Treasure Art Trends' Treasure Talk

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A little taste of summer

Happy 4th of July!

 Even with all the craziness and things I wish were different, I feel so proud and blessed to live in America!  I am very thankful for all the people, throught out the history of our country, that have made it possible to live in a free country.

Here's a you tube video of the great Lee Greenwood song:, "I'm Proud to Be an American"

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If that didn't work, try this link:        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-9_fDEsv-Q

Serendipity

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originally uploaded by treasuretrends.

I was taking pictures of various stuff for our blog redesign, one of which was a jar of buttons.
I accidentally knocked the FULL jar of buttons over. Ugh, I was so mad at myself, until I actually took a moment to just look at the buttons, rather than looking at the mess I had to pick up.
That was a moment of Serendipity! They looked so pretty. I could have spent hours trying, trying being the key word, to make them look like they had just spilled out across the concrete, and "ta dah" here they are, created all by themselves. (is "themselves" a word?)

So my thought for the day is to step back from what at first glance appears to be a disaster, take a breath, look again, and maybe it's a gift, not a mess.

Keri

Living with clowns

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originally uploaded by * cate *.

This made me laugh too!

Keri

Mary Haldeman's Picture Trail

Mary Haldeman is such an inspiration to me when it comes to the use of lots and lots of color as well as lots of embellishments.  She does it very stylishly I might add!  She is also a downright, genuinely sweet and funny gal! 

Need some eye candy, or inspiration?  I have added a link to her picture trail, look in the left column for links, to fulfill that need. 

Heart nosed Dalmatian

My folks sent me pictures of a friends litter of dalmatians.  Look at the cute heart shape on his nose!  ahhh, puppies are so darn cute!

Keri

RAK for Animals

Click here: Best Friends Day: Acts of Kindness

  I was searching for something inspiring to post today since I didn't think you wanted to just hear me whine about, well what ever I might whine about.  I did some searches, nope nothing.  Then I read my email, and Bam, there it is! 

I must first of all confess I am a total, complete animal lover.  It breaks my heart to see animals suffer, I can't watch movies where animals are hurt, even though I tell myself it's not real!  Ol Yeller, lets not even go there!

So, naturally, I help out animals where I can.  I have taken strays home, in one case after some investigative work Sherlock Holmes would have been proud of.  I have picked up dogs on the freeway.  I support animal shelters and rescue groups.  I feed three spoiled dogs twice a day.  LOL

FINALLY I am to my point!  Best Friends Animal Shelter did a survey and found that 89 percent of Americans feel we have a moral obligation to help animals, and 96 percent felt an animal should never be hurt.  Still millions of homeless animals are put to death every year.  What Best Friends Animal Shelter has done is set up an Animal Kindness Meter.  They are setting up a friendly challenge for us all to do something nice for animals and then post it on their site.  They have a meter showing how many things have been done and posted. 

If you are at a loss as to what to do, they have ideas and there are messages from people telling what they have done.  Here is the link again.Click here: Best Friends Day: Acts of Kindness  Though the official date of the contest is over, they have the meter still open and available for posting.  It's never to late to help out!

If you do something, will you also post it here?  I would love to know about it!

P.S.  In case you don't know, RAK stands for Random Act of Kindness.

Keri