Just when I thought I'd lost it...I found...'Soul'...

It's Going to be an Amazing...Most...Wonderful...Positive...next 30...{Seconds...Minutes...Hours...Days...or...Years....whatever I have left...}
Having said that.... I, as I'm sure some of you know, have been twisting, for some time...as I'm focusing on the shows coming up...'Heart', on my mind...wondering what 'Look', is going to inspire...and make our booth, a little different....{It's always, 'simply iowa'...I just need something over the top, or need a piece to inspire, with color, or style! It always comes...I have Faith...God always points me in the right direction...really... however...He lets me dig for it!} The thing is... not much, out there, has been singing to me...I see wonderful things... but...not much, 'touches' me...I thought...maybe, 'I', had lost touch...and am unable, to...'feel'... soulfulness....
Anyway...while Jo and I were second hand shopping, for my new 'wardrobe'...I found some little treasures, some of them we shared with you, yesterday...One of them, is a tiny, '20s, drawered box...I now believe, was constructed out of many playing card, store display boxes.......
I really didn't take time look at it...It was in a showcase, at a second hand store...and was a bit pricey...even so... it seemed to have a little 'voice'...I asked them to set it aside for me, and I'd see what my total amounted to, then...maybe...
Well...I had spent plenty...even second hand clothes, ad up...Jo has such a great sense of style...and had found some great things, for me...  I need clothes...but... they aren't going in the shop...oh dear... when the cashier asked me, what I had decided... and placed the tiny drawered box, in my hands......I melted... 'Yes...I will take it'... The tiny box had such a Soulful presence....
Jo and I had been so busy, I hadn't examined the tiny box, until this morning, when my friend, Robin, emailed me about it... Robin is one of the most soulful people, I have never met.... she follows the blog...and loves, early, early things...Soulful things...she asked about the tiny box, this morning...so...I thought I had better look a little closer...{she picked it out of all the odds and ends we had posted...she knows 'soul' and can feel it, across the miles...and through a computer screen...oh my...}
Oh dear... In each of the tiny drawers, there are scraps of carefully folded papers...one, the original directions, from an old newspaper, on how to make the little box... another...a beautiful, heartfelt, handwritten poem, to 'Mother'...another...a handwritten, and colored, 'Iowa' banner...in another...directions, on how to make a 'May Basket'... a needle and thread, and a few paperclips, were tucked into another...as I told Robin...This little box, isn't near as early, as the things she normally is attracted to...but...it blows the needle off the 'Soul' meter...oh my...
I felt good... knowing I can still...'feel'...and those wonderful... sentimental feelings....came over me like a wave...a 'priceless' wave....
Have an Amazing Day...

Barb C.