Where Bloggers Create 2015 ...

So happy be participating in Where Bloggers Create 2015 ♥

Thank you Karen Valentine for hosting this wonderful event where we open up the doors to our studio spaces ~

Welcome to

Vintage Sparrow Studio

I am so happy to have you drop by.

Lots more studio photos can be found on my sidebar by clicking on

the Where Bloggers Create image from past years.

My little studio fuels my creativity

and soothes my soul.

It is filled with treasures that mean the world to me.

A spot where I can bring my ideas to paper ...

I opened up a little Etsy shop less than a year ago and have met so many lovely

people while sending my Art all over the world ♥

©The lovely~ness of daily~ness is my mantra

I truly believe that it is the small, daily events in life that are the most important.

Daily visits from the Sparrows are a blessing to our garden.

Sparrow Studio holds lots of lovely little found treasures.

In fact, just about everything (short of gifts) has been found either at a garage sale, auction, our local animal charity shop ... and even curb side.

Like the Sparrows, I love to gather up these treasures, bringing them back to my home and weave them into a little nesting spot ♥

an assortment of canvas filled with images of bunnies, fox, trees, the moon , sun and stars fill a corner of the room...

Always something sitting on my art table

I am always with my camera, and love to turn my pictures into cards ...

this Yellow Finch sitting in our Lilac bush was taken through my kitchen window :-)

 

my favourite summer bouquet ... hand picked dandelion blooms in a jam jar

from my grand son xoxo

My favourite water vessel,

a mug with my children's image on the front

taken 25 years ago.

It isn't just painting that happens in Sparrow Studio ...

I like to create jewelry,

and weave ...

make dream catchers ...

for inside and out ...

sew

plan my garden and create little seed packages to gift to friends ...

carve stamps ...

whimsy always :-)

where the sun streams in ...

and memories from long ago sketches hang ...

She loved her Sparrows

From Where You Dwell

#1 in the ©Women of the Woods Series

inspired by my love and respect for Nature. While on long Woodland walks with my dog, listening to the sweet serenades of Sparrows, the idea of a series came to me.

and speaking of my dog ...

Archer - my constant companion in the Studio and out ... who I refer to as my "tea/coffee break reminder" because who could resist that face !

I suppose I am a Sparrow

A stay-at-home-bird

~Gladys Taber~

Thank you so much for stopping by.

I've loved showing you around ... hope you come by again ♥

I'm looking forward to visiting the other participating studios and see where you create.

~have a wonderful weekend friends~

Cosmos calling ...

I remember the very first time I spotted a garden filled with Cosmos.

It was at the end of our Summer holidays,

 we had just finished lunch at a wonderful restaurant and took a stroll around the grounds

that surrounded it.

Amongst the blooms were dried pods of tall spikey seeds and I brushed my hand  along a few, and placed them carefully in a tissue to take home.

Once home, I opened up the tissue and released them to our garden, allowing them to land where they wished ♥

That was many, many years ago now, and each year, in the same patch that the first seeds were scattered, the Cosmos bloom.

And it is still my style of gardening, that I brush up against the spend Cosmos and release the seeds back into the garden.

I snip a few to enjoy inside our home, but leave most in the garden for the butterflies and bees.

Have a wonderful week

♥ d

in the garden ...

Hello Lilies

The lily have bloomed now, and we have big bright yellow clusters

in our garden :-)

And the Daisies

which seem to be a welcomed resting spot for butterflies and moths.

I often find a few sitting on the daisies.

I can never resist clipping a few daisies to bring inside ♥

lovely chubby bees enjoying our garden.

This has been the year of the Robin in our garden!

We have never seen so many Robins ~ it's been wonderful to see them thrive.

This is an older photo but I can still remember how thrilled I was when the Robins nested on top of our garden pergola.  I was able to get a "birds eye view" literally from an upstairs window.

Just look at all that beauty!!

We have a tiny little dish next to the pond which turned out to be the perfect spot for the fledging to have a splash.  They were cautious of getting into the birdbaths and not sure of walking around the pond, but this little dish was the perfect size.

Each morning we fill it up with fresh water and more often than not will find a bird either splashing about or having a drink :-)  We've also spotted a few butterflies enjoying it too.

Token

Painting inspired by all the little blue Robin egg shell fragments found throughout our garden.

They really feel like little tokens of Thanks from the Robins xo

Print available in my Etsy shop ♥

Have a wonderful weekend.

d

♥

Clematis ...

Everything in it's own time

in the garden

first I look forward to the Lilac blooming in our backyard

and then the Peony bushes blooming in the front garden

and then ...

once the Lilac and Peony have had their show,

our arbours are covered in a pop of purple ♥

Go forth,

and play joyfully

in the garden

of life

~Jonathan Lockwood Huie~

Woodland Whispers ...

We took a train ride over the weekend

where one of the stops let you out for ice cream

and a walk through the rock garden and frog pond ♥

looking for frogs :-)

purple iris beauty

birds butterflies and bugs

standing quietly listening to the sounds of Nature

to the Woodland Whispers

xo

Lillith

Not the best of photos,

but too sweet not to share ♥

Our newest baby garden bunny :-}

Out of all the photos I snapped these 2 were the best!  I had to take them sitting on our kitchen window seat, zooming in as best I could as she is quite a distance away in the garden.

The cutest part is, of all the spots to choose, she ALWAYS sits here ... next to our

Rabbit Crossing garden sign.

She's getting bigger and bigger by the day.

We call her Lillith as she loves to sit by the Lilies .