love is on the way.

I wake up to reality and now it's calling me, to be the kind of hope you're looking for. But I am here, and you're so far away, so there's no more time to waste. No longer waiting, I'm ready to go... // run, charmaine //

||| a few stills of december daily life ||| 

                                                                                        

i beg of you to love with your whole being & nothing less. 

there is a world outside, love

hardened with cold, cloaked in brokeness, frozen in bitterness, 

shadowed with hopelessness 

and only you hold the power to melt this tundra. 

show kindness. 

there are too many pretty eyes dimmed with tears at night

too many nights haunted with memories of loneliness

and too many hands numbed with indifference

kill this cold with kindness. 

you are broken, but don't let it stop you. 

you're too young to turn a cold shoulder against this world

yes it isn't fair, yes people have silently walked out

and left your heart's pieces on the floor

seasons have left you to starve, 

but

make sure to let life know

it hasn't hardened you

prove that it has strengthened you

& be a relentless message that love is on the way. 

the world is a harsh place, it's chalk full of broken people,

there's not enough room to add to the piles of bad things 

and we must leave it a better place than it was found. 

xx 

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rocking around the christmas tree...with red lipstick.

>> confession. i was a bit reluctant to join delight's "rocking red lips day." red lipstick, though lovely and oh-so-forties-ish, scared me to death. 
>> confession. i researched lipstick way more than i needed to for this event. 

>> confession. i dragged my mom all over the place to find the right lipstick, and searched high and low for the "perfect" redness.  

>> confession. i didn't find it. 

>> confession. red lipstick is hard to find. 

>> confession. i stink at putting lipstick on. {in sephora the other day, i literally had red lipstick all over my face *ultimate face palm*}. 

>> confession. i mixed like four different lipsticks to get this color. 

>> confession. i didn't wear the red lips all day. *shhhh* 

>> confession. i tried really hard to persuade mum to let me wear it to church. here's how it went // 

me: i wouldn't wear it to church but, i finally got a color i like...

mom: yeah, that's much better. 

me: *looking in mirror* well actually, it's not too bad. i think i could maybe wear it to church...

mom: uh, no.

me: okay. 

yup, isn't that the most persuasive speech you ever did hear? i wouldn't have been brave enough to wear it to church anyhow. :D 

>> confession. red lipstick made me don on my fifties dress that my sister bought me + pearls. it MADE me do it, kay?!

>> confession. red lipstick makes me want to go swing dancing. 

>> confession. i think i may have fallen in love with red lipstick. 

>> confession. did you read "confession," before each line?! :D 

xx 

postscript // it's december already?!!! where on earth did this year go?!! - scratch that, where on earth did my life go?!!! 

on christmastime crafting::

christmas crafting essentials // 
twine, pretty paper, ribbon, tea packets, wax seals
glitter tape {lots of it} 
celctic woman/michael buble christmasy background music
the best of friends to ship your parcels to 

a few current parcels all tied up with twine and stamped with addresses, waiting to be shipped out. 

it's that time of year again. 

whatcha making this year? 

xx
watch this to see inside these lil' packets of goodness. ;)