Whatever the present moment contains, embrace it 

as if you had chosen it.

     ~ Eckhard Tolle

Awaiting

"I am sure that God keeps no one waiting,
unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.." -C.S. Lewis

good mornings :)

and something to laugh out loud for Monday kick off .. :D

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups.

 The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!' ~ Conan O' Brien

I hope you have a pleasant week ahead of you! Don't forget to S M I L E !

Carpe diem! :) 

thoughts of life

I hope you fill your heart with love, bravery, kindness and some charming smiles to start a wonderful week ahead of you!

Carpe Diem! (:

my Valentine

 I have had a wonderful time hand sewing these little pink hearts over the weekend.

These will be my Valentine gift to some dear friends. Cheers to the month of hearts!

 I hope you have lots of LOVE in your heart to celebrate life!

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."

 ~ Ralf Waldo Emerson
 

Carpe Diem! (:

 

IF - Fly

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.” ~ C. JoyBell C.

Am back with my art entry for Illustration  Friday -FLY! 

Have a lovely weekend to you! (:

Carpe Diem (:

 

burn out bright

"You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream."~Vincent Van Gogh

carpe diem! (:

P.S. I Love you

lighthouse

"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does.

 Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine". ~ Dwight L Moody  

Carpe Diem! (:

P.S. I love you

am going for it

am getting ink over the weekend... (:

 “Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. 

Then we might live life to the limit every minute of every day.

 Do it, I say, whatever you want to do, do it now.” ~ Michael Landon

carpe diem

P.S. I love you

you can't hurry heart

i

l  o  v  e

l  i  f  e

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Carpe Diem! (:

P. S. I love you

Illustration Friday entry_refresh

"There is more to life than increasing it's speed." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

carpe diem! (:

P.S. I Love you

diary of jane

my entry for Illustration Friday : SECRET

"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning

that diary into the best story you possibly can" - Douglas Pagels

Carpe Diem! (:

P.S. I love you

Extraordinary Remarkable Gentlemen

 

Back in Netherlands for my Dutch holidays, one day @ Dad's home with his eldest son 

& wife watching through good old photo slides of him from his short stay in the Philippines.

 He was 28 then as an exchange student in USC-TC-WRC- in the 80's.

 One slide shows a baptismal ceremony with a young good looking tall Dutch gentleman 

over-towering the rest of the crowd, attentively looking down to the baby.

 My godfather spoke: Do you know who that baby is Mary Jane? That is you! 

And that is how i look after you from the start when you are a baby until now".. 

For some reasons - after 31 years that was the first time i saw my baptismal pictures.
 I would have to be grateful to my late Papa as well..for he makes sure that when he is gone
 for good on earth. I still have a father to fill in his shoe.

My godfather has  been my guiding light. He never failed to gave me so much 
lessons and inspiration in life though he is far across the globe. I am too blessed to have Godfather 
like this extraordinary remarkable gentleman. 

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY Dad! Zorg goed voor jezelf. :)

Happy Father's Day to all Dad! 

You are greatly honored today and always for the HERO that you are in our lives.

 "My Father gave me the greatest gift

 anyone could give another person, he believed in me"..-Jim Valvano

Carpe Diem! (:

P.S. I love you

angel..illustration friday entry

“Let your Angelic light shine and guide others who need the light to find themselves”. ~ Sue K 

carpe diem (:

P.S. I love you

the dance

For the concert of life, no one receives a program. - Dutch Proverb

Carpe Diem! (: 

P. S. I love you

A tribute to all MOM in the world...

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” -Washington Irving

PS. I love you

spread L O V E

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play

and to look up at the stars" ~ Henry Van Dycke 

P.S. I love you

being married

Back in Holland my godfather shared to me a beautiful amusing story about marriage..

An elderly couple was interviewed with what is the secret of their 50 years of marriage.

The Husband then answered; HUSBAND: We never have tough arguments, simply 

because we agreed to our golden rule of marriage. "What is for wife is for wife,
What is for husband is for husband..and wife. (:

     To marks the 30th years of marriage

for two remarkable couple i know... my godfather & her lovely wife. (:

They are not perfect couple, but they are just simply the right soul mates for each other.

 cheers to that!

 "A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."
~ Pearl Buck

P.S. I love you

remembering them

It's never that easy when you tragically lost someone dear in your life. As i have been there

when my Pap passed away through a vehicular accident, three years back. These are one of the special gifts Papa left to us in his little garden. These blooming flowers which always reminds me of him with a message to always see hope & happiness despite every pain. With these, in remembering our dearly departed loved ones. I hope to share these flowers with prayers to our brothers across the globe. In memory of the people who lost their lives in the US 9/11 tragedy-looking back 10 years ago. And for all our brothers in the whole wide world whose death are mainly cause of terrorism. 

May they all  rest in eternal peace with God's embrace. 

And for the families they have left. May they find strength & faith despite the loss of their love ones. 

"Guess now who holds thee?"-"Death" I said.

But there/The silver answer rang;"Not death,but Love". ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

P.S. I love you