Psst, Psssssssst!! Your Wishes, Yes, Wishes!!

Ooo Eeee, Okay, how can I contain myself while I type???  I am not, NOT, supposed to be here right now.  I am frantically creating in the studio & trying to get a shop update together.  Which should happen in a couple of days.  I am also itching to visit you & catch up.

However, do I have news for you?!?  Your wishes, they are soaring, and they are going to come true, I can feel it!!

      

Today I made teeny tiny wishes out of the wishes you all left on the last post  (and a few others), and I mixed them up with glitter (which is still in my hair and on my face and neck :).  I packaged all the wishes up, and got ready to send them off.

I have to say, I learned a whole lot about wishes today.  I learned that you can begin to form them, you can envision them, you can even begin to make them come true... 

      

But just when you think you have it all planned out and they begin to happen...

      

Wishes can get stuck...

      

And, sometimes you have to sit and stare at them, and figure out a new way to make them happen... 

      

Oh sure, it is easy to give up.  Easy to say, I am wayyyyy down here, and those wishes are wayyy up there, and there is no way to get them down. 

      

But, you can also stop and think about people you could ask to help you.  Or, what if you are helping make someone else's wishes come true... Would you work harder to get them down if they were for someone else?  And, if they were for you, would you allow yourself to call on people to help make them come true?  Or would you simply give up?  Maybe with a boost here or a boost there the wishes could happen?  Some people have the tools we need to help make wishes come true...

Could something that seems way too hard to reach, really be one little tug away (with the right helper, or the right tool, or a nice request for help)... 

          

And, another question...  Will we be ready when it does happen? Or will it happen so quickly we will be unprepared...

      

Nonetheless, we continue to wish and dream and hope.  Tugging & pulling & grasping & biting our fingernails at the outcome...

All of a sudden, the wishes are set free, & they begin to soar again.  We have faith in them once again...

      

Just like that, they continue, on their journey...

      

I really felt your wishes today, all bundled up in that package.  Floating away quickly, I was swooning, jumping up and down.  I was saying "G'bye wishes, hope you get there..."  Knowing in my heart, they would...

      

It was so fulfilling to physically set the wishes free...  My heart felt so overjoyed...

      

I watched them until they disappearred into a perfectly cloudy day.  Perfect weather to carry them off on their voyage...

When I turned around, the mountains had turned as pink as the balloons carrying your wishes.

      

And, I knew, just then, your wishes would come true...

      

Comments

[the pesky bombolino]

You are a darling, an absolute darling x.

[kate]

That's so sweet! And personally, I think those wishes were just waiting in the tree for a little while so that when you turned around, it would be at the exact moment that the mountains had turned pink and so you'd get a special treat, too.

[Anastasia]

oh you are too sweet
ive missed you! been offline for days....will catch up on your posts soon!

[marjorie]

I'm so glad I decided to drop in this morning....What a magical treat!! And seeing your red balloons against that beautiful sky....oh! Your the sweetest, most fanciful Twistling there ever was!! :)

[Paris Parfait]

Hooray for wishes coming true! And what wonderful balloons carrying them away into the universe! Great photos of your beautiful surroundings. xoxox

[Mo'a]

Thank you...our wishes were in good hands.
Charley Brown could have used you when he was struggling with the kite eating tree ;)
Your surroundings are beautiful...the South West has a special place in my heart.

[Chris Klingler]

Magickal! :)

Hope all your wishes come true in 2008.

Chris

[steven]

thats so lovely...we did a similar thing at my friends wedding...we tied good luck messages to balloons and watched them float up into the air for what seemed like miles high...such a nice feeling watching them go...may all your wishes come true..xx

[carolyn]

I think you just posted a lesson for us all there, such a lovely post. May all your wishes come true.

[cruststation]

Such a beautiful post. I read every word, watch the wishes being set free with happy tears in my eyes, praying, wishing -you are a sweetie to allow every reader to be themselves, share and grow together, encourage one another with every word. Thank you!

[TurquoiseCRO aka Cinda Rae Oliverio]

The wind is one of GOD's treasures!!!YOU are too!!! What a SWEET post!!!Thank YOU!!! My eyes and heart LOVED coming here today!!!

[TurquoiseCRO aka Cinda Rae Oliverio]

AND maybe that tree had some wishes too, soOOOOOoo it grabbed those balloons for just a little while while whispering all the tree's wishes and then bid it farewell too!tee hee

[Britt-A]

WOW Vanessa. I think my wish is already on its way to India.......

[Joy]

I'm so glad to see your resources led the balloons to being released - you're amazing!

[saraH]

That is such a clever idea!! Thanks for that.

[Lisa-Vet]

Vanessa, Lovely...I just love that idea. So very sweet. Are you the Wish Fairy? Does it run in the family?

[Randi]

Those wishes couldn't have had a better send off! Thank you for sending them off on their journey!

[Dave]

I love your blog posts, because I always feel like I was there to experience the same things you're blogging about :) Thank you for giving our wishes such care and help in getting off the ground, and thanks to Mr. Lovee too for the little extra push (I assume that was him) :)

And one more wish to round off the bunch - that whatever happens to all our wishes, we would all get and give what is needed, and that it would be beautiful. I think it will be.

Good luck with the shop update!

