Cold moonlight submerged
Sparkling diamonds cascade
Drown me in beauty
Tag: sparkle
Faerie Paths — Sparkle
Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and real, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine.
– Mandy Hale
Faerie Paths — Sunglasses
“If someone doesn’t brighten your life, don’t take off your sunglasses, just find sunshine somewhere else.”
– Eye 2 Eye, ‘Optical Boutique’.
Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Druzy Stone
A druzy is a set of tiny crystals of minerals that form on the surface of another stone or inside a geode.
This particular crystal appearance reflects a notable geological process that occurs when water brings minerals to the host rock’s surface.
When the water starts to evaporate, the cooling phase happens and the minerals are left behind to form and accumulate tiny crystals on top of the host rock, forming a layer of crystallization on the stone.
These crystal not only grow over Agate stones, but malachite, chrysocolla, and rhodochrosite, and a host of other types of quartz as well.
Depending on the type of mineral that’s deposited, druzy formations can come in a wide variety of colors such as green, pink, black, or white.
The tiny crystals are considered beautiful because their overall appearance resembles that of sugar that glitter and catch rays of light.
The bewitching exquisiteness of this gem jewel provokes the creativity of the lapidaries to carve into a stunning jewel design.
Druzy is an enchanting colorful and shiny crystal that helps you feel balanced and covered with soothing light and bright energy veil of total harmony and relaxation.
This glittery crystal supplies your everyday life with warm loving energies and assists you to diminish stress levels and feel genuinely decompressed. 
Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Opals
The morning drips her dew for me,
Noon spreads an opal canopy.
Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest
Where sunset ambers all the west…
Sunday Evening Art Gallery (midweek) — Silver
Silver, the color of new friends ~ Unknown
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Faerie Paths — Stained Glass
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Bling a Little Bling
Well, now that we are all on “lockdown” for a few weeks, how are you planning on taking advantage of this extra “me” time?
Besides the obvious writing, which is slow in coming, I’m working on my Boho.
I have referred to this shabby-chic style quite a few times in the past. The last reference I can find is from 2014, Old Lady BoHo, where I was inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks.
Of course, that was six years ago. Plenty of time to get the wardrobe going, eh?
Here it is March 2020 and I can finally say I’m on my way.
Why does it take some of us longer than others to change? What are we waiting for?
We spend so much time “talking” about change in whatever form is necessary, but it takes us so dang long to get off the ground. We are going to change job fields. We are going to spend a little extra money and finally make that recipe we’ve held onto for five years. We are finally going to stop by that new pub that opened six years ago.
I myself have done plenty of talking through the years. Some goals I’ve met; others I’m still working on.
Still working on. Like Still working on losing weight. Or working on getting published. Some things never really move forward, even though we pretend they do.
But working on my wardrobe is at least one thing in my life that’s moving forward. I’m having fun reinventing myself. Just like I’m having fun writing. Or planning a garden.
I think it’s not so much what you do, but that you do it. It’s important to find a past time that is enjoyable and productive. I have one friend who is taking cooking lessons. Another who just took up quilting. Another who has slipped (temporarily I imagine) from poetry to painting.
Creative people are always reinventing themselves. Adapting and finding new ways to express themselves.
I myself am having fun bringing bling and fringe and beads into the world. My past is more a spread of gray and black, a conservative spread that came from my parents. Now I want to sparkle when I walk, When I talk. When I write. I have been uncomfortable with all three most of my life. And I’m tired of feeling second rate in everything I do.
Now those things can only come from within. I know that. Bling and fringe will not make me more confident or smarter. Only my heart can do that.
But if my sparkle can make someone else smile, if my bling reflects the sparkle of the world around me, why not push away that conservative shell and give it a try?
You should try giving yourself a change, too. Just learning from the beginning or pursuing something you’ve always thought about changes your whole perspective about life. And yourself.
And who couldn’t use a little extra bling in their life?
Faerie Paths — Lights
… every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies…
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Humoring the Goddess 