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forget me nots

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I am really happy it's September. I challenged myself to a sugar-free August (I picked something I knew would be hard to relinquish as I am a lifelong chocolate devotee and wanted to see if I was tough enough to go without something I loved. And surprisingly I was- hooray!) So while that was all good, I must admit I was happy when September rolled around. I had some chocolate gelato to celebrate.

Also, because it's early spring, I'm obsessing over forget-me-nots again. Just like I did last year twice and two years before that, it would seem (it's handy to have this blog as a reference to past obsessions.)

Anyway, the other day I completed my paper-cutting work by making a collaged forget-me-not. Then I got some sets of postcards printed up in town, so that each set comes with a print of each botanical collage and matching envelopes.

I popped some in my etsy shop, but thought that in order to celebrate spring arriving here, it would be nice to give a couple of sets away too.

So if you would like to be in the draw for a card set, just leave a comment below and tell me why you love September where you live.

See you in a few days.

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66 responses to “forget me nots”

  1. Clare Avatar
    Clare

    Love these M! I think if I’m not a lucky winner, I shall have to buy some. I LOOOOOVE September in Nelson for longer days, spring bulbs, and SUN SUN SUN.
    x

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  2. Bridget Avatar
    Bridget

    I love your floral paper creations! They are so very pretty! I would love to win some.
    September in Wellington is full of surprises – sporadic weather, flowers popping up where you don’t expect them to. Its almost four seasons in one!

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  3. Emma Walker Avatar
    Emma Walker

    How beautiful! I love September here in England. The sun hangs lower and more golden in the sky heralding the glorious colours of Autumn. The air smells crisper and more cool whispering the promise of dark nights, twinkling lights and glowing fires. The magical aura of Christmas is within touching distance…

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  4. tinyhappy Avatar
    tinyhappy

    thank you, clare! i love spring in nelson too for those same reasons. 🙂

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  5. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    Spring! I love the bulbs that flower at this time of year. The welcome of warmer weather after our long cold winters.

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  6. Heart Felt Avatar
    Heart Felt

    Love spring…all the apple orchards will be in blossom soon, at the moment we are enjoying the plum blossom…spring is when we celebrate lots of family birthdays too.

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  7. Emma Avatar
    Emma

    Hi Melissa
    Hard to resist the blue of those forget me nots.
    On the sugar issue have you read David Gillespie’s “Big Fat Lie”? Fascinating info about the food industry and surprisingly readable – love Emma

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  8. tinyhappy Avatar
    tinyhappy

    cheers, emma- i will look it up!
    – melissa 🙂

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  9. Sharyn Avatar
    Sharyn

    I love my garden, especially in the spring sunshine….I have just picked a jug full of jonquils, daffodils and some forget-me-nots! I love your little note cards with forget-me-nots, just beautiful.

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  10. Anke Avatar
    Anke

    I love September in Brussels! I’m living on the 15th floor and enjoy the beautiful skies and the golden light that falls over the park nearby. The warm colours during the last summer days bring me in a little melancholic, poetic mood…
    Your paper cutting work is very nice!

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  11. Mar Ruiz Avatar
    Mar Ruiz

    What a lovely postcards!!!
    I love september because where I live in Spain everything is quiet again after a very busy august.
    The light and the colours show the closeness of autumn.
    And I like to think of projects for the next months…
    Thnak you very much
    -mar-

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  12. Eva Avatar
    Eva

    Lovely collages and what a treat to hear from you so much the past week x

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  13. Crissi Blair Avatar
    Crissi Blair

    I’ve been looking forward to being able to walk around the back yard without being up to my ankles in water, the winter has made it such a bog. Now I can head down to the creek to admire my incredible magnolia with blooms bigger than my spread out hand, followed everywhere by my chickens (who I credit the supersize magnolia blossoms to). Time to put new plants in the vege garden and soak up some vitamin D.
    I too have lots of forget-me-nots springing forth, including some beautiful white ones that my neighbour gave me last year.

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  14. nickyb Avatar
    nickyb

    Wow – good on you for going sugar free…especially in a bit of a gloomy month in wellington when I find it’s comforting to eat lots of puddings and cakes. you’ve inspired me to try it now that it’s spring.
    I’m enjoying the feeling of things drying out finally, spring flowers popping up and blossoming trees – magnolias, fruit trees, daphne.
    Great to see you are still being productive creatively, even though you are studying. Hope that’s all going well too!

