following the moss path

it is very strange how life leads us to do different things... 

last week i found myself writing an e-mail to Arboretum where i visited few weeks ago. i asked if they would accept me as an apprentice and would they have a place for me to stay on that time. i thought that i would not hear from them, but then received an e-mail few days later, where they responded YES. I have been excited and nervous at the same time ever since that e-mail. Today i went to the Arboretum made sure that they would truly want me there. i was so excited after the visit, that i forgot to look the place where i would be living, but i heard that the apartment will be warm ( a good thing!). i know also that my apartment will be in end of a old red and white wooden house. i need to take there some things and furniture's, make a little home for me for a little while. I will be moving in the Arboretum for a month in 19th of September. 

And what i do there: collect seeds from trees and plants in the forest, sow the seeds and plant trees perhaps, there is possibly will be something else to do also, but these tasks are perfect to me!!

I did not even thought to get apprentice place in this autumn or from this Arboretum, but something just made me send that e-mail... 

when i visited in the arboretum first time, i thought that how wonderful it would be to walk in that forest everyday. now i am able to do that, at least for a while. wander in a autumn forest there. i am sure i will write a lot when i am there, since i will take my computer with me; take you for a little wanderings with me.

autumn jewelries

truly the autumn begun here 1st of august, just like that weather changed from warm to chilly. there has been some warm days between, but i can see how the tree leaves are becoming yellow and ferns also. i truly love the colors of ferns in autumn, one of my favorite plants. they are one of the things which always make me sigh when i see them. 

now it is a perfect time to make jewelries for autumn wanderings. brass maple, oak and willow leaves are waiting on my table. glass and picasso beads in shades of soft golden yellow, burned orange and brown. squirrels have already become part of my necklaces, which i am just listing in my Etsy shop. i have also made a special necklace, which features a locket with image from Beatrix Potter's 'Squirrel Nutkin' book, a wise owl. these images have been waiting on my paper drawers for few years, yesterday i thought i should try to use them on my woodland jewelries, because i so much love books of Beatrix's. i was very lucky to able to see some original paintings from 'Squirrel Nutkin' while i was in Hawkshead in England. they truly where more beautiful than in any printed story books written by Beatrix. 

p.s. i will create jewelry piece for Pixie. Could you kindly send your address for me, thank you.

giving away

i am giving away few necklaces or bracelets.

this time the recipient can pick the colors and a theme for it.

i wrote first about this on my Facebook page, but decided i must also tell you about it also.

just write your favorite colors for the necklace and a theme.

i will pick recipients on this Wednesday.

pine needle path

i have wanted to travel in this place long time. 

today me, my mother and three sisters wandered in this arboretum, which is filled with all kind of trees and plants. trees all over the world.

It was a 3km path which we walked and beginning of the woodland path where these lovely cottages, where people lived amongst the woodland. 

beautiful autumn Phlox's in a yard.

and the loveliest cottages was this. i think it was empty.

how wonderful it would be to live in this cottage, 

wander between the different trees when ever i would want to.

Abies amabilis, amabilis means lovable in Latin. 

and these trees where truly lovable.