Morning Coffee Quotes

Smoky Mountains (May 2013) - photo by Cindy Caraway

"It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice."
- Phyllis Bottome

"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."
- C. S. Lewis

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
- Nelson Mandela

"You can pretend to care, but you can't pretend to show up."
- George L. Bell

"There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation."
- William Sloane Coffin Jr.

"A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless."
- Confucius

"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights."
- John R. Wooden

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Pray not for easy lives, pray to be stronger men."
- John F. Kennedy

"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind."
- Isabelle Hollande

"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license."
- P.J. O'Rourke

"I once thought losing my confidence was the worst thing that could happen; then I lost my faith."
- Bobby Vee

"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."
- Glen Turner

"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made."
- M. Facklam

"Example moves the world more than doctrine."
- Henry Miller

"Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry--all forms of fear--are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence."
- Eckhart Tolle

"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."
- Mark Twain

Latest from the Studio

Just a few shots of something new I've been working on...

Morning Coffee Quotes

Feet in Freiburg - photo by Cindy Caraway

"Some folk want their luck buttered."
- Thomas Hardy

"One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want."
- Zig Ziglar

"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."
- John Dryden

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor."
- Francis Quarles

"I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
- William Butler Yeats

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
- Robert Frost

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
- Oscar Wilde

"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin."
- Grace Hansen

"America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it."
- D. H. Lawrence

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."
- Vince Lombardi

"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government."
- Socrates

"The reason why so little is done is generally because so little is attempted."
- Samuel Smiles

Goodies in the mail!!

Well, this wonderful shipment of jewelry to upcycle and remix should get me back on the right track... so many wonderful bits and bobs! I got all of these lots from pocket-full-of-rye on *that other auction site* - find her stuff by clicking here.

Hey, there!

Yep, it's me again. I've been gone for a long time. If you've missed me, I'm sorry about that... Things in my life always seem to be going too fast for me to catch up with, one of my on-going and major complaints. You've heard the saying, "The hurrier I go the behinder I get!", right? That's me in a big 'ol nutshell. And yet I can always find time to play several games of spider solitaire in a row without even blinking... Some of you know exactly what I'm talking about, don't you?

Also, I find myself asking questions like, "Who am I?", "What am I doing?", "Where am I going?"... I'm simply befuddled by things at the moment and trying to get it all figured out and get all the stuff put in it's proper place. A mental "Spring Cleaning", if you will. Time to shake out the cobwebs!

I also hope it's not too late to make resolutions because here's the first...

Quit worrying so much about stuff

As the character Sonny said in "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel":

"Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not yet the end."

(If you haven't seen this movie yet, you should!)

Love it!

...and the second...

Stop to Smell the Roses

Hence the pretty picture I took in Chicago a couple of years ago :)

Cat Nap

Whew! I'm just SO loving creating new pieces of wearable art from my stash of vintage jewelry! Here is one that is "in-development" called "Cat Nap". When I found the sweet sleeping cat pendant, I thought about our cats enjoying a little nap under the cover of plants and flowers in the garden. Here are some sneak peeks - let me know what you think! :)
Thanks for stopping by!

Flight

Here's another from my new series of "reclaimed jewelry" pieces - this one is called "Flight". It all started with the gold butterfly which came to me minus all of the original pearls and rhinestones. All it needed was to have some vintage pearls added to once again take flight!I think this one is perfect for a bride or possibly that big prom night! Enjoy it here or find better pics on Etsy :)