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Showing posts with label Daisy Lupin. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 23, 2007

In the garden with Daisy.....


A peaceful image for a special day of fun and play, this is a painting by Margaret Tarrant an early 20th century illustrator. (She illustrated "Water Babies" in 1908.)



Today we can celebrate Fairy Day in honor of our late friend and blogger, Daisy Lupin. Daisy loved the idea of fairies and fairie day. It was she who made us more aware of these summer garden visitors!



In playing along with this, Carmen, of Strawberries and Champagne gave a link on her blog to find your fairy name. This is fun! (Like we need to have more names to remember?!)



Mine is Diamond Honey Nameen. My granddaughter is Diamond Heart Pomegranate and Mr. Pear is Pomegranate Hop Trail (as in "take a hike"? he does love hiking!)). [The funny thing is that our granddaughter had named him "Pom-Pom" when she was just learning to talk!]



It's late and the weekends are my busy time with my part-time job so I am wishing you all a happy Fairy Day. Do something fun for your inner child today!


Evening update: after work
Mr. Pear aka "Pomegranate Hop Trail" and I went for a walk this evening through the old part of town where one can find cottages and cottage gardens....we looked for elusive fairies.
Perhaps we were a bit early, not even the fireflies were out yet....but here at home, I was able to finally post a digital photo rather than a scan of the fairy doll made to celebrate midsummer. Here is Lunarose, the moonlight rose fairy flying near some calla lilies...you can almost see the rose tatoo on her ankle!

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Daisy's garden...with baskets of flowers!














Daisy Lupin as a young mother.(from her post in January 2007)










[I borrowed this image from Ninnie's blog.....]




We have lost Daisy Lupin, wonderful writer and mentor to many of us bloggers and doll makers!




Her daughter, Lydia, known to us as Sweetpea, posted the news of her mother's illness and passing today.




I started blogging because of Daisy's blog. I feel a great void....




Daisy's tours of her world in the village in Cumbria, and her tales of folk lore and traditions were enthralling.




What she wrote about would spark other research and directions for us all....I often quoted her or referred to an illustration she had chosen!




She left insightful and encouraging comments for all of us....




"Astilbe's always amaze me, I always seem to think, oh the frost has killed them off, then suddenly by surprise they burst through the soil, and grow magnificently. Mine are profuse this year, as is my angelica. I adore petunias of all colours and types my pots and baskets are full of them."
by Daisy Lupin 4:13 PM June 10th, 2007






Still in shock, I cannot say how much she will be missed. Her baskets of flowers and of friends were full and overflowing!










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