Some of you may be wondering where I got the idea for my blog title, why I use it, and what it really means.

It’s time to tell you.

I have no idea.

Well, I suppose I do remember where it came from. But I’ll start at the beginning. It all began quite a while back, last winter possibly, after Emily and I started our first blog together. It was a Blogspot blog and we enjoyed keeping it up and chatting with our friends who live just across the field. But we were also eagerly awaiting the day when we would be considered experienced enough to each have our very own on HomeschoolBlogger.

As winter drew nigh unto spring, and spring unto summer, we collected various ideas for blog titles, themes, usernames, etc…

One day as we were meandering about our brains I stumbled upon a little word combination. I knew I liked moss, ferns, and vines, and what other little word sounded better with moss than pebbles?

*Edit* And now that I have a new blog/website, I couldn’t bear to not use it. So I’ve kept using it!

The mental image of moss and pebbles resting in a moist ceramic bowl was too delightful to resist! Thus was the birth of…

. . . “a bowl of moss and pebbles.”

I’m glad you all liked my little friends!

I am planning on posting the patterns for the dolls soon. I’ll take photos of myself making one so the directions will be more clear than soley writing or drawing.  ;^)

(Don’t you just love Jesse Wilcox Smith? She is one of the most inspiring illustrators I know of!)

If you are wondering what I’ve been up to, well… As you may recall, I mentioned a while back that I was taking an art class. Wow! I’ve only had two classes so far, but I’ve learned a lot. Its about story boarding and composition - things that will prove beneficial to my attempts at illustrating and “telling stories with pictures.”

Study, study, study! I love all my subjects in my “education.” I took a biology test today and only missed one question! Yippeeee! And for History, we just finished WWI and are moving into the thirties. Learning a bit about communism, too; I’m truly blessed to be an American.

I have several art projects I am working on, or am getting ready to start soon. I have some neat ideas about what I’ll enter at the IAHE art contest - but, I won’t tell you what they are!

Because its a contest!
Mmwwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaa!
Well, okay, I’ll show you after it’s all said and done. :^)

Tonight we had pizza! Click here for the full explanation. Ahhh, one of my favorite meals.

That’s about all I can think of to catch you up on right now. So, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and a blessed Sabbath! God bless!

…the little fairies hiding?

“No one here but us violets!”

This is Olivia. She is very smart and adventurous. I thought I had lost her once, when one day a friend of mine stuck his hand in the couch and pulled up - OLIVIA!!!

This is Eleanor (the girl, not the cup). She is probably the most girly-girl of my little troop. She could spend hours playing make-believe tea party and dress-up. I don’t know where she gets it.

These dolls are only a few samples of the personalities that have surfaced in my experimentations in doll-making. Their bodies are made of pipe-cleaners wrapped in embroidery floss, and are clothed in felt attire. With “curiosity-yarn” for hair (I made that up) and little acorn hats, their wooden bead heads keep very warm and snug.

If any of you are interested in the patterns for the dolls, I will post them. They make a good mother-daughter project for a long winter’s day.  And a small house for them to live in made of a shoe box, papier-maché and acrylic paint would suit them just fine!

…friends.

Original artwork by BreezyTulip, 2008.