Wednesday 4 December 2013

the giving season






tis the season of twinkling lights and of giving
and i am well content
in a place that is dear to my heart

so
i am announcing a give-away to kindly followers of this blog

you have until December 13
to comment telling me what you would most like to read about here
and share this post via your blog [if you have one] or some other social medium [if you participate in such things]

i will write your names on windfallen eucalyptus leaves
toss them in the air
and ask Miss Martha to choose one at random

i think she will like that game


a similar give-away is running on FaceBook
that gives you two chances!





89 comments:

  1. More and more of the same, love reading about your travels and the people you meet, seeing your work and reading your words. Have shared on Facebook but haven't the faintest idea about how to share on my blog.

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  2. I also love reading about your travels, but I like reading everything you write, period. You have a brilliant way with words...read you are most diplomatic at times when I, were I in the same situation, would be far less than. Happy Holidays to you, dear India!

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  3. Have no blog, don't do social media but I will say that for me, as someone who has been a traveler for 11 yrs and just now settling in, I would love to read more of how it is for you when you are home. What you find in your fields, beyond eucalyptus that finds its way into your dye cauldron and how your sense of place inspires what evolves...

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  4. shared on my facebook page, jane Wheeler Knits, and i too would love to see some ruminations on the home range, though mostly I am happy seeing what you do, whether it is teaching, travelling, or making. but perhaps first, making ..

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  5. Besides your poetic writings, I think I love most following you (pictorially) on your search for beautiful and interesting objects. And then seeing the finished art!

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  6. More and more.of your creative.thinking and how you come about.tour ideas, dyeing.processes etc etc thanks :))

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  7. I visit often but rarely leave a comment. I so enjoy this blog of yours including your charming wit....I especially like seeing the fabric move from potential to finished...always magical!

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  8. Just your lovely thoughts and photos, always give me a lift as I read of your adventures here and abroad. will try to share on my blog but I am not terribly computer savvy when it comes to that!

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  9. Don't change a thing! Another plea for more of the same please India!!

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  10. Just keep on with you, your travels and your art !

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  11. I love when you show us the unexpected, lovely details that come out of the dye pot and from your eco prints, completely inspiring and of course hearing about all your travels. I have shared this post on my google +

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  12. I hope you just continue the same.
    I am really inspired by your work.
    Would you please let me know when your next workshop in the San Francisco area will be? I would love to study with you.

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    1. I love most to read how you fit yourself into comfort at every place you travel, always seeing beyond the manmade to the natural, and finding beauty where others fail to look. And lovely fabric prints from your takings and leavings.

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  13. I would love to know more about which plants are used for the shown outcomes when you aren't using eucalyptus. I would love to have more information about the after care of your beautiful textiles. And more of everything that has already been said here. I have linked your blog to a post on my blog.

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  14. Your blog is one of 7 blogs I have in my Outlook RSS feed at work... shhh don't tell anyone! Admitedly I don't see the comments that way, but I love to be inspired by your work as I sit here building railway engineering schedules! It's my few minutes of creativity that carries me through to getting home and into the studio. I love all you write, but as a novice ecoprinter (and I have read your book via our wonderful library.. xmas wishlist fingers crossed) I would love to read more how to's, tutorials. Unless you're over in WA any time soon I can't get to a workshop, and I never seem to get onto Trudi Pollard's workshops either (sigh), so your blog is my next best thing!
    Wishing you a wonderfully warm Southern Hemisphere Christmas! x

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  15. I love stories about your very talented family and the wonderful things they have created. I found the stories in Second Skin to be so very, very inspiring (all the sewing that your mom did for you growing up and your daughters' beautiful wardrobe refashions). I also follow your Moms blog---I'd like to be adopted--please!!!! I like it when you share info about good books that you have discovered and when you share your personal sewing projects. I don't facebook, nor do I have a blog, but December 13th is my birthday. I'll be 51. Does that count???

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  16. I would like to read more about how you went about writing your books. When and how did you know you were ready to write your first book.

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  17. I love all your stories but I especially enjoy hearing about your adventures. How you infuse the spirit of place into your work is magical and inspiring.

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  18. I love reading all your observances. Being a visual person, I esp. love your pictures. I'd read just about anything you write. I don't post much, but I do read. I'd love to read about your collaborations. (I'd love to collaborate!) ~Best wishes.

