newness

Some of the new beautiful things I have recently been blessed with in my life.

1.The base piece to my very first tattoo!

I am adding some flowers to it soon, all influenced by this Gorgia O'Keefe painting. My skull is obviously a little different, because the one that I got is the actual skull from the Montana state seal.....my homeland!

2. A beautiful cozy little studio apartment tucked into the heart of downtown Portland!

all I have is the picture i took on my phone..... but you get the idea....its my sanity and happy place.

3. I have been seeing a new guy....and he is just so dope.

He makes me laugh more than I knew another person ever could....and he is creative and he listens and pays attention to the little things....and when im hanging out with him, well i just smile a lot.....and I just feel good. Everything is just so much more fun when we are together.....I have more fun doing little things than i ever had at a grown up age.

The sun has been shining and the weather is warming up and I feel so happy these beautiful days lately. I have some beautiful friendships that have and will continue to withstand anything....

he and I took our bikes out for the first time of the year and i could just feel in my hair and smell in the air that I have one beautiful summer comming my way.

its a wild world

This is the beauty that I thought to myself in my head as a little girl of how I wanted to live when I grew up. This all that i have created for myself here is actually more than my little child mind could fathom when I dreamed for a lovely place i would call home one day.....its more amazing, more beautiful, its more peaceful, and it just feels better than I knew it ever could.  I have to say....I am very pround of myself.

First I would like to present one before picture from a month and a half ago when I moved into this house.  Then I will show all my latest shots of the yard......and maybe everyones questions of where I got all day when no one can find me will be answered.

And now my recent beautiful creation.....

.I just can only hope that others enjoy this beauty the way that I do.

my new creation and my new palace...

I don't understand what exactly it is that I did in this lifetime of mine to deserve this beautiful life and this beautiful home that I have got for myself. I have put every free moment I have into my new palace that I am crazy in love with. I have not wrote in so long, partly because I have enjoyed so much of my free time with my new best friend.....my yard, my garden. My new yard is peace. Complete peace is harder to find than you may think. But the palace and the beautifu garden I have created in my yard is something that I personally find as complete peace

my little treehouse of plants and love.

I have officially come to terms that I have a plant shopping/redecorating problem. Today was sunny....I woke this morning and made myself my favorite little egg scramble with tempeh, peppers,garlic,tamari, siracha hot sauce and Avocado, poured a delightful glass of my own little fresh squeezed OJ and nestled into my new little "room" in the corner of my bedroom that I spent last night creating by sectioning off a corner of my room with plants. Yes plants. I found a way to make a room divider essentially with a combination of hanging plants from the ceiling coming down into a wall of tall floor plants.....i covered my new little area with amazing colorful floor pillows and its lovely. I sit there this morning with my scramble and OJ....and I decide my good of the day today was to go save a plant from a store somewhere that wasn't treating it the way it should, instead of heading to my usual Greys plant store where my sweet little gay plant specialist Jeff treats a huge greenhouse full of house plants like his own children. Not today . I went to Home Depot where I found a whole world full of sweet innocent plants on steroids. I'm talking plants that are huge and beautiful.....and hundreds of them. I picked up the first one my eyes ran towards. My most favorite trusty house plant,a chiflera. I looked at the price expecting no less than a $60 price tag on it based on the size of this thing. Instead I read $7.50. Long story short i bought a few....maybe a few to many. A couple of all different kinds. I'm getting a bit off track here but I have to just take a moment to tell you about the nightmare i saw when I went to re pot these poor little guys at home. these things are so root bound its unbelievable...the only way these plants can possibly still be living is from so many plant steroids its unreal. It's terrible. It made me want to go back and save them all. i It will be a major challenge for me to keep these guys alive while slowly weening them off plant stimulator's and steroids.

Okay, back to my point. My new little plant walled cozy corner of my room in incredible with the addition of my new sweet friends. However at the end of this all i went through and counted my house plants in this little tree house of mine.....and much to my surprise the final tally was 47. I have a problem. I've got to get this under control. But at the end of the day here I am nestled into my lovely little corner again with all my sweet plants.always,