I am so excited that spring has finally arrived.
Over the last few days I have been inspired by spring colors and the lovely nature that surrounds my property. Today while working in my garden I found these walnuts that had the insides eaten out. I'm guessing by a squirrel. The inside of the empty shell is something you just have to see for yourself.
Bet you never thought would find that inside. I don't know if you can tell but it's in the perfect shape of a heart. Prior to today, I've also come across lots of little mushrooms in my garden and leaves with crazy lace patterns. All of this incredible natural beauty has inspired me to make a spring time headband for Blythe dolls. I've wanted to make something for Blythe dolls since forever !!
Well today.. I finally got started on making a headband ! I started with this lovely earthy brown colored leather
Added two rows of ivy leaves
Then took one row of ivy away and added two mushrooms
And one pretty little doe
I'm not done yet. This is just what I have for now. More then likely I will change it around like a hundred more times before I get what I'm looking for . So far I think it pretty cute:)
This morning I logged into my Facebook account for the first time in a week .
I was just appalled by what I saw. Sometime between this morning and a week ago Facebook allowed ads to... TAKE OVER!! So now, my Ava's Elements facebook page that I created to promote''my business!'' Now looks like freakin' Time square. I'm serious!!, these ads are all over my Facebook page, reminding me of the billboards in Time sq. It's irritating because I don't want them there,but there's no flipping way to remove them..ugh.
Anyway, on the brightside, I got a confirmation email from Spring Hill nursery this morning letting me know my plants are being shipped out this week...yay!!
I also got an email from this lovely woman molly pepper over at Etsy, she has a store there where she sells vintage items. http://www.etsy.com/shop/YogaBeeVintage?ref=pr_shop_more
Well, truth be know, I just love vintage toys,especially circus related ones .
So when I saw she was selling a vintage fisher price circus set for thirty five bucks, I bought it.
I'm posting two pictures so you can see how cool it looks
So anyway , She sent me an email letting me know she has shipped the circus set out !!!!
My little Blythe doll Emily is very excited by the news!
She has been asking me for some new toys for a while now,lol.
By the way,I took some better pictures of my carousel necklace. Remember The one I posted a picture of yesterday that had a bent looking charm ? yeah well, I took new ones' ..
Here's the first one
You can really see the colors much better now right?
The picture from yesterday didn't show the colors at all!!
here's a few more pictures
I just wanted you guys to see a few ''good'' pictures of this necklace because I had worked really hard on it when I was making it. I choose bright spring colors. I had really loved how the big bow in the back turned out . I had bought some bright spring green ribbon and hand stitched it to the sliver linked chain. This necklace still looks great after so many years *pats self on the back* ..lol
I didn't get a chance to take as many pictures of the grounds outside the house as I had hoped. It was pretty chilly out today. I think tomorrow will be better for me to wonder the grounds. I did however get a cute picture of a cat that was wondering around watching me.
It was a fluffy pretty kitty .....purrrrr ..lol..more burrrr 'cause it was so cold out !!
Well, I'm gonna go for now guy, I leave you with visions of green ribbon and fluffy cats,lol
~ Hello~
I'm Ava bunny :)
To start off with I'm an Artist who's love of making all things whimsical started with me drawing fairies for fun while I was attending classes to become an EMT. I soon found out I couldn't take the sight of blood and needed to find another career path. As I continued to try and find another career my love for fairies was never far from my mind. The fairies soon started showing up in paintings I was showcasing at local coffee houses.Around 2009 I ended up landing wall space at the Ward Nasse Gallery.It was around that time I came across my first jewelry magazine while looking for a canvas in Michael's arts and crafts.The magazine was called Bead Unique. And inside the mag was an ad for the prettiest animal charms by Burgard studio. I posted a link in case anyone wants to check them out. www.burgardstudio.com It was then my love affair with making jewelry began. I ordered the little charms and set to work making my first necklace. Inspired by the Bryant park carousel here in new york and one of my favorite jewelry designers Betsey Johnson
I came up with this necklace down here.
.If anyone would like to see more of my creation you can checkout my shop on Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/avabunny?ref=si_shop
Most recently I moved into an old Victorian house that has an enormous plot of undeveloped land surrounding it.Yesterday I started clearing away the weeds for a butterfly garden I'm making for spring. Among the weeds and trees was the most amazing tree house.I posted a picture of it.
I'm going to start restoring the little treehouse by April. I think the inside of the treehouse would be great for raising my butterflies. I have been raising them myself now for a few years. Each year I order them online and they are shipped out as Larva. I keep them with me while go through their four stages then I set them free to fly away.I'm hoping this year that they will stay behind in my new butterfly garden.
I've pre-ordered some of the plants for the garden.
One Lavender Twist Weeping Willow
Twenty five Fragrant Freesia Blend
Six Lily of the Valley
One Top Hat Blueberry plant
Five Mixed Columbines -better know as a Butterfly Magnet :)
Sixteen Gladiolus -which are also great for attracting butterflies or in my case keeping them around ;)
I will have to order many more plant by no later then the end of this month.
I will start ordering the butterflies by that time too!
I'm going to go for now but will post some new pictures tomorrow of my progress on my butterfly garden
