Pretty things make me happy and I like to have them around, even if they are just pretty versions of every-day stuff like the file folders in the picture above.
Joyce had a yard sale and I got this small tea pot that belonged to her grandmother.
When I use old things, like those that belonged to Joyce's or my grandmother, I feel I'm honoring them in some way.
I placed the tea pot on this cookie platter, a wedding gift from my late friend Rosemary. I think of her and the good times we had together, I think of how she helped me advance in my career, and perhaps most of all I think of the multitudes of handbags she used to send me. My eyes fill with tears, but then I smile...
I got these pretty colored pens from Amazon and I enjoy making my notes, my reminders, and so on with them.
It doesn't take much to make life a little more cheerful.
