thinking outside the (fibre) box

From my dear SIS MaryAnne, i received a FABU box of goodies yesterday. These are the pinnacle of yumth factor right now:

A BIG bag of milkweed pods was on top of the other treasures (skull beads, fabics to "dye" for and shred(!!), a delightful mini book with inspiration and affirmations,and raw materials). If you grew up in the country in Mid-Eastern Canada (Ontario), chances are you played with these as a child. The flowers attracted and housed Monarch Butterflies and their offspring, and were coveted by this child, mostly because the sappy juice shortened any vase life after picked. They had to be enjoyed on the plant, and if you picked too many of them, the pods of course never appeared. Splitting them open at the right moment released an ethereal cloud of little brown bodied fairies, and the ones stuck were fairy fishes, scaley and soft.

Now to experiment with the fibres!

I'm also back to (backwards can be good!) a point where i have so many ideas and am having to write up priority lists again. This hasn't happened since some time last year when we were still living with MIL (shudder)----i'm expecting of myself a lot of different things in the next few months.

There will be colour and fun here again!

Comments

[Bea Neal]

Isn't it wonderful when you head is bursting with ideas. I have a bag of those pods too. They are so wonderful to play with. :)Bea

[jude]

poof. an ethereal cloud of new ideas. grand!

[Mary Anne]

Oh good, you didn't sneeze when you opened the pods! I was afraid you end up with them all over the place. Hopefully those are enough, if not we'll have to wait til next year for more. Have fun!

[lisette]

hurrah for colour and fun :)