JourneySeeds

A Single Step...

 
Sweet vintage child's shoes...

Reading With Flowers Please...

 
Lately, I've been reading.  I turned in a bunch of books to The Bookbarn in Niantic.  This gave me a large store credit.  I never take the money they offer because I'll just turn around and get more books.  These are a few books I've been reading lately.  That's a sweet pink rose on top from my garden.  My husband bought this pretty pink rose bush for us last year.  We've been slowly creating a rose garden that celebrates us. 

I haven't completely disappeared from Journeyseeds.  I've been busy with other things lately.  Working on my Etsy shop takes a fair amount of time.  The outdoors calls me...calls us.  With the long light of these summer days I just can't bear to be indoors much.  I try to be outside as much as I can.  This year we are foregoing a large garden.  We have alot of other home things we want to get to.  We're lucky...we have friends and farmers around us that will supply us with summer's bounty quite readily!

A few photos of the plants...

 

 

 

 
Milkweed Flower Essence

Flowers Are Blooming Poetry...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dancing Shoes...

 

Vintage Traincases and a pair of fancy dancing shoes...off to contradance perhaps?  Well, no not me but, maybe soon...if I'm lucky right?  It's summer and it's time for dancing and time for music festivals.  I am trying to figure out how to get to a music festival we've gone to for 2o years...and if I COULD dance this summer, you better believe I'd be pounding the wooden dance floors with these stompers!  Balance and Swing sweetheart!

Etsy Finds & Flowers...

 

 
Yesterday PoetryofObjects made it into Etsy Finds, a daily newsletter of featured finds on Etsy.  This item made into Strawberries & Cream, a Treasury of sweet finds.  I was thrilled to say the least.  Auntemilie, from Vintage Lovers Team let me know about it.  Thanks so much Auntemilie!  Once again...how do flowers fit into vintage?  Well, not only are flowers often used as a motif in vintage objects...you can put a flower into a vintage teacup!

 
Iris in Yellow Teacup

The flowers are blossoming everywhere.  It smells divine as my mother-in-law used to say with her head buried in a flower.  I miss her.  She was so amazing to be around while we talked about plants.  There are reminders of her everywhere here.  She gave me so many flowers over the years, she was here.  She is gone now...but, not from our hearts.  Walking around this land...I see my old plant friends again, like long lost friends not seen for a year.   Honeysuckle has gone by mostly, finished blooming...and it smelled...divine here.  Honeysuckle...the flower essence for homesickness.  You know that sort of melancholy feeling when you miss someone?  Well, the flowers and plants will always be there for you...just look and remember to take the time to sit with them.  They are as loyal a friend as one could have.  So, walk with me for a few steps and see what we see...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Rosa Rugosa....mmmmm.