Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture

An embroidered evening jacket from the Yves Saint Laurent spring/summer 

1990 haute couture collection.

Worry is the interest paid in advance on a debt you may never owe.

No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.

Sometimes you got to stop worrying, wondering and doubting. Have faith that things will work out. Maybe not how you planned. But how they were meant to be.

Things won’t get better unless you think better.

A negative mind will never give you a positive life.

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do. But doesn’t get you anywhere.

 – Erma Bombeck

No matter how awesome you are, you won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. No worries. You’ll be many people’s double espresso. 

Live your life to be happy. Never mind what others say. Because you’re going to be judged anywhichway. – Karen Salmansohn

www.notsalmon.com

Raquel Welch

 

Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada; September 5, 1940) is an American actress and singer.

Welch posed for Playboy magazine in 1979, but she never did a fully nude shoot. Hugh Hefner later wrote, "Raquel Welch, one of the last of the classic sex symbols, came from the era when you could be considered the sexiest woman in the world without taking your clothes off. She declined to do complete nudity, and I yielded gracefully. The pictures prove her point." Welch has refused to take all her clothes off on screen or pose naked throughout her career spanning five decades, saying this was the way she was brought up. While her image in the 1960s was that of a torrid sex temptress, Welch's private life was quite different. She once famously said, "What I do on the screen is not to be equated with what I do in my private life. Privately, I am understated and dislike any hoopla". She also admitted, "I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding".

"I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that...That was all wrong."

"Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts—only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do."

Raquel says the lesson for every aging woman is to embrace it. "I want them to stop being scared of it, because it's just another chapter in life," she says. "It's not time for you to give up. You don't need to repeat what you did already. Don't keep comparing yourself."

Raquel says she likes to think of aging gracefully as a game. "We might as well make up our minds to play it or just bow out and be spectators," she says. "Sitting around doing nothing is far from the best option. Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body."

At 73 years old

Quilt, applique and patchwork projects - One who sleeps under a quilt is comforted by love.

  

A lovely jacket made from bits of vintage patchwork, lace, linens and more.

 

Needlework - “Sewing mends the soul.”

 

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary.” – Mary Kurtz

“You can sew your own curtain to remain hidden from the dark side of the world.” – Munia Khan

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” – Johannes Brahms

A creative mess is better than tidy idleness

One who sleeps under a quilt is comforted by love

A lady never discusses the size of her fabric stash