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  19. India, your wise counsel and sharing of tips and techniques, stories of your new work with all things natural and the reasons each of US should be using what we have with respect for the world around us is precious to each of us. Thanks for sharing all year long, for coming to Canada to bring your impressive workshops and we hope to see you here again very soon. I too loved Second Skin and would like to have more of your personal perspective on bringing the respect and skills you share to future generations, and our families and children in particular.
    Happy Holidays...
    Bethany

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  20. ah.... India your sharing is an inspiration to all as we follow your musings. I and a few others here at wordpress often link you to our blogs. That whirled wide web does its job, we all are linked some how ... the sixth degrees of separation....and all that!
    Wendi

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  21. I love your blog India and love to read about your dyeing, sewing and other projects, your travel adventures and your musings on life. You've been a wonderful inspiration to me and other members of our Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild (British Columbia Canada). We have a fibreshed project (http://sunshinecoastfibreshed.wordpress.com/) inspired by Rebecca Burgess's California Fibreshed. Ruby Slippers http://rubyslipperscreations.typepad.com/ruby-slippers/

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  22. I am continually inspired and awestruck by your work and your vision. I hope to continue to learn and to begin finally to begin my journey into your whirled.

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  23. I am a newcomer to your blog, and have loved your stories and photos both. I especially like your musings on your various journeys and and descriptions of seeking dyestuffs to work with. I "liked" you on Facebook, so hope that counts as sharing on social media.

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  24. i love your travels and how it affects your work . it has made me think differently when i travel . thank you for the information and inspiration that you give to us .

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  25. Oh India, I love your blog and if it stayed the same I would continue to enjoy it. However if you are looking for new things to add to make it interesting for yourself... How about your poetry? How about a you tube of you playing the saxophone? How about showing how to make one of those lovely dresses? I would love to know a bit more about dyeing with eucalyptus... It's not readily available here and I want to use it well when I do get it from florists. It would be nice to hear your lovely voice now and again, what about some videos of your home, martha, violette, your models? A fashion show? But what ever you do it will be well received here. Thank you for everything! Hugs!

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  26. India, you have opened up a whole new world to me. It started when my good friend shared your book with me, and was using it to dye beautiful textiles. I was so jealous. So I searched you out and took a workshop with you two summers ago in Santa Barbara, and I was changed forever. I'm constantly collecting windfall wherever I go, and experimenting, as well as sharing you and your work with my high school art students. I've always loved gardening and nature, always been a fiber artist, and to put both of my loves together makes me a very happy woman. I go to your blog for so many things; your words of wisdom, your dry sense of humor, your tutorials, your recipes, and to live vicariously thru your travels. It's all good, so thank you for taking the time to share it all with us. xoxoxo Deb

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  27. Hello India, I thought I left a comment already...okay, maybe on Facebook. so here I go for a second chance to become a leaf, hopefully being picked up by a playful cat.
    most of all I admire you for your outstandig artistic work. I love to see the wonderful photos of your work. I love the humourous (Looks funny...anyway...) way you write about life in the "whirled"...eva

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  28. More plants please , and more adventures, art, poetry and just you. Have I missed anything out? Please just do it, it is all inspirational and talks to the hearts of many in this cold indifferent world.

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  29. I love your blog the way it is, but I wouldn't say no to more of what inspires you.... books, poetry, art etc. I thought I was a long-time follower.... ah well I am now and I've shared this post in my sidebar and on Face Book. Thanks India.

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  30. I recently watched your video…"Being (t)here"….would love to see more videos! Thanks for sharing your work! Sharing on Facebook!

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  31. Again, more of the same... whatever inspires you

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  32. India , i have tried to connect under a links to this post to create , i am not sure if i have done the right one now i write here ,your blog are a story of your life and your work , your passion for dying . print. plants and alchemy , stich , travelling and poem i love it all , if i could wish please tell more about the difference between using dried and fresh leaves, preparing plant mat. before dying or not , old cloth become new very interesting, folding were do you have inspiration from , but being on your workshop are the best , see you in 2014. all the best Bodil

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  33. you do the telling of the journey and recording of the process and all the little corner of the eye asides so well India! so more of the same please thank you!

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  34. Dear India, I like your blog the way it is. You opent the way to ecoprinting with your books. I'm eocdying all my natural material to felt and.... since the '90. So I like to follow your art and experiments. But I alsow find it very important to stay aware of a clean world. So beside
    s your art, I like your mails about that. thank you, Katrien.

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  35. What is lovely about my (blog) visits with you India is the gentleness of your words and the subliminal power of the way you say them. I know I will always find some heartening moments of pleasure to enjoy reading ... impressing on my own days.

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  36. Darling India, just keep doing what you're doing! It's all good, quirky, interesting, informative, inspirational and so much more.

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  37. I love reading about your travels, your musings and your beautiful ecoprints and methods.

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  38. India, each and every post has within something that speaks to me in words or images. Your travels are so interesting and all of your observations and understandings of so much just wets my appetite to learn more, hear more, see more. Seeing your methods always amazes me. I love what you do now, please just give me more of the same.

