an award poem badge a majiggy!
THAT’S A DREAM COME TRUE RIGHT THERE!!!!
how many have award poem badge a majiggys???
I hope your fur love days last and last, and sleep comes easy, and all is peace and light, and of course your dreams and wishes come true, but maybe eve more important you continue to believe in them so much they grow into sparklejujugoodvibeloveliness.
XOXOXVIVIXOXOX
Your words spoke so very close to my heart….my word for this year is BELIEVE….and your poem is beautiful…..and I am going to use it in my One Little Word project. Your words are always so magical and always touch my heart…..just as you touch so many hearts here…..enjoy your furry love….and have a beautiful weekend.
You’re magically delicious…you know that, right???
True words, Vanessa. I think I let my dreams and wishes hover in limbo last year, but I am ready to believe again.
I love your dream machine (especially because you used two of my favorite images-stars and butterflies). Love your poem too.
Have a great weekend with your furry babies.
I think I’ll never stop wishing, dreaming and hoping and now I have a badge to prove I’m a wishful, hopeful dreamer.
Thank you for a lovely post.
And the furry babies are as cute as ever.
Wishes,and Dreams, and Magic! Oh! My!
I can just picture Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz saying that over, and over…that works for me. Then…I will begin to believe it! It will become part of me…everyday.
I know one thing…the is an Eternal Being who believes that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. All I have to do is look at the universe and see that nothing is impossible to that Super Natural Being…then I KNOW, I BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE TO THOSE THAT BELIEVE!!!
So, make your life that RARE LIFE of fantasy, believe in yourself, go farther than your limits, always believe in yourself, make you dreams come true, even in this imperfect world of ours there is MAGIC, and it is inside of each and every one of us…waiting to be released. That is my dream, my world, my imagination, my destiny. Yes, I agree, dreams are what makes our destiny come true.
Believe in fairies and fairy dust, the magic of the moment, live life to the fullest, with passion in what you love to do.
Enough said…
Now back to my magical world of nonsense, where I day dream a lot!!!
Thank you for this post…
Oh Most Magical Miss Vanessa!!!
Lovely as always! But for the record, I think you are a magical being!
You mind fascinates me! I love this blog. I love how you can make magic by wishing it so. It’s incredible. We need more people like you.
Hurrah!!
I meant ‘your mind’
Vanessa,
You are wise beyond your years. You know that which takes a life time to learn. You came into this world and “old soul”.
~elaine~
vanessa – would you mind sending me a note again telling me what editing program you use? i love your blog and i really love your photos. you are always the highlight of my blogging day :). thanks, alice
kenoly2000@hotmail.com
Good Day ‘mIzZ V”, As I write this note I have tears in my eyes…I am truly going through a really tough time in my life actually I have to say its a pretty low point in my life…
I can honestly say I see the light at the end of the tunnel… I think it’s a way of God testing me to bee prepare for my big dReAM… that is starting it’s journey of beecoming true…you see I’ve always dReAM of having a home/hive to raise young girls that are orphaned or abandoned between the ages of 7 through 11 (reason for this age is beecause I was adopted at 7 yrs old I’m now 50 yrs young ;0))…this “dReAM” is called “hONeY cOmB cOTtaGe ~ tHeRe’S nO pLAcE liKE hOmE” this also going to bee a place where wishes, dreams & hopes will be enCOURAGEd & enJOYed & enLIGHTen by the wee little ones ;0)… my nickname to many is “mIzZ(hONeY)bEe” I will bee blessed to be their guardian, protector & their god”mother” aka the “bEekEePEr”… one of my many guardian angels for this journey is the “Blessed Mother” and her mom “St. Anne” for some reason the lyric that keeps coming to mind is “Mother Mary comes to me ~ whispering words of wisdom…let it bee oh let it bee”…that’s why I think its the Blessed Mother Mary by my side….
So I am taking my journey to my “dReAM” & “WIsH” of “hONeY cOmB cOTtaGe”…I know that it might bee a bumpy road, a pot hole here & there & a detour too but I will keep going cause I know that this road will leave me to a place where “dReAMs” come True ;0)…
Have a Honey of a day ~ may sweet things come your way!
