Inventory is Growing!

Oh my gosh! The products are really coming together. This is so crazy exciting. Today the frames from our signature style arrived and in person they are just so different and fun. That is the common thread in all our products, the unexpected! Our own designs are quite unique. I know this as I am such a shopper and I have not seen anything remotely like our big wall canvases in The Lotus Collection. I should mention for big walls yes, but we've made sized for smaller spaces as well. Take a look, surely there is a spot in your domain that would majorly benefit from the addition of one of The Lotus Collection Canvases. Those folks that are tired or bored with the same old standards.....check us out! Colors, textures, we are bringing to ya!

And The Glow.....soon we will have the most incredible candles I have ever seen. Hope to wow our followers and customers as well! Get ready to light your fire with gorgeous colors and wonderful shapes of decorative candles!

Adios for now! Peace and all good things.

Terree

Queen Lotus, our Inspiration

Photography by Terree Yeagle www.themomentphoto.com

Written by Lyn Hicks www.harmonyhillgardens.com

February 8, 2009

The Lotus collection was inspired by the incredible white blooms basking above the pond July 2008 at Harmony Hill Gardens. Grown on the farm, given in a vase at a celebration, captured in bloom, then designed into products.

The Lotus Flower symbolizes beauty and creative potential admist the muck of the world. It is considered one of the oldest human symbols on the planet. As far back as Egypt, it represents the opening of the heart. The Lotus is considered the Queen of flowers and is the epitome of femine beauty, harmonizing all aspects of being and expresses coming into ones own potential. This incredible beauty inspired our Open Your Heart campaign and all the continually growing products in the line. We hope you join us in embracing the Queen Lotus as a symbol of transformation in your life and Open your heart!

Symbolizes: Knowledge, wisdom, purity and enlightenment
Health, beauty, long life, generosity, honor, luck
fertility, prosperity, good fortune and wealth

The morning is here and it is a good calm morning. Had some wonderful responses to the first post. Great ideas and many well wishes and I appreciate so much every person taking the time to support us. I decided to post what my Dad's reply included. You all likely know it but maybe take a few minutes and read it again because it is just the best!!! Enjoy Oh the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Congratulations!Today is your day.You're off to Great Places!You're off and away!
You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoesYou can steer yourselfany direction you choose.You're on your own. And you know what you know.And YOU are the gal who'll decide where to go.
You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care.About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
And you may not find anyyou'll want to go down.In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town.
It's opener therein the wide open air.
Out there things can happenand frequently doto people as brainyand footsy as you.
And when things start to happen,don't worry. Don't stew.Just go right along.You'll start happening too.
OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!
You'll be on your way up!You'll be seeing great sights!You'll join the high flierswho soar to high heights.
You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best.Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don' tBecause, sometimes, you won't.
I'm sorry to say sobut, sadly, it's trueand Hang-upscan happen to you.
You can get all hung upin a prickle-ly perch.And your gang will fly on.You'll be left in a Lurch.
You'll come down from the Lurchwith an unpleasant bump.And the chances are, then,that you'll be in a Slump.
And when you're in a Slump,you're not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked.A place you could sprain both you elbow and chin!Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?How much can you lose? How much can you win?
And IF you go in, should you turn left or right...or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite?Or go around back and sneak in from behind?Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find,for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.
You can get so confusedthat you'll start in to racedown long wiggled roads at a break-necking paceand grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.The Waiting Place...
...for people just waiting.Waiting for a train to goor a bus to come, or a plane to goor the mail to come, or the rain to goor the phone to ring, or the snow to snowor waiting around for a Yes or a Noor waiting for their hair to grow.Everyone is just waiting.
Waiting for the fish to biteor waiting for wind to fly a kiteor waiting around for Friday nightor waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jakeor a pot to boil, or a Better Breakor a sting of pearls, or a pair of pantsor a wig with curls, or Another Chance.Everyone is just waiting.
NO!That's not for you!
Somehow you'll escapeall that waiting and staying.You'll find the bright placeswhere Boom Bands are playing.
With banner flip-flapping,once more you'll ride high!Ready for anything under the sky.Ready because you're that kind of a guy!
Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. there are games to be won.And the magical things you can do with that ballwill make you the winning-est winner of all.Fame! You'll be famous as famous can be,with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.
Except when they don't.Because, sometimes, they won't.
I'm afraid that some timesyou'll play lonely games too.Games you can't win'cause you'll play against you.
All Alone!Whether you like it or not,Alone will be somethingyou'll be quite a lot.
And when you're alone, there's a very good chanceyou'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants.There are some, down the road between hither and yon,that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.
But on you will gothough the weather be foulOn you will gothough your enemies prowlOn you will gothough the Hakken-Kraks howlOnward up manya frightening creek, though your arms may get soreand your sneakers may leak.
On and on you will hikeand I know you'll hike farand face up to your problemswhatever they are.
You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know.You'll get mixed upwith many strange birds as you go.So be sure when you step.Step with care and great tactand remember that Life'sa Great Balancing Act.Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?Yes! You will, indeed!(98 and 3 / 4 percent guaranteed.)
KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!
So...be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Brayor Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,you're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting.So...get on your way!

