Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

An Elephant You'll Love-to-Plate

As part of our Monday routine, a small group of amazingly beautiful lady friends and myself gathered around steaming mugs of chamomile tea and gabbed about the recent headlines in our week.

While chatting as the temperatures grew steadily colder outside the windows, we also took on a creative feat to design pottery with sharpies and paint. Once you add the design that's bursting from your fingertips, heat the oven to 350 degrees, place the pottery on the middle rack, and bake for 30 minutes. The design is set for life and will not fade with wash or wear.

Because of the holidays slowly approaching, I decided to prepare mine as a gift for my grandmother. Her earlier travels to Africa are always ever-so-present in her discussions and will always serve as a capstone to her 85 years on this planet. That's how Eli, the plate surfing elephant, crystalized and materialized onto porcelain.



Here's to hoping Eli finds a great home with my Meemaw come Christmas day.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

A Poem for Tuesday

There's absolutely nothing that I wouldn't do
for a wonderfully exciting trip to the zoo
Bring friends a plenty, or bring only a few
I promise I can show them each something new

You see... In this zoo across the street
Run animals that you'd most like to meet
With gifts and treasures from their trunks to their feet
Putting on shows that are surely a treat

These animals bring love in the most charming of ways
From the songs that they sing or the magick they spray
Each hope that their guests will sit and stay
So grab your coat, let's not delay!

There's the monkey with a thumb of green!
(If that's not the darnedest thing you've ever seen.)
Bee's that dance in puddles around the buzzing Queen
These humble bumbles invite all to intervene!

Marcy the Marvelous Mouse swings from vines
a trapeze artist way before her time
Her assistant, RaTzle Dazzle- She tumbles divine!
No telling the stunts when this duo combines!

The Lion is sassy, his hair glazed in gold
He weaves the ground into coats of moss and mold
Need a jacket for when the weather turns cold?
He'll add a scarf to every item sold!


Ellie the Elephant is my favorite of all
She is a gentle giant, standing thirty feet tall
Just tickle her tummy and watch her front heels sprawl
As a bouquet arises from her trunks loud squall!


I tell you, good fellows, this zoo is of its worth
These animals have all lived here since their birth
With only the purpose to share their love and mirth
And to give light to the beauty that is our one and only earth.


So now we must go, as dusk draws near
But give our friends a great big cheer
As they settle into a night so peaceful and clear
On our lonely yet lovely last frontier

Friday, June 1, 2012

Hey It's Ok... I'm moving today!

Today is the day!! Moving day has finally arrived. I remember the day like it was yesterday. April 1st, posting a hypothetical facebook status "Anyone looking for a roommate in Charlotte?", getting an instant reply from a friend I met back in January, and signing a lease four days later.

For weeks I have been going to swingsets, running down trails, and walking at dusk- reflecting on my current life and anticipating this new adventure as part of my blooming adulthood... And now, I am on the road with a horse trailer filled with my life belongings. As excited as I am, I can't help but feel a bit stressed... maybe even a little nervous? Am I really heading to a new city with no plans, no jobs, and no agenda?


YUP! That would be oh so correct. But after visiting the city briefly (A total of 2 times and only for 24 hours each) and hours and hours of praying that God would lead me to a post-graduation destination, Charlotte NC was ringing a bell loud and clear.

Perhaps the hardest part of leaving is looking in my rearview to see a beautiful farm and my family that I love more than life itself. Their support and guidance, not only through this moving process, but for the last 22 years of my life just brings a tear to my eye. They are beyond wonderful and I couldn't have asked God for a more perfect image of his grace and humility than what I see from my mom, dad, and brother.

But on a lighter note, I leave you....

Oh Darling, It's Ok!
If you forgot that "You Got Mail" is your favorite Meg Ryan film because of the quirky grandmother comments and the nostaligia you reach when you hear that "*weeooohhh reeeowwwww* DINGA DINGA *Kaching!* You got mail!" sound in every scene.




CRED

Your BEST FRIENDS are named Monica, Chandler, Pheobe, Joey, Ross, and Rachel

Before looking up directions to your new apartment, you search the surrounding restaraunts to see where you'll be dining your first night in town.

If you place all of your stuffed animals in the back seat of your car for the moving trip and buckle them up. Hey! Safety first!


If you come across an old photo from your high school's senior prom and get a pain in your heart when you realize you miss an old friend so so much, even if you haven't kept in touch with them as much as you now wish you had...

Have a great weekend, lovelies! Next time I write you, I'll be in the Queen City!

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