beechnuts

On luzia pimpinella's blog I found these wonderful flowers made from beechnuts, beads and wire. They are absolutely beautiful! We have a beech tree right outside our front door and we have thousands of the nuts in the grass, in the road and on the side walk. So I went out and scooped some up!

(no lie, this is what our sidewalk looks like.)

First I had to make some of the flowers. I made them a little different then luzia pimpinella, but I think they still had a nice charm about them.

After I tried my had with the flowers I just had to take the idea and run! And so I did. I made ornaments!

There is nothing like home made ornaments and I feel that these turned out particularly wonderful.

They are fun and easy, so if you've got a beech tree that annoys you when it drops it's nuts, now you have a use for them!

to see the world through your eyes

Sometimes it I think it would be very interesting to see the world through someone else's eyes. How do they see things? What do they see? Are they interested in the same things that I am? 

Always makes me wonder.