open your heart

I have these 3 great friends, all super talented, all so much fun. We've taken our friendship to another level by becoming business partners. Our venture is called Truly Gifted and our online store will open soon at http://www.trulygifted.us.com/. In this place we will offer items of our own design and fabulous finds from other artisans whose work inspires us. Okay so open your heart.....

Here is the great thing. Every single day we find inspiration in literally everything in our path. It comes to us in many forms; words, songs, other people, connections, smiles, comments, stories...you name it, we are finding it and it is carrying us along swiftly as we work on our new start up biz. So one of the very first inspirations was a flower, The Lotus Flower that my flower farmer friend grows in her pond. So she offers arrangements using the Lotus for my other friend, Sandy's graduation from nursing school party. The Flower delights me so I take one home and watch it's beauty literally unfold before my eyes. Being a photographer I immediately grab my camera and begin to document the process. Well the images from the Lotus were crazy. They completely freaked me out. I told Lyn about the images and she was anxious to see the results. Go back. Now Lyn and I, had been brainstorming for months on ways to boost our current businesses. She is a flower farmer and I am a photographer. Self employed folks doing our best but always open to something new and exciting, right. Well while canoeing last summer one of her dreams and my ideas collided! Right there on the Delaware River, we found our destiny! We had always had such a fab connection. Now the possibility of us blending our goals and ideas seemed like a no brainer! So we embarked on The Lotus Project. Our idea is create a haven for celebrations like no other. And believe me, we celebrate, and a place like in our dreams does not yet exist! We want to make a place of art, the natural world, music, and life celebration to the area of Bucks County Pa. Now all these months later, do we have ideas!

So how to great such a big idea and give it life....cash. Don't have what we need so how do we get it? We simply opened our hearts. Lyn openly talks often of the Queen of Flowers, the Lotus and the symbol of beauty and hope and love and openess! Open Your Heart. We did! And what has come is mouth wide open unbelievable. We are on our way. Okay forward again. So the Lotus Flower images.....have become our first product line. The first division of Truly Gifted, is Harvest Capture Designs. And now I introduce Beth, another friend, and interior designer. She joined the mix of Lyn (Harvest), me, Terree, (Capture), and Beth (Design)! And back to Sandy, she pulls it together as the healer girl. She's a nurse. Anyway the trip down the river, the Lotus Flower and a million chats, dream swapping, and the biggest mover of all, we opened our hearts!

Join us, Open Your Heart and awaken to life's great beauty. None of us know what is to come, but grabbing all the pleasure and hoping for the best is one great way to spend your days!

In this space I hope to offer fun stories of greatness, pleasure, knowledge, and tales from our journey in giving our dreams wings! Hope you find something inspiring, something to make you smile!