And the winners are….
This month it was impossible to select only one Guest Designer, so we chose two!
Mrs. Mac created this amazing pyramid box that is a pictoral of her stamping resume. Now she can add one more achievement!
Not only was the project a completely original idea and template, she also used several MFT sets, and the newest digi papers. Chocolate Kiss.
We were completely smitten by this acetate chocolate box created by cadnileb, it’s just too cute!
Both girls will receive our March Who’s That Girl? set, and Mrs. Mac will receive the remainder of the MFT March sets, and cadnileb will receive the MFT Presents sets.
I’ll be back tomorrow with our Ambassadors, and you WON’T want to miss their incredible projects!
February 10th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Such inspiring projects!! Thanks for sharing!
February 12th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
This is great!! Congrats ladies!!
February 13th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
congrats!
May 4th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Hey this was what i was searching for. Cool
Bookmarked!
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Carolyn http://www.cpaoncrack.com
December 11th, 2009 at 5:07 am
I usually don’t leave comments but I love this show sooo much! I bookmarked this post on reddit!
July 17th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Writing will be your companion through the darkest and brightest days of your life ? if that is what you want. It exposes pain and guilt and the greatest joy. It is your own assessment of who you are. You should write as much as you can and as much as you want to. It will be something to turn to.
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
When all desires that surge in the heart are renounced, the mortal becomes immortal.
Those who dwell on and long for sense-pleasure are born in a world of separateness. But let them realize they are the Self and all separateness will fall away.
The Self desires only what is real, thinks nothing but what is true. Here people do what they are told, becoming dependent on their country, or their piece of land, or the desires of another, so their desires are not fulfilled and their works come to nothing, both in this world and in the next. Those who depart from this world without knowing who they are or what they truly desire have no freedom here or hereafter. But those who leave here knowing who they are and what they truly desire have freedom everywhere, both in this world and in the next.
… all things we desire but do not have, are found when we enter that space within the heart; for there abide all desires that are true, though covered by what is false.
A person is what his deep desire is. It is our deepest desire in this life that shapes the life to come. So let us direct our deepest desires to realize the Self.
Though all the galaxies emerge from him, He is without form and unconditioned.
The supreme Self is neither born nor dies. He cannot be burned, moved, pierced, cut, nor dried. Beyond all attributes, the supreme Self is the eternal witness, ever pure, indivisible, and uncompounded, far beyond the senses and the ego…. He is omnipresent, beyond all thought, without action in the external world, without action in the internal world. Detached from the outer and the inner, This supreme Self purifies the impure.
The truth of the Self cannot come through one who has not realized that he is the Self. The intellect cannot reveal the Self, beyond its duality of subject and object. They who see themselves in all and all in them help others through spiritual osmosis to realize the Self themselves. This awakening you have known comes not through logic and scholarship, but from close association with a realized teacher.
The basic teachings of the Upanishads are summed up in six great sayings (Mahavakyas). These are ? ‘I am Brahman’ (Aham Brahmasmi). ‘The Self is Brahman’ (Ayam Atma Brahma). ‘That thou art’ (Tat tvam asi). ‘Intelligence is Brahman’ (Prajnanam Brahma). ‘The Universe is Brahman’ (Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma). ‘He am I’ (So’ham). These are statements of the identity of the individual consciousness with the Absolute or Divine reality. They all derive from and merge into Om (AUM), the Divine Word of ‘I am all’.
Above all senses is the mind. Above the mind is intellect. Above the intellect is ego. Above the ego is the unmanifested seed, the Primal Cause.
In deep meditation aspirants may see forms like snow or smoke. They may feel a strong wind blowing or a wave of heat. They may see within them more and more light: fireflies, lightning, sun, or moon. These are signs that one is far on the path to Brahman.
Brahman is the first cause and last refuge. Brahman, the hidden Self in everyone, Does not shine forth. He is revealed only To those who keep their mind one-pointed On the Lord of Love and thus develop A superconscious manner of knowing. Meditation enables them to go Deeper and deeper into consciousness, From the world of words to the world of thoughts, Then beyond thoughts to wisdom in the Self.
You are the supreme Brahman, infinite, yet hidden in the hearts of all creatures. You pervade everything.
The Lord of Love is one. There is indeed no other. He is the inner ruler in all beings. He projects the cosmos from himself, maintains and withdraws it back into himself at the end of time. His eyes, mouths, arms, and feet are everywhere. Projecting the cosmos out of himself, he holds it together. He is the source of all the powers of life. He is the lord of all, the great seer who dwells forever in the cosmic womb. May he purify our consciousness!
The Lord of Love is before and behind. He extends to the right and to the left. He extends above; he extends below. There is no one here but the Lord of Love. He alone is; in truth, he alone is.
Meditate and realize this world is filled with the presence of God.
He is fire and the sun, and the moon and the stars. He is the air and the sea, and the Creator, Prajapati. He is this boy, he is that girl, he is this man, he is that woman, and he is this old man, too, tottering on his staff. His face is everywhere. He is the blue bird, he is the green bird with red eyes; he is the thundercloud, and he is the seasons and the seas. He has no beginning, he has no end. He is the source from which the worlds evolve. From his divine power comes forth all this magical show of name and form, of you and me, which casts the spell of pain and pleasure. Only when we pierce through this magic veil do we see the One who appears as many.
Covet nothing. All belongs to the Lord. Thus working you may live a hundred years. Thus alone will you work in real freedom.
Realizing that from which all words turn back and thoughts can never reach, one knows the bliss of Brahman and fears no more.
Brahman is beyond all duality, beyond the reach of thinker and thought.
When the whole mantram … goes on reverberating in the mind, One is freed from fear, awake or asleep…. Established in this cosmic vibration, the sage goes beyond fear, decay, and death to enter into infinite peace.
The mantram is the bow, the aspirant is the arrow, and the Lord the target. Now draw the bowstring of meditation, and hitting the target be one with him.
O Lord, from whom we receive the mantram as a weapon to destroy our self-will, reveal yourself, protector of all.