Grace Peace Joy Love & many blessings 2,
Marlene aka “mIzZ(hONeY)bEe ;0) xox
Oh me goodness!!! I am so madly in love with your dream machine! What magical photos these are, you little Enchantress, you! Pure Fanciful One. Your style may be copied, but never your magic. You are an original. An original delight. My JoY. How I adore you. Oh, another oh me goodness for that little sleeping fur ball! Have you ever seen anything more adorable?? I certainly have not! Living love, that’s what he is. **blows kisses** Deb
sometimes we just need to be reminded about dreams and whimsy so that we can see how important it is.
Lovely post today
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty” Socrates
We put ourselves in our own cages – – – give permission to others to tell us how to feather our nest — how to feather our body.
God gives us freedom to partake in his abundance — we are the only ones who hold ourselves back! You have elevated energy & we are on your wavelength….
(that is truly a magnificent birdcage)
Thank you for the ribbons……
Thank you. It was lovely visually and very wise. I needed to har your message about choosing a life. It’s that time!
Fondly,
Suz
Happy new year oh dreamy one!
much love to you and your lovely furry babies:) xxx
I do believe Miss Vanessa that you are not a mere earthling, but some “fanciful” sprite from another more fantastical realm. Your imagination never fails to blow me away, thanks for sharing. and OMG, I am so in love with Miles!
A lovely and inspiring post dear Vanessa… your imaginings and images are always a delight and transport us into that magical World you have created. We are all a product of our choices, past and present… my Hope is that others will choose the positive attitude over the negative and make a life for themselves that is magical and enchanting as they Hope for it to be!
Dawn… The Bohemian
Sweet little bundles of fur, hangin’ on your left arm…isn’t that the sweetest! Sometimes my pup nudges me under the studio table, letting me know he needs my love, tee hee…always makes me feel warm and fuzzy (and a furry snuggle break is always welcome)!
Love your wishes, dreams and thought process…always V 😉 Your like my sista from anotha motha, hahahahah….
Hugs
Jamie 🙂
this meant so much to me to read today as i had such a negative and down day. thank you so much, always for your beautiful words that take me someplace i want to be forever.
xx
Thank you for your thoughts, dear Vanessa. Love the pictures. I am holding firm to my dream of having a more organized existence. My 1000-square-feet-ish house–ah, the challenge of space! Someone recently suggested that my dream might be in the realm of, shall we say, FANTASY! Oh, that wasn’t the word uttered, but that was the general meaning that was left swirling inside my head. If I were six again, I would have said, “Oh, yeah??? Well, we’ll see about that!” And it would have been followed by a most juvenile sticking out of the tongue. Yessiree! Ha!
Thusly and so, I am now grabbing hold of that “bring organized peace to my home” dream more . . . than . . . ever. I am taking one leetle inching step at a time (better make that a foot at a time, or it might never get done!!!), but with great determination and a spirit of not giving up.
There is a little something you can do for me, Miss Vanessa the Sweet. Now that you have cast all our dreams into that lovely dream machine of yours and set them free, would it be too much to ask if you could run this dream of mine through once more, y’know, just for good measure? : )
P.S. Love the fur ball pic of Miles twixt the wall and his bed! Love the mental picture of your little furboys hanging on your arm as you type!
You really are beautiful!
Happy New Year 🙂
Hola… les dejo una pequeña reflexión desde Colombia PaÃÂs de los Sueños
En Colombia millones de niños pierden una parte de su cuerpo por una mina, pierden a sus seres queridos por una guerra que no tiene piedad… Si pierden su inocencia porque son reclutados en la filas de la guerrilla para que se enfrenten al ejército nacional… Y mueren.
En Colombia y asàcomo en muchas partes del mundo muchÃÂsimos niños son brutalmente maltratados, los violan, los ponen a vender, los ponen a aguantar hambre, les queman las manos para castigarlos… entre otras cosas… Y eso lo hacen las personas que no tienen corazón.
Pero a pesar de estas problemáticas y de estos maltratos muchos niños sin sus partes del cuerpo, sin sus seres queridos, no pierden la ESPERANZA de tener SUEÑOS y luchar por ellos…
Por eso llamo a mi HERMOSO PAIS: COLOMBIA PAIS DE LOS SUEÑOS… y quiero decirles que por favor luchen a favor de la infancia…. Tengamos estos deseos en nuestro corazón: la paz y el bien por los niñ@s del mundo…
cielobar@live.com
Hello Vanessa! Thank you for such a lovely post this morning – just what I needed on a chilly and snowy day. I am dreaming of butterflies! The poem was lovely, and it was wonderful of you to create a little ribbon for it. Hurray!!! Enjoy time spent with your baby…he is just too adorable for words. Give him an extra little cuddle from me. Have a wonderful Sunday!!! xoxo Theresa
Thank you for the words of encouragement and inspiration. I think I will print the PDF out on cardstock, cut them out, and I will share them with my darling daughter Mirandas’ 4th grade classmates. They’re studying extra super hard to prepare for their yearly FCAT’s, (state testing)and need all the encouragement they can get. 🙂 You rock!
Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and lovely poems and wishes. I am going to print them out to give to my sister as she has been feeling down lately and hang one on my inspiration board. Give those adorable fur babies kisses for me and may all your hopes and wishes come true this year!!
Take Care,
Tracy M.
P.S. I want that birdcage!!
Vanessa, your new baby is such a sweetie. I can certainly understand why you are so in love with him. Thank you for sharing your wonderful feelings with us, I share your beliefs. Have a lovely week! Twyla
I have this feeling that everyone who reads your posts feel as if you are talking directly to them… thats how I feel anyhow…
I thank you for sending my wish out into the universe … the last one worked… I know this one will too… really LOVE your dream machine…
Thank you for being you … for having a place to come when we need to get away from those things in our lives that arent what we would like them to be …
Thank you for all your magic and whimsy and fun …
LOVE YA
JO
Vanessa, I have just got back from a little beach holiday, and popped in to wish you a very happy (belated) new year! And such wonderful, amazing news you have! A new baby in your house! And what a sweetheart he is too…I have enjoyed catching up on your last few posts – I always enjoy my visits, as you well know. Looking forward to another year of blogging fun and friendships x
G’day, it’s me again.
Just popped in to say “Hi”.
Thanks for sharing your dreamy thoughts and delicious photos with us here in the Land of Blog. You inspire me to be more creative and imaginative with my own humble little blog. Thanks again.
P.S. Your sweet ‘fur people’ are utterly delightful….puppies smell soooo good. Make sure you take lots and lots of deep nostril filled breaths while Miles is puppylike… *happy sigh*
Not saying doggies don’t smell good…just that puppies smell different.
I do look forward to reading your blog regularly, lovely photos and the words often speak to me – as if you know what I need to hear. I discovered it about six months ago and it has given me much pleasure. Loved the post with photos of your sunflowers and your garden. Look forward to reading more from you over the coming year. Best wishes to you and your adorable family (the two legged ones and the four legged ones) for 2011
Ditto to the comment above which states you are a magical being. You indeed are! Cheers to you and the fur babies!
Lovely as always! Love all the images too!
First off, congrats on your new fur baby! Miles looks like an angel and if you put little wings on him, he would definitely look perfect on a little cloud hanging with the cherubs.
I’m so glad that I found your blog from a link from my friends blog. I can see why she enjoyed your page because in High School we were both full of whimsy and enjoyed the magic of blowing bubbles, picnics and escaping into our imagination. I have to say as a grown up and a mom, she has held tightly onto a lot of that but I am hanging by a thread! I miss my wishes and dreams and whimsy and sometimes I can spot them floating along on a daydream. I will do my best to hold fast to my dreams and wishes and hopes and try not to let the negativity lure me away from my path. Whenever I lose my way, I will go to your page to be reminded how it should always be. Thanks so much for sharing your magic with all of us and stay true to the way you want to live. You inspire so many! Best wishes in 2011
I’m loving this post, Lady V. We need to have hope, believe in our wishes and dreams. Sometimes that is a light that can guide us through the storms of our lives.
You are so freaking cute.
Thanks for deciding to clutch your dreams.
And sharing you with us.
We <3 YOU.
Thank heavens for souls like you Miss Vanessa. Your post always touch and move me!!! Rarely does that happen. You tap into our heart, mind and spirit and makes us think and not give up our dreams, hopes and wishes. I myself will NEVER give in to the negativity, or what others see fit for me. Sometimes I think certain people in my life laugh of my whimsy nature, but this is who I am and I will never change for anyone. 🙂
This has to be one of my favorite post, and Im going bookmark it for when I need to find my way back to true self, and to remind myself never stop dreaming!
You are a gem Miss Vanessa! So happy to know you! Magical dreams and wishes!!
Love,love, love XO,Jenn
You are always an inspiration, my dear friend. Love to you, Mr. Lovee, Matty and Miles. xoxox