The Next Tiny Things...

The Crocus!

You will Not believe me, Dear Readers, when I tell you how long it took me to make these crocus blossoms! I started them over two years ago! I was completely dissatisfied with the results... and did not complete the plants, but left them poked into a piece of pink foam in a pot. They rattled around in the corner of the Folly garden (a still unfinished location!) and I kept thinking I needed to at least make them some leaves and dirt! Then Finally, a few weeks ago, as I was making the tiny Snowdrop blossoms, I decided to also make some more crocus blossoms from the beginning. Meaning that I started with the Pistils......

Painted pieces of paper covered florist wire....

And then the stamens.....

Pieces of sewing thread painted on their tips....

(I painted both ends just for quickness and ease of handling)

And beginning to assemble the blossoms......

I glued three stamens to each pistil....(visible on the upper left)

 before gluing on the petals.

I Forgot to take many pictures of the assembly process... 

and as you can see I was also assembling the snowdrops.

Here you can see I have also added the leaves to most of them...

(And you can also see the book I was making at the same time

because I like to work on several things at once!)

Here I have "planted" them in a square of pink foam 

painted brown to mimic the ground... the glue is still not dry!

See, you can see the stamens if you look carefully!

All that time and effort was not wasted!!!

I did complete the ones in the flowerpot first!

They just needed some trimming of the petals 

and adding of leaves to look complete.

What took me so Long, Dear Readers?

(I wish I Knew!)

 

I would have finished those first blossoms sooner 

if I had known they would look so sweet planted in that pot!

But maybe they were just waiting until the Conservatory was ready....

Or at least ready enough to start Dreaming about its Garden!

And that's as far as I got, Dear Readers,

making the Next tiny thing...

The Crocus!

Such A Tiny Thing

The Snowdrop in Bloom....

Spring is Arriving in my neighborhood At Last, Dear Readers! And here that means lots of mud and dead leaves from last year, and if you look very closely into the places where the snow has melted... you might spot the tiniest flowers starting to bloom. The first and bravest is the snowdrop.... it will even push its way up through the melting snow! And its tiny white tear-drop petals are so easy to miss, hiding amid the debris of fading winter. But if you know where to look, they are a joyful sight, the Overture to Spring!

Here, I will show you a tiny clump just starting in my RL garden!

At my Old house I had huge clumps of snowdrops, but I moved to my current house in the Fall, and forgot to bring a clump of snowdrops with me to the new garden. I mentioned this last year to a co-worker, and she brought me a clump from her Mother's garden! So now I have snowdrops beginning to bloom....

So I couldn't resist trying to make some for my mini garden too!

Did you spot them there... in the debris by the door?

They aren't very big so they are easy to miss!

And it is even more difficult to get a good photo of them....!

I made them from pieces cut from a small flower punched paper...

And I forgot to take pictures of all the steps....

Gluing the petals to thread....

adding a bead and painting it.....

Gluing the thread to a wire stem......

And at this point I was Sure they were going to be too big...

Giant Snowdrops at the very least!

But I cut back the stem.... and "planted" them in the "earth"....

Which is a scrap of pink builders foam painted brown.

I used the rough cut side for the ground surface....

poked random holes and pushed the stems in with glue.

Maybe they aren't too big after all!

So I needed to try them out with a "setting".....

and where better than the Conservatory, Dear Readers?

Ah! They do look sweet!

But something is missing!

The Dead remains of winter are missing!

So I went out and harvested twigs and dead leaves from my garden!

And carefully added them to the "earth" around the blossoms....

And the wind blew them around the courtyard by the doors....

Where, if you aren't looking carefully, Dear Readers,

You might not notice such a Tiny Thing

as a Snowdrop in bloom!