remaking a bracelet

I took an old bracelet  That was my mothers hand-me-down...
Removed the pieces I didn't love..
added some dangly white beads...
and drew on the nuts with my white gel pen just like on my rocks!
Viola!

5 things that make me happy.......

1. starting a new hobby that the whole family wants to get involved in....
creating walking sticks....
can't wait to get started now that we have the proper tools...
carving, woodburning, painting and staining...
so many ideas...

2. an abundant harvest from my small little raised garden....
 gathering what we have grown....

 3. Canning and pickling and making jelly and salsa with  our own vegetables....

next year I will get more creative with my labels...

4.Walking with my son on the dike around our town....

and searching for bees...

5.photographing old and  new rocks for my etsy shop.... I plan to add them little by little this week and next...

white flowers

I wanted to try something different to paint because I saw a video of a woman painting a white flower and it seemed like a challenge in watercolor. 

The smell of these roses was what stopped me ... I could smell them from the car, a whole row of them, past their prime but still beautiful... so this week, no girls, no mandalas... just this...

 IN PROGRESS:

still writing

 The novel I just mentioned I am writing ( I am up to 65 pages!) is set during the time the Phlox  bloom...

well in googling "Phlox" i learned these flowers that we have everywhere in June are not even really phlox. they are Dame's Rocket, or sweet rocket, an invasive species, unlike phlox which is native to North America.. They have 4 petals. not 5 like true Phlox. And their leaves are jagged and staggered around the stem unlike Phlox which are smooth and even around the stem. 

I have called them phlox my whole life.

I have probably never even seen real wild phlox.

I feel lied to.

 

So, I decided to use that in the novel. In it, plants already had personalities, so now my phlox have become, not down right liars, but sneaky and mischievous. They just stand there, waving  a little in the shady areas, laughing at our little lives as we run to and fro...

cold and dismal

It has just been cold here

no colors

more snow and ice

I am ready for a bit of spring

but I have been creating these same colors in my wood burning and I do enjoy that...

 

metal melting wood

the hot smell I remember

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I think I will add a bit of color to these with a wash of watered down acrylic in spots...

and, as you can see I have been playing with my blog design and banner, this is the third banner I tried this week, I will probably change it a bit more by next week if i have time, just not sure what i want yet...

Happy PPF and Haiku My Heart!