Featured Artist and Blogger

A blog that I discovered during one of the blog

parties, is the very sweet blog of Patty Antle,

Patty's Pretty things

at www.pattyantle.com

Patty's blog is filled with interesting tutorials

and she is a prolific crafter!

Here are some of her Spring Spoolies she

made for a swap that she organised on her blog :

A tutorial 

St Patty's day rainbows

and Patty has a miniature dollhouse!

she shares the entire journey of finding

the house and then furnishing it

with meaningful pieces on her blog!

worth reading if you love dollhouses!

Oh and let me not forget this week's sharing,

button bouquets!

how innovative!

So hop over and visit Patty's Pretty Things - there

are lots of pretty ideas and inspiration on offer!

And Party you can grab my pretty badge and put

it on your sidebar!

blessings

Hettienne

Mornings with Mary - Monday 19 May

Queen of Heaven - handmade rosary necklace by Hettienne

The Madonna Flower Cycle

extract from 

The Blessed Virgin Mary, Her Life

and Her Mission by Corinne Heline

......June is the month of Celestial Reflections.

It claims the Iris, the rainbow flower,

and the stately plant that bears an impress

of the flower spectrum.

Man did not always know the seven-rayed

spectrum, nor does he know its twelvefold

range.  But time will bring extensions.

July - the White Lily - a native of the Holy Land,

is the symbol of the Feast of the Visitation

which is celebrated in July, the 

month of Cosmic Remembrance.

Wherever the Visitation is preserved,

the vase of white lilies stands by the

Virgin's side, crowned with an auriole of

three mystic blossoms.

In August, the golden month of 

Divine Consummations, occurs the

Feast of the Assumption.

This season knows the golden Sunflower.

It is the golden blossom upon which the soul,

newly separated from earth conditions,

feasts in preparation for transition

into a higher state of consciousness, and

therefore appropriately named 

'food for a king'.

It is today truly a King's food for seeds

are of man's greatest nourishment, the

breath of the Sun breathing its power into the body

through the these tiny seeds.

September - Golden Rod.

In September the annual inflow

of Light is celebrated as the Nativity Feast, 

the birth month of Mother Mary.

Blessed herbs, through which astral prototypes

the Beloved Lady has poured streams of healing 

force from her hands of light,

belong to this, her natal month.

These herbs possess the qualities to soothe 

and sustain tired and broken bodies.

For October, the month of Sacrifice,

is fashioned the Rosemary.

It typifies the Bridge of Remembrance

between the inner and the outer.

November, the stately Chrysanthemum reaches

the height of its beauty.

It lifts its proud and haughty head upward

toward the sky.

December - poinsettia.

This is the season in which red

and green are the principal colours used by

both nature and man.

It is here that we see the shining green

of the leaves and the lustrous red berries of the

holly proclaiming joyously that the season

of Christmas is now with us and it is at

this time that the Poinsettia lifts its smiling

face toward the sun as it declares that now is

the most holy season of the year,

the time of the birth of the 

Blessed Christ Child is now with us.

For more interesting fact, myth and lore

and maybe a deeper understanding of

our inner worlds and how it is created

in the image of the Divine,

please visit next Monday for more

Mornings with Mary.

A blessed week to you

and please join if you have the time or

desire.

with love,

Hettienne

Mornings with Mary

Our Lady of New Life by Hettienne G

Welcome to Mornings with Mary

Mornings with Mary

it is a celebration of all

things Mary

in her many forms and aspects

in the many cultures and tradition

of our world.

  

Whatever this means to YOU.

and in whatever way you want to celebrate

the Divine World, both profane and sacred,

in your belief, in your creativity,

your religion,

your understanding and

in your ideas and expression.

A place of sharing and growth!

The philosopher Thomas Moore, in his wonderful works on Soul,

really defines it for me. Everyone has a Soul and thus a religion of the Soul,

and that may be found in the enchantment of everyday living, in art as a sacred undertaking,

or it may be found in the practise and application of a holy book and its teachings.

For the past ten weeks I shared ten teachings from

the Wisdom of Mary, a book by Gina Lake.

Today I am starting with extracts from a very

interesting book

The Blessed Virgin Mary, Her Life and Mission

by Corinne Heline.

The Madonna Flower Cycle

Each month the Virgin Mary bestows some special blessing

upon the children of men. Each month has a spiritual key 

flower corresponding to those special powers of the 

seasonal cycle. 

January is the month of they hyacinth, its colors and its

fragrance speak of better things to come and of

happier days to be.  January is the month of Capricorn which

speaks of new ideals and the fruition of every new and 

higher dream.

February is the month which commemorates the

purity of the Virgin.  

The snowdrop, emblem of virgin

chastity, is Her flower. 

 Quantities of its blossoms

are strewn at this season 

altars of prayer and worship.  

In March the White Lily blooms to celebrate the 

Festival of Annunciation.  The Marigold is also

dedicated to the Virgin Mother of Jesus at this

season, meaning that Mary's gold is now available

for anyone who wills to come and freely

partake of its bounty.

April claims the soft flowering of the Primrose,

the first rose of the year.  The rose is the most

sacred symbol of Mary and her purest sacred heart.

May is the month of the Madonna,

 the month of mothers.

May is enshrouded with that holy light 

of mother love

which lifts the heart to a

 divine realization only to that

of the Christ.  

Showers of blessings 

descend upon

the heart in the lovely month - 

blessings that

blossom in Roses,

 the beloved flower of the Madonna

and a reflection

 of the Mystic Rose which

blooms eternally in her heart

 for all the

mothers in the world.

I hope that you had a lovely Mother's day yesterday!

with love,

Hettienne

Let's hope that Mr Linky co-operates this week!!

Featured Artist and Blogger

I discovered a brand new blog and shop!

