My friend Colette shared this lovely old postcard with me. Wishing you all a happy Easter!
"Let the ressurection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness." ~ Floyd W. Tompkins
Easter Day
My friend Colette shared this lovely old postcard with me. Wishing you all a happy Easter!
"Let the ressurection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness." ~ Floyd W. Tompkins
I couldn't resist adding this from my garden. A true work of art.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858
~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858
Happy April!
Is set apart for All Fools' Day.
But why the people call it so,
Nor I, nor they themselves do know.
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.
~ Poor Robin's Almanac, 1790
Crazy Quilt Block
This is a crazy quilt block in browns. I actually "beaded" one quilt piece from a scrap of some BoBunny paper I had from another project (You will probably have to click on the image to see details). You can see what the paper looked like below and I just simply pierced the design, and as stitching it, added a bead to each stitch. Finding a needle that would be small enough to go through the hole in the bead and yet big enough to thread 2 strands of floss was a bit of a challenge. It was a little time consuming, so you probably would not want to do a very big piece. I was doing it for fun so it really didn't matter to me. The "heart" in the middle is a piece of brown velvet paper that I have been hording for a long time, waiting for the perfect project. I also inked around each quilt piece.
The bird with the golden eggs
The bird with the golden eggs
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Easter in Garden of Adin
One day a countryman going to the nest of his goose found there an egg of pure gold. Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs. As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find, — nothing. (Æsop's fables, Sixth century B.C.)
The Gardener of Adin also has the good fortune to possess a bird which lays a golden egg every now and then. Lucky as he is, he read Æsop's fable which prevents him from being greedy and keeps him satisfied with what he has and hasn't. And any other farmer alike, the Gardener presents his eggs on the market where the Adin-followers have the possibility to purchase it.
The Gardener of Adin also has the good fortune to possess a bird which lays a golden egg every now and then. Lucky as he is, he read Æsop's fable which prevents him from being greedy and keeps him satisfied with what he has and hasn't. And any other farmer alike, the Gardener presents his eggs on the market where the Adin-followers have the possibility to purchase it.
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First Plover's Egg found! (in the Garden of Adin)
First Plover's Egg found! (in the Garden of Adin)
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The sign of springtime!
ANTWERP, March 28 (Reuters) - In Friesland, the Northern part of Holland, it is an old tradition to offer the first found plover's egg in the springtime to the Queen. This first found egg (called in Dutch: "eerste kievitsei") is a symbol for the beginning of the springtime. So, still today although forbidden in the rest of Europe but allowed in Friesland on cultural historical grounds, people hunt for the first egg.
The Gardener of Adin, not aware of this yearly contest, stumbled upon a nest full of eggs when weeding the Garden of Adin, becoming the unintentional winner of this folkloric event.
The Gardener of Adin, not aware of this yearly contest, stumbled upon a nest full of eggs when weeding the Garden of Adin, becoming the unintentional winner of this folkloric event.
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