Happy Friday all!!! This is one of those times of the year where I’m torn between doing my art full time and needing to tend my spring garden chores. This week I had intended to list a number of pendants on the website but the weather surprised me with THREE 60 degree days in a row. I had to go with the flow.
I do have a number of pendants almost ready for listing so I’ll update you all after the weekend on when they are up on the site or Ebay…thanks a ton for your patience
I am redesigning 3 sections of my front beds…converting to a more traditional Asian flavor and scaling down the amount of perennials. With the travel we plan in the summer it made sense to work in a nice sitting area where I can enjoy all the garden work without adding more..LOL!
I am starting an album to chronicle the renovation from start to finish. Here is a link to the album which will be updated at least once a week. You will find some “before” pix in the mix for comparison. It used to be a fun Tiki garden but things just got overgrown and needed to be dealt with this year.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE GARDEN RENOVATION IN PROGRESS
CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE
Also..here’s a must see photo…click on this to see it big..it’s a drop of sap from my Douglas Fir in suspended animation…I have a pendant in mind for sure on this one!
That would be a pendant I would love. I just got a couple of lovely spheres of gold hair rutilated quartz–a stone I absolutely adore, and this reminds me of them, just not with hairy splinters but with lovely blobby, lava lamps like roundish shapes. The spheres I got are too large to use in jewlery, they are meant to just look at and hold and adore. I got an unbelievable price on them. Much as I have liked all your work, including your most recent pendants, I sometimes miss your more abstract works… Oh, if you made like three of them… smallish would they not make a wonderful center pendant for a necklace with liquid gold? mmmm….mmmmm. susanne/drsuze
Oh I am sooo envious of your garden, it is stunning NOW! And to be in zone 8/9, I am in 5/6 and can’t have so many things I would love. You have a much greater assortment to choose from in those zones. I love the ornamental grasses and their are a few that like water and semi-shade or dappled shade, but it looks like you have some of them. Do you have the Hakone grass in the three varieties currently available. They are gorgeous, but slow growing. The solid color one grows faster, but never invasive. It sounds like you are going to go with more sandy, rock, or gravel features, is that what you mean by traditional Asian feel. I love gardening and yours is already absolutly wonderful. Is this your front yard? We can’t put fences in our front yards and are restricted to 5 ft fences in the back. You are so fortunate. I would love to hear about your new ideas. I will keep watching.
As always, all my blessings to you and yours,
Nancy
Susanne…I have a pendant almost done now that reminds me like you say of Rutilated Quartz!! I love those lava lamp shapes too!!! I’ll post them soon!
Nancy, I took your suggestion on the Hakune grass and moved my 3 huge clumps of the chartreuse one after 8 years of growth into the new Japanese beds last week. I’ll add pix of those to my album when they get a bit taller. They will add a real bright spot to that shady area!!
Thanks for the feedback ladies!!