Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Celebrating new life in the garden on Mother's Day 2016

Happy Mother's Day! 
It's a great time to celebrate new life- so I'd like to share the new life growing in our garden... with these pictures, enjoy :)


Tiger swallowtail butterflies are my fave! This photo isn't new... but is still
from my garden :)

A beautiful magnolia bloom, smells just as lovely.

Our magnolia in bloom.
These magnolia flowers are huge & smell so delightful.

As the magnolia fades, this snail is catching a nap in its shade.

Fancy daffodils- so pretty.

Lots of spring colours




Our white dogwood in full bloom


Wooly caterpillar :)


Rhododendrum flower buds...
 with a daddy long legs checking them out.

Peonies flower buds... with an ant to help it open.

Pretty heather blooms
Is this the birth of a walnut tree?

Our pink dogwood has lots of blooms forming!
Close up of the pink dogwood bloom.




Purple irises. I need more of these :)


Birth of a fern plume.

 Wisteria starting to bloom.

Our wisteria starting to bloom, more spectacular every year.
Columbine abounds in our gardens with their pretty pink blooms.

Columbine almost blooming.
If you look hard, you'll see a face in this fairyland photo.
Our azalea, preparing to bloom soon.

Tiger swallowtail butterfly- saw the 1st one this year- yesterday :)

I wish I could add the delightful scent of these lily of the valleys.


Sunday, April 1, 2012

Simply charming...



The short version: I bought some charms and made simple, earrings with them.

The long version:
  I enjoy shopping for unique pieces to use in my jewelry.
Combining pretty charms, colourful glass, or precious stones, into a pair of earrings, is almost instant gratification.

 The other day, I received a new order of charms, and was anxious to go to my studio and make some new earrings. However, my son was on Skype, and we were having such a good visit, so I opened the packages, and we just kept talking.

    I have a couple of tools in my desk, so I made several pairs of earrings while we visited. 





They're simple, lovely, and Inexpensive.

Clay pieces often take weeks from start to finish. 
Paintings also take many hours to be completed.
Earrings are one of the few things I can make from beginning
to end, in one sitting AND they are easy to ship.


But, just adding a charm to an ear wire? Anyone can do that… if they want to.
Makes me reluctant to call them "handmade", however, not everyone is willing or has the patience,
to fiddle with tiny things. 


 So... 
A simple charm hanging from a hook.
Easy to make, and yet so pretty to wear.

It'll take time for me to get them all listed in my Etsy Shop, but I did