Resolutions

I have been debating weather to post these or not.

I always greet the new year with big dreams

and a childlike enthusiasm to accomplish my goals.

I have more often than not have set goals and ideas only

to forget about them a month later.

I guess they must not have been that important.

So I have thought long and hard about what

ideas I want to be important to me this year.

Here they are...

Create something beautiful everyday. (Anything counts, just create.)

Make more pieces of clothing than I buy.

Have more adventures.

Cut my Starbucks habit and save that $4 a day for my own espresso machine.

Volunteer for a cause I believe in.

Yoga daily.

So now that I have posted my ideas here,

I will see them and remember.

Be held to them.

I welcome this new year with an open heart

and a fresh thirst to live and create.

1. Leonora Scarf, Anthropologie 2. Tim Walker via. Luxe & Love 3. La Belle Vie 4. La Pavoni Espresso Machines, gold finish 5. Mark Godfrey of The Nature Conservancy 6. yogainair.com

The Sunday List......

If I was a month, I’d be October.

If I was a day of the week, I’d be Saturday.

If I was a time of day, I’d be dawn.

If I was a planet, I’d be Earth.

If I was a sea animal, I’d be a sea horse.

If I was a direction, I’d be north.

If I was a piece of furniture, I'd be a bookshelf.

If I was a liquid, I’d be hot tea.

If I was a gemstone, I’d be a crystal.

If I was a tree, I’d be a weeping willow.

If I was a tool, I’d be a needle.

If I was a flower, I’d be a tiger lily.

If I was a kind of weather, I’d be silent snow.

If I was a musical instrument, I’d be a violin.

If I was a color, I’d be grey.

If I was an emotion, I’d be passion.

If I was a fruit, I’d be coconut.

If I was a sound, I’d be rain on the earth.

If I was an element, I’d be water.

If I was a car, I’d be a bicycle.

If I was a food, I'd be garlic.

If I was a place, I’d be a mountain peak.

If I was a material, I’d be lace.

If I was a taste, I’d be spicy.

If I was a scent, I'd be the smell of rain.

Mushroom of the week!!!!

Happy Mondays!!!!!

Good Morning Fellow AM'ers

Thought you might need a song and pic to cheer you up.

Have a beautiful day.

Blog Over Haul

Welcome to La Belle Vie. The Beautiful Life!!!!

I have decided to just have a blog so I can share things that are inspiring, beautiful, thought provoking, etc. Please enjoy.

Venus the Goddess of Love

Venus the Goddess of Love. Botticelli's painting of The Birth of Venus was painted in 1480s. The painting depicts the Goddess emerging from the foaming seas on a seashell. She was blown by Zephyrus, God of the wind, and the gentle breeze of Aura. She is coming ashore on the island of Cythera, where she is greated by one of the Horae, Goddess of the Seasons.

The Birth of Venus is such a special painting to me. My mom when she was my age got told that she resembled Venus on the Half-Shell, I have also gotten this compliment. I cherish this painting not only because she is beautiful and the Goddess of Love, but my and my mom can share this together. I can only hope to spread love in all the aspects of my life.

Let bygones by bygones.

'Failure is an opportunity

if you blame someone else

there is no end to blame.

Therefor the master

fulfills her own obligations

and corrects her own mistakes.

She does what she needs to do

and demands nothing of others.'

-Lao-tzu

The Dark Ages is not just an era in time, its a time in everyones life. It is interesting that people will spend their whole lives telling you what you can't have, do or say and the whole time be trying to accomplish their dreams while someone tells them the same thing. Why is that? Is it because they don't want you to be successful or happy? Is it because they don't believe in you and don't want to see you fail and suggest you just play it safe? Is it their generation speaking through them? Well what ever it is, who gives a shit. Why are you going to settle for second best because someone else. Realize what you want and go for it. Take the failures you have had in the past, own them, use them as learning experiences and move forward from there. Let your bygones be bygones.