Nature's Artwork

The other day when we were out for a lovely Spring walk, we noticed a Baltimore Oriole nest. 

It's incredible that these birds can weave such a complicated nest out of whatever

grasses and string they can find. Quite awesome!

The other awesome gifts from nature at this time of year are

 all the flowering trees and bushes. 

 Every backyard seems to have some type of flowering beauty!

How is it possible that I forget from one year to the next

 how gorgeous they all are?

It's all quite inspiring, isn't it?

 What a great time to start some artwork of our own.

 Enjoy your day,

Judy Ann

Flowery Ballerinas!

Recently at our little library, we had fun making flower ballerinas. I bought inexpensive silk flowers from a dollar store and pulled the blossoms off of the wire stems. The hole in the flower is just big enough for a  doubled pipe cleaner to be threaded through. Along with beads, buttons and yarn, we were able to make very cute ballerinas with blossom skirts!

Two of the ballerinas had a grand adventure! They danced on the table...

...they danced on a book...

...and they danced high on a shelf!

I lost track of them, but then I noticed some bright colour in a pot of dead flowers outside.

We will soon plant real flowers in this pot, but in the meantime, they certainly are a lovely addition.

Happy crafting,

Judy Ann

Collage

We were busy at our little library last week making collage art with various materials such as alphabet squares, rhinestones, patterned paper and markers. Loads of fun!

Parents and kids all got into the creativity...

...everyone busy and absorbed in their artwork...

 

...and the results were terrific!

Happy crafting!

All the best,

Judy Ann

A change of decorations

Back in December when we had no snow (and ended up having a green Christmas),
I decided that to encourage winter to arrive, we would make snowflakes at the Glanworth Library.
Kids and their parents did a wonderful job cutting out paper snowflakes and
decorating pre-cut ones.

The library looked so pretty with colourful snowflakes hanging around.

The snowflakes looked neat on the door as well.

 I hung a whole batch of them in the window.

The snowflakes looked lovely but my idea of encouraging snowfall and winter

 worked a little too well! What a long, long, cold, cold winter!

 I figured it was time to replace the snowflakes with flowers. 

We need Spring!

I got everyone busy making flowers.

I think it's working very well because we've had some gorgeous days this week!

Enjoy your day,

Judy Ann

Sweet treats

Our family sure knows how to put on an Easter brunch! We had frittata, sausage, bacon, cold cuts, cheese, English muffins, fruit salad, yogurt and lots of sweet treats. 

I'm not the only one who likes to bake!

With all the goodies available (I didn't even show the chocolate Easter eggs), it's no wonder it looks like there's a traffic jam up to the door!

Enjoy your day,

Judy Ann