Summer Lilac Shrub.....

Done With The Leaves At Last....

A Few weeks ago, Dear Readers, I left you with the above picture of the Summer Lilac Shrub showing that there were still not enough leaves to call it finished. Since then I have added twenty more leafy stems! (Each leafy stem has a dozen leaves attached.) Since a picture is sometimes worth a Thousand words, I will show you the progress pictures!

Immediately upon my return from my Travels, I started in on the Ten Leafy Stems production line, but I did not have time to complete them or attach them before my post last week. Believe it or not, the above picture has the ten leafy stems attached! They do add a sense of density to the middle of the shrub which was lacking before.... but it is really heard to tell that anything has been done at all! And because I was sure this would be the case, I made another Ten Leafy Stems as well....

For the record, here they are begun....

And here they are done!

Well, I am still "shaping" them prior to attaching them....

And here they have been attached!

Can we say Ta Da Ta Done.....?

Well... maybe not quite yet......

I am still finishing the seed pods.....

But I had to test the shrub in the Folly Garden....

Of course, the Sun is setting so early now....

 there is not enough daylight to show it well.

We will have to be patient waiting for the sun....

And I am still making the seed pods.....

I am not entirely satisfied with them....

And I have only completed six so far.....

Not that you can See them once they are attached....!

Can you see them....?

(There are four or five visible in the above picture!)

I need to make another dozen or so......

 

I've even started about eight more already.....

And I have begun the painted glue blobs that make the pods... 

I will have to make a whole bunch more.

But I think I can say, Dear Readers, 

that I am Done making Leafy Stems!

And I know you want to see it in The Folly Garden where it belongs!

Even though we will have to use artificial light...

 I think I can say it looks just the way I hoped it would!

And while I cannot yet say that

 The Summer Lilac Shrub is Done, Dear  Readers,

At Least I am Done with The Leaves!