December 28, 2008

"Don't cry because it's over;
smile because it happened."
Unknown

December 21, 2008

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul."
Saint Augustine

December 14, 2008

"To live is so startling it leaves
little time for anything else."
Emily Dickinson

December 7, 2008

"Joy has no cost."
Marianne Williamson

November 30, 2008

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
Mohandis Ghandi

November 23, 2008

"To give thanks in solitude is enough.
Thanksgiving has wings
and goes where it must go.
Your prayer knows much
more about it than you do."
Victor Hugo

November 16, 2008

"Happiness leads to success
a lot more often than
success leads to happiness."
Michael Neill

November 9, 2008

"A strong mind always hopes,
and has always cause to hope."
Thomas Carlyle

November 2, 2008

"There is a road from the eye to the heart
that does not go through the intellect."
G. K. Chesterton

October 26, 2008

"Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find."
William Wordsworth

October 19, 2008

"What a wonderful life I've had!
I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
~ Colette ~

September 21, 2008

"We need to internalize this idea
of excellence. Not many folks spend
a lot of time trying to be excellent."
~ Barack Obama ~

September 14, 2008

"Only when you drink
from the river of silence
shall you indeed sing."
~ Kahlil Gibran~

September 7, 2008

"Wisdom is the best guide
and faith is the best companion."
~ Dalai Lama~

August 31, 2008

"Have no fear of perfection -
you'll never reach it."
~ Salvador Dali ~

August 17, 2008

"Success is liking yourself,
liking what you do
and liking how you do it."
~ Maya Angelou ~

August 10, 2008

"The birds they sing at break of day,
'Start again...' I hear them say."
~ Leonard Cohen ~

THE 8TH GEM.....2012 Relaunch of my New Crochet Blog

This was originally a jewellery Blog from August 2008, but l stopped making jewellery and about a year later in June 2009 I started to play hooky again

Now totally addicted to the hook l will be relaunching a New Crochet blog

original circles from 2009...has started me down a new path.....

THE 8TH GEM CROCHET
sometime in 2012 

WIP 

Comments on this new site enabled from December 2011 

August 3, 2008

"Those who dwell among the beauties
and mysteries of the earth are never
alone or weary of life."
~ Rachel Carson ~

July 27, 2008

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles

July 20, 2008

"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Aristotle

July 6, 2008

"The best way to make a difference
in the world is to start by making
a difference in your own life."
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

June 29, 2008

"Magic is believing in yourself,
if you can do that, you can
make anything happen."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

June 22, 2008

"It's not what you look at that
matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau

June 15, 2008

" Since childhood she had walked
the Devon rivers with her father
looking for flowers and the
nests of birds, passing some rocks
and trees as old friends,
seeing a Spirit everywhere,
gentle in thought to all
her eyes beheld."
~ Henry Williamson ~

June 8, 2008

"What I'm looking for is a
blessing that's not in disguise."
~Kitty O'Neill Collins~

June 1, 2008

"Art is the choreography
of thought and motion."
~Ginia A. Davis ~

May 25, 2008

"Everything has its wonders,
even darkness and silence, and
I learn, whatever state I may
be in, therein to be content."
~Helen Keller ~

May 18, 2008

"The final mystery is oneself...
Who can calculate the orbit
of his own soul."
~Oscar Wilde ~

May 11, 2008

"There was never a child so lovely but
his mother was glad to get him to sleep."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

May 4, 2008

"While you are proclaiming
peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even
more fully in your heart."
~ St. Francis of Assisi ~

April 27, 2008

"The shoe that fits one person
pinches another; there is no recipe
for living that suits all cases."
~ Carl Jung ~

April 20, 2008

"The best way to cheer yourself up
is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Mark Twain

April 13, 2008

"The man who has
no imagination
has no wings."
~Muhammad Ali ~

April 6, 2008

"I believe that every person is born with talent."
~Maya Angelou ~

WELCOME ISAAC WAYNE ANDERSON
Born April 5, 2008

March 30, 2008

"To keep the heart unwrinkled,
to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful,
reverent - that is to
triumph over old age."
~ Amos Bronson Alcott ~

March 22, 2008

"Every doorway, every intersection has a story."
Katherine Dunn

March 16, 2008

"The miracle is this: the more
we share the more we have."
~ Leonard Nimoy ~

March 9, 2009

"The Present is a Point just passed."
David Russell

March 2, 2008

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless."
Mother Teresa

February 24, 2008

"Every day that is born into the world comes
like a burst of music and rings the whole
day through, and you make of it a dance,
a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
~ Thomas Carlyle ~

February 17, 2008

"The task of art today is
to bring chaos into order."
~ Theodore Adorno ~

February 10, 2008

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage."
~ Lao Tzu ~

February 3, 2008

"Friendship is the golden thread
that ties the heart of all the world."
John Evelyn

January 27, 2008

"The soul becomes dyed
with the color of its thoughts."
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ~

January 20, 2008

"If you're walking down the right path
and you're willing to keep walking,
eventually you'll make progress."
~ Barack Obama ~

January 13, 2008

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go
any higher than you think."
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~

January 6, 2008

"Art, in itself, is an attempt
to bring order out of chaos."
~ Stephen Sondheim ~