Little Fairy Shine So Bright by Michele

Little garden fairies keep turning up in my inbox!  So sweet of them to show themselves for you to see.

They seem to like buttons, and of course flowers.  This one has beautiful pink feathered wings and a flower crown.  She looks so pretty against that swirly feathery background.

Such a beautiful card, Michele.  Thank you!  (See Michele's Blog)

Verses for April

Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers. --

Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557

The year's at spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill sides's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his heaven -

All's right with the world!
Robert Browning, The Year's at the Spring, 1870

Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
With brightest sunshine round me spread
Of spring's unclouded weather,
In this sequestered nook how sweet
To sit upon my orchard-seat!
And birds and flowers once more to greet,
My last year's friends together.

William Wordsworth

a pretty line of verse I heard today...

Here is the beginning of a famous poem by Theodore Roethke, sure to inspire someone to create a lovely ATC or other little piece:
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;

Victorian Religious Ephemera on CD

More samples from the new, revised, updated & improved edition of our Victorian Religious Ephemera CD.... there's such a variety of great images on this CD! I love holy cards and religious imagery...