Tag: gifts

• A Dream of a Color

  I’ve been a little blog-booked out with all these book and flower adventures myself for now. But I will enjoy them again tomorrow with a little rest. I would like to quietly read Pride and Prejudice before bed, and let go of the blog a bit…A Dream I Had: It was my birthday in the […]

  01/28/2023 10:03 pm

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• Aromatherapy Night Sky Surprise

  

  January 25, 2023 People may respond differently to different herbs; this cat was loving it. 💕💕 —Peeko says, “But don’t take my Jane.” He enjoys classic books of literary style, often with portraits on the cover. This afternoon after yoga, I tried glueing the square of fabric I’d kept, which I’d been saving, when I […]

  01/25/2023 1:30 pm

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• A Pocket Blank Page Journal: for Leaves and Flowers I May Discover and Press

  

  Set up with it all ready. Tea first, and then the little treasures I’d found (which are hidden in the photo for now.) Don’t worry; I am not drinking the glue. I bought this blank journal and it arrived yesterday, in which this morning I’ve placed flowers or leaves that I’d find and press in […]

  01/25/2023 9:39 am

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• Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew

  

  After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂 […]

  01/24/2023 7:43 pm

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• Morning Tea Party with New Winter Teapot

  

  A new teapot 😊 My novel notebook and pen are on the table to steep in ideas before I write them in…💕 I had been ‘wishing for it’ awhile, marked as a ‘winter and spring’ teapot. 🧚‍♂️ Thanks to my sister Jenna and brother in law Wally! I love that the gifts I received are […]

  01/23/2023 3:13 pm

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• Love Me Like…Wind Down Slow Flow Yoga and Written Meditation

  

  I wasn’t too glad with the video and the song particularly; I realized there are more videos I could do on my yoga channel @jadenicoleyoga. The wisdom part of the post that came after was not restoring, but I could see the full thoughts in draft. A tech issue that makes me realize what I […]

  01/23/2023 12:11 pm

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• “The Doll House”

  As I am focusing on my novel right now, I am inspired to send any new poems or short stories I may write to magazines. This story has a little story itself behind why I wrote it: I wrote it for my sister Jenna as a gift (a custom story surprise win someone would receive […]

  01/20/2023 4:58 pm

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• Author Artist Kahlil Gibran Celebrates a Birthday

  

  January 6, 2023 Well, I am going next weekend to celebrate Christmas with my family in New York. I was sick with COVID on Christmas, and so was my husband—he got it first and is over it, as for testing: I am not yet but almost fully healed! We will go bearing gifts, including a […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 pm

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• Vacation

  

  Peeko listening to a naptime story rest, sit, meditate, paint a little, walk. look at the sky, draw, notice scenery, sketch a scene, yoga stretch, continue to eat tangerines, tomatoes, drink green tea, make scrambled eggs with baby spinach, dinner meals. See how many cups of water I am actually drinking in the day, dawned […]

  01/12/2023 10:43 am

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• A Special Gift I’ve Given to Myself: My Rosary and Embroidered Pouch

  

  I knew this year when I visited the gift-shop at La Salette around Christmastime and was too sick to visit my family in Brooklyn, New York at the time, to be postponed, that we would wait to exchange gifts. I still knew of a gift I wanted to give myself this year… The first night […]

  01/02/2023 1:04 pm

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• New Year’s Night: Prayer Candles Lighting Up All through the Week

  

  I got to see the candles at La Salette shrine lit with my messages this time. I found the side wall with a written paper in the Chapel of Light is where they print the dedications.I lit these candles for the full week, including the message I wrote for my grandma with her full name, […]

  01/01/2023 8:29 pm

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• A Handmade Gift: Poetry and Preserved Flowers for May Ziadeh

  

  (in the Christmas morning sun) complete Dec. 24th Christmas Eve 2022 I wrote the poem originally by hand on paper at the end of May 2021 on that month’s Full Flower Moon. The poem was published in March 2022 in Indelible’s The Feminine, and I’d read it live on video. I’d been collecting flowers and […]

  12/25/2022 5:00 pm

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• My Short Story Printed and Ready, and an Author from Mississipi

  I had started writing my novel, which will be a longer length project, but I have been kind of following my desire and writing poems and this “gift” story in between. As I had written previously that I was writing a “secret story” to be given to someone as a gift at my family’s Christmas […]

  12/22/2022 4:30 pm

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• Just Two More Things: A Secret Story to Gift and a Novel Read

  

  (This is my fortune cookie today, featured photo: I could have written it! You know 😅And maybe I did, indirectly, with “algorithms.”) I said I would go on my blog vacation, then I left on a sad note and with my original blog theme needing to be restored, and it is working fine now…that has […]

  12/20/2022 4:48 pm

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• Care Cat, Teddie, and the Moon and Stars Pocket

  

  …🐱Peeko and 🧸Teddie, ‘This is a very serious meeting’ a highly confidential meeting at the coffee table. 🙂 Peeko looks like he is trying to copy Teddie’s stance, and with his own classic ‘Peeko pout’ for effect. You might have read about my wellness replenishment index cards post I wrote, for artists or anyone who […]

  12/11/2022 6:28 pm

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• My Breath Said, Let’s Dance More, and then a Secret Gift Arrived

  

  (feat. photo, Fri., December 2, ‘22 concept: ‘philosophical inquiry on self-portraits in general’ while taking the photo) I spent the evening dancing before dinnertime… Realizing my breath can tell me that I’ve been away from it, and my body desire shows me I am happy to return. I’ve been doing plenty of writing, painting, blogging, […]

  12/05/2022 10:00 pm

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• My Books

  

  November 12, 2022 I arranged them nicely and now I actually wish to read a book when I go in. And I have 2 books I gifted to myself on the way, soon…:) 💕Jade P.S. Oops 🙂 I have a couple of things to fix…The angel has no bookend next to her on one side […]

  11/12/2022 11:41 am

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• Bringing Calm with Arranging Books with Honeybear…A Milk and Honey Moisturizer

  

  November 2, 2022 My books were greatly out of order, book 2 showing before book 1 of a series, poetry, non-fiction, novel in a row…But I found that a little fun. I wanted to bring some calm and beauty and simplicity to the bookcase and my mind this afternoon…I also spaced the books a little […]

  11/03/2022 9:27 am

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• Good Morning! : Miss May’s Flower Art

  

  I completed this flower art today I’d made for author and poet, Miss May Ziadeh. I’d collected flowers over the seasons, a couple fallen onto my path outside, and pressed them in a book for her… and then I’d made her a celebration memorium at my home where I’d read Miss May (as she was […]

  08/19/2022 11:05 am

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