Looks like a great collaboration plan is coming together… keep it coming Cory!!!

So here’s your first sneak peek at Cory McCrory’s textured beauties for ART IN THE GARDEN! Even without her whimsical colors, these handbuilt flowers are looking INCREDIBLE!!! I can’t wait to see them once Cory adds her fun colors & stains! I’m thinking that maybe these flowers are going to need a fun textured wall vase to hold them… oh wait… I “might” know something about that too?!!!

Beautiful purple clematis blooming in our back courtyard…
a bright spot on a gloomy gray day.

Apparently a BIG yellow flower needs a special stamped & soda-fired vase of its own!!! Thanks for sharing this beauty Rosene!

Looks like Ashley is giving her new tulipiere a little test run at home! Sure, they may not be tulips?… but this flower arrangement looks AMAZING!!! I love when a pottery “challenge” in class comes together and something beautiful like is the result. Nicely done Ashley… we love it!

Tonight in my Intermediate Wheelthrowing class, we finished off the session by sharing some finished vases. They had asked for a class “challenge”… and I gave them a TULIPIERES!!! During the session, several of them tackled building their own tulipiere vases! Clara went for three sections stacked with a mini vase on top! Christine made one piece with a beautiful blue & red glaze. Ashley combined her wheelthrown oval bases with extruded tubes. And I provided the fake tulips… I thought that was the most I could do!!!

So here’s a few more pictures of Clara’s tulipiere…

And here’s a few more picturs of Chritine’s tulipiere…

Plus, a few more shots of Ashley’s tulipiere…

We had a couple more who were tackling the tulipiere challenge… but ran into kiln issues and they weren’t quite done in time for class tonight!

Always nice to see some bees enjoying their afternoon meal.

Gotta love these two little volunteer petunias popping up… finding a little cement crevice to call their own… welcoming another new week of Summer Campers to Lillstreet! Here we go again…

The hummingbirds must be thrilled… it’s trumpet vine season!
And you’ve got to love these flowers “floating” on these cool vines… albeit an invasive plant. This one is taking over the corner of the building at Lillstreet Art Center!

A fragrant walk down the street…. thanks to one of my neighbors who has an amazing garden and grows a wide assortment of asiatic lilies every year. While the fragrance might be too much for some people, they’re beautiful flowers dancing on graceful stems… and outdoors the aroma has room to spread freely… so not so strong in one place! And every year, I think I need to add some to my garden next year…