It looks like it might be a cracking weekend for the music festival, with a fantabydozey 70's band headlining. There will be many stalls and lots going on. Including an art and craft tent where you can find a few of Brightlingsea's resident artists exhibiting their wares.... I will be taking some of my very popular Coastguard Cottages along, with some driftwood paintings and a few other small items. Of course the Waterside Gallery is still showing the Contemporary Arts & Crafts exhibition, so lots of goodies to choose from.
A Maltese door revisited and a small watercolour on driftwood.
Gratitude pebbles, a reminder to be grateful for everything in our lives.
The story behind the 'gratitude stones' :
'Lee Brower was a teacher who found that things weren't going
right in his life.
One day, he found a rock and he said to himself 'Every time
I touch this rock, I'm going to think of something I'm grateful for'.
And so every morning he wakes up, picks up his rock from the
dresser, puts it in his pocket and he goes through what he's grateful for in
life.
And every night he comes home, empties his pocket, sees his
rock and again he goes through what he's grateful for.
And so one day he had a friend from South Africa visit and he dropped the rock in
front of his friend and the friend from South Africa asked 'What is that?'
Lee Brower explained what he was doing with his rock and
pretty soon his friend started calling it a Gratitude Rock.
Two weeks later, Lee Brower got an email from his South
African friend asking if he had any Gratitude Rocks to send over. His friend explained
that his son was suffering from a rare form of Hepatitis and was dying. So Lee
went to the river to look for rocks and he sent the rocks to his friend in South Africa .
Five months later, Lee gets an email from his friend telling
him that his son is doing terrific and completely cured of the disease.'
As you give thanks...you get :0)
