The Language of Flowers - Pansy

Today is a bright and sunny day here in the Rocky Mountain foothills.

This always improves my mood.

A Good Day to you!

Today I would love to share some pansies with you.

I realize I have done a previous post on pansies, so today will be a bit different.

those are a 5lb. bag of chocolates, sold on e-bay by With Love

I would save every pansy foil!

c.1922

PANSY

In the language of flowers, a pansy means

Loving Thoughts

these are pansies from my garden, in early spring when other things are just thinking 'bout poking leaves above ground:

except the weeds that is!

for sale by Andreas Silicone on Amazon

You can find these for sale on Amazon, along with a bevy of other flower seeds.

Here is the official flower fairies of Mary Cecily Barker site:

http://www.flowerfairies.com/US_version/home.html

Martha Stewart has an interesting punch:

Liana has a few lovely dresses

 that remind me of the different colors that pansies come in:

Both of Liana's dolls here fit all the dresses.  Yippee!

Here is such a simple home decorating project.
Talk about budget!!!

Home Decorating Budget Project:



pansies in jars by nuevosantander.com/fields-pansies

This is a just a lovely water color.

But the idea is wonderful for home decorating as well.

Collect clean glass bottles.

                  Some ideas for empty bottles -

Soy Sauce

flavored vinegars

mushroom jars

flavoring extract bottles

soda in a bottle

really, anything you can find to recycle!

A variety of heights, shapes, sizes is what you are looking for.

Purchase from the store, or wander in your garden. Pick flowers with as long stems as you can get.

Place in bottles/jars with water.

What about white flowers with colored water?

tip:   Did you know to remove all leaves below water level? This will help keep your water clean and your flowers fresher.

How about a pretty teacup, or a grouping of 3 or 5 teacups?

These shorter vessels work terrific for short stemmed flowers.

okay, this one is violas, but it still matches the theme!

c.1909

A coloring page and colored page from Dover:

a sweet pansy fairy, unknown artist

More coloring fun:

How about an Exotic Flower Fairy from Dover?

Here is a page from the book:

'Fanciful Paper'

I'm a bit rushed today (mom-in-law and dad-in-law from CA, coming any minute.)

I will get the book id and complete name for you tommorrow, plus a photo and amazon purchase info.

Here are more fairy patterns for you to make a Flower Fairy yourself:

You can sew this, hand sew it, felt it, cut from paper, cut from recycled junk mail - lots and lots of ideas for this basic pattern!

That's it for today!

Tomorrow we will be having fun with edible flowers and more recipes and crafts to do with Pansies, and other flowers!

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com



More Tulip Tales

Hello!

Today I will be telling more tales about my tulips!

These are some of my Art Nouveau Alphabet letters that I have sized and tweaked, hand colored and placed in recycled bottlecaps, backed with very sturdy magnets:

I sell these in my etsy shop:

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

I like the little Dutch girls in the letter "I"!

(Yeah, I know. I need to get better pictures of my "L".)



Here are some paper dolls with tulips:

These are from a 10 Dolls, 10 Nations vintage paper doll set.

Thanks again to OrigamiBears. See side bar for web site.

courtesy of VivaLasVegaStamps: a flower fairy.

See side bar for web site.

courtesy of Dover Publications. See side bar for web site.

Yes, it's true. I have ONE tulip blooming now. It is very pretty, with a pink color.

I would like more tulips now!

I have many many buds, but no flowers yet.

I hope they survive the freeze and rain and even perhaps snow that we will probably get this month.

this is a finished card, using a Peddler's Pack stamp.

They have some really great ones!

 Here is a painting by Claude Monet.

I love his colors and brush strokes!

"Tulips in Holland" by Claude Monet

NikkiCrossApplesauce makes these wonderful origami tulips,

and sells them in her etsy shop.

Picnic Pockets

for sale at www.gailscrafts.etsy.com

This is a kirigami cutting that I have done. Then I went back and filled in the 'holes' with leftover scraps of origami paper, to bring the design out.
It is one of my favorites!

Lovely silk tulip wreath by http://www.elegantholidays.etsy.com/ 

This is another of Laura Walsh Anglund's precious paper dolls:

A parrot tulip



I'd like to finish today with a photo that has many different, great ideas on how to display cut flowers. I hope you see something you will want to try!

courtesy grinandbakeit.com

Enjoy the rest of your day!

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com