A Terrarium Story

There's a lot of moss growing around my parent's house

And little plant-lings

The Process: Rocks, Dirt, Moss, Plantlings, Water

Terrariums

I've always loved terrariums -quiet little peaceful places where you can imagine yourself real tiny laying in a perfect tiny mossy forest. I've been wanting to make one for a long while.

The backstory as I remember it: In the 70's, my dad started to subscribe to this series of groovy D.I.Y./How-To books called Family Creative Workshop - he just got the first three volumes, don't know why he stopped getting them but I was in love with those books. I made anything I could from those awesomely hippy-dippy crafty pages: beanbags, beach glass mobiles, bonsais, birdhouses. I decorated birthday cakes, fixed the derailleurs on my bike, poured liquid acrylic into a rubber glove to make a ring stand (that one didn't work out too well) and really wanted to brew my own root beer but I needed too much adult supervision and my own garage so I scrapped that one too.

The chapter I loved the most was the one on Bottle Gardens. It had pictures so enticing, I just wanted to make terrariums all the time.

So last week, when I was out at with my dad, I picked up some glass containers and some river stones and came back to his house, laid out my stuff, went searching for moss and some tiny saplings and plantlings and this is what I came up with. Finally.

(They don't look like these but hey, I fulfilled my own wish. Also, check out my blogger pal over in Sugar Hollow. Her terrariums are lovely and she has some good links!).

WORD

Anthropologie! How beautiful your displays are.

Above pics lifted off a blog whose name I can't find in my list.
Working on it!

With all my heart and soul I want so badly to create a window display for Word, the best local bookstore I've ever lived around the corner from (and I can safely say I've lived around the corner from quite a few).

The sign in their window looking for artists has been up for months but it was only last week I got the courage up to ask. The lovely Christine, owner and fellow Long Islander, told me the only slot she has open is the second half of this month and I just can't see how I can make it happen, it being the second half of this month today. And not with the plans I've got for that window.

But can I do it in November or December, my busy season? I suppose if I plan now. In the meantime, I've found some other windows from different kinds of shops, above, for inspiration.
Anyway, check out Word's blog to see what's happening there and to see their window displays.

I just like this shoe tree.