Yesterday, we visited our favorite local nursery with all of it's creative garden displays. The Alice garden was in full swing, I love the oversized chess pieces. The king piece had a long pointy nose and beard, he looked so snobby! In the back there are wooden cut-outs of playing cards painting the roses red. Every spring the Alice garden gets a little more elaborate, so it's always fun to go see all of the little things that have been changed.
Whenever I visit this place I always feel creatively energized, it's bursting at the seams with rotating displays and garden room ideas you never dreamed possible.
I also always have fun looking at all of the new miniature garden displays, here are a few of the ones I saw yesterday...
This one was pretty elaborate. It was planted in an old wooden wheel-barrel, complete with a little wooden bridge over a stream of water.
I liked this idea of an under the sea garden. It's planted in an two tier sea horse fountain, with succulents, shells, mermaids, and sea glass.
also...
Last week I had the weirdest deja vu standing in front of the Mother's day card display at Target. I noticed these birds peeking out from the back row, and thought "man...those look strangely familiar...like Tania's Birds." I pulled out the card and looked at the back, and sure enough it was a Tania Howells illustration. I loved the serendipity of it all. The same thing happened recently when I was at the bookstore. I started to browse through a knitting book filled with Erica Mulherin's illustrations of Currently . You just can't help but smile to yourself.
posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 9:22 PM
4.17.2005
I spent this Saturday glued to my camera, while floating around the grounds of the Rennaissance Faire. I loved the flamboyant atmosphere, it made for superb people watching. There were plenty of odd characters wandering about, including one very tall drag queen dressed as Elvira. In a sea of colored cotton peasant outfits, she really stuck out. My favorite costumes were worn by the group of girls in the photo below, the vibrant colors of the outfits all coordinated with each other. They had crazy cirlcle rouge on their cheeks and smiles from ear to ear..and their hair, well there's something that's got to be said about an Elizabethan beehive.
Another amusing bit about Rennaissance Faire was the language, everyone spoke with faux English Accents...saying things like "how stands the hour?" in lieu of "what time is it?". My friend and I attempted a go at speaking that way, it only lasted about three minutes because we were so terrible at it.
To see more photos of the faire, visit my flickr page.
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fun diversions:
**One of my sparrow necklaces being modeled over at two rabbits....you must also peek at the fun goodies Giao recently sent her too.
** Free People has their Summer line on display now. I love the way they piece together deconstructed materials. Browsing through their online catalog, I also suddenly had a yearning for a greenhouse. How dare they?!
**lots of lovely things to look at over at Day Lab.
posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 11:09 PM
4.08.2005
Last week I was peeking out the front window, waiting for a friend to stop by when I noticed a weird flurry of orange leaves swirling over the road. Well, that's what I first thought anyway until I realized...hey, this is spring there are no leaves left to fall. I walked out the door to investigate, and wondered how I could mistake 100's of "painted lady butteflies" floating by . Because of all of our record rain, the butterflies migrating from Mexico to the north paid us a little visit. I was so taken by the phenomenon, I sat out in the back yard and watched them for hours. It was like an endless stream of them, so magical.
Last weekend I took advantage of the nice weather and spent some time working on a new faery garden display. I had to create one that could travel for a possible garden show, so I planted it in a saucer (the part that normally catches water) instead of a big heavy pot. Kim and I were passing ideas back and forth about minature gardens inspired by the ones she saw at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. In the spirit of her wonderful ideas, I added a miniature clothesline and picked fence.
Also, something brilliant I came across today: the World Wide Panorama project project. A collection of QuickTime VRs, sponsored by the Geography Computing Facility at the University of California, Berkeley. It's like traveling around the world vicariously. On some of the images, you can even point the curser to look up at the sky and down to the ground.
Some of my favorites include:
Woman are Persons a Memorial to the 'Famous Five'
John Lennon "Imagine" Memorial (with sound)
Equinox Window, NY (I'm in love, look at all of the lanterns and fairy lights!)