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  15. Lotus Avatar
    Lotus

    I have my first forget me knots this year, only noticed them today x

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  16. Sally Avatar
    Sally

    These are beautiful. I love how the white stands out against the black for the lily of the valley and snowdrop. Ok, and the blue…

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  17. Merja Avatar
    Merja

    Lovely cards. You are talented in so many ways.
    I love September here in southern Finland because our apple trees are always full of fruit this time of year. I have made oodles of applesauce already, and we will also have apple juice pressed and frozen to enjoy over the winter.

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  18. Samantha Avatar
    Samantha

    September for me is new beginings, a chance to finally slow down after the craziness of summer – its almost like exhaling.

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  19. tina Avatar
    tina

    daylight savings! and magnolia blossoms. and that feeling that so much time of light and warmth lies ahead.

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  20. Cozy Memories Avatar
    Cozy Memories

    Forget-me-nots are such sweet & delicate blue flowers, not loving them is a hard thing actually ! Your new collages are so lovely, I’m happy to see that you’re managing to keep creative while you’re studying & keep busy at home too !
    Thank you for the giveaway too, you’re always so generous. The reasons why I love September. Well, where I live, summer lingers till the very end of the official season. It’s also my mom’s birthday month, and it also means that autumn is around the corner, which makes me happy too !! xoxox

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  21. louana Avatar
    louana

    I love forget-me-nots too, my nana always grows them and I remember them in her garden as a little girl. What’s not to love about September? Spring,my birthday month and watching all the new growth in the garden.

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  22. constance Avatar
    constance

    september in germany is the beginning of autumn too, with dusk in the morning and lots of sparkeling spider webs in the meadow, its called “altweibersommer” (maybe summer of old woman), the air smelles fresh and aromatic and its a little colder each morning, but then turnes into a warm sunny day and the leaves are starting to get colour.

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  23. Delwyn Avatar
    Delwyn

    September in Victoria, Australia means wattle everywhere. My city is surrounded by forest and many different varieties of wattle, every week there’s a different one coming into blossom so we have a constant sea of gold. That combined with the extra sunshine and warmth make September a pretty special month.

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  24. Kelly A Avatar
    Kelly A

    Hooray for Spring! These are super cute! And they would surely brighten up a drab wet and windy day like today 🙂

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  25. Marilyn bailey Avatar
    Marilyn bailey

    Lucky Kiwis..it is early Fall here in Canada. Trees are changing colour and the furnaces are starting to purr. We are missing all of you!

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  26. michelejtinker@gmail.com Avatar
    michelejtinker@gmail.com

    September in Ohio is almst my favorite month. As we go into fall, the days are still warm and (usually) sunny, the evenings are cool with a bit of a bite, the leaves are turning but my flowers seem to put on a final burst of color. Enjoy your spring!

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  27. Gill Avatar
    Gill

    September here is the start of Autumn – leaves changing colour, cooler days and lots of apples!

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  28. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    wow, thanks a lot for the giveaway and opportunity! here in the usa (michigan), september means fall, my FAVORITE time of year! sweaters, the smell of leaves burning, pulling out the baskets of hats and mittens, patching holes in jeans, cuddling up with a book and blanket, hot chocolate…the list goes on, i love it!

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  29. MzTallulah Avatar
    MzTallulah

    Lovely work! It’s hard for me to find reasons to love September, because here the days are getting shorter, and work resumes at full speed after a sleepy August; I guess I really appreciate still being able to spend a few afternoons on the beach, and the Summer fruits which are still abundant, as well as plums and figs which are starting to show up.

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  30. Rebecca T Avatar
    Rebecca T

    It’s the start of fall here outside of San Francisco. We’re in the middle if (hopefully) our last really hot spell before things get, well, not so hot. I love September because it means that we can leave the windows open instead of relying on the dreaded a/c. Fresh air and hearing the birds is so much nicer!

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  31. Leila Avatar
    Leila

    I love September because Fall is my favorite season. The crisp air and gorgeous leaves just can’t be beat. I live in Upstate New York.

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  32. Andrea Avatar
    Andrea

    So pretty!

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  33. Carley Hansen Prince Avatar
    Carley Hansen Prince

    Love the cards! It’s fall here in Oregon USA, almost time to harvest all those things I’ve been growing all summer in the garden. Fall is my favorite season…changing leaves, smell of wood smoke, and in about a month, the rain will begin, which I lovingly call “soup weather”.

