Catching up, checking in
I'm sitting in the dining room this evening going thru some photos and talking to C about her day. I was just thinking how nice the light is, so I took another photo and downloaded that one too.Days have been busy and a bit long round here lately. You remember when I contemplated doing this art in the garden show and thinking that if I spend an hour/day till the show working on the garden, this would equal 70 hours and that should be enough? Well, turns out it isn't enough...and it's taking a monster amount of time to get the garden lovely. (hence, lack of postage)
And of course, this leaves less time for art, (again, hence, lack of postage)And, finally, this leads to lack of cuddle time for the cats...hence, interrupted art and gardening...hence, lack of postage. Lol.
But I am getting somewhere, and, generally, the art and garden parts are coming along on schedule...not that there is a schedule...just a firm idea of success or fail in my head.
Days in the garden are long and days in the studio relatively short in comparison, but Chloe joins me as often as she can. The other day she bought a $2 tank from the thrift and sketched a lovely design on it for herself while I painted. I love it when she stays in the studio with me. I love those times.
And other times she tries to get my attention while I'm gardening...lol. I love those times too.
But everything is coming along in the garden. The seeds are all a success and coming along, and I found some old iron fence panels to cage the raspberries with so people can actually walk down the garden path.
Have a look at these beauties. The irises in the lower right photo I bought with the house, but the other three are saved from construction sites in the 'hood. Aren't they lovely? Such a beautiful surprise, since I saved them before they bloomed.
Lately I've been thinking about how I garden, and that means indoor as well as outdoor. I've been after one of these plants for a year or so now and have found a fantastic specimen for very little money. It's a rabbit's foot fern. So called because its aerial roots look like fluffy rabbit's feet.
Another bunch of plants, which I've been noticing lately, have been air plants, so I decided to do some gardening with one.What do you think?
It's a sort of Wardian case, which came form a thrift shop (and originally held some bath products according to the label which I scrubbed off), planted with three charming Wade figurines: a fish, swimming in a bone fountain, a monkey grinning form some driftwood C gave me, and squirrel ready to hide his nut among the polished pebbles.
And a beautiful air plant...which doesn't actually live on air as I found out.
Not much to report form the silversmithing studio. I'm afraid that my efforts continue to look rather VERY homemade and organic. (How do people get the bezels so smooth and the edges so perfect?)...(sigh)
There are these five new rings; three with beach glass and two with beach polished pebbles.
Actually, I like this one very much. I might keep it and wear it for a while.
Well, little more sunlight left out there, so I'm off to water the garden.Missing regular posting, but happy that all the work is getting done.Big hugs to you all. I'm trying to come around to everyone's blogs, so just remind me and I'll be right over to say hi. :D