Garden Memories

As summer winds down and the cooler weather sets in, I wanted to post some of my warmer weather pics. Come see what my eye spies in the garden.

Beautiful Rhode Island

Zipped over to Rhode Island to visit my friend, Linda, for a week. She told me her husband was going out of town and did I want to come? Yeah, duh! We had a lot of fun together. We decided first off that we wanted to create Garden angels, which somehow we started calling our Garden Druids. Pretty much we worked on them almost the whole week (a little bit on them every day and then running out to shop, eat, beach it, etc. ) So it was a nice combo of doing a variety of things. We used a lot of organic items on them found at the beach or things we'd been saving "for just the right project". 

Here's mine at home in her new spot on the back porch: 

We hit the beach a few times looking for treasures, driftwood and taking pictures of the wildlife, rock stacking : 

Watched an Osprey momma feeding her crew

We also made our own upcycled dream catchers: 

and did some dyeing:

and lastly, you know i like my critters. they were to be seen everywhere!

we made the most of our time while enjoying art, friendship, cocktails, beautiful weather, nature and wildlife. couldn't have asked for a nicer more spontaneous vacation!

Journey Boy

He's a young boy living on his own, off the grid. He was raised in the wild and that's all he's knows. He's extremely earth friendly and is all about COEXISTing with his fellow creatures. 

His home is an cool old metal chair, that he ofound in a cave. He's  a treasure keeper and cherishes everything that he finds (shells, bones, old pottery, driftwood  and other such wonderful and amazing  things he finds along the way. Once he found a beautiful old glass sphere, covered in lichen covered rope. 

Recently he found a nest with 3 perfectly gorgeous robin eggs. The nest appeared to be abandoned, so he took it upon himself to love and cherish them; even if they never hatch. It's the family concept, you see. 

He wove a special nest holder, out of grapevine, to fit underneath his metal chair, so that he knew the eggs were safe and secure. Some of his most favorite finds are woven into the grapevine; the making of a warm and cozy home. 

Jewelry is very important to Journey. He collects treasures and then turns them into wearable pieces of art. Every milestones he creates a new piece. 

Equally, totems represent familiarity and establishes his clan. He loves to perform gravity glue with rocks and leaves his special art pieces where ever he can.