This is my Cape Cod Herb Garden…As you can see by the sign on the chair, my style is rustic old weathered patina…In this tiny garden, I have chives, thyme, oregano, basil, dill, parsley, lavender, sage and chocolate mint!!!  I also welcomed a plant that blew in from two cottages down, it has pretty orange blossoms that the bees and butterflies love, it’s called Butterfly Weed…and so I’ve kept it!!!

And of course, I have a Buddha to add a sense of calm and tranquility…and these lovely stepping stones my grandsons gave me with their names and mine on them❤️ A neighbor whose niece was visiting last year was pounding out something on their picnic bench…I just had to go over and see what she was up to…she was making these spoons…she was flattening the old silver-plated spoons and stamping etched words on them…we instantly hit it off, so I invited her over to see my cottage…the next day, to thank me, she brought over this beautifully personalized spoon for my garden!!!  

I also, enjoy rock balancing, I like the rustic earthy look and the meditative art in building them:)  This year I added a plant called Hens and Chicks…I think it looks like a lotus blossom…it grows little plants under it that I’ve transplanted to other places in my garden…These are Pot Feet that are holding this chocolate mint plant up…3 feet placed under the pot to balance it…these are Wicked Witch of the West Feet!!!A copper butterfly sculpture that is a sprinkler, watering my garden!!!And now the Twist, you might immediately see the spiral or koru made out of shells, that is a twist…but if you look closer you will spot the secret???It’s a shell path leading to a fairy door…And a fairy sunning herself on a conch shell!!!Leave room in your garden for the fairies to dance…

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This is my earthy jewelry, all gifts from special people in my life..notice the earrings made of tiny stones, I love how they echo my rock balancing!!

I wear this jewelry almost every day…it reminds me to be grounded and centered…

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I am naturally attracted to spiral shapes…I love the design and symbolism in korus…that is why I’ve made a spiral shape of shells in my garden, even the conch shells have spirals…

These are more spirals that appear in nature…as I was doing research on the meaning of spirals, I thought of these photos I took…the petals in the rose grow in a spiral and if you look closely at the daisy, you see that the seeds in the center form spirals… symbols of New Life, New Beginnings, Growth, Peace and Harmony…🙏🏽