Blooms

My Mom and I are both big fans of zinnia flowers. She has an enormous garden of just zinnias, we save our blooms in big bags and plant them the next year. I personally cannot get enough of them, their colors, so varied and vibrant and their perfectly shaped dome of petals - this is one that I just cut for and inside bouquet

Also, a brilliant rose. Here's the story, we were given a tiny rose bush at the beginning of summer and Ed and I both scratched our heads as to how to tend to a rose bush. Did it need sun? Shade? Special rose bush food? I had no idea, so we just planted it and hoped for the best!! It seemed to be doing okay after the shock of replanting until one day . . . I completely broke the one and only stem off with the garden hose! I was sure that I had killed it, but we tried to save it and lo and behold . . . on this tiny little injured stem an ENORMOUS rose bloomed!!!

A rose bush miracle and perhaps a good life lesson somewhere in there as well. . .

That's Me Too.

It seems like there are lots of long gaps between posts, and while I am not doing so much of the "showing and telling," I am busy making things (in between tending to the rapidly producing garden and keeping three flower beds alive - whew!) It's funny because most of the things that I am working on in late summer are fall and other holiday things and it seems so funny to post about them yet, so perhaps I will just snap some photos and show them all to you later on.

Anyway, along with my Pea Soup sites on Etsy and DaWanda, I have been slowly working on a different kind of site. This one is on Etsy and it is called "Elmer and Eleanor" (which happens to be the names of my Grandparents.) Here is the shop. I decided in the beginning of the year that I must do something about my absolute crazy love and passion for all things jewelry and bead related. I LOVE jewelry. I collect jewelry and cannot be without one necklace, and at least three to four bracelets on. (Though I never got my ears pierced - weird??)

Elmer and Eleanor will be a shop for picking up some pretty beads and I have also started making pendants. Eventually there will be one of a kind jewelry pieces, I am hoping some really big, interesting "statement" kind of things, which I LOVE to wear. The problem is, the few things that I have made, I have wanted to keep for myself. I am really trying to get better about this, really. The above picture are two pendants that I am working on, they are drawings transferred to wooden discs - very fun to make. Anyway, thanks for letting me ramble on about the new adventure!

New Pictures and Old Favorites

One of my tasks that I am working on is revamping my Etsy and DaWanda sites a bit, it's been slow, verrry slow, but I do have a tiny bit of work to show for it.


Some of pictures were in desperate need of a redo and so, the light being just right one evening, I got some new pictures of some old favorites:

The Crazy Bug Pin:

The Honey Bee Pin (I just a made a nice big batch of these too!)

And this little lady, I love the picture!! I used to make a lot of these pins and haven't lately. They are so much fun to make with different hair colors and bows, they need to get back into the shops!

By the way, the little bugs are in both Etsy and DaWanda shops, if you are interested!

Good Things

Wow! Seriously, where had July gone? Wasn't it just the 4th of July? I don't even believe it.

I have been an absent pupil from the blog, and am kind of feeling that way about a lot of things, lots and lots to do and I don't seem to get anything accomplished! But that's okay because I had one of the best weekends ever - beautiful weather, art fairs, live music outside (three times!) music in my own back yard with a camp fire and fireworks! A beautiful day trip to my very favorite place . . . Good stuff.

And you know what else is really good stuff? These two. I could sit and stare and drool at their FABULOUS little creations all day!

Good Energy

This is one of the very first pin designs that I created. I fell in love with these buttons and it was around the same time that I learned Reiki, and met a lot of ladies that also practiced Reiki and these came in handy as gifts. I have had a lot of people buy them as gifts for massage therapists, physical therapists etc. Pretty neat. I haven't had many in stock in a long time, so it was extra fun to whip a batch up. There is something very comforting about working a favorite pattern that hasn't been made in a while, this was definitely the case with these. I put one here and there are more color variations to come.

I am in the process of revamping and updating things, taking inventory and all that good stuff, hopefully the fruits of all this labor will be visible in the shops soon!

Wiener Dogs

As many of you that may read this little blog know, I am the proud owner of a miniature wiener dog named Bean. I am very fond of Bean and all of her ridiculous-ness so you can imagine how excited I was when this custom order came in . . .

Close-up:

And now I want one for my very own of my wiener dog (who is black and tan.)

So, what was Bean doing as I was sewing up this pin? Well, she was on my lap of course, but this shows you where we have found her napping more than a few times. . .

Yep, that's her asleep in one of Ed's guitar cases. I wouldn't think that would be comfortable, but she looks pretty okay to me!

R is for Ruella

Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope that you all had a lovely weekend. Our,s was filled with great friends, delicious food and wine and fancy dresses and a couple of "I do's." Yep, some good friends got married yesterday and it was so beautiful and so fun. I love weddings!

My show-and- tell for today is another entry in the Flowers A to Z project. Again, I had never heard of this flower before researching for this project.

This is my felty take on the ruella flower . . .

And I got to use some pretty little seed beads for the center . . .