Another Monday, mid-January. Hi everyone! Time to plant the flower
bulbs for indoor spring blooming!
It feels like we've had a whole years
worth of weather in a couple of days! We went from very cold, to warm with
torrential rain. Here is Mo in his new spring raincoat. LOL he looks like some
alien being. Mo now has quite a PUPPIA wardrobe! He's a little fashion doll.
And here he is being carried home from a
playdate. He couldn't slog through yesterday's flooded walkways. But we're oh
so glad that precipitation was not snow!
Mr Mockingbird has resumed his winter perch in the ugly locust tree. I am so happy he is back! His feathers look so bright and handsome.
And today is lovely, it feels just like a
blustery autumn day.
I had to hike out to the dunes junk pile
for wire to finish my beach wire Valentine/ summertime garden fence hearts....
They've been curing on my own fence for
over a year! Nice and grungy rusty. I'll spray them with sealant before I sell
them.
During the rain yesterday I worked on my
etsy hearts.
Mo helped...
''Mom this is boring,'' he whined. |
And today I finished cleaning out my deck
flower pots---still lots of green!--- and then I planted my spring indoor bulbs.
This jello mold tin [inside the yelloware bowl] holds paper whites and a single stray yellow
daff.
And this year I am trying hyacinths. They're
a beautiful deep blue, at least on the label. They were very on sale in
November. I've had them in a cold spot to tease them into indoor blooms. [it
may not work]. Two are showing green sprouts so they went into glass jars on
the windowsill.
This is supposedly a vintage hyacinth
vase---Danish modern?, a find by my mom from the Cape Cod dump's Swap Shop.
Then I planted the rest of the bag of bulbs
in this blue delft hyacinth bowl. A dumpster find! So far nothing I've ever
put in this bowl has grown...maybe that's why it was by the dumpster? It's in a bucket, rehydrating the unused soil disk that came with the paperwhites.
I also redid my plate rack and sideboard's transferware
collections. The shelf is mostly black and white, just a few special blue
pieces for now.
The pine dresser I kept simple. White ironstone and two very
pretty, spring-like chintz ware jugs, c.1890?
Back to work for me. I'm hoping for a
sunny day tomorrow to photo my hearts for my shop.
I hope you all had a lovely long
weekend. Is all your Christmas stuff put away? Are you sneaking in bits of
spring?
love
lizzy
gone to the beach
snow squalls |
or not |