Nature's Cures

Keeping Honeybees has been one of the most rewarding of experiences up close and personal to nature that I have ever done. Fishing is right up there as is vegetable and herb gardening. Honey bees have been added just within the last eight or so years and actually hands on, just in the last three years. We've had to learn A LOT and every day since we started, Tim and I keep learning something new or take interest in something that we still  need to learn about beekeeping in order to better sustain our colonies.

I've decided to venture into finding all natural ways for us to live and am looking more into using everything that God gifted us with in our daily routines and healthful regiments. Whatever goes into or onto our bodies needs to be or become void of any and all toxins, free radicals, poisons; and in doing so, I will be adding what works for us on here.

Whatever mixtures or ingredients that work for my family or me, does not nor do I ever mean to imply that they will work for you and yours. This blog and or any of my writings are only meant for a means for me to share our own health journey and what is working or in some cases maybe, not working. It is never meant to diagnose or impress upon others what may not be scientifically "proven" as medicinal treatments.

So with that said, my love for honey bees is deep and I hope that I can share with you some of the fascinating adventures we experience everyday!

Antique Nasal Douche

It's almost dry sinus season and I found this little treasure to add to our unusual antique collection. Not everyone has one of these, ya know!

Today we use a more modern Neti Pot and I find it really necessary whenever I feel that persistent dryness coming on and nothing else seems to relieve my chronic winter-time sinus trouble. A little salt dissolved in warm water and through the nose it goes. Refreshing.

The little treasure in the photos is still in tact with the original box. Someone estimated the date these were manufactured at around 1920-1940.

The Organic Me

Okay, so I have another blog that I have been giving attention to, obviously more than this one. I am a person who has ALWAYS had more irons in the pot than I have hands to stir them with! This is OKAY! (I tell myself that, often).

I finally came to a way that may be easier and more sensible for me to still keep BOTH!!! YAY!

When I named Graceful Acceptance, it came from the fact that in a time in my life, I had to learn to grow older/wiser with as much grace as I could. I needed to accept that life and passing of time was totally out of my control. When I decided to stay true to my own beliefs and disregard what others may think, I began a new and more refreshing journey than I ever thought to be possible. I had struggled with things like deciding to keep putting colorants and chemicals in my hair, just so I wouldn't have more grey than all of my older sisters or deciding NOT to suffer through the allergic reactions, smells and dread of the job of covering my head with all that junk and sitting in it for thirty plus minutes while my skin burned and I breathed those nasty fumes. I was doing this every other month because my grey is very determined to shine! Well, I have long since become my husband's "silver fox" and I am not at all bothered by sitting next to anyone who may be still struggling. (Like nobody can tell that color is not real)!

I think it is sad and I don't understand how people can become obsessed with Hollywood glitz and glamor to the point they feel such a desperate need to change what God blessed them with in the ways that are not at all natural. It all became such huge industries that even in small towns, it is apparent people have lost sight of pure & natural beauty.


Okay so on beyond the 'appearance' issues. I have always been a lover of nature and have a high regard for God's creatures and our borrowed earth. I know that there is everything in nature that God provided for us to sustain our lives. This is what I am thankful for!

Therefore, Graceful Acceptance will become the place for my healthy living and natural sustainability journey where I can share my work toward promoting our honey bees, organic food networks, essential oils and herbs and how I use them and all things that help with living free of chemically ridden products that are reeking havoc on our bodies and our environment.

I really don't mind if you want to call me a hippie. I was actually born in the early sixties and grew up around a lot of hippie people doing a lot of hippie things. It was a great era!

So please bare with me while I slowly but surely load content on this side of my blog activities as I continue to share the world as I know it. I will be back and forth between Graceful Acceptance, and another with plans to eventually link.

Until next time, please find a spot in nature, sit quietly and just appreciate your surroundings!

Coming Home

Hi all you Bloggers out there! I went on a little hiatus thinking that I could start blogging with another service provider and put Graceful Acceptance on a back burner. Well... lets just say that it was not a site that turned out to be as comfortable as Blogger is to me. Lets face it, I am a plain and simple kind of gal and I appreciate "user friendly" more than a lot of techie types. That's just who I am! I am so glad to be back and am looking forward to this relief!

Time Management

I usually get up around 6:00 to 6:30 a.m. and go to bed about 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. I have never been a really good time manager apparently, because I struggle getting things done in any given day. My husband teases that I have A.D.D as well as O.C.D. I am a pro at multitasking and can have any number of things in my hand on a mission through the house, depositing, transferring,and accomplishing. I NOTICE what needs done and it will not happen unless I make it happen. I've donated so many things over the years to the "pass it on" shops in the attempt to "de-clutter" my surroundings. I am NOT at all a nick knack person, so it's not like I have a lot of extra objects to just look at but for some reason I can never have enough space... Oh, I forgot to tell you that I am a bit claustrophobic. I really like seeing my floors! ANYWAY, I am getting a new-to-me embroidery machine that belonged to my late sister. I am super excited and yet a bit nervous at the same time. I am giving a pretty penny for this machine and want to make money back to put back into our savings and I am giving myself two years to do it. So this is where as of late, I am even more determined to have a better time management plan so that I can still take the best care of my family and have a small business goal. This a.m after waking, I felt stiff so I forced myself to get in about a twenty or so minute workout, ate breakfast, fixed hubby's lunch, hung and folded the laundry that I didn't get into the dryer until late last night, stripped our bed to wash the linens today, (still needing dried as I write), vacuumed the upstairs two rooms, added the ingredients for the sour dough bread that I set out last night for it to go through the first rising, washed the dishes and thought about my routine and how I'm so tired at night that my blog writing is getting neglected and that I really need to make time in the mornings to check e-mails, blog and work on setting up the online shop. Here it is already 10:30 and I haven't gotten into my sewing room yet. I'm sure it will all work out and after my learning curve on this new machine, I will start with Christmas and then move on to planning for next years agenda. I just wish that I could make more time to connect with others who are making their home businesses work. I will squeeze in some time to seek. Happy Tuesday, Oh and Graceful Acceptance couldn't be more appropriate to my life because I am in constant reminding that everything happens in God's time and I have chosen to accept those things with as much grace as I can.

Creating

I've spent a great amount of time in my little studio this past week. I have a family reunion this weekend including a memorial to my all too recently late sister. I had started a fabric collage book for our Mother before I visited my sister a couple weeks ago. She never got to see it and I am bound and determined to get it finished for this memorial/reunion. I know she would have loved it. As soon as I am able I will post pictures. It is good and therapeutic to have a creative release with my sister watching over me. She has always been a great inspiration to me. I am feeling blessed.

In Memory of My Mom... for me: My Sister

This was put together by my nieces and I wanted to include it. My sister was the most creative, remarkable, kind, soft spoken, gentle person that I've ever known. At the end of this video are some of her beautiful paintings as well as some quilts that she made. I have many wall quilts and table mats and things that she has given me through the years. They make me so happy to have them. She has taught me so very many neat things about painting and quilting and today, I worked all day in my sewing room just thinking about how patient she was and what an inspiration to me she will always be. God truly Blessed my life having her in it. Enjoy!