Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

A little greenery

After several days stuck at home fighting Kiddie Crud, we finally got outside to enjoy the nice weather. We enjoyed a trip to a local farm where we walked in the woods, collected leaves, looked at animals and found a cicada.
 
 "He could be my new pet"
 





Feeling better, I also made it back into the studio for a little painting work. Mostly working on the background so that I can better judge color and value relationships.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Baby Shower


 The last week has been very busy with projects, all of which I could not post to the blog. I was getting ready for my friend's surprise baby shower. She has two boys and is now having a girl and I wanted to use the opportunity to have a surprise party. I think there is nothing better than a surprise party. To not be expecting anything and then have something delightful happen. What fun.

I made the cake and had so much fun with the gum paste decorations.
The cake was a lemon box cake with milk substituted for water, butter for oil, and an extra egg. I also added the zest from one lemon. Between the 4 layers of cake I added a filling of seedless Raspberry preserves. The bottom of the cake had a trim of fresh raspberries.
 Thumbelina
 
My messy work area

 Flowers drying

 Finished Cake


 With cake work I did not manage to get my gifts completely finished. I will show pictures of the baby gifts once they are complete.

And I just had to share the joy of a good piece of watermelon.






Friday, May 10, 2013

Milkweed Complete....I think

Milkweed is complete, at least I think it is. Sometimes it is hard to know whether I have reached a spot of completion. It will have to sit around for a few days or weeks and I will decide if I need to change anything.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Garden Flowers

We took a visit with the Community Center to Meadowlark Gardens this morning and for it was a grand adventure.

 Stopping to smell the flowers
 Mushrooms in the woods
 Korean Garden
 Looking at tadpoles in the pond
 Reading the Alphabet book
 Turtles in the lake

 Way ahead of the group


 Tea party


And for Kate, an update on her painting. Small changes but it is developing.