...a beautiful tattered cloth

 
...hello dear readers

can you tell me what you see here:

this isn't a trick question...

and

there is no hidden Waldo in there

lol!!

but seriously,

do you see ~

 part of a chair,

an enamel pitcher of lavender,

some green grass

and

a cotton crochet lace tablecloth too??

a lovely image, 

no??!

i was thrilled the day i found that table cloth

 pictured over the arm of the chair,

...

and it would be a generous statement indeed,

to say that it was without some flaws...

at first i thought that i would use it to cut up

and make a lot of different pretties out of it

as it was already tattered and torn...

some might even say, ruined

but,

i decided to stitch up a few of the larger holes instead...

a funny thing happened as i was stitching those broken threads

#1  there were a lot more holes than i thought upon closer inspection,

which took a few more breaths of my time

so

#2  i started thinking to myself,

in how that i was similar to this tattered cloth

no, i don't have any physical breaks

 my holes and broken threads

are more in the form of

~ broken dreams ~

~ heart aches ~

~ sorrows ~

but...

don't

we

all

have

 those?

some tatters are way BIGGER than we care to admit,

or even acknowledge ~

but

they are there...

strings hanging...

~ loose ends ~

almost like they are taunting us ~

sometimes almost beyond repair...

woa there!!

that's a pretty nasty lookin' hole!!

i'm not sure that THAT hole can be repaired...

but when we look beyond the obvious gaping hole staring at us,

and dwell in the possibilities instead...

then,

we are able to turn those nasty, gnarly parts of ourselves into

BEAUTY!!

yes,

you heard me correctly~

i said

Beauty!!

it has been said that

"beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

so isn't the question we should be asking ourselves

then become:

WHO, is my beholder?

what if we choose to allow love to wash over us,

 instead of,  let's say,

fear,

self doubt,

jealousy

and

 the list goes on...

by choosing love,

then we can see that all things ARE possible

and

s-l-o-w-l-y

 we can begin to see progress

and even though those repair stitches may not be exact,

they can still render this tattered tablecloth lovely

 and 

still useful.

if only for one last time

and by using threads of love, hope and gratitude

to stitch our broken strings,

we can become stronger

and even more lovely than before...

because now,

when our fingers run over those repaired stitches

or

~ scars ~

we can see,

that in the bigger picture

we were always meant to be

 BEAUTIFUL!!

sharing this over at

Faded Charm's: White Wednesday

i will have a few of these faux grain sack

"flower gatherer's" available

they measure approximately 24" wide

and have a sling length of 34" long

ruffles are 3" long

if you would like to reserve one,

just convo me.

here's to becoming a beautiful tattered cloth!