Serenity

Easter has come and gone. Spring is definitely here, with warmer weather and early morning birdsong. As usual, I do the rounds of the garden to see what has popped up over night - young plants surge upwards with the increased warmth. Alliums are in bud, forget me not and lungwort are in flower, together...

Chunky

Today I am showing three chunky necklaces which I have created. The first, "Zebra", is of rutilated quartz, together with tiny olivine beads. Rutilated Quartz is a transparent Quartz with golden yellow or black rutile inclusions that are in hairlike growths. The Rutile inclusions range from thin, sparse, and parallel, to thick, dense, and crisscrossed,...

Snowdrops, a watercolour

Spring is marching on, and I have been busy in the garden tidying up. I found the time , though, to paint this watercolour of the snowdrops before they disappeared. Now, crocuses rule the garden, together with pink chionodoxa, scilla, daffodils and dark pink helleboris. Manged to take a photo of the crocus before they...

The Secret Garden 2

I want to share some more photos from my twin sister's garden, this time with a close look at some of the beautiful blossoms and decorative elements in the garden. Solveig creates jewellery, and in the first photo are some of the danglers she has made for the garden, sending good vibes around. The birds...