days wanting to take photos and post a little happiness for you all but it's been one of those whirlwind weeks, filled to the brim with responsibility more than play.  finally, this morning, almost a week later, i am able to take a little quiet response.  still with little time and few materials to create but luckily with great flea markets to visit on fridays and saturdays (the really cheap one vs. the relatively cheap one) and many gorgeous finds to take home with me to put up for sale in my etsy shop. and most of them with roses, an obsession with the oncoming spring colors and scents.

and there was cake and candles too since my friend Patty celebrated her birthday yesterday with a apread of arab food

Patty, Rosario, Pauli & Sole who is 81/2 months pregnant, one of the most venerable families i have ever met.

i begin today with an altar. 

after reading ONE WILD SWAN  's comments on my blog yesterday, i was humbled when i stumbled upon one of her previous posts and related comments on how powerless we are unless we put ourelves in HIS presence constantly and submit to HIS WAYS for us.  having found a gorgeous print of the virgin and child on my last flea market adventure with cecilia and maria jose, i realized how easy it is to distance ourselves from GOD and how much more i, and all of us, need to pray. pray daily, even several times a day, and recall that powerlessness.  only in that way can we truly be humble and content with each and every gift HE gives us. it also made me remember the blessing before meals which really applies to all his bounty:

Bless us, O Lord! and these Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord, Amen.  Yes, HIS BOUNTY, not our selfish idealizations, reality as it is, frailty as it is, disappointment as a lesson that we are seeking in all the wrong places, insatiable beings.

yet on another note, and speaking of his bounties, we are alive and must maintain ourselves entertained.  so, we play.  what is is life but a great big playground?and how do i play?  i surround myself with beauty.  on that same outing with cecilia and jose i found these bounties which i promised yesterday to share with you.

laura ashley floral lighted garland ( i don't want to unpack it until i get home).

and a tiny salt shaker with roses ofcourse

and the old photograph to remind us that life has always been and ever will be

and ofcourse more of those vintage linens, i have a trunkfull already, sinner that i am

amaneci feliz. es que me siguen pasando puras cosas buenas.

de partida, aprendi a tejer un cuadrado a crochet. mucho tiempo me lo lleve en el intento. quiero hacer unos banderines como los de la ale que los cuelga arriba de su cama. horas estuve improvisando ya que soy como la mona para leer instrucciones. pero salio.

 . por supuesto que la vida no termino con una escapada a la argentina.  muy por el contrario, sigue la aventura.  ayer nos hemos ido de cachureos DE NUEVO con maria maria cecilia ( que llego con reglalito en mano).

hacia anos que no andaba por esos barrios y encontramos unas cosas baratisimas.

hacia anos que no andaba poresos barrios, una feria colorida con frutas y verduras frescas con rincones en que venden cosas usadas. encontramos cosas baratisimas, cecilia una caja de madera y un marco, yo un par de vestidos de nina y unos platos con rosas. a veces hasta yo misma me sorprendo con las cosas que me atraen.  cachurera incorreigible y compulsiva, acumulo antiguedades y un potpourri de inponderables. 

y ella, calida y sin prejuicios, incansable, me acompano despues a ver una casa ya que estoy con serias intenciones de quedarme y echar raices profundas en chile.  la casa no era, no tenia suficiente luz y yo no puedo vivir en la oscuridad.  mi casa tiene dos requisitos basicos:  mucha luz y un jardin.  el tercer requisito es una chimenea.  lo triste es que en chile, por el smog, ya no se pueden prender las chimeneas asi es que seria algo meramente decorativo. 

me ha inculcado el amor por las rosas y ensenado como hacer injertos y plantarlas, como empezar mi propio compost.  ahora solo falta la casa para ponerlo todo en practica.

pancito que compramos con cecilia en una amasanderia del viejo barrio.