I LOVE this

Anna Maria is one of my fave fabric designers, partly because I love her use of color and her enthusiastic embracing of the natural world in the textiles she designs, and partly because I find her life and her worldview so sympatico to my own, and so inspiring. Plus I love women with big families and a creative eye, and she has both in spades... It doesn't hurt that she's a sister Southerner (from Nashville)--maybe that explains the similarities in how we see the world?

Her attitude toward what she does and what she loves come through so clearly in this post that I thought I'd link to it here and give y'all a chance to meet her yourselves. I love that idea of lemons-from-lemonade, of not having control over what happens in the world around us but having TOTAL control of how we react to it and what we PUT OUT there. I want that to be a hallmark of what I accomplish in my life, that I pass on to my children and create in my work.

Thanks, Anna Maria, for helping put it into words!