I just love her miniatures - if her pictures

did not include the Marie Antoinette paper doll,

one would not know that they are miniatures!

This is a French day bed

Her Etsy shop is very unusual and one of a kind in that

the context of the furniture, both historically and

culturally is included.

She explains that her love of miniatures 

started as a child, and she focuses on French and Swedish

designs.

A Napoleon III style couch!

Her blog French Vellum Miniatures Interiors 

you can read about how she finds the bits n pieces,

her process of putting them together,

her research and more

A Marie Antoinette bookcase with

hand made vellum books

Look at this miniature scene -  it is a miniature

terrarium in a box that she made

I just love these topiaries

Her blog is filled with beautiful photographs -

be prepared to be wowed! if you love

miniatures as much as I do.

You can find her Etsy shop at

https://www.etsy.com/shop/FrenchVellum

and her blog at

I Am the Immaculate Conception

I am the Immaculate Conception
was her words to Bernadette

She was a poor shepherdess,

Bernadette,

growing up at the foothills of the Pyrenees,

on the banks of the Gave du Pau.

Tending the very poor family's

small flock of sheep

When the most miraculous vision 

appeared to her.

A vision of Light

with roses on Her feet.

From this numinous event

flowed forth a stream of healing water,

a holy place was born,

Bernadette's life was transformed

into one of passion,

commitment and a vocation to the highest Love

Bernadette's message : God is everywhere!

A place where the fire was lit long ago

and the fire of your Soul

and Its unconditional love

is kept alive

And such is the miracle within our own hearts

as She brings forth the waters of regeneration,

healing and wholeness,

teaching you that Love is everywhere

A wearable altar to

Our Lady of Lourdes

L'immaculee Conception

Hand soldered lead-free silver

patina'd by hand

Vintage prayer card set between glass

creating a miniature shadowbox filled with

seed pearls and small freshwater pearls 

as well as a tiny vintage Lourdes connector

Vintage buttons from a street market in Paris

a tiny crown

a vintage Lourdes medal with prayer on the back

an image of Our Lady of Lourdes set in resin

in a sterling silver cup

beaded chain that contain mother of pearl buttons,

rondelle,

aurora borealis

a tiny sterling silver Agnus Dei heart locket

and two different kinds of linked antiqued chain

The back of the pendant contains the basilica

of Lourdes from the same vintage holy card

Stacked mother of pearl buttons,

swarovski crystals

rondelles

silver toned roses

aurora borealis

freshwater pearls

Sterling Silver element with artist's name engraved on it

You can read here how my sacred altars

are prepared with holy relics and oils

with love,

Hettienne

A sacred altar Notre Dame de Paris

Notre Dame de Paris

Our Lady of Paris

A Sacred Altar

Each tiny disk contains the image of

Notre Dame and on the back

the rose window in the Notre Dame Cathedral

a tiny vintage Miraculous Medal

rondelle, real pearls, freshwater pearls
and smoky aurora borealis beads

an elegant chain with tiny dangle at end

at the closure of necklace

a holy card set in an aged

brass filligree frame

with a tiny brass cross underneath

Pieces of a magnificent rosary brought back

from Notre Dame de Paris.  I brought this rosary

back from my previous pilgrimage to France and only now

have had the time to use it in a wearable altar.

The pieces are solid brass and the detail magnificent.

with love,

Hettienne

Mornings with Mary

These pictures were taken early this morning
in my one Mary garden shrine.
It has been extremely hot here and the scent
of these angels' trumpets or moonflowers
are wonderfully pungent.

The Seventh Teaching from Ten Teachings, Wisdom from Mother Mary

by Gina Lake

Follow your Joy

You were given a compass,

and that compass is joy.

You are meant to in the direction

that brings joy, not in the direction 

that brings suffering. The egoic mind

promises you joy, but delivers only temporary

satisfaction and happiness.

Then the suffering that comes with feeling

you are never enough returns.

Most people do not follow their joy.

Instead, they follow the sense of not having

or not being good enough.  They allow the

sense of lack to drive them forward, seeking

here and there for fulfillment,

for what will fill the sense of lack created by

the human condition.

However, nothing that the mind suggests can fill that lack,

because the sense of lack was created by the same thing that

proposes to fix it.

The sense of lack can only be solved by

dropping out of the mind.  When you drop out of the

mind, you lose the sense that anything is lacking.

There never was anything lacking, and that is 

all you have ever had to see to feel full and

complete.

The sense of lack is so ingrained that most

people are unaware that it is there.

They just react to it as if it were true.

For most, this sense of lack, is a deeply held

belief.  It seems absolutely an

unquestionably true.

The sense of yourself and the sense of lack are both

manufactured by the mind.  They create the human condition

that is one of suffering.  You not only believe you are who you

think you are, but these thoughts about yourself tell you

that you are lacking and that your life - indeed, life

itself - is not good enough.

This unrelenting sense of lack interferes with the joy,

that is possible whenever you are willing to simply

be with whatever is showing up in your life.

The assumptions causes you to overlook the

happiness that is present at your core and ever

available in this simple and sweet present moment.

The happiness at your core is very subtle

unless you turn your attention to it and

allow yourself to experience it for more than 

a brief second.

When your attention is focused on fixing a perceived

problem, it is not available to notice the quiet

beauty, peace and joy that is already

present with you.

A wonderful Morning with Mary to you!

I changed the name to Mornings with Mary - with the

time difference and everyone's full schedules, anyone

can join in on any day.  The post stays up for the week -

just scroll down past my new posts.

Gloria was the only one who linked up last week - Gloria, I will

send you a full set of Mother Mary blessings seeds

and some of my brand new Archangel Michael Seeds!!

A blessed, joyful and art-filled week to you!