Mother Earth

How do you imagine Mother Earth? Is she old & wise? Young & adorned with flowers? I have different images of her in my head. They change with the season, with stories I hear & tell. 

To me she is such an archetypal figure on the Nature Table. I've been experimenting with creating the different Mother Earths of my imagination.

This one is about 10" tall. Her body is needle-felted. She wears a hooded cape knitted on teeny-tiny needles using some Koigu yarn. Her apron has a simple grass - sky - sunflower scene needle-felted onto a piece of wet-felted wool-mohair felt. She is wise & old. Her hair is thus gray, with a lil' bun in the back. 

I love how she turned out. How about you? Well, guess what. I'm not keeping her. This is a bit of a teaser. :-) On Monday I'll tell you more about all of that. Do check back in!

In the meantime, if you have a link to the Mother Earth of your imagination, the Mother Earth who lives on your Nature Table maybe, please do share a link in the comment section. I'd love to see her!

The Awesomerest Sled

Notice the similarities? A boogie board for all occasions, I say. We got about 12" of snow in a 24 hours period. That's pretty unusual for Virginia at this time of the year. Nathan wanted to go sledding at Forest Hill Park - the thing to do in our neighborhood when snow falls in Richmond. In his ideal world, he would have had some awesome monster-speedy sled. I suggested using the lid of a storage box. He wasn't thrilled. Then the boogie board from our time at Myrtle Beach came to mind. He warmed up to the idea rather quickly. Voila! A sled. Funny thing was that when we got to the park, there actually were people sledding on storage box lids, in trash can lids, even in inflatable rafts & rooftop cargo carriers. Crazy. Cold. Fun.

P.S. I do know that awesomerest is not a real word!