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!