In a Summer Garden ~ the Seasons BlogHop

Lisa Lodge, of the Grateful Artist Blogspot , sent each participant in this blog hop a bag of beads, with a clasp of some sort, some findings, lampwork art beads, and assorted other beads.  

Our challenge: to make a piece of jewelry that evoked a season, or a season of our lives.

You can hop along from Lisa's page and see what others came up with.

My bag of beads was chock full of itty bitty butterflies, plus two froggie heads...

... so I went straight to summer.  I neglected to take a photo of the beads before I started. And there was no point taking a photo when I was done, because there were only a few left.  From my own stash, I used a few flowers, sterling chain and beadies, some split rings, and a whole lotta sterling headpins.

My bracelet reminded me of a Shel Silverstein poem.  Feel free to chant along,

The Garden

Ol' man Simon, planted a diamond,

Grew hisself a garden the likes of none.

Sprouts all growin', comin' up glowin',

Fruit of jewels all shinin' in the sun.

Colors of the rainbow,

See the sun and rain grow

Sapphires and rubies on ivory vines,

Grapes of jade, just

Ready for the squeezin' into green jade wine.

Pure gold corn there,

Blowin' in the warm air,

Ol' crow nibblin' on the amethyst seeds.

In between the diamonds, ol' man Simon

Crawls about pullin' out platinum weeds.

Pink pearl berries,

All you can carry,

Put 'em in a bushel and

Haul 'em into town.

Up in the tree there's

Opal nuts and gold pears--

Hurry quick, grab a stick

And shake some down.

Take a silver tater,

Emerald tomater,

Fresh plump coral melons

Hangin' in reach.

Ol' man Simon,

Diggin' in his diamonds,

Stops and rests and dreams about

One...real...peach.

Now be a peach and hop on over to see some more!

Your Hostess: Lisa Lodge, Grateful Artist

  

Kathy Zeigler Lindemer, Bay Moon Design

Cassi Paslick, Beads: Rolling Downhill

Stephanie Sanner Haussler, PixyBug Designs

Leah Mifflin Tees, My Beady Little Eyes

Karin Slaton, BackStory Beads

Audrey Belanger, Dreams of an Absolution

Lori Jean Poppe, Lorillijean Creative Corner

Karla Morgan, Texas Pepper Jams

Christine Stonefield, Sweet Girl Design

You are here!  Eleanor Burian-Mohr, The Charmed Life

Alicia Marinache,  All the Pretty Things

Veralynne Malone, Designed by Vera

Kay Thomerson, Kayz Kreationz

Mary Govaars, MLH Jewelry Designs

Toltec Jewels, Toltec Jewels for Jewel School Friends

Lennis Carrier, Windbent

Erin Kenny, Beadifultherapy

Tanya Goodwin, A Work in Progress

Cilla Watkins, Tell Your Girlfriends

Renetha Williams Stanziano, Lamplight Crafts

Christie Searle Murrow, Charis Designs Jewelry

Sierra Barrett, Giraffe Can Has

Melissa Trudinger, Bead Recipes

Shirley Jones Moore, Beads and Bread

Dawn Horner, Northern Adornments

Charlene Bausinger Jacka, Clay Space

Tara Plote, The Newbie Beader's Blog

Candida Elkins Castleberry, Spun Sugar Beadworks

Miranda Ackerley, Daze and Days

Nine Lives to Live

Nine black kitties, swinging on the gate.

One ate a mouse head; then there were eight.

Eight black kitties, channeling Andre Previn;

One hit a sour note.  Then there were seven.

Seven black kitties, "watering" the bricks.

One "watered" Butch, the dog.  Then there were six.

Six black kitties, at the Black Cat Dive.

One did too much 'nip; then there were five.

Five black kitties, fishing by the shore.

One hooked a crabby shark; then there were four.

Four black kitties, climbing up a tree.

One took up with a squirrel; then there were three.

Three back kitties, lapping up fondue.

One lactose intolerant; then there were two.

Two black kitties, in the hot hot sun.

One left for sunscreen; then there was one.

One black kitty, sitting all alone

Went back to his kitty lair for tuna and salmon.

Bracelet of nine black cats, up for auction on eBay.

Poor Potatoes!

by Jack Prelutsky

Poor potatoes underground

never get to look around,

do not have a chance to see

butterfly or bumblebee.

Poor potatoes never look

at the fishes in the brook,

never see the sunny skies – 

what a waste of all those eyes!



Butterflies, bumblebees, and eyes... on eBay.

How Many Cats is Too Many???

There once were two cats of Kilkenny

Each thought there was one cat too many

So they fought and they fit

And they scratched and they bit

'Til (excepting their nails

And the tips of their tails)

Instead of two cats there weren't any!

(except the ones on etsy and eBay)

Berserk Hippos

Hippos Go Berserk

From "Hippos Go Berserk!", by Sandra Boynton. 

One hippo, all alone,

Calls two hippos on the phone.

Three hippos at the door, 

bring along another four. 

Five hippos come overdressed. 

Six hippos show up with a guest. 

Seven hippos arrive in a sack. 

Eight hippos sneak in the back. 

Nine hippos show up to work.

ALL THE HIPPOS GO BERSERK!!!

All through the hippo night,

hippos play with great delight.

But at the hippo break of day,

the hippos all must go away. 

Nine hippos and a beast,

join eight hippos riding east, 

while seven hippos moving west, 

leave six hippos quite distressed, 

and five hippos set forth,

with four hippos headed north,

three hippos say 'good day'. 

The last two hippos go their way. 

One hippo, alone once more, 

misses the other forty four. 

Going berserk with hippos in

my eBay shop

etsy shop