All posts filed under: Flower fairies
Peacock penelopa
Collecting peacock feathers in the park… There’s a bit of an andalusian dancer touch to this one…
Toy tortoise
This is the tiniest tortoise alive, and possibly the prettiest… It also lives in our very English gardens, but disguises itself cleverly as a lovely flowering bunch. This clever ruse allows entire colonies to exist right under our unsuspecting noses…
Clover Carnation Casperina
And it of course works very well as a fabulous headpiece…
Carnation Ginger Rogers
I thought she was a little bit Ginger Rogers like…When you peel back the closed leves at the base of a carnation, this is what happens… it fans out in the most beautiful way…
Going down to Carnation street
It’s the summer solstice today, and we went to a wonderful Scandinavian Summer Fayre, with maypole dancing, elderflower flowing, and many a flower wreath. A few buds fell out and my daughter was quick to spot and get them. And so we celebrated the event […]
Round the elderflower tree
And when the elderflower buds end their delicious bloom, these gorgeous pods appear… It made me think of simple pleasures, like dancing round a tree to celebrate everything that is good about summer… This is again working on a very small scale, with each create […]
Karuski's little shop of colours 