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  34. jodi Avatar
    jodi

    I’m with Samantha, September is indeed like a big exhale after the fullness of summer. Where I live this is the time of perfect blackberries, fresh figs, green beans and grilled corn on the cob. I love the transition to autumn, the first fires in the wood stove, making jam to preserve the sweetness of summer…. aah.

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  35. pneu Avatar
    pneu

    The black background was a great choice!
    I’m living in Korea this year, and I LOVE (love, love…words cannot express) September because it’s no longer 40C and 98% humidity. As a Canadian, I long for cooler days. Soon I’ll be able to wear my leather boots again and feel like a superhero striding to work. It’s so difficult to stride heroically in sandals.
    Thanks for the generous giveaway!

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  36. dee Avatar
    dee

    September in England often brings an indian summer. We are finally enjoying some wrm days after oneof the wettest summer on record. This september my youngest child starts school. I will miss him so much! But September has also brought an epidemic of chicken pox so I have a bonus week with him playing in the garden- hooray!

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  37. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    I love September in Kansas because the weather FINALLY gets cooler. We have had an incredibly hot and dry summer, it will be so nice to get a bit more rain and cool nights. All the plants here are a couple weeks ahead of their usual schedule too, so we’ll probably see some colorful trees before October hits.

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  38. KarenLR Avatar
    KarenLR

    I have a sentimental love for forget-me-nots. And I have loved watching all of your collages on black evolve here on your blog.
    Thank you so much for a chance at finding these beauties in my mailbox! You are a generous spirit!

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  39. Eve Avatar
    Eve

    I love september in France because of the early fall : the trees become yellow and orange, the apples and pears are delicious, the light is beautiful

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  40. andrea Avatar
    andrea

    due to being in Canada its back to school today for my son who started grade 5. i also love how by the end of the month some of the trees are starting to change colour. thanks for the chance to win

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  41. Aniko Avatar
    Aniko

    This is my first September in Finland – after living in England for many years – and I’m enjoying a proper continental start to the autumn, with lovely colours, a bit of a chill in the morning and late afternoon air, forest mushroom foraging and that long forgotten back to school feeling (now, to learn Finnish).
    A friend of ours just moved to New Zealand – when we skype, we laugh at the strange fact that we are talking to each other from opposite seasons, we in the past, them in the future, while a few months ago we all were perfectly aligned in the present in London… 🙂
    Loving the collaged flowers and your sweet blog.

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  42. Sawa Avatar
    Sawa

    I love September where I live because I live in the city of trees, and everyone knows trees are the most beautiful in the fall. Living in Midtown Sacramento, the sidewalks in the fall are colorfully covered with the fallen leaves of a variety of different types of trees. It’s breathtaking!

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  43. Rosa in the Antipodes Avatar
    Rosa in the Antipodes

    Sun, sun, sun! Let it shine, let it shine! Life is always better in September! Lovely giveway, Melissa, as usual! XXX

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  44. Linda C Avatar
    Linda C

    I love Spetember because that is when I was born, in the autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Red leaves, nights closing in,mellow sun,moist smell of earth, harvest festivals. I love autumn now because I live in Australia and it is Spring! Renewed hope.

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  45. Ellen L. Avatar
    Ellen L.

    I love the cooler nights here in Wisconsin; so comfy to sleep under my favorite soft flannel blanket. I love the starting-to- change fall leaves, too.
    Thank you for the chance to win!

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  46. flowerpress Avatar
    flowerpress

    I’m loving your collages, they are really lovely. (But I just went and looked in the shop and they are all gone.)
    September is warm evenings, bird parties around our bird bath, bare feet, open windows, salad. Love it.

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  47. tinyhappy Avatar
    tinyhappy

    thank you susie- for the reminder to relist them! 🙂 it must be warmer in your part of the antipodes- your sept sounds divine.

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  48. Karen Avatar
    Karen

    Melissa – well done on the collages!! I love September in Chicago.. The sun starts to come up a bit later making that fresh cup of hot coffee more enjoyable. September starts the season of warm days with cool nights and many thunderstorms. And of course seeing tons of back to school kids with backpacks!

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  49. Delia Avatar
    Delia

    I love spring in Dunedin because the botanic gardens have beautiful magnolias to picnic under as the evenings get longer:)

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  50. Sera Avatar
    Sera

    Ah September, I love it for being my birth month. In Hawkes Bay, the kowhai blooming everywhere is just lovely, and now in Austria it’s the sunflowers and apples!! It’s a beautiful month all round.

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