What will happen next?

Image credit: Paolo Morello, Paestum

Surrender to the way things want to happen next, even though this often involves a vast and terrifying loss of control. Trust the magic that was born into your soul.

Mertha Beck,

~ Finding Your Way in a Wild New World

Monday Visaulisation-Weaving my life

Weaving my Life again

Choosing my new cup

Sharing a new dream

Swimming all I can

The Power. The Positive. The ME.

xoxo

Rena

My summer reading list

Summertime reading is undeniably one of the greatest pleasures in life.
Every summer I get me afew books, one to read on the beach,
one to keep by my bed
...
one to inspire me
...
one to cuddle and keep me company
...
one to help me get better on the outside
...
one to hemp get better on the inside
.....

My beach bag currently hosts:

 Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

and

  Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

I read them both, starting with one or the other according to my mood, more gentle for Big Magic, in need of focus and support when reading Lean In.

My favorite quote:

Waiting to be read:

{By Mr William Norwich who has a most interesting Instagram account here}

An optimist? Tick! Wants to let go=Tick!

Written by Ann Mah, another Instagram found author, The Lost Vintage is heiled as

 “this season’s essential female-centered adventure” 

by @hollywoodreporter. 

Besides, Ms. Mah is such a beautiful soul! 

What is in your reading list?

where do you like to read? 

xoxo 

Rena 

Monday Visualisation-A touch of God

I need to move into my own shade of life, a lifestyle that suits me and brings me outside the box and into My Life

I trust in God to lead me through and into my new venture, the new chapter of my life

Sweet luxury of living life together

Of sharing my life and my fence in roses planted by my man

Living my life in the open of my own forest

A love that is a blessing and a treat.

Amen!

Happy new week,

 xoxo 

Rena

Monday Visualisation: Seeking White

Wow!

What a week we've had. 

What a lovely wedding. 

What a couple, so much in love. 

As I look in the pictures, I can think of all the releasing we have to do 

in order to move forward into life. 

For some it is death, for some a divorce. 

And yet, 

we find the strength to move forward 

in hope,

in dream,

in believing

that all will be white bright again,

and that life always goes on. 

Let's take the scenic route to happiness.

xoxo

Rena

Monday Visualisation-A Pink kind of week

I open my eyes and I hear my voice.

I'm real. I'm Me. 

Coming out of a long long silence, hushed again and again, 

but no more. 

I embrace my feminine side, my pinks and blues and the ivories... ah the ivories... and the golds!

Posie

I am who I am

via

My cake

My flowers

My sweet lemons

My girly pink

My life's love

Delicate and Strong

Blooming pure again

House of Valentina

Loving

Be-coming

xoxo

Rena

Feel the open door~

ART: NANCY HOLT “SUN TUNNELS”

“Close your eyes and turn all the way around, slow-w-ly. Sense or feel the open door, the one that offers you ease, that welcomes you to a new homecoming.

“Walk up to this doorway, still with your eyes closed. Feel the grain of the threshold under your feet, the doorjamb beneath the palm of your hand. Feel the life pulsing on the other side, offering itself to you.

“When you’re ready, step through. Breathe this new air. Feel who you are, in this unknown, deeply familiar place. Feel how you stand, how your feet hold and are held by the ground here.

“Feel yourself welcomed, embraced, in all your beauty and timidity, your power and grace. Feel all this place holds for you and with you.

“Ask those questions that glow steadily in your heart.

“Here are the ones that arise to my lips in this liminal space.

“Why am I here?

“How do I truly love?

“What is yearning to be born?

“How do I serve now?

“How do I love my world now?

“Stay here for as long as you wish. When you feel complete, for now, ask this place for a talisman, a reminder that the door is open for you, that welcome and belonging await you there, as they do here.

“Turn around, and step back into the present moment, bringing the gifts of this place with you. Place your talisman on your altar, or in the altar of your heart. Kiss it, bless it, be blessed by it.

“Write a note, a promise to yourself, to your soul, to your world: This is what I will do to live where I’m being called, to live where I belong.

“Then, gather your allies and resources. Make a plan. Put it into motion. Begin today.”

From Hiro Boga’s new book  To Be Soul, Do Soul: Adventures In Creative Consciousness via MysticMamma

Cate Blanchett in Mary Katrantzou at the Cannes Film Festival 2018

I was thrilled to see the mythical Cate Blanchett wearing a specially crafted Mary Katrantzou number at the Cannes Film Festival. 

Ms. Katrantzou coming from an illustruous retailing family in Greece, has shown, after the distruction of the family business by terrorists in the 1980s, that there is hope in the Future when you are talented and work hard (a blessing by goddess Luck always helps!). 

The dress came from the Spring-Summer 2018 collection, and after the show both Mary and Cate expressed their pleasure in working together.

As British Vogue reports, 

From the initial design to the final embellishments, the Mary Katrantzou dress Cate Blanchett wore to the Cannes Film Festivalpremiere of Cold War took six months to create. Three solid weeks were spent on hand embroidering the custom creation with sequins, bugle beads and Swarovski crystals alone.Look closely, Katrantzou says, and you’ll see the paint by numbers story from the collection, which was inspired by nostalgic childhood pastimes. “The dress evolves from this black and white linear print on a racer-back bodice into an explosion of colour and texture in a voluminous asymmetric skirt.Blanchett was involved in every step of the process, from OK-ing the silk faille base to the intricate beadwork. 

                                      

                                                 (Read the full story here)

                  I love to see happy collaborations with inventive, talented Greek designers. 

                   They struggle so hard in the current world environment and they make it!

                                                   So proud of you!

                                                xoxo

                                               Rena