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  39. What I love is your attention to detail, both in the photos you choose to take, and the way you describe your work in the words that accompany those photos. Oh, and the occasional poetry thrown in too.

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  40. Your work, your honesty, your poetry. Thank you.

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  41. This very old bat is just so grateful for the way you light up my life and teach me wisdom, the way you live what you preach and are such a vast storehouse of botanical and literary information, for making me do things like blogging when I had no other creative outlet and reawakening the artist from a 30 year sleep. Above all, I am more grateful than I can say to have you for a daughter.

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  42. thank you, all of you, for bothering to leave a note. it's nice to know that folks are swinging by for a read and splendid, truly splendid, to have a list of priorities to work from. pinning them to the wall right now!

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  43. india, i read your post and then read what arija wrote, and i thought how beautiful, this love between mothers and daughters.

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  44. I love your vision of the world, your vision for the world. Most of all, it's that you live as you teach.

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  45. I am touched by your mothers sentiments. I do not wonder what you are not sharing with us. If your role is to educate us, you are.

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  46. i would hope that nothing that already IS changes, but if anything would be added, i'd like to see small things of the Place that is your home. i'd like to see your tea pot some more,
    i'd like to see what's become of your piglet. just single images now and then of
    what surrounds you. these things give me a deeper sense of India Flint, the woman, who is maybe like me....just a woman who walks her HomeLand, loves a piglet, has small singular loved things, Wonders stuff.
    Thank you for Everything and All the days and days you give us

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  47. I love stopping by as it feels so comfy like an old friend who just sat down with a cup of tea and tells me of her journeys and what interesting ideas you come up with in your wanderings. I use your books in teaching both a stitching class and in my rug hooking one too. They all get so much from your books. Thank you, Diane

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  48. I too love visiting to see images of what you have created. What comes out of your dye pot always interests me, but love hearing all of your wanderings. Love the images love the words - so for me more of the same. It is always so very beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

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  49. Wow what a comment from Arija! Reminds me of when my mom was my biggest fan. I miss that. Be who you are. That is more than enough.

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  50. I wandered off to think on your question over the weekend, and so much has happened in that time! I very much enjoy your blog as it is. I appreciate this window into your unique perspective on the world as well as on textiles. I'd love to know more about using cellulose fibres with your processes, and very much appreciate reading about repurposing old garments into new... and other non-garment useful things. Off to link from my blog...

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  51. i am hoping to do a travel blog in the next 6 months. i want it to be like your travels with pics and stories.. i can only hope the writing is as interesting to read. i love your little stories of your day.. please continue..

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  52. I enjoy seeing your dyeing results and also hearing about your travels and discoveries. Your blog is both a pleasure and a surprise.

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  53. India, please continue doing what you are doing. Do not become self-conscious, do not write the blog for others. The blog is yours, your expression of self, as every blog should be. Best wishes for an uneventful return home, Chris Rossi

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  54. Your travels
    your poetry
    your photographs
    your wisdom

    your musings on these and more
    all gifts gratefully received
    and woven into my thoughts and attitudes

    thankyou

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  55. When you point the way to other artist's who's work you have liked, or discovered, or learned something from it enhances our adventures as well.
    You love what you are doing and you share so generously with all of us. Thank you!!!

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  56. I enjoy your poems and musings on life, pictures, your descriptive words that make what you are talking about come to life. Your whole blog is a joy to read.

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  57. What an enchanting idea - my name on a eucalyptus leaf and a chance to win on top of that!

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  58. India, I just love reading whatever you write. You are so creative and inspiring both with words and materials. I always get a little thrill when I find you on my Facebook - "What goodies has she posted this time?" - love seeing the photos and the way you put together your treasures from the thrift shop. Being a dedicated op shopper myself I find it especially exciting. So whatever comes to mind is fine by me. Welcome back to Oz and blessings of the season to you and yours. I very much enjoyed your mother's comments and envy you the relationship you have with her, I'll just say I didn't have that with my mum.

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  59. I like how you open up the world for us, by introducing kindred spirits that you seem to attract...people you learn from, people you admire for the way they live their lives, and to hear about the beautiful places that you travel to.
    Somehow the world seems kinder and more caring thru your eyes. Just keep on being you, and write whatever pops into your head, "why fix, what is not broken?"

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  60. Most of all i would like my name on windfallen eucalyptus leaves............

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  61. I love notes on your travels, photographs, and your poetry. Your writings are warmth, sincere and creative. I also love my name written on eucalyptus leaves---my favorite leaf of all plants. So glad you made it home safe.

