i love the rain. it rained and hailed and flooded and thundered today. such a good day! but not just the weather. gareth and i talked a lot about our family plan. like the future of buckets n boards. the future of dixie stampede. the future of my cakes. it gets crazy and scary sometimes. but one thing for sure is that the path we take will be the one that leads us to more family time. that is what we strive for. what is the point of work work work and no time together. gareth and i are both lucky to be able to be creative and make dough at the same time. right now we have come to a point where we decide what is most important to us.
today i got this amazing Kewpie Ho-Ho. gareth's family has said that noii reminds them of a laughing buddha. since i first heard that, i have thought of her as such a happy little buddha. she is a good luck charm and such a chubby baby that is always laughing! after i got the kewpie, i decided to do research on it. sooo interesting. how lucky am i that the creator, rose o'neil, lived right here in branson. she was very big in her day (late 1800s-1940s) and there is a museum that i am definitely going to...right down the street! anywho, the kewpie ho-ho was her last creation, and this is what she wrote for the box it came in:
Ho-Ho, the Little Laughing Buddha. Being the God of Wisdom he had the "Supreme Wisdom of Laughter." He was to laugh all your cares away.
I am the little god Ho-Ho
The wisdom of ages I know-ho
When I hear a boo-hoo
I chaff it off.
So if you have started
To getting down-hearted,
Just hurry to Ho-Ho
And laugh it off.
i love that!! laughter. a brilliant word of wisdom.
another project i have been thinking of for a long time is a new blog. it is a blog centered around creating. i love checking out what people create and the tutorials they put up. my goal is to make time to try out these tutorials and post them. i love trying recipes and cakes from websites. i am most appreciative of these people that bake or craft and then share with the world how to do it. unless it is baking or cooking related i have a TERRIBLE time following directions so this will be a doozy. but i really want to try it out. stay tuned for that!
also... another no spend month coming up! join us if you want to cleanse out the over-consumerismness and get a whole new outlook on spending. you might just discover that you buy stuff...JUST TO BUY STUFF!!!!
