Now that it feels like Spring has finally made it in full force to Chicago, we’re enjoying some beautiful magnolia blossoms… although they’re short-lived, so get outside & enjoy them while you can!

Looks like Spring has finally arrived in Chicago… for real this time… with blue skies & crisp white trees flowering all around. Love it.

Just a little bit of cheerful color on an otherwise dreary gray & rainy day.

Plants everywhere are loving their ceramic homes! So happy to be living their best lives in a handmade, stamped & soda-fired flower pots. And you know I want to make more happy plants… so I’m making more flower pots! Thanks Rick for sharing your beautifully blooming African violets!

And while it may “officially” be Spring outside… looks like my Thanksgiving cactus is a little confused?! One last “volunteer” blooming this morning??? After a full blooming last Thanksgiving… so fun to see one more four months later!!!

We finally made it! Today is the first full day of Spring. And while it’s still a bit chilly in Chicago… it looks like my Peoria pals have brought a little Spring inside! In what might be one of my “vintage” vases with a little bit of stamping along the edge… before I started soda-firing!

While we seem to be having an “early” Spring in Chicago with bulbs popping up & trees starting to bud… I have some fun Spring hyacinths already blooming in my kitchen. Such a wonderful scent from these bulbs that I “forced” about a month ago on my kitchen windowsill.

While Spring might “officially” be two weeks away… I’m calling it Spring already here in Chicago. Especially with the warm near-70 temps yesterday & the forsythia bushes are already starting to bloom!!!

With a crazy warm forecast today… a bunch of snowdrop flowers!
Thankfully with no snow!

Another bright & sunny day… made even brighter with another orchid re-blooming today!