Secret Garden in a Local Greenhouse

As promised, here are the pictures of the greenhouse I visited last Saturday. I find it all very inspirational in a couple of ways.

1. It makes me want to learn to garden (I am attempting my first square foot garden this summer, very excited to have fresh veggies this season..)

2. It makes me want to create. I could sit in there and paint what I see, I could use bits of nature to make anything from jewelry to home decorating and anything in between, draw, craft, and generally be inspired...




















It's like a jungle in here.
The picture at the right smacks of an actual greenhouse with a long table filled with plants. But the plants have taken over.




















All of the trees have decided to stay and burst out of their pots and into the ground.





















Even pots of other plants have been left to their own devises.
































































There were so many more awesome pictures, too many to put in one post. This greenhouse has a sad story (because of the huge amount of money lost on these trees due to competition from the big money people) but it is such a beautiful, inspiring place and I will definitely be visiting again.



Meliss

Toadily

In the future I hope to get more organized with my posts. Though I have seen that I'm not the only one that's not. I have also seen others consistently share great stuff. I think I'm in between.

That said, I wanted to share some pictures of a piece I made a while ago. It has since been sold, so I'm afraid you wont be seeing it in Tweedlepox's Etsy store. (Which I opened pretty much on schedule. Amazing!)



Toadily Beautiful is a favorite that I created while working a booth at a craft fair.


The fabulous toad bead is by Green Girl Studios. He reminds me of the Frog and Toad stories that were my favorites when I was little.


Another item that is not for sale, and I did not make. (Maybe I made him fat.) I found this in my photo booth after taking a few shots.








Also, the dress that I spoke of is almost finished. It is taking far longer than I tend to think it should, but seeing as sewing is not my best skill, and my machine repeatedly binds up when I'm almost done, I should be happy that I have anything to show for it.

The skirt half is a white satiny material with a ribbon of toile along the bottom. Very cute.


I am so ridiculously close to being finished with the entire thing, that my sewing machine is sure to spontaneously combust. I'm sure i just need to get it tuned up, but unfortunately that will have to wait.



I haven't had any revelations recently (they come and go) so I'm afraid I don't have anything really fabulous to say. I can't be fabulous everyday. I have decided to be more proactive in my efforts to discipline (as in "to teach") my children as opposed to yelling. I discussed this with them this morning and they seemed to agree with the plan. We shall see if they continue to agree once I lay the empathy on them after they learn they wont be joining me for a movie later. If I keep a positive attitude about the whole thing, it promises to be amusing. For me.

Meliss