More Felting

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The Pregnant Dryad (it was bound to happen)

Spiral Mermaid

Mama with nursing toddler in sling

la, la, la, la, la....

 

 

                                                                     June is Grand.

 

 

Self Portrait Challenge

 

 

I Love The List, I Hate The List

(ad infinitum)

To Do

 

~send in Jesse's "portfolio" review for school year

~call windmill guy

~squash the bugs on the eggplant (what the heck are they?)

~felt project for P (nephew)

~feed the bees

~laundry

~figure out new summer shoes (Lucy ate my Birkenstocks). 

 Call me crazy but these would make me happy.

as would these

~organize canned goods & freezer, figure out how much we need to preserve this year

~make goat cheese/freeze

~gather lemon balm, make some tea

~work on moving next winter's wood into shed

~place order for 2008 wood (5 cord-ish)

~sit quietly

~breathe

(You should feel free to ignore the above list.)

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But Wait!

Here is an example of a beautiful mess. 

Yesterday, Jesse was playing with a bucket of clay on the porch and the clay jumped on him and covered him head to toe and he decided to spray himself clean with the hose and Roo started to squeal about the wetness and so he sprayed into the house because he enjoys the squealing and then he ran into the kitchen and the clay and the water was all over the floors and so he "cleaned" it up with the clean laundry.  And then he started a bath and the bath water turned to sludge and she jumped in and so she was sludge-coated and they were laughing and it was such a MESS.

But.

They got out and I dried their happy little bodies and they ran off to play.  I sat there and watched the water swirl down the drain and I breathed.  When the tub drained, I saw this:

Clay On Porcelain

The last one reminds me of earth and roots

and deep growing things.

And how sometimes life is a beautiful mess.

 

 A Fine June Day

                    

Truly fine.

You Know This, Don't You?

(protected)

That I post pictures when the words are not there.  I have so much to say and the words do not flow and so I photograph my life because the silence is not good for me.

And I lay it before you, like this.

Here, here are my days and here is my little heart.

There are days when it seems as if the lightest breeze could leave me bare.

 

 

I Have A Crush

(on these Etsy Artists and their work)

ShellieART

(ETA: these are fabric on wood)

Artandghosts

 

 

Big Ole' Crush.

 

Here, Have An Iris

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Swoon.

 

 Bees, Bees, Bees!

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My husband is really smokin'.

 

 

Self Portrait Challenge

 

The challenge for June: "This month the challenge is to show yourself in your surroundings, using your environment as a marker of who you are."

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I am not the tree but my trunk bends, like this

and my skin grazes the bark, like this

and I am slow, like this.

I am not the tree but I am lush and verdant

like this.

See here, I am this.