Warmer weather in Michigan

After a long and very cold winter, we are finally

Seeing green in Michigan

 

 

My seedlings are doing well in the greenhouse.

 

 

Benny even got to go out in

 the veggie garden area.  Our yard

Is fenced in but Benny is

 a "scaredey bun".

He's timid and things scare him.

 I let him in my smaller veggie

garden area  so that I can catch

him if he panics and doesn't

 run under the deck.

I will try and let him out

 on cooler days so that he

moves around more and maybe

Loses a pound or two.

He's a big chubby slug.

 

 

Blue forget me nots are blooming

 

 

 

 

I love violets, one of my favorites

 

 

 

 

these are pine berries I bought on-line

 and started in this pot in the

Greenhouse because it was

 so cold here. They are white

strawberries That supposedly

 have a pineapple taste.

  We'll see what they taste like.

They will be transplanted next

  to strawberries into this new

 bed my husband made for me.

 

 

It's on the south side of the

 house so it gets the

Most sun, next to my raspberry

 and black berry bushes.

 

 

I thought it was cute!

Bunny lounging next to bunny statue

 

 

My first flower shopping haul,

I can't even step into the greenhouse to

Water.  Gotta do some re-arranging.

 

I'm excited to plant and see things

Grow after such a terrible winter.

 

 

 

A Garden Theme

A work in progress

 So I'm still keeping good on my New Years resolution to make more art. Let me just say for those of you that get to do your art full time, I envy you!  No I don't make a living from my art but I still have to make stuff. It's just how I'm wired, and I can't imagine

how it would be like to be different.
 

 

Most days I have to clamor just for 30 minutes of art time.  So to do it all day, everyday

is just a dream. I like to imagine what the possibilities of what I could create would be.

 

 

I did something different with this one

 and stained it to darken

in the details.  I was happy with the results.

I am  always thinking of what

 I could do with this or that, or what I'd like

to put in my ideas file for when I have time.

 

 

Another small plaque I dropped off for firing today.

 

 

 bowl and two more to be fired....

 

 

 

I'm wanting to keep this one for my garden.

I have so many bunny things so this

would be a pleasant change.

 

 

This is a first for me. 

Adding clay sculptures to bowls. 

Will see how I elaborate on this idea

 

 

I also like this one.  I'm keeping it,

  See that's my biggest problem...

I have a hard time parting with pieces I make that I love

Does anyone else do this?

 

I've took a week off at the end of

the month just for me to do fun stuff I enjoy.

I'm so looking forward to it!

 

 

 

 

Rabbit Tiles

 

I picked up my tiles from being fired.

I'm happy with how the colors came out.

Next time around I will

do the hanging holes different.

this is where they were made

 to fit above my kitchen sink

 

 

Making these has inspired  a million ideas.

I'm excited to be passionate

about new art ideas!

This weeks art...

A quick post on what I did this week art wise...

 

 

Got my glaze all applied to these tiles.

I took Monday off work, just so I could

do  art stuff.  I had a pretty productive
day. And made these large tiles.

 

They are 12" across

 

This clay is all wet and the

details will be fine tuned

When the clay dries

 then off to the kiln place.

 

This clay is Terracotta,

 and will have rope strung

 through the holes.

They are designed to hang

 on a Shepards hook in a flower bed.