Showing posts with label capture life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capture life. Show all posts

getting creative, decorating + some loveliness




Running through woods, wind whipping hair, feet pounding the soil hard.  Thinking life is free right now.   I fly past trees and small, picket fences, grass, and soil.  I soak in oxygen, breathe out carbon dioxide heavily.  My heart races. 
Stopping, I sit -- relaxed now.   I spot a twig with a bud on it.  I capture this, hold its beauty tight. 



A month later, crocuses peek their heads up from the ground, they reach for the sky, they beckon me to capture their beauty, and I do capture it.  

Zoom ahead.  In between months and months of capturing things, here I am, sitting at my desk capturing the beauty of pen and ink.  And thinking about rain.   


The same day I think about rain, I think about the beach... and decorating.  And do a little re-decorating session in my room. 

...Here's a sneak-peek:


 Currently, shells are sitting on my dresser.  They refreshen, enlighten, inspire, and give my room a bit of spark. 


shells on lace
  and hearts on string.
Oh what joy
small things can bring!
- by me :: acacia
Hee, hee... I just came up with that.  Sometimes poems don't have to be long and descriptive; because sometimes, it's the small quotes and poems that leave an imprint on your heart.

How to:
1) grab an old newspaper, a book you don't want, or even a magazine with pictures and colors you love in it
2) draw hearts on your chosen paper and cut out those hearts
3) get out your needle and thread and poke the needle
 into the hearts to get them on the thread.
4) space the hearts evenly away from each other, and tape each end of the thread on to a wall.  Voila! your beautiful hearts are ready.


I thought of making lace hearts, but since the color of my room is a light yellow the white lace doesn't show up very well... do you have a dark(ish) colored room? and do you love white lace? make lace hearts instead of paper ones and string them across your wall! 




{my bed-head}
currently, I'm loving april cornell.  Both the bigger pillows on my bed are April Cornell pillowcases.  



 This picture was torn out of a Country Living magazine and taped on a shelf in my room.  Isn't this room such a pretty and quaint one?

more pictures taped on my shelf... 
noticed the picture of Jane Austen?  That's a postcard with the original picture of her on it... Jane's sister, Cassandra, sketched Jane but never finished the sketch.  No one ever drew a sketch of Jane in her life time, therefore all the other paintings of her are copied from this one. We don't know exactly what Jane looked like, but the picture above is about as close as we'll get. :O)

Pencil sharpenings: colorful, unique, yet simple.





{{these next pictures are all disclaimers.}}  


This?  Oh this is pure bliss.  How I would love to swing over an ocean.

That's been me. Reading for like... a long time. 

...my new header.  Love?  Dislike?  So - so?  Do tell!


Whoa!  First, I love the color of that eye.  (it's the same color as mine!)  And second, the heart in it is just adorable. 




much love!  

acacia

psst... don't forget to comment and give me your opinion on my new header! ;)  ... and my little poem, did you like it? 

little joys

  :: little joys in my day :: 

education + music 
Listening to music while working on school... I love my iPod.  


math: doing algebra 1.  
God makes me be grateful for the smallest things.  Today, I was grateful for math.  And school. Why?  Because millions and millions of other girls like me don't get an education.  I'm so blessed to have my math books, my literature books, writing, science, geography, history... the list goes on.  Jesus has blessed me so much.


blurry.


sometimes it's the 
blurry,
grainy,
sticky,
rough,
soft,
small, 
and
intricate,
things in life that make me smile.  Like trees smothered in sunlight.  
Getting bokeh shots of these trees.  
Freezing the moment.  
Thanking God. 



'sugar and spice and everything nice, that's what little girls are made of' 
-old rhyme


fresh, pastel-pink nail polish gently flowing across my finer nails = bliss.




It's simple but elegant... do you like it?

spinning



  I love action shots! 

 beautiful


flowers are so beautiful.  
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin."  
Matthew 6:28 




brothers

Smashes and clashes of home-made wooden swords are heard in the back garden, quick feet scatter across the lawn, a groan is heard, then follows it a triumphant cry:  This is the epitome of boys.  This is the epitome of my brothers.  Is this the epitome of your younger brothers?  

capture life

disclaimer

that's why I'm capturing moments -- freezing moments in life and putting them on this blog.  That's why I'm recording God-inspired thoughts and placing them here.

I'm capturing life

much love,

acacia



capture, embrace, live fully

the next couple pictures were taken in Germany




I've been wanting more and more to,
   Embrace Jesus. Capture moments, life.  Live fully. 
How do I do that?  How can I be fully alive for Christ and cope with all the hardships in this world?  How can I be grateful in the midst of storms? 

The answer:  Christ. 
 I'm going to Him and asking Him for help.  Help in the midst of the raging storms.  Help in the midst of war.  Help in the midst of life. 

Will you go to Him, too?  -- And only to Him?  Because I know that sometimes we go to things that won't give us help.  We look for help in the wrong places.  But can we just chose that right place to go to, please?  That right place is Jesus Christ.  He's the Healer of all, redeemer of all.  Explaining how much He helps transform your life is beyond explanation.  As soon as you enter His presense, you will be transformed.  Enter!  Enter into His gate! 

through Him you'll live fully.