Passion Flower - Resurrection

I'm sure you've noticed that I tend to lean towards "garden art".  I love flowers and I love creating them.  I've filled  my backyard with so much "garden art" that it's ... dare I say.... Overgrown!  Honestly, I can't imagine surrounding myself with anything else.  How lucky I am to be able to create what I love. 

As mentioned in my post last week I found this crazy looking object aka candle holder.  Funny story - I didn't realize what it was even though one of my addictions is candelabras, candle holder, candles and such so when I came home and ask my husband what he thought it was and he immediately said "it's a candle holder", well I felt really stupid and then was like..  Oh Yeah, it is huh?  Duh.  Well we are all entitled to a senior moment now and again! 

So here it is  - a huge 12ft tall Passion Flower for the garden.  Everything is made from other pieces of various things I had laying around.  See it's good to never throw things out!  or at least that's what I keep telling myself.

Shovel Art - Two

I've completed the Church windows I showed in my last post.  I decided that the Hoe did not fit the beauty of the window - so instead I cut up an old stump of Pinon that I absconded from my Dad's wood pile.  He just couldn't figure out why I wanted that old wood - and basically at the time I myself didn't yet have a plan for it, but we all know how that works, Right?  We all have a pile of trash just waiting for resurrection

 

You can display the front (below) or the back (which I prefer)

 

And the Antique Hoe.... 

well it was better suited as the base for the flower shovel, added some flowers & leaves growing out of the bottom and a butterfly, because what is a garden without a butterfly.

 

What Is This??

It's very heavy, about 16" across.

It has prongs underneath it

hubby said it's a candle holder upside down ... I tend to agree. 

It's gonna look so much better when I'm done with it!

 

Stay tuned for its Resurrection

Next Week

Gifts from Down Under!

Oh what beauties did arrive for me today all the way from Australia! 

The most lovely of recycled metals transformed into leaves ~ one from a Jardiniere (urn or pot ~ I have to admit I had to look this word up as I did not know what it was) and the other from an old copper laundry boiler!

Are they not GORGEOUS!

 Barry Smith from Maleny, Australia does lovely sculptural pieces with found materials.  You can see is beauties here.  His creativity always inspires me and amazes me. 

Barry - Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!  

I will treasure my beautiful gifts always.  They are in the perfect glass bowl made to look like leaves on my coffee table for all to admire and hold.