“take time to smell the roses” Mo16
Cecil Brunner rose from one of our gardens dried in one day on the dashboard of the van, grape vine tendril, lichen, emu feather, glass & clay beads, linen and red Gütermann upholstery thread, parchment circa 1812, laser cut wood star from Els of Fiber Rainbow, Moulin de Larroque handmade watercolour paper, 5H graphite, white gouache
the bench is clean and ready for whatever wants to happen next, a gathering of fresh grape vine tendrils from one of our gardens, lichen fragments & those banksia integrifolia seeds with black boar bristles and beads from back in January
PS the lichen needed to be opened up
that’s better
sometimes it’s easier to see these things through the once remove of the confuser screen…
It's Crow Time 
oh Mo it is absolutely beautiful!!!!!
thank you Blanca, I love how the rose dried so perfectly!
Beautiful Mo, my daughter’s garden, well ours really has a grape vine but it doesn’t seem to get tendrils, hoping it will sometime.
It’s a 25 year old vine in an indoor atrium that shades their big dining table in summer, we cut it back every autumn to allow light & warmth for winter (it has under the floor tiles heating as well) I could live in that room!
Love the sweep from petal to feather – beautiful – and always that little red thread
I could make these little pages for the next ten years with all the found treasures, cloth and paper I have lying around here!
well that’s a good plan :)))))
but there are so many other dream things asking to surface + the 100 crow books to hand colour and stitch in their heart talismans for the Crow Show, will get started as soon as the printer tells me they are ready… really I need at least another 50 years or perhaps another lifetime!
Don’t we all!
hehe! and what happens to all those dreams that don’t get made? perhaps they fall back into the deep well of collective consciousness…
Ready for someone else to bring to life.
I’ll bet the Cecil Brunner still has that amazing clovey perfume- it always reminds me of my grandmother, one of my favourite roses!
it does & it’s my favourite rose too although Mr Lincoln is the hands down winner when a more dramatic statement is needed
What a perfect birthday card!! So beautiful and delicate Mo. Oh how I LOVE the Cecil Brunner too. ox
(((Margaret)))
one day? amazing. a lovely present.
a new technique for drying roses!
I almost can smell them Mo………….
(((Martine)))
I love the rose card too Mo but that cleared table is what excites me……… a blank space waiting to be used and for another dream to come to life.
(((Eliene))) making that space creates a doorway to the liminal space in between
Your lists make me look closer at each element … in wonder … “parchment circa 1812” … amazing
And the way your hand conveys touches of graphite and gouache so gently they might float off the page.
Really, you make my heart happy!
(((Liz)))
how each thing honors the presence of the other and together become such Beauty
(((Grace))) your daily observations help me see the beauty in the connections
Some of my favourite things here, Mo! Somehow you have magicked them into such a work of art… Truly beautiful!
that tiny rose dried so perfectly it needed a setting!
the rose, yes, and its stem stitched up, are beautiful, but I think what I love the most is the star within the star — you make the most tender and exquisite details.
thanks Dee, I do enjoy the fine details but most of my friends can’t see them any more!