Sun Catchers

I will have a new piece of art on my table at the next Farmer's Market. I put tiny pieces of beach glass inside wire wrapped hearts. Sun catchers. They really sparkle when you hang them in the window!

Pressing Posies is What I Do!!

I love pressing flowers! You might say I am addicted to it! My garden and my patio are both in full bloom. It takes hundreds of posies to keep up with all of the art I make. When I think I have pressed too many...I soon find out I needed more. I usually press what the season brings. The hydrangeas are in bloom right now. I have some gorgeous blue ones pressing now. It is also wild daisy season as well.  Sparkling in the sunshine you will see many pieces of glass with these white and yellow gems on my table.  Ferns are native to the Pacific Northwest growing everywhere. I get mine on the property where I live.  I am lucky to have the woods so close.  I press books of them every year as they are a BIG favorite! I put them on glass, shells, lockets, and in my "Tiny Bits"(my tiny containers have whole leaves inside).

Raining!

This message is for anyone that might just happen to check to see if I will be at the Farmer's Market on this gloomy...drippy day. I just can't bring myself to set up my table of pressed flower art and stand in the rain and wind. That just does not sound like a whole lot of fun to me! Hopeful for a sunny day next week! 

A Joyful Day!

Wow, did I enjoy my time at the Farmer's Market yesterday! Our gorgeous weather brought people outside, it put huge smiles on faces. Joy on faces sipping iced coffees, joy on faces licking and slurping ice cream cones and snow cones and joy on faces eating baskets of fresh organic raspberries and strawberries.  Joy on faces eating giant chunks of jam filled pastries, and joy on the faces of the small ones walking so proudly with flowers and bugs painted on their faces. Once in a while there is a break in the crowd coming down the sidewalk; crowds of people out for their own quest of finding that perfect gift or just a savory loaf of bread or a sweet bunch of fresh cut flowers, that is when I sit back and watch the magic of life! In the distance a busker singing, laughter, sea gulls overhead, the train blasting it's horn as it passes through our bay. I love my hobby. I never tire of collecting and pressing my flowers or beach combing for glass and shells. The fresh air and smells of the sea give me joy. Then sitting in the early hours of my day sitting in a quiet house with the silence (well, expect for the coffee maker) creating pieces of little beauties to share with everyone
down at our Farmer's Market. I love the joy I see when someone loves my art! It all gives me much much JOY!