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flowers.
So when we first moved in our house here in South Carolina I knew it would feel more like home if I just had some flowers. I love flowers. I love to pick them up and Mike brings them home quite often. Flowers just make a home feel like there is a touch of nature and creativity, that God is in the mix, and attention to the details of life. (I really do love them!)
Things were very hectic when we moved in between being moved in the day before school started, trips to the emergency room, and boxes everywhere there was little time to remember to pick up some flowers. Besides, I reasoned, they'll just get lost in the mess.
One morning after the kids had gone to school I was sitting out on our deck writing in my journal. I felt the breeze and stopped what I was writing and looked up at the trees and just felt the winds play on my skin and smelled the forest in back of our home. I sat there thinking how amazing and surreal that moment was being in a new home in South Carolina, how majestic those trees were, and how much I loved sitting out on our deck. Suddnly, I realized that I could bring some of that inside. So instead of waiting for the right moment to buy those flowers I decided to do what I normally do with flowers... except with the leaves in my yard.
It was beautiful. I set them up around the house, in my bathroom, in window sills, and on tables. Then I walked around the house looking at how wonderful it looked and being very happy with the outcome. And, to make it even better, when the girls came home from school they ran inside and said "Oh! Mom those look so pretty!". It's starting to feel like home here and we're loving it!
P.S. Yes, in the picture below: those are my sweet, little twin girls hand and foot prints. We made those when they were about 6 months old...they obviously loved squishing their feet in the plaster and felt it was much better than making their prints look perfect. :) I love it!
beautiful. LIFE.
Reader Comments (8)
I loved the leaves and I am so glad that this is feeling like home! Thanks for doing so much to make our house a home and a sanctuary from the world.
I love you!
I live in Charlotte, and I also LOVE being out on the deck and feeling the cool wind and listening to the leaves rustling. Beautiful isn't it?
This post just makes me happy! I can almost feel that breeze on my skin as if I'm sitting right beside you. I need to slow down and enjoy the simple things in life like that so much more, so I can't tell you how much this post means to me!
muah!
M:)
Mike, you being here is a huge part of what makes our house a home.
Caroline, it is gorgeous here. I'm loving the mild weather.
Mary, I so wish you were here sitting on my deck with me! The simple things are where it's at...
Fall is here. I am excited and in the process of looking at the possibilities. I just lost my mother, so fall is also a time of letting go. Letting go and going with the ways things change and grow and evolve.
I absolutely LOVE the beautiful prints. The squishy makes it better and even more perfect.
So...I am marveling at your work and then see that you are in SOUTH CAROLINA!! I am dying to know if you ever host workshops or anything around Columbia. I am wanting to develop my hobby a little bit and think YOU are the right place to start :)
Dinea, I'm so sorry to hear about your mother. That must be very difficult for you.I can't imagine. And what a beautiful way of looking at life...letting go. You are in my thoughts...
Kitty,
I actually do a variety of workshops. My favorite is Day with Davina. I get to hang out with you one on one. Before our workshop I send you a questionnaire so I can find out what your strengths and weaknesses are so we can assess how best to spend our time for the day. It's a lot of fun and it's packed with info and possibly a photo shoot! You can read more about it in the:
for.photographers.
link in the upper left corner...just page up and click or you can send me an email at davina@davinafear.com and I'll send you all of the details and we can get something scheduled for you!