Hello December old friend- one of my favorite crafty months- game on! I could hardly wait to put up my new gnome from Painting Pixie that now graces my perpetual calendar on our ledge- one of my favorite morning rhythms. The nature bowl which resides next to it is looking a lonely with just the greens, I think we will have to remedy that this week!
Today is also the launch for the winter issue of Rhythm of the Home, I hope you will make yourself a big cup o' tea and join me there today. My contribution is of the spider type! I was touched to find this tradion from the Ukraine of spiders in trees through the new book this winter The Christmas Spider's Miracle by Trinka Hakes Noble.
Enjoy the tutorial and I will have another Christmas Spider projects and tutorials next week here for Once Upon a Table. One way or another I will work through my arachnaphobias!
One of the most magical moments of working on my submission was the day I wanted to photograph the tutorial was a lovely fall day and I thought I needed to find the perfect evergreen tree somewhere and then saw this evergreen shrub in my neighbor's yard. When I went over it had beautiful webs all over made from just the most tiny little greenish yellow spider. I took it as a sign and when I saw how beautiful the web was in the sunlight it was no wonder such a wonderful Ukraine folktale has evolved!
Don't forget to check the Rhythm of the Home blog also for lots of wonderful give-aways including one of my surprise yarn balls.
Hope you have a wonderful beginning of your December- you don't even want to see the mess in my studio right now!
