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Hunting for a dandelion

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Sue in Somerset

Sue in Somerset Report 5 Jul 2008 23:03

As a bit of light relief I thought it might amuse some folks to know what I was doing this afternoon..........I was trying to find a dandelion!

I've got only week before I need to submit details of some glass engravings for an important exhibition and I'll have to write in details of titles and size etc.

Until yesterday I'd only finished one suitable piece and panic was setting in. I started one huge vase but realised it was going to take weeks so have put that to one side. I then wrote a rather nice phrase on a plate "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and was going to put a bindweed design on it.......lots in my garden :(((
Then realised it would look too fussy so decided a single dandelion clock would look pretty.

Humph..........they've just about all finished flowering. My kind and patient husband drove me round the village slowly and we both hunted on the playing field (in wind and rain!). Found one but wind blew all seeds off as I picked it! Then on the drive home..... success! Collected precious seed head carefully and protected it all the way home and up to my studio.

Anyone watching must have thought we were mad!

Anyway! Job done and plate finished.

Sue
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NDD

NDD Report 5 Jul 2008 23:27

Better than spending time with Stuart and hairy wart

See thread update

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 5 Jul 2008 23:28

woss going on!!! I just added to this thread and it's gone!!

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION DON'T SEND ME MESSAGES

NDD

NDD Report 5 Jul 2008 23:32

Wow

cosmic happening

Sue in Somerset

Sue in Somerset Report 5 Jul 2008 23:33

LOL

Cosmic dandelion

Sue

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 5 Jul 2008 23:33

get back on yer hairy wart thread you!!!!

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION DON'T SEND ME MESSAGES

Sue in Somerset

Sue in Somerset Report 5 Jul 2008 23:35

LOL

This thread is for those who appreciate dandelions!


Sue

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 5 Jul 2008 23:36

exactly - he should never have brought his hairy wart within an inch of this thread - some people ain't got no class!

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION DON'T SEND ME MESSAGES

Sue in Somerset

Sue in Somerset Report 5 Jul 2008 23:37

Exactly!!!

Seen any good dandelions lately?

They're not easy to draw by the way!

Sue

NDD

NDD Report 5 Jul 2008 23:44

Hairy Wart is an intellectual

I'll have You all know