[sadira]

Oh V, how lovely indeed! I am absolutely astounded at ceremony. I can't tell you how many times I've sat down to do some fun little idea...create some wonderful new tradition in my life...and if I watch hard enough and listen, I can find the magic and learn the most amazing things about life. Thank you for sending our wishes towards the magic...and thank you for sharing what happened...I know that they will all come true.

[trina]

thank you so much sweet girl! my heart is all full to bursting.

~trina

[bee]

Thank you so much for doing this and adding my wish....it really has made my day into a magical one. I love the fact that the tree got them for a bit...naughty minx of a tree.

You are the queen of the pixietwistypops indeed.

xxx

[Conni]

aww, that was so fun. I was laughing so hard when I saw the picture of the wishes stuck. I could just see you standing there in bare feet long white night gown, jumping up and down...oh no!!!! Luckily the wishes found their way! :) What a beautiful image.

[noodle and lou studio]

what a perfect post Vanessa! I feel like I was there with you...peeking at all our dreams flying off to the magical place where they come true!! You are the sweetest wish fairy I've ever known!!!
xoxoxoxo...jenn

[Cherie]

You are so magical Vanessa Valencia!!!
This has just made my heart lift right out of my chest...I'm filled with glee!!!!
And I certainly hope YOUR wishes were in there too!!

[denise]

That was sooooo nice of you and what a great idea!!!

[rochambeau]

I'm so sorry I forgot to add my wishs to the wish list. ;-(....................
Since I know they will all come true! ;~)
Have a wonderful Sunday!

xox
Constance

[Nancy]

Thank you Miss V. for taking such great care of our wishes and setting them free to soar off into the universe!

They may have needed just an extra nudge, but you and your resourcefulness got them on their way! :-)

I know how hard you are working in your studio dear girl. Please make sure you take a break and sit a spell with Mr. Lovee over a cup of tea so that you don't wear yourself out!

[cindy]

PINK balloons! and glitter! that means they just HAVE to come true! was that mr. lovee helping our wishes go free?

[Pandora]

What a beautiful post! I loved every bit of it! It is so true about the journey of a wish - so true! Thank you for posting that.

[Betzie]

I hope you didn't have to wait too long for those wishes to continue their journey!
Loved the picture story and all you comments too...all very true...and hope all your wishes come true as well!

[Catherine Witherell]

YOU are so clever! And how in the world did those balloons do exactly as you say? What a wonderful post. Magic I say!

All of my wishes have been coming true this year. I expect 2008 to be even better. My wishes are better.

...waiting for your shop update...

Happy New Year!

Catherine

[Gillian @ Indigo Blue]

I wish....I had made a wish!
I went away to think about it and forgot to return.
Silly moi.
Happy Day to you Valencia you doll!
xo
Gillian

[Jamie Welsh Watson]

This post made me cry (with happiness).

[melissa @ the inspired room]

I love it. All of it.

xoxox

[Colette]

Oh yes yes yes! And I am so ready, too!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

[VelvetBrick]

this is one of the most beautiful writings with photos that I have ever read... what a magical ceremony... to see those wishes get hung up ... and then struggle free to float away and BE... those mountains are just absolutely gorgeous! wow, Vanessa...thank you for such a beautiful, sweet, inspiring post... you are an angel.
VB

[Casey]

What a lovely thing to do!! Thank you for doing such a sweet thing and reminding us about wishes. :)

[Tricia]

Oh Goody Gumdrops!!! So all my wishes will come true now!!! How wonderful! Although i don't know about my wish for the beach, but i have a good feeling that i will have lots of coffee and cookies, hehe!
Haha, that was funny how they got stuck in the tree temporarily!!

[Bobbypin Bandit]

Do you remember that movie about the little boy with the red balloon?? I loved that movie. WIshes. The funny thing about wishes is that they always seem to come true when we least expect it, right? I work really hard to make my wishes come true!! Hope you do good with your shop update. I might come visit you later this week. XO-KSV

[Karen Beth]

That is so beautiful. What a magical thing for you to do.

I think that you are secretly a fairy princess who prances around and sleeps in a vine swing covered in flowers.

Are you!?!???

[michelle fitzgerald]

You are such a sweetie! What a lovely thing to do for us all. And what a lesson on wishes!

[stilettoheights]

you are magical for making the wishes come true....I was too late sending mine in.

oh, I got the new somerset with your article....

YAY

xxoxoxo

[Sandra Evertson]

Vanessa,
This is hands down "THE BEST POST EVER" in the history of POSTS!
xo
Sandra Evertson

[stephanie]

The red balloons, full of wishes...stalling, then soaring....

Not only is the intent here fantastic, but your photographs...WOW Ms Fanciful, that was a beautiful adventure.

thank you!!! and I hope I'm ready for my wishes to come true.

x....x
s

[jayne @ The Oddbird Studio]

Ahhhh, that was beautiful... The balloons were almost like a wild animal raised in captivity ...shy and scared about leaving the safe place...but once they got their courage up they were wild and free again... It almost made me sad, for some reason, when they were so far away.

[JbaskArts]

With tears in my eyes and a full heart I want you to know that that was the most awesome way to set those wishes free!! And they will come true! I know it!!! :)

[risa]

Vanessa is Awesome!!!!!!!!!

[Marilyn]

So sweet of you to do this. You rule!

[Cre8Tiva]

thank you...you made me tear up here...my wishes and those of many others are soaring and becoming...hugs, r

[tiffany]

I always wish for pretty sunsets with pretty pink mountains in them.. so that's one wish that already came true. :)