miniature treasures

There's a lot of prancing, stomping, snorting and feverish chomping going on around here.  You'd think a race horse lived on the premises.  Unfortunately, all that unladylike behavior stems from the author of this blog.  I have a garage full of hothouse beauties, bags of potting soil lined in rows, containers cleaned and ready, everything saying "go" except the weather!  Can you believe our local station is calling for "snow" on Tuesday???  unfreakingbelieveable.  Because of that one little four letter word, we are not viewing beautifully planted pots this AM but rather an old paper project!

Unlike this spring, fortune smiled on me in 2003 and I was one of the lucky designers who contributed to a special issue publication called "Big Ideas for Little Accents."  The book was produced by Paper Crafts magazine in conjunction with EK Success, one of the largest craft companies on the planet.  All the tiny 3-D embellishments on these pages are from their (then newly released line) of Jolee's By You. 

Receiving that box of Jolee's products was like Christmas morning come early.  Of course all the gardening embellishments were magnetic for me.  The first thing I created was this sweet little book which I intended to give away but never did (per usual for me).   Don't you just love all these tiny gardening replicas? 

Looking at them again almost makes up for not being able to plant!  *Ahem*  Okay, not really but what other choice do I have?!!  I'll keep tabs on the forecast and maybe later in the week we can look at containers.  How does that sound? 

Comments

[Nancy Bond]

Your paper projects are beautiful! And if it makes you feel any better, parts of northern Nova Scotia had a fair bit of snow over the weekend...enough to call out the salt trucks and plows. :)

[Kathleen]

Thank you for the kind compliment Nancy. As far as the salt trucks & plows, I don't know if that makes me feel better but at least I don't feel so alone! I hope we don't have to go that far...

[Cinj]

I don't think I would have given that little book away either. Too cute.

I hope you didn't get too much snow today. It was cool here too. I lost my begonias I think, but everything else seems to be surviving the cold.

[Kathleen]

Thanks Cinj! I'm always open to encouragement for keeping projects! As far as the snow, we got lucky ~ all the moisture fell as rain, thank goodness. It was still cold today tho. I'm sorry you lost your begonias, I hope that's the only thing too.