Friends

The creative spirit has truly landed in my sewing studio! Over the last week, I have spent an amazing number of hours creating with thread, thread, and more thread. I've been inspired by the green leaves and flowers. I've been taking water soluble stabilizer and randomly stitching green backgrounds then removing the stabilizer with water. Next I put more stabilizer in a smaller hoop and "paint" flowers with more thread. Remove the stabilizer, gather the center of my thread flowers and attach them to the green background. Finally, I mount them onto stretched canvas. A great floral piece for the wall!

This brings a saying to mind, "Friends are flowers in the garden of life."

Isn't that so true? Think of a friend or two. They have been in your life for a long time, holding you up, much like the greenery I have been stitching. Even when I remove the stabilizer, the greenery stays beautiful and creates a new background for the finished piece. The flowers are layers of thread all connected to each other with thousands of stitches. Aren't our friends like that? Just when we feel alone, they are there in the background ready to support us even when we think all support is gone. Friends bring beauty into our lives. They bring us smiles when we least expect it and stick with us through everything. The photos above were taken by Latta Johnson. Latta is a friend who has taken up photography in retirement. Doesn't he have a wonderful eye? He has a wonderful eye for nature and captures it with his camera. I rarely miss an opportunity to let him know how much I appreciate his work.

Today, write a note or send a card to a friend. You don't have to write a long letter, just a message that let's them know that they bring beauty into your life. Today, let the flowers in your life know just how much you appreciate them. Have a wonderfully beautiful day!