the blue muse

Green is innocence, patina, verdant, fresh.

Green is spring and summer, renewal and leaf.

Green is the color of a hummingbird’s soul.

Green is goodness and grass, and bells of Ireland.

Green is lime and pistachio, celery and olive.

Green is parrot and ivy,  earth, forest and fern.

Green is goddess and emerald, mint mocha delight.

Green is envy and verdigris, inexperience and growth.

Green is holly and pine, and June’s favorite song.

Green is sage and willow, a soft bed of moss.

Green is peridot promise, jade jewels and glass.

Green is nurture and nature, the mother of kindness.

Green is pond and polliwog, lizard and frog.

Green is sanctuary, promise, life.

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xoxo

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Because sometimes, you need a new perspective.

Sometimes upside-down provides the best view.

Sometimes it’s good to focus on the tiny, beautiful things.

And sometimes, you just have to be silly.

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Things have been busy, busy around here, graphics work and gardening and trying to get new jewelry and photography loaded into the etsy shops. It’s a full life, this being an artist. That’s why, every so often, you just have to get down on the ground and look at things in a fresh way. These salvia flowers look completely different from a distance, from above. But I have to say, I kind of like the way they look from this angle best.

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Wishing you a week filled with wonderful views.

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Also, just two days left for our Customer Appreciation May Sale:

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PLUS, FREE SHIPPING ON ANY ORDER OVER $75.00

Just use the code ILOVESPRING at checkout.

Click here for jewelry and here for photography.

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xoxo

Orange is friendly, ebullient, flame and feather.

Orange is citrus and cream, ochre and fortune.

Orange is the color of embers at dawn.

Orange is apricot visions and two kinds of passion.

Orange is pumpkin and candy, the ripe scent of autumn.

Orange is auburn and carrot, antithesis of gray.

Orange is tangerine and sherbet, children and sunset.

Orange is single, stands tall, and gives no one rhyme.

Orange is lily and luster, butterfly and kitten.

Orange is lewd and lascivious, the smile of clown.

Orange is oreole, parrot, terra cotta and time.

Orange is peach and coral, cheeky and brilliant.

Orange is father of yellow, close to golden.

Orange is happiness, jubilant, high.

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A reminder of our ongoing sale…

25% OFF EVERYTHING IN THE
JEWELRY SHOP UNTIL MAY 31st!

PLUS, FREE SHIPPING ON ANY ORDER OVER $75.00

Just use the code ILOVESPRING at checkout.

Click here to see more pieces!

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Wishing you a weekend filled with smiles.

Red is scarlet, vermilion, burgundy, rose.

Red is raucous and riot, crimson and season.

Red is the color of intensity’s song.

Red is sanguine and blowzy and keeps our hearts beating.

Red is berry and cherry, the apple of my eye.

Red is rouge and warm lips, and makes no apology.

Red is ruby and valentine, romance and blush.

Red is ritual and sacrifice, sound of life’s breath.

Red is door and desire, deliberate and pounding.

Red is fiery and loud, the pulse of compassion.

Red is heat and hope, blood and sunrise.

Red is cardinal and carmine, love and lipstick.

Red is mother to maroon, pink’s incarnation.

Red is telltale, mysterious, sly.

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A reminder of our ongoing sale…

25% OFF EVERYTHING IN THE SHOP UNTIL MAY 31st!

PLUS, FREE SHIPPING ON ANY ORDER OVER $75.00

Just use the code ILOVESPRING at checkout.

Click here to see more pieces!

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Wishing you a weekend filled with love.

It was a glorious weekend with perfect weather and much time spent outdoors. Mama bluebird spent most of her time watching over the nest box, not amused that I was out there invading her space, but never straying too far away. There are three eggs in the nest, and I am hoping that this year, we will have babies.

Between the sparrows and the swallows and the other larger birds (not to mention a certain unmentionable kitten) it is always a fight for survival. And so, she waits. And I wait with her, holding my breath and watching over them all.

Mother bird, mother gardener, mother nature, all working hand in hand to hatch three tiny lives. Of course, in truth, Papa bluebird is lending a hand as well, ever vigilant and protective.

The world outside my window is vibrant and verdant and filled with gifts. Windows are open, and all day the music plays… birdsong and peeping frogs and rustling breezes filled with scent.

And I bask in the glow of this sun, this promise of life.

The possibility.

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Wishing you a week filled with music.

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Purple is lavender, passion, velvet and rain.

Purple is crocus and violet, pansy and sunset.

Purple is the color of rhythm and rhyme.

Purple calls out your name in the deep dark of night.

Purple is royalty’s secret, the keeper of time.

Purple is grape and wine, proud pie and mulberry.

Purple dances with burgundy, saturated bliss.

Purple is visions of sugar plum, amethyst sparkle.

Purple is mauve and melody, habit and heather.

Purple is sassy and decadent, a cheshire cat smile.

Purple is bruise and empathy, majestic mountains.

Purple is mist and morning, tornado and vine.

Purple is heart and poet and three shades of hunger.

Purple is age and laughter, inertia’s reply.

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and today’s featured piece in our ongoing jewelry sale:

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Wishing you a weekend filled with laughter.

How can you not fall in love with the colors of Spring?

Finally, the weather has broken and plants are popping up everywhere,
quickly making up for lost time.

Green is everywhere I look, soothing away the dryness of winter’s soul.

Life blooms again, in just the way it always does.

With chaos and color, growth and frenzy, beauty and bounty.

And the joy of being alive.

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A reminder of our ongoing sale…

25% OFF EVERYTHING IN THE SHOP UNTIL MAY 31st!

PLUS, FREE SHIPPING ON ANY ORDER OVER $75.00

Just use the code ILOVESPRING at checkout.

Click here to see more pieces!

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Wishing you a Wednesday filled with joy.

And Mother’s Day is just around the corner.

That must mean it’s time for a sale.

25% OFF EVERYTHING IN THE SHOP UNTIL MAY 31st!

PLUS, FREE SHIPPING ON ANY ORDER OVER $75.00

Just use the code ILOVESPRING at checkout.

Click here to see more pieces!

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Wishing you a week filled with color.

Oh, that weekend went much to quickly, even though it was a long one!
We had a lovely holiday, I hope you did as well.

On Saturday, my family threw a big birthday bash for me and my father.
He is 75 today, and I will be 50 tomorrow. It was great fun,
I have the best friends and family. The best.

I spent the day yesterday adding new things to the etsy shop,
(and I still have many more to add).
It is Monday, after all–Cyber Monday–and so of course
that means it’s time for a sale.

25% OFF EVERYTHING IN THE SHOP UNTIL DECEMBER 31st!

I will be adding new items all month long, as time allows.

Happy Monday!