Oh dear, it's nearly January 1st. January heralds in our daughter's dance competition season. I am so not prepared.
I swear it seems like yesterday was September and I had planned to be fully complete and way ahead of the game by now. Instead I find myself with a costume to complete this week since she needs to practice in it, gems to buy for the pre-made costumes that may not even arrive until a day or so before the first competition (meaning late night gemming sessions to get them assembled and set in time), hair pieces to make or buy and random little items to buy to stock up her cases and a host of insanity ahead.
Time to load up my new Brother Sewing machine Vin gave me, do some Swarovski hotfix gem shopping on Amazon.com and hunker down to business!
Bobby pins- where are the bobby pins?
December 29, 2012
December 22, 2012
Struggles...
I received this little story in my e-mail from a motivational subscription I signed up for at http://www.arinanikitina.com . It spoke to me so I thought I would pass it on for others.
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.
One day a small opening appeared.
He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it
struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole.
Then it stopped, as if it couldn't go further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining
bits of cocoon. The butterfly emerged easily but it had
a swollen body and shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch it, expecting that any minute
the wings would enlarge and expand enough to support the
body.
Neither happened!
In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life
crawling around. It was never able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste did not
understand: The restricting cocoon and the struggle
required by the butterfly to get through the opening was
a way of forcing the fluid from the body into the wings
so that it would be ready for flight once that was
achieved.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives.
Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us.
We will not be as strong as we could have been and we
would never fly.
Arina
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.
One day a small opening appeared.
He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it
struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole.
Then it stopped, as if it couldn't go further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining
bits of cocoon. The butterfly emerged easily but it had
a swollen body and shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch it, expecting that any minute
the wings would enlarge and expand enough to support the
body.
Neither happened!
In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life
crawling around. It was never able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste did not
understand: The restricting cocoon and the struggle
required by the butterfly to get through the opening was
a way of forcing the fluid from the body into the wings
so that it would be ready for flight once that was
achieved.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives.
Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us.
We will not be as strong as we could have been and we
would never fly.
Arina
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