Yesterday, my friend Anna visited with gifts, including this big bunch of lavender and bay leaves. I've hung them in the kitchen to dry and they smell so nice. Thank you, A.
It's been raining a lot here, for 12 hours. I love lying in bed and listening to the rain on the corrugated iron roof. And it's a good day for doing some drawing inside. I painted these white bread-and-butter plates. There's one with tansy, one with dandelion seeds and one with some imaginary wildflowers.
Wow! I adore those plates- they are just beautiful. Your stylistic line drawings are so inspiring. We know all about those rainy days over here in England!!
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I came across your blog and I found everything so charming. Congratulations on your work!
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i like the legs of the table. and i really like the borders on the plates and the dandelion seeds, reminds me of summer…
best.
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absolutely gorgeous! I adore your drawings!
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I love these plates melissa! You must be enjoying all this ceramic painting. Perfect for a rainy day
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I love you plates too! I have been given some oval porcelain disks and I am going to go looking for those ceramic pens at the craft shop today and hopefully make some brooches with them. 🙂
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oh the dandelion seeds. i love it so much.
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your plates are gorgeous. I can totally imagine a whole set of them. these may be my favorite things that you’ve ever made! (which is saying a lot!)
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Love the plates they’re gorgeous x
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Those plates are really lovely. I’m so happy we have rain, my poor poor garden so desperately needed it. Plus I hate seeing the paddocks brown when I go for my walk, hopefully they will be bursting with some green soon.
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you have such a beautiful imagination
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oh I love those, especially the ‘imaginary wildflowers’!
It’s pouring in Auckland too. Lucky, because my garden is thirsty too!
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My place is raining and raining too..feel so -_-
I love the imaginary wildflowers too! seems magical to me, right at this moment, I really need some magic.
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hi Melissa, I find rainy days are perfect for crafting or reading… i think i got lots of making done when I was little beacuse it rains so much in Auckland! But I’m happy to get any rain here. have a nice day.
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Those are collectable surely? Just so very beautiful and I want them! x
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Just beautiful, you could be a designer for a china company. Very nice work.
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it would be nice to go for a bike ride and pick wildflowers with you one day. wouldn’t that be fun?
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your botanical drawings are sooooo sweet. today it`s rainy and foggy here in ireland and i envy you a little bit for your summer with its wild flowers.
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nancy, yes please!!
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It’s great that you were given some nice fresh lavender and bay leaves. I’ve just put a bay tree into my herb garden – fresh ones are so much nicer than the dried, stiff ones I used to buy at the supermarket.
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I love drying herbs in the kitchen, or the bathroom (the steam from the shower makes the smell even more powerful).
Gorgeous plates, really special
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I think I can smell the lavendar all the way over here in California !
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I love your plates! They remind me of your wool brooches, in porcelain!
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oh my goodness! I am so so in love with your drawing on ceramics you’ve been doing!!!! You just do the coolest things, I adore your simple line drawings.
I’m searching for a pretty calendar at the moment and you know what you should totally make and sell calendars next year with your pretty line drawings – I’ll pre-order 😉
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hi hanna, thank you for your kind comment! id love to make a calendar one day- im honoured that youd preorder it 🙂
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Wow loving the plates..especially the top one..I do plate painting 🙂
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So many nice things here, at your place 🙂
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