The Power Of Suggestion

Ever have something happen to you just by the power of suggestion?  You know...you get a fortune cookie and it says something and then a day or so later sure enough that's what happens?!  What I always wonder is did it happen because it was going to happen anyway or did it happen because I was thinking about it a few days earlier???  People out there that believe in the power of suggestion would say it only happened because my conscious and then unconscious brain activity was attracting "it"...and a big part of me believes that...especially after what happened to me today!

At Thanksgiving dinner someone mentioned self-cleaning ovens.  That led to a discussion about their merits and whatnot.  Two people in on the discussion LOVED the feature...but the third person had incurred a $250 bill and still didn't have a clean oven after she had tried to use the feature on her oven and it malfunctioned.  So despite the fact that I needed to clean the oven, I hadn't quite decided to flip the switch on it, so to speak.

Sure enough today my husband leaned against the stove long enough to turn on the self-cleaning feature (which neither of us noticed).  About 20 minutes later I noticed the smell!  But by now the oven was LOCKED!  We are renting and I have not used this feature on this oven or any oven - ever!...I neede to find the manual and see what it said.  I was still thinking about it but the discussionfrom Thanksgiving had me wary ...well too late!...it was out of my hands!...nothing to do but wait and see...

That's how my felting project went too...I had created some beautiful 'nature' felt and was set to assemble my next felpture (a felted sculpture).  It seems that my subliminal thoughts were guiding my project for today...things seemed out of my control.  I could picture it in my mind, but I wasn't getting there.  It took many trials and lots of error, but by mid-afternoon (while the oven, I hoped, was baking away all my lovely spills) I had lighting that would hopefully work...a sculpted framework...and my felt cut into the correct sized pieces.  If I just pictured it harder in my head would it "just happen"? 

Somewhere my brain must have skipped some steps...I could see in my mind what it would look like finished but failed to quickly attract the solutions for getting there...though now...at 1 AM it is finally!!!...and so is the oven!  No blow-ups and no need for a repair man.  Had to open some windows for a bit to air the place out...and dinner was take out!

Here are some quick snaps of my felpture...

This little beauty is headed to the Christmas Farmers' Market this Saturday.  Hope to see many of you there cuase everything is way more spectacular in person!
Janet