This post was sponsored by Fabrik Store – Clothing with a conscience! There is a humble simplicity to clover, the abundance is a lively welcoming burst, but one single flower on its own is ever so gentle and subtle. The scent is nostalgic, and for many it connects our souls to golden days of peaceful play. […]
I worked on a flower crown today, and felt a strong urge to extend it further, with flowers hanging into the hair. This is an evolution from my usual flower crown style into an asymmetrical crown with flower tendrils. Partly this had to do with the lovely purple Campanula growing all through our garden as […]
This has to be one of the most effective ways to make flowers crowns because this technique can be done with such a variety of flowers. From dandelions to daisies, it works with soft stems or hard stems, in long, medium or shorter length stems (like white clover). I also like this method for the […]
With the warm glow of Autumn sweeping over the landscape, the grand yellow maple leaves captured my attention with both their size and colour! The abundance of this variety of maple also inspired me. Everywhere I looked, were these beautiful trees laden in golden leaves, laying them at my feet, like a blessing. Before I […]
A couple of weeks ago I made this wonderful flower clown. We were predicted to have a week of rain and so we went out into the garden and picked all the flowers in bloom that would not survive the downpour. I then made three flower crowns, one for each of us. It ended up […]
Oh this leaf crown, it is one of my favorite headpieces so far. For a few reasons I love it. It feels more like an honest work of art than many of the other things I have made because it is so ephemeral. I also like the fact that it is made from leaves, which […]
The bluebells are flowering in our garden, and I find them quite irresitable. The long slender stalk with dainty periwinkle bell shaped flowers hanging perfectly from it. They smell divine too. I handled them a little and after a few days of thinking it came to me how I could work with them. Part of […]
I woke on this Saturday morning with a clear goal to to make a flower bathing cap, like you would have seen in the 50″s, but with real, fresh cherry blossoms. We had spent the week admiring the blooming double cherry blossoms and I think my annual attraction to playing with them here and here […]
You know something has become a tradition when I start titling it by the year, for example…Maypole 2012. It makes me so happy to know we have settled in America for long enough to have a larger pattern and rhythm forming in our life…we now have annual traditions….and lucky for us, Maypole is one of […]
On Sunday we celebrated Spring with Maya’s Waldorf Playgroup Maypole event. Maypole comes but once a year, and all year long I look forward to it. The experience of Maypole has an out of regular life quality – through the simply act of friends coming together, putting flower garlands upon our heads and dancing, […]
This weekend has had a theme – flower garlands! Both Saturday and Sunday we were donning flower garlands. Saturday we made them just for the fun of it, to embrace the few remaining days of the cherry blossom tress blooming in our front yard. And Sunday we had Maya’s Waldorf Playgroup Maypole. I really enjoy making […]
We had a glorious day yesterday for the Maypole Festival with Maya’s Waldorf Playgroup. It was balmy hot and humid, and we were all looking a bit like wilted flowers by the end. A wonderful time was had in the summer like heat, a mounting tempest to the storm that was predicted. Thankfully the thunder […]