Weekend Highlight: Enchanted Garden Luncheon

It was another fun and action-packed weekend, complete with a bustling market, out-of-town-visitors, and out-of-town visits. One highlight was spending an afternoon with Grandma June and her enchanted garden, full of lush flowers, pearlescent succulents, twisting vines and trees, and magical little hidden trinkets.

Grandma was kind enough to model one of The Monkey Flower Group's lambs ear and lavender headbands (below left) before serving a lunch of a variety of fabulous salads, which we enjoyed on the beautifully set patio table.

For dessert I brought along a carrot cake in our new (to us) tin cake carrier (it works well!). I had intended to add dried figs to my standard recipe, and by the time I discovered our grocery store was out of them (!!!) I already had my heart set on sugaring some fresh figs to top the cake (hence the inexplicable garnish).

Hope your weekend was lovely as well!

Good morning!

Progress, Cont'd.

While the week's events have precluded any further attempts at creating a lambs' ear collar, I do still owe you folks photos of what happened the last time I tried. Here it is, a ridiculously large and fantastically fuzzy corsage of lambs' ear, heritage rose buds, and ornamental oregano (below).

Mom points out that it is too big to be practical, which is true.  But it was a fun experiment and (like extreme runway fashion) will serve as good inspiration when I'm designing more wearable things.