Goodmorning lovelies. As you can see outside my window, it’s a bit of a grey morning but we had lovely Spring weather in the last couple of days and I could sit on my balcony for the first time this year. I spend some hours reading and – yay – I got a bit of a tan too! I didn’t look around much ’cause the balcony is still in ‘winter mode’… I need to clean and decorate it for the Summer but I will do that after the risk of frost is gone (night frost is still possible this time of year you know.) There’s a ‘rule’ that it’s safe to put flowers outside after “The Ice Saints.”
“St Pancras, perhaps best known in Britain as a railway terminus, is a member of a trio known as the Ice Saints. The others are St Servatius and St Mamertus. Their chilly collective name comes from the traditional belief that their days, 11, 12 and 13 May, bring cold weather and the last frost of the year. Some gardeners in France will not plant until the Ice Saints have gone. They are well known in Germany, Poland, Austria and Switzerland.” (The Guardian)
I also need to clean the apartment, the so called ‘Spring cleaning.’ I keep postponing that because cleaning is not something I like to do. I rather spend my days in my atelier..
Speaking about my atelier; it’s Wednesday, the day that I take a photo of my workdesk for “What’s On My Workdesk Wednesday”.
As you can see on my desk, I’m working on a tiny journal and in the window sill there is an even smaller journal (2,3 x 2,3 cm – 0.9 x 0.9 inch) titled “Daylight Saving Time.” I created it last weekend and yes, we changed the clock on Saturday.
I won’t create journals this tiny again though, I didn’t like working thát small. The minimum for me seems to be approximately 4 cm (2 inch.)
And that’s it for today sweeties, fact is….
(art journal spread/drawing made in February)
Have a nice and creative week, see ya!
Love the idea of making an artjournal dedicated to daylight savings time – your execution is perfect. Although I can imagine this tiny journal is too tiny for comfort, it does look incredibly cute 😀
A neat desk, a cute ‘little’ journal and fun art. I always loved doing ‘tiny’ things when crafting, but now it’s hard on my eyes. We did the time change 3 wks ago and I love it being light longer, now if we only could get some sunshine. It’s been a miserable 4 days of fog, cold, rain, wind and gloom. Rain today and tomorrow and then maybe a a change. Enjoy a fun week.
Hi Marit. We changed the clocks last Saturday night as well – and I forgot! Fortunately, I managed to remember in time to still get to church, as \I was playing the grand piano last Sunday!!!
That journal really is incredibly small – don’t think I could face doing that.
Take care. God bless.
Margaret #29
I like the story about the Ice Giants, Marit. That’s really interesting and as a gardener we always work on Spring Bank Holiday here for putting out tender plants, which is the end of May, but I think I’ll adopt The Ice Giants. The longer evenings are so nice aren’t they now the clocks have gone forward, your tiny journal is a great way of celebrating it.
Have a good week.
Hugs Lisax #19
oh wow, that really IS tiny! I can’t do tiny either so sympathise! Nor do I like spring cleaning (or any other kind!) Have a good week. Helen #1
Those Tiny journals are so cute! Your desk looks busy but uncluttered, I haven’t been able to achieve that look yet! LOL! Thanks for sharing, Lindart #35
That tiny journal is so cute. Your small journals make me itch to make more too, they’re so much fun to make/work in. 🙂 Happy spring!
That really is a tiny journal. I don’t know that I would have that much patience!
Sarah #13
Oh I’m so late! Love the clock change, it’s so much nicer to have longer days! Balcony time sounds good Marit, I bet you use it a lot in the summer. I did not know about the Ice Saints and am very much on side about the dates, early morning frost is definitely a possibility here for another month at least, totally right!
I love the tiny journals, especially as in your hands they really are bound and teeny rather than just a bit of glue, but I do understand that you prefer slightly more to work with. Not least because where would you put al your fab ideas if you were stuck with tiny!!
this is fantastic!