Snowflakes and Flowers

So it is the end of April...and it uh was SNOWING TODAY. I've about had it with "whimpy spring" and "Mr. Strong winter". My poor tulips are swaying in the 32' weather...

I decided to come inside and put my hoe and gloves aside and do fun stuff. ANd try to remember that the fun outside will come one of these days.

I am not ashamed to say that I love my Living Magazine. When it comes, I just get a little thrill. I know that the pages are fresh and new and smell good. I know there will be glossy photographs of food I would rarely try. But I also know that reading it gives my creative juices a jump and my mind gets to going...LOVE THAT.

So when I saw this months issue with the poppies on it...I was THRILLED. I LOVE poppies! Okay, there is really no flower out there that I DON'T love. But right now, I love poppies.

Off I went to get some red silk so I could make one...

and I wore it on Easter Sunday. I don't really care if it is as big as a salad plate....I am so over being cool. I wore it because I think it is really pretty.

Easter

Boy, isn't that a creative title for a creative blog? Bah, I guess too many little chocolate eggs can do that to a girl...rats for being on ww during the most wonderful chocolate time of the year.

So this is what I saw when I looked out towards the north this morning. LOVE IT....reminds me of home. Wish I could scramble over the fence and throw a rope over one and hop aboard. Oh yeah, back to the roll dough...

But here are a couple of yummies I made yesterday. Homemade marshmellows with milk chocolate covering. If you have never experienced homemade marshmellows....you are REALLY missing out. It is so good and so easy. (if y0u are wondering, I pressed a plastic rabbit into flour to make the mold and then pour the marshmellow stuff right in...let it set and voile'! And your flour is put back in the flour bin-cool huh?)

Then of course, we rushed to church and I taught my little hoodlums in Primary and gave them white chocolate covered poptarts (shaped like an egg and topped with m&m's- remember my stupit oven is still under the weather.) I was pleasantly surprised how well my crock pot did my ham.

So, it was a fun day with my girls. Wish the other 4 coulda been here.... a mother can always hope right???

Rabbit's everywhere

I love bunnies. Rabbits, whatever you wanna call them. I love their buggy eyes,and funny noses... and this is from someone that raised rabbits when I was a kid. Yup, we bundled up and went out to their clutch to feed them early before school. We got excited when we saw momma bunny pulling fur to make a nest. That meant babies were coming! ANYWAY, I digress.....

So here is my latest bunny. It is a clip art image that I cut out and mounted on a few

antique book pages and then on a canvas. I shredded some pages for a nest and adorned it with a few paper rosettes. A black bow finishes his ensemble!

Carrots anyone?

Went to Tai Pan's ladies night out. Free punch and cookies....and lots of fun spring stuff. Saw some very cute carrots they wanted 5 bucks a piece. I am way too tight for that so I came home and pulled some pages from my DI book and made some myself. Not much for nutrition but pretty good stuff for the creative soul....

Time on my hands

Saw a cute clock in the Pottery barn catalog and wanted a simliar look to put with my other "artsy" clock. Yes, I know it only has one hand...it's artsy...

I took my own nest painting and printed it out in sepia and then glued it in place. I did however, paint about 10 coats of paint on the face before I liked it.

Bunny Business

I saw Martha's cotton balls bunnies the other day on someone's blog... and decided to try my own. It was more fun than I shoulda had on a Sunday evening...

AND yes, it is made from unrolled cotton balls and white glue. I made a simple armature outta wire and okay paint....SO FUN.

Plated up!

So this week, I have been using little tiny scissors to cut out my own art work and glue onto these thrift store plates....then I Modgepodge over the print and then spray liberally with a triple thick glaze...aren't they cute???