seed saving ...

At the end of each  Summer

I go about the garden with little glassine bags gathering the spent seeds. As

I always have an abundance of Morning glory seeds, I like to make up small "Friendship Garden" Seed Bags.  Not all of the seeds end up being saved however as I love to run my hand across the tendrils and toss seeds back into my garden

 (which is probably the reason we find Morning Glory blooming in the most unusual spots) :-D

but I always manage to  have enough to put a dozen or so seeds in each little bag.

 For the past few days,  I've  traded in my usual watercolours for coloured pencils and ink ...

an have an abundance of shavings to show for my work ♥ 

I often receive e mails asking me what paints, paper and pencils I use,

for me it is simple,

 nothing like a freshly sharpened #2 HB Graphite pencil, a rainbow of Prismacolor pencils, and

lots of Micron pens 01, 02, 03, 05, and 08 ... 05 being the most used.

 ~happiness~

 I made some little sparrow ♥ seeds

labels to attach to each bag ...

 I ♥ sparrows ...

and butterfly wings ...

 inspirational words ...

 and nests ...

  filled with

 hedge sparrow eggs ...

 looking through pages of old gardening journals ...

 reading about Morning Glory ...

Happy Gardening Memories

♥