Today is another day of galloping around the internet. I'm over at Mortal Muses-More Musing today. Tammy asked me to share 'what inspires me'. So if you wish to have a look, please do! Thanks Tammy for the invitation to share. In my rambling on kind of way.
Today I picked up these brilliant purple irises, and put them all over the spa. I'm all in a purple mood since I ordered some Organic Passion Plum tea for us to serve to our beautiful clients. They love the ritual of tea. It really grounds us & them and is a break from the dreaded coffee. I don't know about you, but when faced with a choice of bitter coffee or a tea rich with flavours of fruit or spice-I know what I'd rather have. Coffee leaves that awful taste in your mouth too, who needs that? And you can keep the jitters. Lately coffee makes me jittery my goodness. Don't need that either, since I've been slowing it on down, breathing real deep, getting grateful and making vision boards to plan my future. Nope, coffee you can take a permanent vacation.
Going home now to wrap birthday presents for the most darling little six year old girl your heart could ever hope to meet. (We've got a pink princess castle pinata...and tons of candy to fill it with. I can't wait to see her shining face when she sees it. Now you know where the crazy post title came from...can you piece it all together? I didn't know how to squeeze muse in there....)
xo
Gillian
That iris is gorgeous. I can just imagine all around the spa. Happy Birthday to the birthday girl. A pinata full of candy would be my kind of birthday gift.
Posted by: Marilyn | March 09, 2011 at 06:27 PM
that iris is gorgeous!
and i loved reading your words~ always i do.
happy birthday to that lovely girl!!
xo
Posted by: christina | March 09, 2011 at 06:52 PM
I know she will have a wonderful birthday with her beautiful Mom!!! Love irises and tea but the Turkish blood in me needs that coffee.
Posted by: Yoli | March 10, 2011 at 01:55 PM
Hey, I've been dreaming of irises, too, and look! You bought some! Lucky you, Gillian. That was a great interview. It's interesting to read where your love for photography came from and where it has taken you. I'm curious, how and when did you decide to start a spa?
PS: You look so cute in that portrait!
Posted by: susanna | March 10, 2011 at 08:34 PM
the dreaded coffee? sitting here at seven in the morning, the dreaded one is welcome with open arms. i am, however, an afternoon tea person. love the purple.
Posted by: margie | March 11, 2011 at 07:02 AM
Good morning Margie! Ew dreaded for me. Coffee is too much for me these days, too rich, too stimulating and it just ends up making me feel worse. I get it though, so many people love it to help them wake up. It's powerful stuff. I live Cuban coffee. I make an exception for their wonderful coffee, made with half hot milk. Enjoy the day....! Here it is snowing as I wait for my tea :-)
Posted by: Gillian | March 11, 2011 at 07:36 AM
I've wanted to have a spa since I was a little girl. To me back then though it was a "beauty parlour". :-)
But when I was expecting Bronwyn, I wanted to be my own boss so I could be avaiable fir my kids. So when she was six months after licensing to beck e an Esthetician and taking business courses, I opened up my place and have just grown it slowly from that point on. It was in those early days before we had a lot of clients that we discovered blogging!
Have a great day Susanna xo
Posted by: Gillian | March 11, 2011 at 07:43 AM
Sorry for typos...I'm on my phone!!! It has a mind of its own some days.
Posted by: Gillian | March 11, 2011 at 07:44 AM
Your pretty in pink princess will purely enjoy her purple passion-ate party...
I'm sure
x..x
Posted by: Stephanie | March 11, 2011 at 07:00 PM
Happy birthday to the gorgeous girl! The irises remind me of Jordan...black iris was the late King Hussein's fave flower. xoxox
Posted by: Tara Bradford | March 12, 2011 at 10:14 AM
B is 6? She is precious as can be.
Sending her love letters from my heart.
Hope her birthday was everything she wanted.
muah
Posted by: gemma | March 12, 2011 at 12:17 PM
First of all, happy happy birthday to your beautiful little girl!! Can't wait to hear more about the pinata!
2ndly, I gave up coffee over a month ago for health reasons. I had started drinking it 4 years ago, as Mister drinks a ton of it... and I started getting itchy patches here and there. Mostly on my face!! Of course, that freaked me out... and i have severe allergies to lots of things. So, I plum got off it, and it is working.. seems I am allergic to caffeine...
I don't know why I ever picked it up. I enjoyed it enough, but... I am glad I quit. Before I became a coffee drinker eve a sip would make me nauseous. But, nice herbal tea, yummmmms!!!
Love you Gillybean!!
Posted by: A Fanciful Twist | March 13, 2011 at 09:14 PM
I would love to try that tea and I love that you tried to work all of your thoughts into your title :) xo
Posted by: Tanya | March 13, 2011 at 11:19 PM
ps: lovin on your header. you must share who created this... you maybe??
xo
Posted by: christina | March 16, 2011 at 06:34 PM