SNOWBLIND!

this past week's little blizzard that hit minnesota.



thunder-snow and all.

residual wedding thoughts

if i could get married again i would want to look just like this-


photo by CirasPhotography

short hair, poof veil, fur caplet, KNIT knee lenght dress, slip showing, black tights.

love.

the internal war

"Disease will never be cured or eradicated by present materialistic methods, for the simple reason that disease in its origin is not material . . . Disease is in essence the result of conflict between the Soul and Mind and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort."

I work at a natural foods store and recently our In Store Educator held a class on flower essences, this is what I learned about Flower Essences.

Flower essences are used to aid moods, dispositions, metal ailments, like/and anxiety. Geez I feel like I'm writing a school essay.

Edward Bach was doctor in the 1930's who came to discover that emotional problems could be corrected like an illness. He discovered and created flower essences, which work the same way homeopathy does by taking a property and minimizing/diluting it into a healing state. Homeopathy differs in the sense it dilutes toxins or poisons, flower essences are not and therefor positive energy, but the same idea goes that the more you dilute it the better it may work for your body. Your body picks up these trace amounts of the flower and it's healing properties.

The flower essences are diluted in a 50:50 water and brandy solution. I've been told the alcohol allows your body to absorb it better (this maybe false) and to keep it from spoiling.

Bach discovered these properties through his connection with plants. He felt he had a psychic connection to the plants and used his intuition to guide his to the properties of each plant.

Bach began his research by collecting morning dew drops off of the plants themselves, then later this moved to steeping the leaves in a bowl of water under sunlight, then boiling them. He gathered his research down to 38 flowers, Bach's Remedies.

These flower essences are safe for pets as well.

Here is a list of the 38 flowers/remedies.

Here is another site for more information, Bachflowertherapy.com

If you were curious I am currently taking 2 essences. I am happy with the results and taking them does not harm me either way, they do not interact with any medications I maybe on unlike herbs can. Just 1 or 2 drops in a glass of water, or held directly under the tongue for 30 seconds, but the the alcohol can really burn so I don't do that.

There is no scientific method to these remedies. Just faith.

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updated sketch-



bare chimney and tile back splash.

crawling

slowly, slowly this little house of ours is getting closer. as far as we know the inspections are going through this thursday *yay*! hopefully all the paper work with best assets has been signed correctly, initialed correctly, correct (full) address, checks received and anything else that has caused us confusion is taken care of and we can move on! we've got insurance lined up, paperwork together, money adding up in the bank, and our apartment has been given away to new tenants- we WILL be there in less than 2 months!

till then all we can do is prepare...

we want a new kitchen



-before-


-the general idea-


simple, clean, open.
first of all blow out that whole wall and create a bar/island, stove and overhead hood/fan, chopping board and dishwasher below, no microwave, green tiled floor, natural wood, grey and white muted tones~ the colors will come from the fiesta ware and pyrex.