may this dress remind us to celebrate our life journey ...

"Celebrate your journey of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita

A little reminder to all of us and particularly

 for those December birthdays out there!!

and there are some important birthdays happening!!

🧡🧡🧡  

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May this dress bring my mother a terrific birthday!!! xxxx

'fannie may turtle dress ...' 

Mother love is the fuel

that enables a normal human being 

to do the impossible. 

~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul

 happy birthday to the woman

 who gave me the love for the arts 

and the unique!!! 

LUV YA!!!

xxxxxxxx

mom and me having cocktails on the roof of the MET

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Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!

“I have noticed that 

the Universe loves Gratitude. 

The more Grateful you are, 

the more goodies you get” 

Louise L. Hay

I am the most luckiest AND grateful mom EVER!! 

love, mom

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Today, let us all have cake!!!

“A party without cake

 is just a meeting” 

Julia Child

love, mom

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In honor of this amazing leader's birthday, let's be the CHANGE that we NEED!!

Change will not come if we wait for some 

other person or some other time. 

We are the ones we've been waiting for. 

We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

https://youtu.be/qtiyAFf9ix4

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Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf!

“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”

Virginia Woolf

I love this quote so much because I used to believe that at a certain point in one's life you are done 'growing'?!?! I had this idea that you worked off a check list of achievements and then you were set, an adult?!? I can't believe that is what I thought but I remember being in my twenties when a fellow artist challenged that idea and suddenly I saw everything anew!!

One never stops growing and changing!! That is one of the amazing things about living, every day is a new adventure, offering new lessons, new joys, new tastes, smells and sights.  

So remember that my dears, embrace change!! 

love, mom 

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happy birthday mr. whitman!

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May this dress remind us that we alone are responsible for our life!!!

“You must not ever stop being whimsical. 

And you must not, ever, give anyone else 

the responsibility for your life.” ~ Mary Oliver

I post this reminder especially for my dear Maya who turned 18 yesterday,

 and is graduating from high school next week!!

Remember my sweet you alone are responsible for your life'

your well-being, your happiness, your passion, your fears!

NEVER give that power to another!! 

and NEVER lose your wonder, love and whimsy!!!

love you more!!!! 

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Happy birthday to a woman who walked her walk with passion, compassion, humor and STYLE!!!

Happy Birthday Maya Angelou!!!

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; 

and to do so with some passion, some compassion, 

some humor, and some style.

Maya Angelou

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happy birthday Albert!!! another one of my heroes

and he knew what he was talking about!!! 

photo by: John Burke

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, 

of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

― Albert Einstein

click here to read an article in Country Living celebrating a messy space!!!
http://www.countryliving.com/life/a35383/messy-room-brilliant-mind/

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happy birthday Jack Kerouac!!!

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“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” 

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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Today, let's celebrate my dad's birthday

happy birthday daddy!!! XXX

and for my dad's gift I wrote him a story of a childhood memory.

I posted the story on my art blog. 

if you want, click on the link below and have a read.

peace

virginiafitzart creates: A story for the birthday boy ...:

'the day it snowed and snowed and snowed ...'

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Happy Birthday Bob Fitzgerald!! (my dad!)

Happy birthday Daddy!! xxxx

 "Life doesn't come 

with an instruction book. 

That's why we have fathers."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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May we all remember to respond . . .

I am sending this daily inspiration out to my sweet Harriet, 

who is celebrating her birthday TODAY!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRIET!!!!

may you continue to respond to all and everything that excites 

that amazing spirit of yours!!

LUV U SO!!!!! 

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Happy sweet sixteen to my angel!! so amazing!!! xxx

today, sixteen year ago,  my life forever changed as this amazing creature came into my life!! from the minute Maya Louise entered this world you knew she came with purpose and a great spirit, 

we called her Buddha baby right then and there!! 

Happy Birthday Maya! 

Thank you for coming into my life, thank you for all the many life lessons you have taught me, thank you for being you, wonderful, amazing YOU!!! xxxxxx

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, 

and her flaming self respect. 

And it's these things I'd believe in . . . . 

I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

  

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May this dress remind you to ENJOY today!!!

Happy Birthday to the amazing Audrey Hepburn!! 

A symbol of generosity, strength!! beauty, intelligence, resilience, poise,

 integrity, femininity and jolie de vie.

"Paris is always a good idea."  Audrey Hepburn
'paris . .  mais oui' (2012) home sweet home series

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. 

The day as it comes. 

People as they come... 

The past, I think, has helped me appreciate 

the present - and I don't want 

to spoil any of it 

by fretting about the future.

-Audrey Hepburn

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Happy Happy Birthday to my DAD!!

 A most wonderful father, grandfather, photographer, 

supporter, provider, friend and, I hear from mom, husband :).  

Happy Birthday Pops!!! Love you TONS!!! VeeVee 

"Dads are most 

ordinary men turned 

by love into heroes, 

adventurers, story-tellers, 

singers of songs."

- Pam Brown

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may this dress bring you everything you can imagine!!! Happy Birthday Harriet!!! xxx

on this day I was blessed with yet another amazing angel!!!

Thank you Harriet for sharing your spirit with me!! xxxx

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May this dress bring you a most amazing day/year/life!!!

I think, at a child's birth, 

if a mother could ask a fairy godmother 

to endow it with the most useful gift, 

that gift should be curiosity ~ 

Eleanor Roosevelt

That would be my request ~ 

be curious my sweet!!!

xxxxx