THANK YOU for all of you, who have been reading about my woodland wanderings and creations!!!

You are able to read about my nature pondering's and creations still on my Robin and the Sage Facebook fan page. I hope i will see you there...

Let me take you to the stroll through the forest where i often wander. There is parts of the forest where i have never been , since there seems no end of this forest... Last week or was it this week, i went in part of the forest where i had not seen before. Bird flock where twittering so lovely and the forest looked utterly magical with ferns and large mushrooms. This is part of the forest where i usually come. Years ago the view was covered with sea of trees. But the view is ever so beautiful now also. I can see tiny islands on the sea and faraway landscape, which i love love to look at; i always wander what is there on the other side of the sea... This is the road on to my parents home. it is amazing how the autumn colors the ferns! i love ferns dearly, i find them magical and faery like... and also their leaves reminds me from feathers. Amongst the blueberries stood this giant mushroom, which reminds me from fairy tales and enchanted forests... though, i think every forest is an enchanted realm. Now when i am writing this my heart waits to be in this forest again, i will go there to find some mushrooms again and sit down to admire the breathtaking views. *** and tomorrow i shall begin my new work in kindergarten, where i was working about four years ago! how i wait to be with the wee children once again.

...Story House doll is my newest doll creation... Story house filled with tales and memories from the 1800th century. Maggie lives in a story house which is surrounded by a garden, where the apple mint, tea roses and lilac bloom. Maggie is a story teller, who loves to write about little birds, forgotten gardens and wild woodland animals.

For such a long time i have been thinking of beginning to create some dolls. Yesterday i was inspired to begin create one, Miss Mattie, though she is an doll danglie or ornament. She is such a lovely Victorian lady. Miss Mattie is filled with organic lavender, so she smells like a summer garden! Now i am *awe* inspired, and dolls fill my thoughts and days. Today i begun to create another doll, with legs and arms this time... i do not yet know what kind of lady she will be, since i rather let the doll create itself, like Miss Mattie did. You can view more photos from her at here.

Yesterday evening my table was filled with things like empty lockets waiting to be transformed in to something lovely, laces and papers.

I begun to layer papers upon these little lockets and then painting them with gesso and pastel chalks ( i think these are my favorite artist supplies). Then i noticed lace on my table and thought to layer the papers with some pieces of lace.

Then i begun to think what i would want to "say" with these lockets? I wrote some of my favorite words with my vintage typewriter, but also things like "lovely day" to keep as an talisman and a "writer" which is very much part of my heart also.

Today i was editing this photograph at picnik. com ( i find this is the best ways to edit photographs) and thought that i need to invent a name for these lockets... 'token of heart' would be a perfect way to call these lockets, which describe the things i "heart".

How i love poppies! This was the first summer when they appeared on the garden. These are surely one of my favorite flowers, so delicate and fairy like. This poppy where one of the first ones, i watched how the petals opened after the green shell fell on the ground, magical!

This is the vegetable patch, where also flowers are grown... cornflower's, forget-me-not's, and these white and pink flowers.

...someday i want to plant poppy meadow...

One of the sweetest flowers are sweet pea's. The scent is utterly wonderful. I can imagine fairies sitting on the flowers, wearing bonnets like these flowers...like in Cicely Mary Barker's faery panting

I took these photographs probably over week ago. On this misty morning i woke up before 5 a.m. and went outside to admire the misty views. These kind of moments are full of magic and enchantment.

A view from the meadow and the woods which i admire daily from the yard.

Such a delicate flowers are these bluebells. Most of all I love wild flowers.

... tomorrow i shall show you views from the garden and maybe also from my beloved fern woods, which have been often part of my writings, but i have never showed photos from the e...

{Some of my Etsy Favorites}

Lately i have been once again in a world of sea. I have been for a week here in country side, and i have had just few items to use on my art work; few papers, lots of sea shore findings and natural twine. I just absolutely can not be without creating something in here, when the surrounding is very inspiring... So i created few sea side inspired creations: Sea Shore collage and Sea Sonnet garland.

Home In The Woods This little "cabinet" is most tricky to photograph... i am not sure how to take photo that i would not show on the glass. this piece has a drawer, and i thought it would be perfect for keeping little secrets or favorite jewelries. The little girl behind the glass stands in front of lovely trees, and she reminds me from Alice in Wonderland somehow. The little bunny jumped out of an English vintage real life postcard, and wanted to be part of this "Home In The Woods" assemblage.

..This nature child loves to wander in the woods and search little miracles... There is always something beautiful, that she can take home. Yesterday she brought shells from the nearby sea shore, cones under the pine and alder trees, moss up from the hills and a tiniest nest with a one speckled egg.

before i was searcing bird nests from the ground and above, but recently these miracles have come to me. it is magic of nature, i believe! on my last bird mail (blog post) i was writing about my beautiful find, a warbler's nest?. Well, yesterday i felt that i needed to go to that nest and look if the little birdies would have hatched already. when i peeked inside of that nest, i found a little creature without feathers, just little bit soft fur, which i believe turns to feathers. today i went to look the nest again, and found more little creatures hatched. oh, that sight when they thought i was a birdmother and they opened their little beaks for me. seeing these wee nestlings is surely an miracle! ...more bird mail coming later...

The little 'nature sanctuary' book will be part of my necklace. It is a little journal for own thoughts and dreams. ... some hand made fabric ribbon, where i stiched some green brown leaves. Another piece waiting to use in my jewelry. In these days i have made lots and lots of leaves from felt and other fabrics. I like so much this color combination... Color study for my future work. I love to study how colors go together...

for a longest time i thought to arrange a little drawing. this necklace will be some of yours. just write a note and i will draw some of your name off the teacup in next week. i created this necklace from odds and ends which i had left to a spring green bucket on my parents place. it is sometimes very refreshing to create things from just few items and see what will come of it...

Here is my latest necklace: 'sky and earth'. Few days ago i took this photograph and it looks like the necklace would have been dropped from a raincloud. It looks like the glass "raindrop" bead would be filled with rainwater. ...yesterday i was sitting next to a window while i was creating this jewelry piece, first i was creating a necklace dedicated just for a sky and passing clouds, but then the colors of the necklace wanted to change. suddenly i begun to use also a green hues. the thought rain connects the sky and earth came to my mind after the colors. i just love the colors of this necklace, which remind me from soft watercolor paintings.

one day when i was next to my art table i begun to create new "naturalist supplies". then i thought, that i must create an shop just for these supplies and my nature inspired art pieces. Nature Observer was perfect name for the Etsy shop. i so much enjoy to create these supplies and share them with others!