Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

Today,  January 13, is Make Your Dream Come True Day  It gives you the opportunity to do something to realize your goals and dreams. Whatever your dreams are, they usually don't come true without some effort on your part. So, today is the perfect opportunity to do something about it. On this day do something, anything, to move in the direction of achieving your dreams  I am a great believer in self talk, so here is some that I am happy to share with you.  Here are ten easy suggested steps to making dreams come true   1. What's your dream? This is honestly the trickiest step. Don't complicate it..... Start with the easy stuff. 2. Decide and believe. Many of us will pick a delicious dream for ourselves and then immediately start pecking furiously at the edges with a list of ways it can't, won't, or shouldn't work out for us. Stop that! 3. Release fear. This next step isn't a one-time event. It's probably something you're going to ...

"Scientist" - art tag by Wilma Simmons free form machine stitching with coloured pencil.   Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done                                                                                                                    ( Robert Heinlein) 

2015 - celebrating the 100th birthday of Raggedy Ann. Cloth doll by Wilma Simmons from a Happy Hearts pattern.  “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”  I wish I said this but the credit goes to  ―  Neil Gaiman

" Some people make a difference, some people make you different" - Saleem Sharma make a difference to  have  an  effect   It is  exciting  to do  something   that   really   makes  a  difference  in  your   community.   People   don't   realize   that   their   vote  can   make  a  difference. Usage   notes:   often   used  in  the   form   make  no  difference :  It  makes  no  difference  to me if  the   game  is  televised  or  not. See   also:   difference ,  make Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms  Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003. Reproduced with permission. from http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/make+a+difference Can someone else really make you different? Or is it that some peopl...

Stitched tag : Theme "All Stitched Up' - The Emperor's New Clothes Hand stitched calico& metal embellishment Instead of just wise words this Wednesday.. here is a favourite story. "The Emperor's New Clothes"   A vain  Emperor  who cares about nothing except wearing and displaying clothes hires two swindlers who promise him the finest, best suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or "hopelessly stupid". The Emperor's  ministers  cannot see the clothing themselves, but pretend that they can for fear of appearing unfit for their positions and the Emperor does the same. Finally the swindlers report that the suit is finished, they mime dressing him and the Emperor marches in procession before his subjects. The townsfolk play along with the pretence not wanting to appear unfit for their positions or stupid. Then a child in the crowd, too young to understand the desirability of keeping up the pretence, ...

I love this   - my daughter has this poster on the kitchen wall  in her home ... Family Rules  - Say Please and Thank you, Be Happy, Pay with hugs and kisses, Laugh out loud, Think of others before yourself, Do your best, Respect one another, Hug often, Listen to your parents, Say I Love You, Laugh at Yourself.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha   Read more at  http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_life.html#qE1GYK62QIE6eqfM.99

Everything has beauty but not everyone can see it. .. Confucius

  “Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”  ―  Markus Zusak ,  I am the Messenger Image : Collage Tag for Tag Tuesday, Theme - Italy. 

"Wise Words Wednesday" is a new idea for my blog... I will still be posting my regular updates about my art work, but this will be a little extra post now and then.  I have been collecting wise sayings for a few years and wondered why I haven't shared them. Many of them have been included on wooden tags on my message stick dolls, but most of them are just written in a notebook. Here are today's wise words featured on this message stick doll, designed for Christmas. ' “Peace is always beautiful.”  ―  Walt Whitman ,  Leaves of Grass      tags:  peace ,  poetry Read more quotes from  Walt Whitman   (from www.goodreads.com)