One Page Wonder Mini Album

This is an interactive mini album. It's a One Page Wonder created from a 12 x 12 inch piece of black cardstock as its base. The papers used to decorate and create the little inserts for the pockets were from a Graphics45 collection. The finished size for the mini album is a 3 inch square. 

   Other paper collections used were from Stamperia and Ciao Bella.

A tutorial for this One Sheet Mini Album can be found on YouTube at Curio By B-Spoke Designs.

Another variation can be found at Einat Kessler's channel. She offers a free printable guide for cutting and folding instructions as well as a video tutorial on her channel.

These are fun to make! I couldn't stop!

Make little boxes for them and they make thoughtful little gifts!

Eastern Hemlock

The Eastern Hemlock fooled me. I waited for the little pine cones to mature expecting them to get larger. After researching I learned this is their mature size! They’re tiny! The tree has a loose,irregular, feathery silhouette, with fine, lacy twigs whose tips tend to droop gracefully. The needles are ½ inch in length and flat.

The tree is also known as Hemlock Spruce. The common name "hemlock" was reportedly given because the crushed foliage smells a little like that of the poisonous herb hemlock. The cones gradually grow to about about ¾ inch long and remain soft and flexible until the seeds are released in the fall. The drooping cones persist through winter.

Loblolly Pine Tree

The Loblolly Pine Tree is abundant here. I love the amazing look and feel of the bark.  It  is so texturally interesting. In the South, the name loblolly means a depression.  The tree was originally observed growing in river bottoms, and that is where it acquired its principal common name, but these trees are not limited to that specific habitat.

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

               The seed cones are ¾” to 1 ¼” broad when closed but open to 1 ¾” to 2 ½” wide. They remain on the trees for several seasons. It was once an important lumber tree due to its abundance.

Our Ginkgo Tree is Blooming!

 

The gingko biloba's uniquely fan-shaped leaves start out green but change to golden-yellow in the fall before dropping like brilliant golden snowflakes, carpeting the ground underneath. 

It's a beautiful sight to see!

The Woodland Floor

The Wild Violets  are tiny flowers hidden amongst the foliage on the forest floor. 

 

 

 

 

 

An appropriate passage I read from today’s "A Cherokee Feast of Days"...

“April is the color of jonquils, the fragrance of hyacinths, and the dewiness of violets. The sunlit meadows are carpeted with tiny blue flowers, and along the ravines wild strawberries are as sweet and tart as April air. We forget that while the earth sleeps, life goes on, growing, developing, spreading, until at the right moment it reveals itself in glorious colors and shapes. A few short weeks ago everything was brown and somber. Now the colors are radiant and the very air is tinted the color of new leaves. A new aura outlines the distant hills and only human beings have to see and taste and stir themselves to new life.”

                                                                 

Another delightful surprise I came across on my walk this morning was this sweet little box turtle.




 

More Treasures From The Garden Center !

 

Visit To The Garden Center

 

 

 

 

 

Among the treasures I brought home were Geraniums, Superbells, Cyclamen, Petunias, Verbena, Lobella, Begonias and gorgeous Sunrise Dahlias!