Easter Peeps Topiary from Country Woman Magazine April/May 2014

This picture caught my eye and I thought of my friend from my AOL Chat Host Days!

I shared this photo and the other Peeps Topiary  from Country Woman Magazine April/May 2014 on Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Tumbler, It is so darling and my friend Lois/Rosie?Peeps ~ AOL Chat Host !  I happened to be browsing the magazine while sitting on my front porch as I always do and I just had to share this Easter Peeps Idea!

I added it to my frstyfrolk  Pinterest Let's Party and Holidays Boards

Peeps Topiary Easter Craft with instructions

http://www.countrywomanmagazine.com/project/peeps-topiary-easter-craft/

And Holiday Gallery from Country Woman Magazine, a great issue!



Love'n  It!
Smiles, Cyndi

Pine Tree Crosses for Easter are here, Fairy Crosses,Trillium, and Mushrooms !

https://www.etsy.com/listing/185632617/photograph-pine-tree-cross-crosses?ref=shop_home_active_2

My husband and I were in the forest searching for a tool left somewhere, We did not locate it but I will one day when I am back lurking around.

We did see the early signs of spring with the Pine Tree Crosses that bloom before Easter. They are just beautiful and a sign that it will come if we just wait.

I took a photo and put int in my Etsy shop with my other Photography of country findings!

Here is my Photography section of my shop, I Have so many more photos to add, it just takes time.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ByLightOfMoon?section_id=12946490&ref=shopsection_leftnav_8

I also added a photo of the Fairy Crosses I have found, I  Have a jar full that I have sifted through and
Love them. Some are large, small, tiny , and eeny meeny but they are there.

All of the stone here are so enchanting to me, they really shine when wet!

When in the woods yesterday I saw many Trillium shoots sprouting up in the forest and last year I took this photo in my yard.

They will look like this before too long!

I have not seen many mushrooms this year yet, we have been dry although  it is raining today! I saw the "Gray Urn" Mushroom on a log beside my house and then also when I went  to the forest for an order of moss.

These are just a few of my findings lately!

Thanks for dropping by!
Smiles, Cyndi

Easter Makings!

What have I been doing lately? I suppose a little of everything. I cannot keep my thoughts and sensations on one thing, I am scattered, sometimes I feel like the fractures trees I see around me in the forest.  The winds blows them and down they come or the fragile branches and limbs break off.

Then they grow the algae I find and love to collect. I collect everything!

My needs have changed from city life and scrapbook papers and fabrics for mixed media to the real nature forest finds.I love a lit candle and gardening without gloves. Feeling Mother Nature is in my soul.

 I love having it around me, I live in the forest but I still have it close to me when I collect it.  I guess I thought it would go away when I went to find an acorn one day and that year and also this we have had very few acorns, due to a wet spring.  Bad excuse, I know!

Yesterday it was not my plan but I walked a forest road and found the nature curly glass I love and I thought why not use it in Easter Baskets? It is so much more beautiful than the store bought plastic stuff I see. Myself and the birds use it for nesting materials. The striated colors are not to be beat. Just awesome! Look closely around you at your Lilliputian world and see what you can find.

Make something out of the non-everyday, think outside the box and color outside the lines!

Here is what I did yesterday when I put my thoughts to the table setting.

I started making the Easter Baskets and then as I was adding details I thought of the nests I had been making only in miniature for pussy willow catkins or even marbles. So, yes, I made one. then two, etc.

That is the way it goes! 

My cat "Lily" is even watching me in this photo, she is one the banister! Play I spy! 

Have a wonderful week and PLAY! 

Smiles, Cyndi