August Break

Do you feel the pressure to post?

Yeah me to at times.

It's summer and we all have a million things we're doing.

So I'm participating in

Read about it here!
at Susannah Conway's blog

Ok hopefully I'll be able to participate everyday

We'll have to see.
Little behind starting on day 5.

Showing only one picture is hard for me.
....coming  from the girl that will show 8 photos of the same thing.

So I will have to practice restraint.

I stayed home later then normal yesterday before coming to work.

I just had to clean our bathroom.

Mostly around the tub where an asparagus fern

had shed it's leaves. I'm usually pretty good with it.

See I dry plants out too.

No worry it's still fine.

Anyways it had made a mess all over the tub surround and you know

one thing leads to the other.

So I rearranged things.

It's not finished all the way and neither is the whole bathroom but it's much improved.

Ok off to visit my friend Ginny at her shop.

After being open since 1992 she's decided to close her shop

but still keep her website.

Sad but I think she's making the right move.

She's having a big sale to move some inventory this weekend if you'd like to come.

Check her website HERE

Address

Waterside Antiques
109 E. Main Street

Clinton, Ct

860-669-0809



Inspiring

We use the word inspired a lot in blogland.

I wonder sometimes what that word really means.

I think we all want to inspire.

To motivate.

To connect with others.

 I know I fall short in the inspiration dept.

Often actually...

and make a mess of this blog of mine...

embarrassingly so.

( have to improve my proofreading skills)

In real life I fall short too

whether it's projects, planting schedules, orders

etc.

  the list is long.

What's important is to keep pushing on

.....to not give up,

to find what excites you and makes you

want to keep learning.

Seeing all the talented women in blogland makes me strive to

be better everyday.

I thank you for that and for

Inspiring me.

Joining Kim for

Texture Tuesday

(using her inspired texture)



Succulents and a little something for me

I don’t know how you feel about succulents but in the last couple of years I

have really gotten to love them.

(These were from a vendor at the Old Saybrook Art and Craft Fair last week)

 

Maybe it’s the ease in growing them?

and of course they don’t require as much watering….

and that’s always a good thing.

Oh except these are ferns.

They may lack flowers but the colors make up for it.

Ferns make a nice addition to these troughs too.

                                              

                                                      

                                                                                       

I spent most of my time photographing things that

I didn’t leave a lot of time for shopping

but I did manage to find this little necklace.

The top is from a real acorn attached  to a handmade bead.

While I was retrieving the website of the vendor I bought

this from I noticed the links weren’t  working right,

so I went back and fixed them.

Just incase you wanted to visit

The price was reasonable at $15.

I thought.

The necklace looks petite next to the hydrangea flower but it’s a variety

called “ The Swan”  which gets the biggest blooms I've ever seen.

It gets it’s name from the way it grows.

Starts off like an ugly duckling and

matures into a.......yes you guessed it

 beautiful Swan.

It had just rained a few minutes before and with it came a cool breeze.

Ahh so nice after all this heat we’ve been getting.

While I’m on the subject I thought I  would show you a print I bought on one of my

other trips to the craft fair.

It’s a Giclee Art Print. From the word “squirt” in french.

If you’re interesting in how it’s done you can read about it and the artist below.

I just know that it spoke to me the moment I saw it

…..and isn’t that what Art is supposed to do?

I’m a little behind on framing it but I’ve been painting a lot of frames as of late…..

so I should be able to get to that soon.

Waiting for the rain to come…….

skies are getting dark and rumbling in the distance.

Hopefully this will cool things off a bit.

How’s the weather your way???