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WyldHrt -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/9/2010 1:27:30 AM)

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Wait a minute. Is garden design considered a craft? I may yet be allowed to be creative!

Hell yes! We crafters are an inclusive bunch [:D]




wandersalone -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/9/2010 1:56:16 AM)

Dave I love your pieces 



subwaythru -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/9/2010 4:16:44 AM)

Thank you so much, WyldHrt. Now I don't feel left out.
I put in a little perennial bed, in an inspired moment just this past month, that is meltingly sublime.
Royal purple, violet, palest lilac, and white Primula Denticulata, bordered by gorgeous smoky Heucheras with darker veining. Behind them I have run a small hedge of Daphne "Summer Icicle", underplanted with winter-flowering Cyclamen Coum. Interspersed with these are cream colored Narcissus "Thalia", darkest purple Johnny-Jump-Up violas, Aubrietia, Erysimum "Bowles Mauve", frilled French Lavender, some meltingly pastel blue and pink Scabiosa, and a gorgeous Daphne "Lawrence Crocker". For some punch, I threw in startling bursts of hot pinks of Dianthus and Erica Carnea "Vivelli". The resulting display is an entirely charming spring picture that I can sit on my rocking chair on the porch and smile at. I guess I am a little crafty, after all.
Anybody else love to prowl about in the dirt?



sunshinemiss -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/9/2010 4:42:35 AM)

I think cCreativity is one of those things that I think most people have. It just manifests differently in each of us.

I design but can't make a thing. I have a wonderful piece of embroidery that I designed with some poetry ... I went to a friend who then put it together for me. It's really beautiful. I love it! She is the most amazing person. She took something from my head and made it real. Love that.

Same with you, subway.... you have some ohter thing that is your thing. That's cool!



soul2share -> RE: The urge to craft is strong! (5/9/2010 5:00:44 AM)

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Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/9/2010 10:30:21 AM)

I don't. Not  in general, but one time when I first got my time at Daddies trailer when he lived in one, I planted flower boxes and spent about 300 dollars probably on plants and plant supplies an all that jazz.

It was more about adding my touch to the place, and making it homey than love of dirt though hehehe.


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ORIGINAL: subwaythru


Anybody else love to prowl about in the dirt?



ShaharThorne -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/9/2010 10:47:48 AM)

I crochet quite a bit around here. I am working on a toddlers blanket for my youngest niece, a penguin afghan for my nephew, a ladybug afghan for my other niece. My Lizard has yet another afghan that I did up. I am trying to make one up for the country fair in September.

I hope Mom does not get mad for ordering a book of crocheting patterns...

I need to go through the mazagines and and scan them into the computer and burn them on dvd. That way, I have more room in my bedroom.



subwaythru -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/9/2010 12:07:47 PM)

Thanks, you guys. That was really sweet of you to take the time to write and be supportive. I used to do all sorts of embroidery, etc., but my vision won't let me do that any more, so I blame it on being bone lazy. Yes, I agree, everyone's garden is unique and says, "I am home." I don't have but a plot of dirt roughly the size of a lady's handkerchief nowadays, but there is the indoors, the living room and dining room and the bedrooms and the bathroom, that all accomodate a huge population of exotics.

I even will sprout pomegranate, orange, and grapefruit seeds in a pinch when I get the urge to start things: usually in January or February, when I used to turn on the greenhouse. Now LOL I have a little grove of 16 citrus trees and another pot of babies started 8 weeks ago and the annuals I bought while it was too cold to plant outside are doing so well that I am going to leave them in the house all summer and see what happens. I have fuchsias blooming in the living room happily! There are so many plants the house is going to fall down around me! I have no idea what is going to become of it all.

You are right, I guess it is a creative thing to do, after all; I just thought it was wanting to cram the house so full of tropical plants that I would not be satisfied until I have to push my way in the door! I wish you guys could see it and each take home one of the little trees! Sorry to be so long-winded. I suppose I ought to go spill it all in a journal. Wouldn't gardening lust go over big on CM? P.S. and that Master guy is a Master Gardener as well, and we gab for hours about plants. Heaven help me if I forget a plant name!



WyldHrt -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/9/2010 11:08:01 PM)

And... rescued from page 2! [:D]
I went to my favourite local leather place Saturday and picked up enough saddle leather for 2 tawses and a leather/JB Weld paddle.
Some of us even craft kinky! [8D]



Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/10/2010 9:17:39 AM)

I do kinky crafts too! My current interest, like I said is decorating pre made paddle forms, and eventually I'll make them myself, and do them up, not just buy premades and decorate them.



ShaharThorne -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/10/2010 10:14:18 AM)

When I got home last year, I was looking around for something to do. I noticed that one rose bush had some rose hips on it. Cut them off and the dead suckers as well. The plant did bloom one last time before fall kicked in.

This spring, that plant has over 30 blooms on it.

The other rose bush in the backyard had no blooms last year. Cut a couple suckers off and it is blooming this year. They are suppose to be yellow, but the iron rich soil changed them to red.

During fall, mom and I planted several daffiols. We has different species and they did bloom. I wish I had the digital camera to take pictures and show them to everyone.



Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/13/2010 1:56:05 PM)

Perhaps, if we did that with our roses they'd bloom longer, and more. they bloom well enough, but they're allowed to just bloom, and then fall off. Then later on they may be dead headed.



dovie -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/13/2010 6:18:06 PM)

Dave...I like!!!  very pretty!

dovie



dovie -> RE: The urdge to craft is strong! (5/13/2010 6:19:09 PM)

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ORIGINAL: subwaythru

Thank you so much, WyldHrt. Now I don't feel left out.
I put in a little perennial bed, in an inspired moment just this past month, that is meltingly sublime.
Royal purple, violet, palest lilac, and white Primula Denticulata, bordered by gorgeous smoky Heucheras with darker veining. Behind them I have run a small hedge of Daphne "Summer Icicle", underplanted with winter-flowering Cyclamen Coum. Interspersed with these are cream colored Narcissus "Thalia", darkest purple Johnny-Jump-Up violas, Aubrietia, Erysimum "Bowles Mauve", frilled French Lavender, some meltingly pastel blue and pink Scabiosa, and a gorgeous Daphne "Lawrence Crocker". For some punch, I threw in startling bursts of hot pinks of Dianthus and Erica Carnea "Vivelli". The resulting display is an entirely charming spring picture that I can sit on my rocking chair on the porch and smile at. I guess I am a little crafty, after all.
Anybody else love to prowl about in the dirt?



Wants to be subwaythru when I grow up!

dovie



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