Cottonwood Creek Designs & Crafts

01/27/2023

Truth here friends!!

01/20/2023

Hello. play along with me. Let’s not pick the most obvious. I’ll start. I’m Cindy but not Lauper.

01/11/2023

Be careful of what you give up to "Have it all"....because in the end...you just might end up with "Nothing at all".

09/01/2022

Hello September!!

08/30/2022

As we begin a new school year, take a minute to say a little prayer for the kids that don't fit in. The kids that come home in tears because they sit on the buddy bench at recess and even then no one will play with them. The kids different at school. The junior high or high school kids who are insecure but who put on a tough or brave facade to fool their friends. The girl who hates her body. The boy who fears the locker room. Pray they know they are loved, pray they know they are special, and pray they find their tribe of friends.

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Teach your kids to be nice! ❤️

Shared from Warrior Women

08/28/2022

TO THE WOMAN WHO THINKS SHE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH. - You are good enough.

To the woman who looks around and wonders why everyone else is so much more capable, so much stronger, so much more ambitious than her.

To the woman who thinks everyone else is blazing a fiery path through this thing we call life, while she limps behind, barely getting through the days.

Somewhere, another woman is looking at you thinking exactly the same.

You see, we all look like we’re kinda nailing it, from the outside in.

We all look ‘together’ sometimes.
Catch us on the right day and hey, we look like we have it all.
Because guess what, we learned to look that way a long time ago.
We learned to hide our struggles behind a smile and whack on that mask every day.

And actually, we are doing each other a favor when we show up,
just as we are,
warts and all,
late,
flustered,
human.

What we really need to see is that we are all the same.
We all struggle.
We all fall apart.

Some days we nail it, other days we get nailed.

By hiding our own weaknesses, fears, worries, we give them more power.
If you let it out, shine a light on it all, it becomes so much less scary, funny even…
And goodness only knows we need to laugh.

So, to the woman who wonders if she is good enough…

If this is you.
Yes you are.
You always were.

You don’t have to live up to everyone’s expectation of how you should be coping.
You are human, flawed, wonderful, miraculous, loveable, loved.

I see you,

Now do me a favor and go see all the others too.
Spread the word, we are good enough, just as we are.

Words By: Donna Ashworth
From the poetry collection ‘to the women’ : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08LRGWY74/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabt1_OYLVFbX4YR91V

08/01/2022

I love love this!!

AS TIME GOES BY

As time goes by,
You will loosen your grip on that rock,
The one you always thought was home,
And you will realise that home is not a place,
It’s a state of mind.
Let it go.

As times goes by,
You will learn to see yourself more clearly,
The girl who was always too much of one thing,
And too little of another, was actually
Everything she needed to be.
Let her out.

As time goes by,
You will let the simple things become the big,
And you will allow the big things to become the simple,
And that readjustment will be,
The day you really start to live,
Let it be.

As time goes by,
You will be forced to say goodbye many times,
And your soft little heart will shatter but,
It will still beat and that will bring you,
All the purpose you need.
Let it beat.

As time goes by,
You will stop choosing wealth over peace,
You will stop choosing money over time,
And you will see that the treasures you need,
Are in the smiles and the laughter.
Let them in.

As times goes by,
The moments you remember when your life flashes past,
Are never the awful memories my friend, it’s the joy,
The summer nights, the lazy days with loved ones,
The midnight chats and the morning hugs,
Let them happen.

Let them all happen.

Donna Ashworth
Author of Sunday Times Besteller ‘I Wish I Knew’https://amzn.to/3JVMJlZ
Art by Autumn Skye ART

08/01/2022

Start this month off right. Hello August.

07/31/2022

Another day another month gone by. Cherish each one we get.

07/30/2022

What are you waiting for? Go go go.

07/22/2022

And i would add. Less buildings; More Beach. What would you add?

07/22/2022

Most definitely