Spring is in the Air!
April, Spring, warmer weather, tree's blooming, green color is returning, all of these things make me want to get even busier in my yard and
gardens.
I even went to the flower shop yesterday where they are
stocking up on garden and yard plants! I even got some Victoria Rhubarb to grow
for the first time ever! Actually it is my first time for many gardening ideas
as I have never really had them before, maybe just a plant of two that grows
very easily like my mint that spread everywhere in Alabama. I adore it when the
dogs tennis ball had to be retrieved form it because it released the smell and
I also used it in making mojoto's, fresh mint make them so pretty and tasty, I
also had chocolate mint that smell wonderful. It should be coming back up soon, I hope! I did get our black cat Blak some more Catmint again yesterday. He loves it so much. Lily the tabby is not much into it yet and she would even rather chase her tail than play with toys.
I did take branches from my corkscrew willow that was
replanted at many of my previous homes. My
in- laws gave it to
me when we bought our first home and we stayed there 17 years but when we outgrew
it and moved, we took cut branches with us for new trees. My Mother -in- law
even took cuttings when they moved from an apartment to a home so it did travel
to many new sites.
I planted several cut branches in several places in our yard
here in North Carolina and it seems to be doing very well! Of course, my moss
gardens here are my biggest thing as it is free to gather in the woods where
the deer have kicked it up and I have discovered a whole new world with my
fairy gardens along with the lichen and
tree algae I find here, I have so many plans for all of them this summer to add
to my small Lilliputian worlds and making terrariums. I have been collecting
tiny miniatures to put in them.
Yesterday I went to the thrift store and got a large bag of
wooden items. I figure I can learn to paint them to be terrariums accessories.
I also got some small winter Christmas houses I plan to de-winterize and
make them fairy and gnome houses with the moss and lichen added.
I also plan on making mobiles and wind chimes with all my
junk metals I find along with my stash of bead s and jewelry accessories. I
also collect kitchen items for mobiles and anything that would make noise in
the wind.
I have thought of using my
junk crowns or terrarium lamp
fixture holders ( I call them) for using in wind chimes, they
can be a base for hanging items I have found. Also tree branches and stones,
etc. I am lucky ( or unlucky) I have so
many flea markets available to be here and so many animal help thrift shops. Or
unlucky because I spend to much money at them.
My collections are getting overwhelming and I need to use and make
instead of just collect.
I also have a large
collection of picture frames I need to de-stash! I have been collecting them since Alabama and
have several boxes of them. They were purchased for vintage prints I have and
for making nature inspired mixed media like my
sassafras leaves in my Etsy shop! I also take So many
photographs here in the country, I want to share them
as I am working on a way to get them printed and shipped. It amazes me of the quirky road sign names here, I guess anyone can name their own road and some are very cute names and very unusual! Yes, I take photos of them also and wishing wells, tire swings, even clotheslines; things we did not see when we lived in the city.
I have many vintage jars and it pains me we
cannot recycle glass here, so I dread putting them in the trash.
I found alongside the road one day several white
plastic bags dumped at a site I pass every day. I finally got tired of looking
at the plastic bags someone had dumped and I took a big trash bag to collect
them and put in our trash. I had no idea what was in them at the time but it
turned out they were old "Wild Irish Rose Bottles "someone had
dumped. Now, I want to decorate them and maybe learn to cut them for wind chimes,
My husband purchased at a craft show we attended a three cut
off bottoms bottle wind chime but it had no hanger in it , it was just to clink
in the wind. It did not work out very well, so he added a wood bead inside and
a tin can lid to the hanger, now it looks and sounds wonderful!
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