Saturday, August 17, 2013

DIY Fabric Flowers from Old Curtains

i love a good recycle project...

i changed old sun-damaged curtains into beautiful fabric flowers,


fabric flower garden

Ruffles
Petals



rag rose


if you want to create your very own "fabric" flower garden, i have a video tutorial on making the
silk chiffon "petal" flower pictured below


Happy Gardening.....

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Butterflies

i love butterflies...

Red-Spotted Purple



and my butterfly garden brings all these lovely beauties to the yard


 they can't resist my buttterfly bush




also called summer lilac,


 or orange eye, is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae,



native to central China, and also Japan






 ...and this beauty showed up as well, been coming around for a while, now. She is a camera hound!


Swallowtail


 she loves striking posing,


and let's me come in close...







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