Friday 15 January 2021

Spring Flowers and a Card Project

 It's Friday so we went to do the grocery shopping. There was a display of colourful Primroses outside the store, I  could not resist.

The mixed planter I bought a while ago is still doing fine. The Primrose  is just beginning to fade a little but the Hyacinth is blooming and it makes the sunroom smell wonderful. There even a tiny Iris opening today.


Holly, over at The Merry Needle, mentioned how people used to recycle cardboard with pretty patterns into various objects. That brought to mind the crafts the nuns used to make when I was in school  using pretty cards ( mainly old Christmas cards),  clear,stiff plastic and yarn. I found some pictures on the internet to show you what I mean.  My Mom had one of the pieces, a chair that had a seat the lifted and she kept bobby pins and safety pins in it.  I wish I could have found a picture resembling it. I hadn't thought of it for years. Isn't this first basket lovely?



It's been another quiet week. We've been able to walk every day although on one of the days we did get quite wet. Yesterday and today were mostly cloudy but no rain. Thankfully.   We did see a dead raccoon beside the road. I thought at first it was still alive but it wasn't. It must have been bumped but not actually driven over.

Thanks for coming by, 

Granny M.

18 comments:

  1. Your spring flowers are so pretty. I'm going to get some soon, I hope. It seems I just rush in and rush out of the store these days. I remember making things from old greeting cards. Those are beautiful examples.
    Have a good weekend.

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  2. I remember my grandmother making these to sell at her church's Christmas Bazaar. A clever way to recycle old cards.

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  3. Sorry for the racoon beside the street. I hope he did not suffer for a long time -

    The nons make fine handwork. Here we find also wonderful "Klosterarbeiten" made with love and devotion and sensitive gifted hands. I think it is a good mditation, and it supports the prayers to make such kind of handwork.

    The primes have found a goosd home in your house. The Iris could not wait until June to show you her fine face!!

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  4. Beautiful flowers. I had forgotton about those baskets, but as soon as I saw the photos I remembered seeing one at my Grandma's house. I used a paper stamp on the cards I received this year and cut out gift tags for next year. It was fun!
    Sorry about the raccoon. I'm sure that wasn't a very pleasant experience. It's supposed to be almost 40 tomorrow so it will be a good day for a walk.
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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  5. What a pretty way to use up old cards. Your flowers look so cheerful, and I can smell that hyacinth :)

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  6. How fun to have spring flowers blooming in your house in winter.

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  7. Those are stunning examples of using old cards, I only remember making bookmarks. I haven't seen any spring flowers for sale as yet but they will definitely be coming home with me when they are. Hope all is well with you.

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  8. Your spring flowers are so beautiful :-)) unfortunately our shops and gardeners are not yet open, but I have a beautiful purple hyacinth and the grocery store sells tulips - cut - from Holland. So I also have tulips on the table :-))
    The baskets are wonderful. It's a fond memory for me, I made it myself as a child. We pasted cardboard with pattern, punched holes in it and crocheted the cardboard together to make small baskets ... for flower pots and as storage baskets ... so great that you found it. I'm glad.
    Greetings to you Have a happy weekend. Viola
    P.S. Now I have written in English on the blog.

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  9. I love the recycled cardboard pieces. That's something I would love to make, maybe I will. Love the flowers, so refreshing on this cool morning.

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  10. The flowers are gorgeous! And I love that little basket! :) In past years we seemed to have a lot of raccoons on the side of the road. Either they're getting smarter or there are less of them. Mysteries of nature. ;)

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  11. One of my childhood friends used to use old Christmas cards to make bowls by crocheting the edges. And I remember a teacher paying her to make her one. I think they are so pretty and colorful.

    Love you flowers.

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  12. Those baskets are so pretty. What a great idea! So nice to see spring flowers blooming.

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  13. OH! Thank you for finding and sharing those pictures of the card crafts! That first basket looks so much like the one I had before it fell to literal dust...I just love those make-do's. Your blooming plants are lovely; that little Dutch Iris is the most beautiful color. Primroses are so perfect and so vivid they almost don't look real! Poor old raccoon...I am thankful that in the desert we don't see TOO many dead animals, not like back in the Deep South where there were so many I could barely drive (I was more tender-hearted back then and would gasp and cry very easily).

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  14. Oh how wonderful to have a beautiful spring garden inside where you can enjoy it every waking moment. I do love the little basket.

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  15. Good morning! I remember those sorts of crafts. My great grandmother and my “other” grandmother used to do things like that. The thing I liked to the most was when they would crochet around a bar of soap making a wash rag and soap in one. I loved those things.

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  16. I love the primeroses at this time of year! It gives hope about spring :) It was fun to see those card baskets, my older brother made some for me when I was a kid. I kept small toy items in them. I collected all kind of things.

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  17. How lucky you are to have a sun room where flowers will bloom, even in winter. Yours are beautiful. The baskets made from old cards are so pretty. That would be such a fun craft to do.

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