Want more positive energy in your life?

It is spring and the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming and it seems like everything is bursting!  I planted some daffodil bulbs from the Arboretum uwbotanicgarden sale last year and they have just shown their lovely yellow and rose colors to me this morning. It seems like everything is more fragrant and soft and everyone looks happy.  This is the time of year tailor made to assist you in your search for more positive energy. 

What can you do to capitalize on this exciting time? Clear the clutter around your front door. Yes you! 

Take a moment and look at the entrance of your home (both exterior and interior).  Is it dark and dingy? Is it full of stuff you will “take care of when you get a moment?” Can you open the door fully?  Does the key stick?  Here is my personal visualization about how clear the front walk, door and entrance should be:

Imagine you are the guest of honor at a very fancy function where ball gowns are de rigueur.  As you walk out the door of your home, you do not want to have anything around you that may snag your long, flowing gown (yes, guys, you can imagine yourself in a ball gown or if you must, visualize someone else, but I think you are missing out).  You do not want to have anything that detracts from your loveliness, you want the world to notice YOU not the boots from last winter thrown on the floor!  You want your return from the function to be just as worry free.  Imagine your delight when you return and nothing impedes your way into your lovely clutter free home!  OK, the clutter free rest of the home is for another post!   

For now, just spend a few minutes sprucing up the entrance of your home.  You will be amazed at how fast the energy changes in your entire life.  As an added bonus, the perfect answers to those questions you have been pondering will come “out of the blue”! 

What does your entrance look like?  Is it what you really want to be showing the world? Are you ready for a change?  Now would be the perfect time for a little spruce up, your public awaits!

 

Seasonal Harvest

Hey gang,

I have spent the past two days in my garden harvesting and in the kitchen cooking up all this bounty of the season!  Yesterday was gluten free zucchini muffins to have on hand now. I have the cutest two-bite muffin tins so was able to make a bunch – where do they go so fast though?   Then a couple of loaves of zucchini bread, for now and to store.  There is nothing like taking a loaf out of the freezer on one of those cold February days, making a pot of Shakespeare’s tea and spending some time with a friend.  The chocolate zucchini cake I made two days ago is just about gone and was really great (note to self, make TWO next time). 

Also coming out of the kitchen yesterday was a great pot of fresh tomato soup with thyme and tarragon, truly a comfort food if there ever was one.  I have a hankering for a grilled cheese sandwich and know that combination will be on my lunch menu in the very near future, OK probably tomorrow!  I also canned a couple of jars of orange cherry and red Roma tomatoes.  Woke up this morning to every jar sealed – such a lovely feeling.  Now I am even slightly looking forward to those vegetable sparse months of winter when some color and fantastic flavor is desperately needed. 

Harvested the herbs for the above mentioned Shakespeare’s tea today.  Mint, savory, marjoram, calendula and lavender.  Everything is drying in various places around the house waiting for another day when I gather it all up and put it into some jars for gifts.  And of course, brew the first pot of the season.  The basic recipe is 1cup of each dried herb and flower crumbled together.  Really couldn’t be easier and is a great tasting herbal tea.

Today I also planted the bulbs I bought at the Arboretum sale last week.  Tulips, Daffodils, Anemone and lots more lovelies for spring.  Looking forward to some early color next year!

This weekend was all about creating the provisions for the rainy, wet, cold season ahead,  Hope you did the same!