one of seven submissions by blogger/photographer 22butterfly.
Love this. I will display more of Maggie’s submissions as inspiration for us all, she has created some magnificent vignettes for the project. My Heart Wanders is on it’s way! (i promise to reveal the deadline date in coming days)
You know I talk of a wandering heart often. Because that is what my heart does: It wanders away from me and I find myself breathless trying to catch up to it. When I finally do catch it I look about to find this wandering heart of mine has taken me somewhere magical. Juste comme ça…
Snow and mountains for me are like the sea and sand – ever changing, ever inspiring and ever pure. I was born by the sea on that big island down under, but I adore the wintry mountain life just as much. And I have been dreaming to have my feet in the snow again for some time, 15 years to be precise. And it has not been that easy to realise that dream. Life happens. And my little dreams remain floating in the clouds. But not last weekend. My dream came true…
I love the feeling of the snow in my bare fingers. How it melts to my touch. And how it changes but remains constant. And that I can eat it. Can I? I did actually, because I was a little parched at the time. So are you wondering where my heart wandered this weekend? Take my hand and I will take you with me…
Photograph by Pia Jane Bijkerk.
To round up the week of My Heart Wanders inspiration (and what a week of loving inspiration it’s been!), I snapped this photograph for you to help your ideas flow. The ‘wandering heart’ in the image is a ‘three of hearts’ playing card that I use as a bookmark. The vintage set of cards was given to me by someone very special – these cards were from his childhood some 60 or so years ago and as he was clearing away items from his attic (thankfully I was there at the time!), he thought I might like them. And yes I do. I use this particular card as a bookmark so that I am reminded of him and all the wonderful times associated with him.
I hope this inspires you to submit something for the book. Click here to read more about the project. I will be announcing the submission deadline next week. If you can, take some time to browse through the My Heart Wanders posts and all the inspiring links attached to the posts. In your submission don’t forget to include your heart in an interior/exterior setting – find a place that best shows off your little wandering heart.
All contact details and submission criteria are in the artist studio for you.
I’ve had alot of fun this week with you all, and now I am off for a little snowy secret break for the weekend – no internet 🙁 , no tv, no traffic. Hopefully I will have some beautiful photographs for show and tell.
Have a fabulous weekend everybody! I miss you already.
From Corine at Hidden in France…
“This photo was taken on the island of Kauai this summer and has three natural heart shapes I happen to come upon while my children where in the water and I was sitting in the shade on this beautiful beach. One is a piece of fallen tree bark, one is a piece of corral and the third is a stone.”
Thank you Corine, what a beautiful selection – it seems there are little tiny hearts wandering all over the globe, in all sorts of shapes and forms.
If you would like to submit something for the My Heart Wanders book project, click here to read more about it and for all the contact details.
To celebrate love this week, I will be posting a random submission for My Heart Wanders per day. First up is this beautiful one from reader Roberta Taylor. Thank you Roberta…
Photograph and text by reader Roberta Taylor.
