Today's Monday Moodboard is inspired by my childhood memories. It's been raining here for the last 3 or so months.. with a few snow showers in between.. and while the rain doesn't do much for my Fibromyalgia.. its does wonderful things for nature. I remember visiting my mom's parents.. my grandma and grandpa Skeem each year in the Spring. They lived in a small farming community right outside of Twin Falls, in Kimberly Idaho (which actually is where I was born).One of my most vivid memories was driving down the back country roads to get to their house.. and it always seemed to be raining.. or had just rained. It wasn't cold out.. it was warm.. but I remember looking out the window at the wet roads and fence posts and just beyond them.. fields and fields of green grass.. that seemed to go on for miles. Beautiful green grass. I remember driving onto their farm and seeing the big weeping willow just huge and overlflowering with leaves.. and their big lawn so green. I loved the smell of the rain and actually loved to sit outside on the tire swing in the rain under the willow tree and just enjoy the warm rain air. Sometimes we would even play for hours in the rain.. getting soaking wet and loving every minute of it! It is one of my favorite memories growing up. Three of my grandparents (my dad's parents and my mother's mom) passed away my Senior year of high-school. I was living by myself at the time and remember taking the long drive to each of their funerals, by myself, reliving those childhood memories. Such wonderful memories. So grateful for them all. My mom's dad, Grandpa Skeem.. died a few years later. I sure miss them all.
This morning, after all my kids had gone to school and the house was quiet, I took a moment to snuggle with my hubby on our living room couch, looking out our windows .. at the 100 year old tree we have in OUR yard, and how my kids love that tree, love swinging on it, love climbing in it and how beautiful our yard looks right now with all this rain we've been having. The grass is a gorgeous green.. and the cherry blossoms are in full swing. Just simply beautiful. So today's monday moodboard is inspired by grass filled yards, big old trees and memories that I will always cherish.
These delicious goodies all came from etsy.. except for floral bag in the upper left hand corner.. that is a limited edition handmade bag.. from vintage fabric that my dear friend Jeanne Oliver made her new spring line debuted today (beautiful dresses, bags, purses, vintage items, art prints, jewelry.. and more) .. you have to check it out on her website.. I am doing an entire post on it this week.. and she is giving away one of her beautiful new ruffled totes.. so watch for that!
So here is list of the fun things I found for this Monday Moodboard
Rococo Shawl pattern
Rainy Spring Little Girl Dress
How Green is your Garden Hair tie
So fun! love monday moodboards..
So today I am busy busy busy getting ready to leave tomorrow morning at 6 am for Donna Downey's Inspired event! I am teaching three classes..two canvas classes and a jewelry cuff class! Can Not wait! I get to also see one of my True's.. my besties.. Margie. She is rooming with me and also teaching. I can't wait to spend time with her. Much needed time. We are teaching Wednesday.. and then taking Donna's other inspired event classes on thursday , friday and saturday! can't wait! I told her we are going to find a movie theatre and go see Water for Elephants.. I read the book. LOVED it. it was a little Riskee.. okay a LOT. but I couldn't put it down. It was good. Sorry.. guilty pleasure I guess.
So anyhow.. just busier than ever getting ready to leave! Gonna schedule some blog posts for while I am gone.. share with you all about Jeanne's new line and do an awesome giveaway.. AND have another Behind the Art video to share with you! can't wait! Hope you all had a wonderful mother's day! I did.. we just hung out, played games and watched movies. It was heaven.
Happy Monday!
What a beautiful story about your memories Christy, you sure are blessed and appreciate the small things in life :) Have fun, enjoy what you do best "teaching"
Posted by: Karen | May 09, 2011 at 04:27 PM
See you at Inspired!!
Posted by: Kip | May 09, 2011 at 04:29 PM
I'm going to see Water for Elephants this week, too...Girlfriend playday on Thursday. Have a fun time with your girlfriends!!
Posted by: Sue | May 09, 2011 at 09:30 PM
Love your energy!! Have a wonderful trip!
Posted by: Leslie | May 09, 2011 at 09:49 PM
Have a wonderful trip and thank you for sharing such a wonderful story.
Posted by: lesley | May 10, 2011 at 05:01 AM
Enjoyed your post. I have similar sweet memories of my grandparents, only one set because the others died before I was born. But Granny & Pa lived in the country down a long, long path, and had huge trees with a tire swing. They are both gone now, but I have such wonderful memories!
Have a great and safe trip.
Posted by: Beverly S | May 10, 2011 at 07:49 AM
I remember standing beside a rain puddle on a sidewalk and seeing the reflection of the sky and clouds and pretending the puddle was a hole into another world that I could just jump into...and I could stare "down" at that puddle that seemed so deep with those clouds reflecting in it forever. It's easy to entertain a child-like heart. I'm tryin, now that I'm growin.
Posted by: Mardi | May 10, 2011 at 10:21 AM
I'm lovin' the "Dream Garden Necklace" but the link is not correct. Can you please check this out for me?? Thanks.
Mer/Marie
Posted by: Amanda Siminger | May 10, 2011 at 11:38 PM
What a positively lovely looking moodboard! Delighted to see my Rococo Shawl knitting pattern included. Thank you :)
Posted by: Elena | May 13, 2011 at 09:07 AM