More Challenging than the Others:: Flora

Working with polymer clay is fascinating!  As much as I love glass, I love polymer clay. 

Flora looks like she's ready to nest.  She actually looks plump and ready for spring.  She has a pony tail made of spring greens.  Her hair is full of flowers and a single bird that made it's way to nest.  I don't know about you, but I do like Flora!

What do you think?

Easter is so Near, and Maybe Spring, too? Rambling Thoughts! Pink

 So, I made myself this funky necklace for Easter!  I used all polymer clay components.  Handmade, of course!

Here's another view.  It does remind me of the spring we'd love to be having here in Minnesota now!  Sigh!  Soon, I hope!

And this necklace goes with my newly
PINKED
up
Hair!

I want to be ready for Easter!

And when I showed this bead off on Facebook, someone commented that it matched my hair!


YES!!!

Now, I'm really ready for Easter!

Selfie #12 - Will it ever be Spring?

I Heart Macro! - Spring is really here!

I Heart Macro!

Sometimes, a girl just has to have flowers

I know you've heard me whine about the length of this winter,

and

it 

has 

been

a 

very

long

winter 

this year.

So, sometimes, a girl just has to have flowers.

So, I made some!

 Now, you can help me.

I'm going to be in a craft show at the end of May.

I would like to take these flowers with me.

Can you suggest a way to show these flowers off to the best advantage?

I appreciate the information.

 

In the meantime,

I'll also be listing some in my Etsy store.

This is the first one I listed.

 

 You can see it

HERE

I can hardly wait to see the first flower outside.

It has been a 

Long

Winter.

My Winter whine

This is the time of year I am ready to scream. Cabin Fever, although I can move about freely, is starting to take it's toll. I. NEED. Spring! Help. Do you see the white in the street? That's ice. Do you see the white on the ground? That's snow. I. AM. So. Ready for spring!!!! Now, who's with me on this. Hey, where's that ground hog? Okay. I feel better now. Whine is over. Next time, we talk about beads!

Taste and see

Spring tastes of 

daisies and bees.

Summer tastes of

 picnics and fireworks.

Fall tastes of

 milkweed pods and sunflower seeds.

Winter tastes of

 family.

I love my year!

Six Word Story Sunday - Spring Again and Happy Mother's Day!

Spring, Again

Spring is Finally

Here,

I think!


Oh, and Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers whether they have children or not.

Weekly Photo Challenge - Spring

This weekly photo challenge was a challenge!

Spring
What do you think of when you hear that word?
I think season.
I think soft yellow greens, tulips, daffodils, violets, birds, robins, green grass....
I might also think of a spring, you know, like a slinky,
but it is the season, so....
Here's spring in Minnesota.
This is what the back yard looked like early this morning when Pixie first needed to go outside.
She loved it and ran in it!
I, on the other hand, was not as excited and thrilled as she was.
As the sun began to rise, you could see a little more clearly.
Not a tremendous amount of snow,
but more than enough.
Come on, Mother Nature,
it's almost the end of March!

Skeletons of buried twigs blossomed in the snow.
Shurbs were weighted down again.
Poor shrubs.

Spring
s-p-r-i-n-g
Spring

What a Rare Creature We Have in Our Midst

Here in Minnesota, we have a rare creature in our midst.

The technical name for this creature is
snowbirdis autumninus springus.
These birds, native to Minnesota and other cold states,
begin their annual migrations
just as the spring winds begin to blow
and when the warmth of summer ends.
They fly quickly across the country to warmer climates.
We, who live here through the cold winters, simply call them
SNOWBIRDS.
I just thought that you might like to meet a few of them.
One is already listed in my Etsy store.
I hope to get the others listed very soon.
This is our orangellis snowbirdellis springus and fallus.
We just call him Jake.
You can find Jake in my Etsy store if he doesn't decide to head south for the winter very soon.
I think he's found a bit of snow cover for now,
but I know he wants to be warm!

Now, this is Lulu. She's blue because she hasn't left yet, and she wants to get warm again.
I hope to get Lulu listed very soon in my Etsy store.
Keep your eyes open because she might fly away very quickly!
She's a blueellis snowbirdis autumnus springus.
She won't be back until the snow melts.

Homer wants to stick around until after Thanksgiving.
He's a bit warmer because he's encased.
However, the snow will make him long for the warmth of Florida, Arizona, New Mexico.
Well, you get the picture.
Homer will be in my store soon.
He's an
Amberellis snowbirdis autumnus springus.
Look for him soon in my Etsy store.
Now, I'm off to dream about the upcoming winter, and I'm imagining
tall coconut trees, a warm beach, white sands.

If you could fly like these snowbirds,
where would you fly to?
I'm seriously thinking
the ocean.
That would be nice!

The Itsy Bitsy Spider--NOT!

So, what do you think? Only a face a mother could love? Itsy, bitsy? NOT!

I normally appreciate spiders in my house since they eat so many other nuisance bugs, but I do have two rules that apply to them.

1) Spiders may remain in my house as long as they do not get near me.
(I think that's very reasonable.)

2) Spiders are not allowed to get big. Note the size of the spider compared to the dime. That's one BIG spider.

In this case, this spider violated rule #2. It is way bigger than the dime. However, there was an exception to this rule for this spider because s/he was dead when I found it, therefore, rule #2 does not apply.

Now, does anyone see a bead in this deceased arachnid? If you do, I'd love to see it, but please do not violate rule #2. Thank you very much!

At Last! Signs of Spring!

At last!
There are true signs of Spring!
Take note.














Rhubarb. It's not big enough to pick, but it will be ready soon!



















I was shocked to find these in the lawn already!



















The sweet, gentle violet, should be one of the first blooms of spring. Soon, very soon.



















Here's Spike by his tree.

I can hardly wait!

I'm Dreaming of Spring!

Oh,
When will it come?
Today,
the high was 46.
It's the end of April.
I want to complain
about the
HEAT!
It's time for spring!

The Perfect Garden

When you live in Minnesota, you expect a long winter, a short fall, a very short spring, and a medium length summer. Usually, at the first sign of a warm day, the true gardeners are outside raking and cleaning up the gardens to get ready for the first planting, the first tulip, the first day when they can be outside puttering in their beautiful gardens. I am not one of those gardeners. I'd be happy just watching my garden grow from afar.

Knowing this, I had to ask myself, what would be the perfect garden for me. Here are pictures of my garden as it looks right now.



In my perfect garden, there would be flowers blooming all the time--even in winter. Winter would not kill the perfect rosebush or make it go dormant. Flowers would bloom all year long.


















Some bushes and plants would have two different types of flowers on them. They would bloom profusely and never go dormant.



















This rosebush, which has been in the same place in the garden for over 20 years, would bloom profusely. In the twenty years it has been here, it has bloomed only one time, and that was for my daughter's graduation. The flowers were bountiful and fragrant. Since then, the rosebush has not bloomed again.



















My beautiful little herb garden would never need weeding. (Actually, none of my garden would ever need weeding!) The herbs would overflow with their pungent fragrances and taste. Now, that would be awesome!

The perfect garden would also have the perfect gardener. That would be Raul with his shirtless body steaming in the sun. His muscles rippling as he plunged the shovel into the garden----Wait!



Wrong fantasy! Oh, well, at least you know what my perfect garden would be like!