- incorporate rabbit, lamb and baby chick themed items into your outfits.
- grow herbs or other springtime plants. It's a good time of year for re-potting your plants, too.
- buy or make a pretty cotton apron to wear when cooking, crafting, gardening or spring-cleaning.
- grow potted plants, flowers or bulbs on your windowsill.
- try growing potatoes in a tatey bag or barrel.
- create a table centrepiece or wreath with flowers, moss, eggs and animal figurines.
- update or add to your picnicing equipment. then go on a picnic!
- make and wear a floral crown or headband.
- make some soft cotton bloomers trimmed with lace.
- buy a straw hat and decorate it with ribbons, flowers, perhaps a baby animal figurine.
- make a carrot cake.
- choose a new herb you have never tasted before and cook with it. You could even try growing it.
- spring-clean the house; open all the doors and windows.
- grow a mini teepee or a sunflower circle
- make an award ribbon brooch with muted toned ribbons with tiny hints of gold.
- be inspired by pastoral scenes, shepherdess and petit trianon imagery.
- use ribbons to decorate your clothes, hair or bag.
- press flowers and use them to decorate a diary or bookmark.
- Get a kite or make one out of newspaper and fly it.
- if the weather is still too cool to spend time outside, watch moriesque movies with a Spring theme like Anne of Green Gables or Heidi.
- make or purchase stationery with spring-themed motifs.
- when the weather gets warmer, introduce pastel shades into your outfits. Try white with pastel accents.
- choose a theme colour to incorporate into your outfits: mint, pastel yellow, baby blue.
- set up a bird feeder, bath or house. Watch and listen to the birds, maybe take photos and draw them.
- buy some cheap sneakers and decorate them. Then go for walks in them.
- go walking in the rain. You may want to wear gumboots and use an umbrella, or just enjoy the feeling of getting damp.
- print out some of the photos you've taken of natural scenes and make them into a collage or display.
- stock up on winter clothes and accessories on sale to prepare for next winter. Look for faux fur collars, mittens, gloves, earmuffs, cuffs.
- experiment with tasting new varieties of tea. Try a flower-scented tea.
- make a salad with seasonal spring vegetables or fruit.
- visit an animal shelter and volunteer to help the baby animals.
From Fern & Fawn, I Don't Know and Hedge Fairy
nov 5 2011 ∞
jul 27 2019 +