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If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride.

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The term, “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride,” is an old English proverb meaning that wishing for something doesn’t do you any good. You must take action to realize your dreams. My dream has to do with horses, so this proverb really talks (or maybe it whinnies) to me! Since I was a child I have wanted to own my own farm, a horse farm specifically. I have been riding since I was about 10 years old. I don’t want to tell you how many years that is, lets just say that it’s A LOT!

I met my husband on a commuter train traveling from Toronto to Oakville in 1999. I was going home after an evening class at The University of Toronto and he was traveling home from a job interview.  He was unemployed and I was a student with most of my money going to books and the horse that I was riding at the time, a Clydesdale Thoroughbred cross named Jessie. My now father-in-law is a lawyer, and my future husband used to like to tell girls that he was a farmer in order to discourage them from liking him because they might think that he came from money (they own a farm, and at the time they had about 70 cows). Little did he know that at the time, ‘son of a lawyer’ was, and still is, far less impressive to me as ‘son of a farmer’! LOL!

Fast forward to 2013 and we now have 3 kids together, all of whom are horse lovers and have all started riding. We have been talking about having our own farm someday since we first met — that’s 14 years of talking about it. This past year we started looking more seriously and put in 3 offers, all of which were rejected. :( We’re still looking and we’re still hoping, but at least we are doing something about it now. It might never happen, but at least we will have tried.

Sorry about the book! My layout, created with the March Kit from Artful Delight,  is about this story, so you need a little back story to understand the premise behind it. I hope you like the layout and the message — whatever your dream may be, keep trying.

If Wishes Were Horses

Here’s a close up of the extremely ironic Theresa Collins papers.

If Wishes Were Horses Close up 3

Another close up… This one is of my journalling.

If Wishes Were Horses Close up 2

Here’s a close up of my title. I used alphabet stickers from Pink Paislee and Prima. These were not part of the kit.

If Wishes Were Horses Close up 1

Thanks for stopping by. Tell me, what’s your dream? Are you living it, or are you still dreaming like me?


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