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  62. I would love to see more about re-purposing textiles. . after reading 'Second Skin' I have become more aware of this essential need and responsibility. We need to make it cool and groovy!
    Sue.

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  63. After reading through all of these comments, and having just left you a list per your request on your Facebook page, I have to confess that your blogs and your writings are already perfect the way they are. I look forward, always, to seeing that you have made a new post and then savoring that post. After reading your mother's beautiful comment to you, in which I was deeply touched, I went to her blog and looked at it awhile. It gave me insight into the daughter she birthed and raised and who you have become. Thanks for everything, dear India. And thanks for having a chance to win something you made...all of us are envisioning our names written on eucalyptus leaves. Your life and what you do changes people and that's a darn good thing!! A cheery holiday to you and all of your two legged and four legged family. With love, Sheri Ricker

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  64. I love to read about your inspirations, your adventures and your discoveries. Keep om wandering India!

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  65. it is delicious balance to the main steam commercial world. it is a slow, gentle, thoughtful, gracious, environmentally conscious and respectful site with oodles of inspiration and beauty. peace and respect to you, in gratitude.

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  66. I love your blog, just as it is. You seem to have a great balance between your travels and your textiles. Inspiring!

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  67. before I met you and after that time, I have been following you since the first photo I saw with the comment that the eucalyptus was steamed on the fabric. So I tried to do it with my steaming iron. Ofcourse I failed.. I bought your first book, it was and is my dyebible. Your works brought me to more of natural dyeing, your words makes me thinking and lead me to unknown paths, your photo's inspires me in my own makings. So thank you and keep on going.., xoDorie

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  68. miss Martha will do the right thing
    with joy
    playfull as you are

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  69. …forced into the light in the hope of treasure. While there is rarely comment ( not feeling the right) admiration from afar, I absorb every morsel, the wisdom, the adventure, So grateful for your generosity and accessibility. Your willingness to share. The art, the botanical alchemy, the music, the food….I love it all..thank you x

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  70. Another plea for more of the same but I'm sure any changes will be just as good.

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  71. Everyone above got it right. Amazing to find so many beautiful souls in one place.

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  72. Please keep wandering, more and more on your interesting and inspiring journey. Loving how your words and pictures flow together to create story.

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  73. one thing that i would love to see is a tutorial about how to lay out and bundle a garment... such as a sweater for some ideas how to place the plant material.... love your blog and it was so good to meet you in portland

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  74. I enjoy your courage. Your courage to follow your heart, your intuition, your skills, and to follow your path. Thank you for the reminders that that is what we are supposed to do.

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  75. I love the way you find something beautiful wherever you go, you remind me to seek out such beauty, and my eyes have been opened so much more and my mind also as to "I wonder what colour that will make?" I also love the way you write, not being any sort of writer or poet myself, much too practical, but I enjoy reading along with your travels. God bless you in this season of the celebration of our Saviour, Jesus Christ's birth.

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  76. Just be yourself and I shall be well content x te

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  77. Your unique techniques, your photos, your stories - all these are rich and wonderful to sample, or dive into, when the time is ripe.

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  78. I recently finished reading Second Skin, which I thoroughly enjoyed. So hard to say what I would like most to read...perhaps just more of Second Skin...about family and home, repurposing cloth, redesigning fashion, etc.

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  79. Just keep ruminating on life, on nature, on art and all the ways they intersect. Stay true to you own self and share your thoughts.

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  80. I love reading about your adventures.. when you travel and when you repurpose charity shop finds into wonderful garments. I also love the photos you share of things, details that you find beautiful. This blog is a beautiful place to visit.

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  81. I love your writing, your travels, your reflection on happenings and I admire your unfaltering focus on what you love to do.

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  82. I so enjoy visiting your blog space! I am nourished and inspired and encouraged. I'd love for you to keep staying true to what longs to be expressed through you. Thank you, India!

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  83. You are my Muse..... just keep sharing and I be happy!

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  84. I always feel peaceful when I read your blog. Your lovely photography , artwork and words inspire me to get in touch with my surroundings and to be more thoughtful in my own work.Thank you . I hope to meet you one day.

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  85. Whenever I read your blog I feel peaceful. Your wonderful photography , artwork and words inspire me to get in touch with my surroundings and my own art. Thank you for putting in all the time and effort you do and for sharing yourself. I hope to meet you one day.

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  86. I always find your posts interesting and often read them more than once. I'm happy with how you are posting, but if I had to pick one thing to see more of I might say your garden and work from home. We have traveled all over the whirled with you but have not seen much of home. TinaQ

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  87. I enjoy the blog as it is, following along on your travels and classes, learning about your time at home and the creatures you share your life with. I especially like the fabric. Images pop out at random and are utterly delightful!

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