Feelings of Gratitude

Firstly I would like to heartfully thank all of

you wonderful bloggers who have left such supportive

and loving comments and sent emails

 as you stay with me on my journey with Andrea.
As I haven't been able to visit you all personally
I am using this post as a means of expressing my fullest appreciation!
Just "thank you so very very much"!

♥♥♥♥♥

It is times like these that all I have to do is look around my studio

 and see just a few of the very beautiful creative gifts

given to me over the last couple of years

 both by dear blogging friends

as well as other wonderful friends from around the world

to remind me just how fortunate I am

and continue to be for having friends like yourselves

and also for the fact that I am gifted with this wonderful life
of creativity and a studio
where I can express my heart's desire!

These are a few embellished boxes

in which I store some goodies with which

to create different works such as these hearts

as well as framed collages

from particular images that I find so appealing. I feel so blessed!

I'm learning how to really appreciate

what the squeeze of a hand, a tiny  

gentle smile or even a change in breathing

with unspoken words really and truly mean!

How to be able to go for a short walk and collect

a few simple seed pods, a feather, a bird's nest, some stones and shells

and favorite bits of wood can bring simple joys -

the joys that mean more than words can express

as I continue to compile and create in my

 Friendship Collage Lace Book

and

to show you just how thoughtful friends can be I

received these most beautiful parcel of doilies this week

from a most generous Australian blogging friend, Judy

who thought I just may like to incorporate them.

Thank you "heaps" Judy - you are just so wonderful!

Some were stitched onto pretty papers

Oh these beautiful blue wrens too!

and so beautifully hand painted.  How gorgeous are these

Superb Blue Wrens

and these dear little Scrub Wrens!

This last piece is another collage I am creating

in the hope of bringing some new inspiration

and positive moments of relief

in lifting our spirits high

as onward we 

travel!

Thank you dear friends for just being there!
It means so much to me!

Much love and hugs,
Suzy ♥