a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
My fingernails have been au naturel for many years now for expediency sake.
I love nail polish but with hands in and out of water cooking for my family daily, the polish chips pretty quickly and I’d rather wear my nails bare than bearing tacky looking fingertips.
However, my toenails are always glammed up in a cheerful, bright colour just like this new bottle dear hubby bought for me. Little treats make this girl happy 
Jacqueline’s
Polish – Daily post
Catching glinting jewels of early morning dew drops
that would disappear just as the sun rises
brings a smile and
a reminder that everything in life is transient.
That those simple things are extraordinary things,
like a tiny dew drop
being a microcosm of an entire ocean.
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Jacqueline
I have had many adventures far and near, seen beautiful places, met fascinating folk, tried some daring things and eaten grilled bugs for supper. I guess I could reminisce and talk about them for days on end, but I won’t do that today.
Lots of adventures lie ahead of me, a million and more places to see, more people to meet and more things to experience as long as the good Lord permits.
However, the wonderful adventure I am having right now goes a back in time – through the fantastic good old-fashioned book series ‘Love comes softly of Janette Oke’ – to the beautiful 19th century rugged, open country of North America, where trust, faith, love, family, friends, honesty, and hard work were core values sought after and revered.
The current television series ‘When calls the heart,’ is based on her Canadian series novel of the same name.
I am so totally immersed enjoying my read that I could see the wide open prairies and hear the galloping horses and coach in my dreams last night.
Travelling is more than seeing of sights. It’s a change that goes on, deep and permanent in the ideas of living – Miriam Beard.
I was born a nomad in my heart. It wanders a lot. Jacqueline
Just Go! When was the last time you did something for the first time?
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as An Adventure – William Feather
The Earth is the Lord’s and its fullness thereof. We are only partakers of the splendour that mother Earth offers us.
When I look at this date palm tree with its budding baby dates waiting to ripen, to be plucked and eaten, it makes me think of The Earth.
It makes me think of beautiful giving Mother Earth, mother to all of us, full of her resources that we latch onto and enjoy like sucklings.
Sometimes we tap and suckle with amazing selfishness and greed to take and take from her, yet, she keeps giving from her fullness season after season.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Never forget that the measure you give,
is the measure you will receive.
You can’t sow corn and harvest pumpkins.
You can’t sow hatred and reap a bounty of love.
When you uplift others, you rise up with them.
However, when you spend time holding someone down,
you stay down with them because you need all your energy
to keep them pressed to the floor or the wall.
If only you can remember this,
apply it in your relationship with everyone that you meet.
You, my dear friend, will have a good measure,
pressed down, shaken and running over
added continuously to your life.
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Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
I have no idea how this genius of an artist did this surprising and wonderful work, and I was fascinated to no ends.
We had to look at the artwork with magnifying glasses because you couldn’t see it clearly with naked eyes and it was a delight to see the fine work done on such little pebbles, a strip of pasta, bottle cap, grain of rice, match stick, melon seeds, almonds and so much more.
It was marvellous. Unfortunately, the dapper looking enigmatic artist spoke no word of English so I couldn’t successfully badger him to share his secrets.
This genius of an artist is Mr Hasan Kale, a micro artist from Istanbul.
Our security comes, not from the beautiful edifices we live in, nor from the pots of money that we possess, but from the love that surrounds us – Jacqueline
Leashed and Loved – A beautiful pooch
Chocolate and sugar craft sculpting – The Elephant family
Chocolate and Sugar Craft – In mama’s arms
You can have all the material wealth but poor and insecure in your heart. A heart that’s rich in love is the most secure and wealthiest of all – Jacqueline
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Jacqueline
Ribbons of purple bruises
worn like a ring around her neck,
hidden from probing eyes’
by a pretty floral sweater.
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how long will she hide a bleeding heart;
under beautiful colours of bold splashes,
counting the days till she’s asphyxiated,
and purple wreath for her death bed.
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Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
The colour green surrounds us everywhere we look, from the beautiful rich shrubs to my kitchen towel.
It’s a lively colour that speaks of freshness, life, nature, fertility, harmony, new beginnings, and healing.
It is also associated with money, finances, banking, ambition, greed, jealousy…take your pick from the list and go green.
The weather is lovely, the lush green surroundings invite inhabits to while away some time in the neighbourhood park.
Here’s my son running around the green grassy field. I remember the softness of the carpet grass ‘cos I went barefoot and the fresh smell of mown grass is in a world of its own.
Little potted plants in corners of the house spruce it up in a lovely, simple way.
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