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Blue Skies and Pink Roses

What a glorious day this would be! Imagine a garden filled with your favorite pink roses and the most wonderful scent of roses filling the air!

My perfect pink rose garden would include every imaginable shade of pink from the palest “barely there” pink to the darkest “almost red” pink. I would have English Roses as well as Hybrid Tea Roses. I love both of these rose types. What kind of pink roses would fill your perfect pink rose garden?

Patience has a new outfit to show you and it’s filled with pink roses!

Patience found a little bunny hopping around her rose garden. Look at how friendly he is.

For more information on Patience’s “Blue Skies and Pink Roses” spring ensemble please visit my “Available for Sale” page on cindyricedesigns.com .

A Shower of Roses

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As we move towards April I am aware of the chant, “April showers bring May flowers”, and I always think to myself that it’s the “April showers” bit that I wish we could leap right over to get to the good part, the “May flowers”. However, we need the rain to wash away the winter grime to make everything outside shiny and new. Of course the rain helps to restart the growth on the trees and plants too.

As I finished embroidering this sweater for the Little Darling the little rosebuds trailing down the sweater reminded me of a spring rain shower, one that is gentle and warm, and (my favorite part) with the sunshine following close behind.

For more information on “A Shower of Roses” ensemble for the Little Darlings please visit the “Available for Sale” page on cindyricedesigns.com .

Oh Where, Oh Where is Spring?

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While I cannot say it is totally springlike here, we are moving towards it. Over the last 4-5 days we have lost lots of snow with above freezing temps and lots of sun. Large areas of grass are starting to appear and they’re sort of green…well, in some places!

Update: I wrote this post this morning and as of now (the evening) it seems like there is less snow and more grass showing. What a huge difference a day makes!

No sign of bulb gardens starting in northern Illinois yet, though. For a preview of what is to come, a beautiful bulb garden is in full bloom on Pukipuki Sugar’s dress. And, the best part is that it is an everlasting reminder of our fleeting spring flower gardens.

Sugar has embroidered tulips in three shades, yellow daffodils, tiny grape hyacinths (yes, they smell like grape), and the ever fragrant hyacinths in purple (blue), white, and pink. In our previous house all of these bloomed in my garden every year.

What will be blooming in your spring garden?