Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Asking for Roses

Lately I have been so excited to create! I have an Etsy shop now where I am selling some vintage and handmade items including sachets of various scents, and decorative trays. You can visit the link on my blog to take a look. I am really trying to spend my spare time expressing my ideas and working on the tasks I love so that I may soon take a huge leap into something better suited for me. I know so many of us feel this way but we must really take heed, and desire to make these dreams happen.
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A little poem for inspiration and in which sums things up:

Asking for Roses

A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master,
With doors that none but the wind ever closes,
Its floor all littered with glass and with plaster;
It stands in a garden of old-fashioned roses.

I pass by that way in the gloaming with Mary;
'I wonder,' I say, 'who the owner of those is.'
'Oh, no one you know,' she answers me airy,
'But one we must ask if we want any roses.'

So we must join hands in the dew coming coldly
There in the hush of the wood that reposes,
And turn and go up to the open door boldly,
And knock to the echoes as beggars for roses.

'Pray, are you within there, Mistress Who-were-you?'
'Tis Mary that speaks and our errand discloses.
'Pray, are you within there? Bestir you, bestir you!
'Tis summer again; there's two come for roses.

'A word with you, that of the singer recalling--
Old Herrick: a saying that every maid knows is
A flower unplucked is but left to the falling,
And nothing is gained by not gathering roses.'

We do not loosen our hands' intertwining
(Not caring so very much what she supposes),
There when she comes on us mistily shining
And grants us by silence the boon of her roses.
Robert Frost
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11 comments:

  1. Beautiful creations and photos, lady! I'm glad to see your blog being updated again. <3 xoxo

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  2. Thanks so much dear Sarah! <3

    Thank you for your kindness and support!

    -Dani

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  3. SO beautiful - you are a gifted artist ♥

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    1. Aw, goodness. Thank you sweet lady! You are a very gifted artist!

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  4. Dani, this is so beautiful. You create such beautiful things and talk in such an old dreamy way.

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  5. I liked the poem also. It suits you. :-)

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  6. Gorgeous shop, pictures and words! I love your stuff on instagram and I'm glad I finally got the sense to come to your blog. Hopefully I can buy one of your lovely sachets in England. xx!

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    1. Abigail, thank you so much for checking out my blog! I am currently looking through your blog and it is absolutely divine! I also love your Instagram! I am hoping to be shipping internationally in the near future. <3

      -Dani

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  7. I'm obsessed with roses and everything about them, Beautiful post xx

    http://thepersephonecomplex.blogspot.co.uk/

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