hi mav! am loving your thoughts on blogging. i definitely check in here when i need a dose of inspiration! your trio of rosa dolls is lovely. also, that is a fab self-portrait. they way you are holding up your hand is too cute. hope you are feeling better. hugs back to you! shari ps: enjoy a relaxing weekend.

I have got to say...you are a completely wonderful lady with such loveliness and grace. happy that you are here in this bubble of a world. have a great weekend friend.

have a lovely weekend. looking forward to next week's discussion...

Hope you feel better this weekend, sorry to hear you've been up and down - and glad you left your comments on so as I've been meaning to comment all week. Keep smiling :-)

i'm so happy i found your blog. it's like a nice coffee/tea time chat with lots of lovely folks from all over the globe. your style is so sweet and intimate--i love it.

i wish i was brave enough to start a blog. i love the exchange of ideas and the moral support it seems to create. however, my writing skills are poopy and between a 2-year old, working full-time, going to school AND attempting to work on knitting and learning to sew...it's kind of low on the list.

hope the weekend picks you back up!

There once was a girl from Nantucket,
Who kept craft supplies ina bucket,
One of her cute little bows,
Was right on her nose,
When asked why,
Her reply...
"That's just where I stuck it!"


-- Well, you asked what I had to say *smile*. I had to make this poem up just for you. I too am sorry for the downs but I am all to happy for the ups. Although, I am not really a part of your elite pen pals, I am super super glad that I get to read along!!

Thinking of you this weekend!

i love coming to your blog for inspiration and calm. you have such a nice way of arranging words and images and ideas mav! thank you.

I have a pretty tight group of good friends in "real life" we hang out our fair share, but mostly we 'do things' and 'make things' as a way to stay involved in each others life. I know that over the last year I have made a small list of what I can only trust are like minded folks that are my new age pen pals. I love checking and sharing with them words, inspiration and sometimes post. Miss M, I love that you are included there. I love that I can give one of your handmade treats to my friends for their birthday and tie my real and my fuzzy computer life together in a pretty bow.

poetry friday for you from one of my favourites...

Buddha in Glory


Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.

Rainer Maria Rilke

relax, rejuvenate, rejoice this weekend.

besitos,
Autumn

Mav, I have to say I find your blog very soothing. I like the positive insights and energy I find on it each day. I always feel a little more calm after reading your thoughts. Your like a happy little meditation.
Love the dolls, Rosa is pretty amazing huh!
Have a great weekend
xo ash

did i just see you quote ABBA in your blog title today? ah, a girl after my own heart ;)
have a grand weekend. it's beautiful, warm and sunny here in california...wishing you the same.

i say:
love your photo
love your style
love your vision
love your openess
love the inspiration
hugs

Great thoughts to ponder over the weekend for sure. Love the photos as usual.

i love the idea of computer pen pals. although nothing beats a handwritten note...hmmm. your blog inspires me to stop everything and just think about things....and i love that. till next week. beautiful self portrait.

Mav, love the Self P. I imagine you are mid yoga pose or mid dancing your booty down to the ground. Very fun!
great flickr choices!
happpy weekend.
xo

hi mav, love your thoughts especially today. it is funny how we begin to rely on these friends out in the world whom we've never met. it's comforting and also confuing, but comforting more so. i love the questions you ask and the things you make the rest of us think about that we may not have thought about on our own. thank you for that. hope the bumpiness smooths itself out for you soon..!

-joy

i just described blogging to someone this week as todays version of penpals :) and talking of pens, i've started writing and sending cards to people again because of your cards!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I have been reading your blog since I started doing this whole thing and I was very excited to receive your music swap package with an extra treat. I love it!

I guess when you think of people even when the computer is off, they are friends!? Seeing something and think - this would Maria like :)

This photo makes me miss you and everything else on the site makes me wanna see some of your work live and in-person. Keep it up, lassie. XO, G

I too am so happy I found your blog. I find it calming and inspirational, and a gateway to a bunch of other wonderful blogs and people. Blogging is such an interesting and odd experience. I like your thought that it's like penpals online. Or sort of like a shared note journal that gets passed around from person to person in between classes...

I love the new banner Mav!

love the new banner! and i just saw the cards you printed for a wedding Karin attended (whew that was a weird sentence :) they are GORGEOUS!
big hug. c

blogging is about connecting with all the beauty of the universe.

thanks for sharing all yours.

I LOVE what Camilla has to say about this blogging world. Yes. When the computer is off and you are still thinking of people--that enters the realm of 'friends'. What a lovely image. And gosh, blogging bringing those friendships to tangible real interactions in our daily lives? absolutely amazing. So glad that blogging introduced US to each other, my friend!

gorgeous new banner. ;)