Spring green with blossoms

Here is a treasury I created for my favorite team--the etsy bloggers' team.

All the photos are clickable!  How Cool!  Sarah of Magnolia Surprise shared how to use the above widget on her blog. 

Here are her very pretty Spring-y wash cloths that are featured above.



LINKS:

direct LINK to the live treasury

treasury tutorial  (My note:  I could not get the code to paste where I wanted it using "Edit HTML."  So I just pasted it in compose mode.)
Etsy bloggers can be found HERE.  
photos © by the individual artists

umbrellas

 The perfect place to be on a cold snowy winter day!

Sint Maarten, Netherland Antilles/Saint Martin, French West Indies

LINKS to past posts on St Maarten:

(mostly for my benefit, but if you wish to see only a few more photos, click on any of the links marked with ◄)

ONE  maps of the island + a couple photos 

TWO  sunset

◄ THREE  Baie Longue/Long Beach

FOUR  bird  

◄ FIVE  Cupecoy

SIX Pointe de Bluffe

SEVEN Sunset over Cupecoy 

EIGHT  Sint Maarten (planes flying over beach) 

NINE sunset

◄ TEN Sail Away (#1)

ELEVEN  Sint Maarten kitties 

◄ TWELVE  island

◄ THIRTEEN  Sail Away (#2)

This is a fun weekly meme, under the direction of Jenny Matlock.  This week, our letter is "U."  Come and join HERE.  You will be amazed at all the bloggy goodness to be found!  

photos by me © 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010



PS:  I am on vacation.  (Yes, somewhere warm!)  I will visit you upon my return.

tiny turtle

↑ found this teeny tiny turtle in my driveway a couple years ago.  It was truly the size of a US quarter!  It may have grown up to look like this ↓

box turtle care LINK

Eastern and Western (USA) box turtle information

This is a fun weekly meme under the direction of Jenny Matlock.  You, too, can join in the fun!  This week our letter is "T."  Visit all the other wonderful entries HERE.






photos by me ©  2008

Dilapidated Barn

September, Bead Lake, Newport, Washington 

 

I'm linking up with Barn Charm, a Monday meme.  Come see other links and link up, too HERE!





photos by me ©  2008

Faerie Garden Fancies

Craftoholic Diana, otherwise-known-as Bunnykissd, is proprietress of the etsy shop Faerie Garden Fancies.  In her shop you will find all kinds of goodies to delight the imagination.  "My favorite materials to work with include but are not limited to paper, paint, glue, scissors, polymer clay, pencils, watercolors, camera, and computer."

Look at this cute Jolly S'more Man!

Diana also makes a variety of ACEOs like this one she calls Surprise. 

These black raspberry chocolate earrings come on this cute card.

If you want to know more about Diana, her life, her family, her interests, and her crafts, be sure to visit her blog Diary of a Crazy Rabbit Lady Too.  (If you have some books you'd like to recommend to her, please leave a comment here.)

Bunnykissd is the etsy blogger of the month.  Find out more about the etsy bloggers here.

photos © by bunnykissd 2010 and 2011

a special party

5 years cancer-free!   That was the occasion for the celebration in Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park.  My friends and I wanted to rejoice over a benchmark in the life of another special friend.  This was the perfect setting for a party. 

We created a vignette under the shade of a trio of trees, first by laying down a quilt "floor," then by setting a low table with linens.  Our seats were pillows.  Flowers, delicious home~made food, and mimosas completed the picture.  Next to each place was a keepsake vintage glass filled with soil and an angel wing begonia.

"Abracadabra" by Alexander Liberman

After our luncheon, we wandered through some of the beautiful 265 acres of meadows, rolling hills, woods, and gardens.  We enjoyed taking photos of the wonderful (world class) sculptures and gorgeous landscapes.

"Laocoon" by Alexander Liberman

We ended our celebration in another area of the park, with dessert cookies and tea.  a perfect day!

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, a non-profit organization located in SW Ohio, USA, was founded by Harry T. Wilks in 1996.  This park was touted as the "most beautiful natural setting of any art park in the country" by Atlantic Monthly.

"Our mission is the eventual establishment of a collection which will demonstrate the complete history of sculpture by mankind, making Pyramid Hill the only art park in the world working on the accomplishment. " 

LINKS:

◄ Pyramid Hill website

◄ interview with Wilks showing some of the lovely park lands and sculptures (4 minutes)

◄ 365 things to do in Cincinnati Day 187   

◄Alexander Liberman, Russian-American born in 1912, died 1999. article  and  obituary

This is a fun weekly meme under the direction of Jenny Matlock.  You, too, can join in the fun!  This week our letter is "S."  Visit all the other wonderful entries HERE.

photos by me ©  2007
PS:  It was a SURPRISE party! 
PPS:  Lest I give the wrong impression, this party was not for me. 

Winter

is so Wintery

cold

icy

blustery.

such a great time for

hanging out by the fire

napping with or without kitties (↑Earnest)

making lots of soup

learning a new craft

reading books, visiting with friends, snowboarding (son only), watching movies, playing games.

But also 

walking in the woods,

capturing nature on film, looking for animal tracks.

Winter, February to be exact, is my birthday, my wedding anniversary, and my son's birthday.  That gives us a reason to celebrate all month long...

and a wonderful excuse to get away to somewhere WARM! 

 

This post is for the etsy bloggers' team carnival which will be posted on Linda's blog, Pruitt Handcrafts on Monday, February 14th.

photos © by me 2008, 2009, and 2010

(Last photo is Prickly Pear Island in the Caribbean.)