Reckless Joy!

I want to wear something new, but not shoes or a dress, I want to put on some reckless joy that is much too big for me and so brightly colored that I become unrecognizable. J. K. Kennedy

On this last day of the Advent week of JOY....I'm celebrating my love of brightly colored baubles. 

This is one of my favorite photos....having fun with my baubles.  

I remember the day so clearly back in 2017 when I literally undecorated some of my tree a few days before Christmas to create this rainbow Joy wreath.

It was kind of a funny process...and I wrote about it here in this post: 

https://joyfulputtering.blogspot.com/2017/12/abundance.html

I took advantage of a beautiful day today...and spent the morning wandering around downtown. I was quite taken the fabulous bauble displays around some of the doorways.....and I looked at them from all angles.

I love the fabulous clusters that were featured in the doorways....but I was smitten with these baubles that were sitting inside a foggy window sill.

There was something more real about them...a little more happenstance.

I'm a little more happenstance...and there is reckless joy in that.

I've done my share of bauble projects over the years...but this was a favorite back in 2022 during a class with Esté MacLeod. You cou can read about my process in this post: https://joyfulputtering.blogspot.com/2022/12/layered-bauble-wreath.html

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way...things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe

Reckless JOY!