Creative Adventurez and Findz

My first Felt Project! Heart appliques... Tea pot cozy in action! Well, I finally made my tea cozy from a sweater I felted in the fall. I added some heart appliques to make it a bit more interesting.... and voila. I do have to say the felting process was a lot more work than I anticipated. As well, I am not sure if it is worth it financially. I bought the sweater at Value Village for  around 9 dollars and then it took about three or so washes to get a felt result. I think it can be hard to find a 100% wool seater that is cheap. But if you do or someone gives you one then I think it is worth it for the experience. I would do it again but I need to have something in mind that I would make. I would like to make slippers and a bowl. So perhaps I will do it if I find a cheap wool sweater I like. This looks like fun too!  I also would like to learn some other felting techniques so hopefully I can find a class and learn more about felting.Th...

The exciting part of gardening is seeing things you planted a year ago come up again. Well last year my obsession was the blue bell. Every where I went I saw them and wanted them in my garden. The sweet little blue bell who knew you were so desirable. I guess the feeling of nostalgia over came me. In the house I grew up on Fulton in West Van we had plenty of blue bells all in the front left part of the garden. As a child, I remember seeing them when I was playing or helping my mom in the garden. So last year when I was reunited with the blue bell; I knew I had to have some in my garden. Luckily, I was able to buy one lonely blue bell at the Hospital thrift store plant sale last year. So this spring, I was thinking where are you blue bell?  Well out of the ground and to my great surpise there popped out my Blue Bell. Pretty Blue Bell the one and only! White Bleeding hearts...oh so unique! Tulips happy colour! Wild bleeding hearts Graden blooming- ...

Last week was the fifth year of living without my mom. It has been a tough few years. Everyday I miss her. Our family misses her being the matriarch of the family. Odelia misses the strong grama that spent hours with her.....So to celebrate her life we went to Georgia Beach and put flowers in the ocean that we chose from the garden. I think mom would have liked that. It was also special to do this with Penny my birth mother. It was a very special day for all of us. We also were creative by painting rocks that we chose from the beach. It was a sad but good day as the sun shone down on us; I knew mom was looking down on us smiling. In fact, at one point on the beach a duck took a flower and swam away and then went under the water. We never saw it again. Perhaps a spirit visit from Paulean. Love you mom!

      I have been out in the garden trying do the spring clean with Dave's help and even Odelia for a few hours. It has been alot of work and right now I can see the results of all our hard work. Yahooo!!      I planted, with Odelia's help, our veggie seeds a week or so ago and boy have they taken off.   Seeds growing after one week!                                                                           so exciting!                    ...