'Tis the Season...

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...for tulips!

Every year the Atlanta Botanical Garden plants hundreds and hundreds of bulbs. Once you've tired of ogling orchids during the February premiere of Orchid Daze and see the daffodils fire the warning salvo that Spring is on the way, it's time to start stalking the Garden for tulips! We actually went the Saturday before my birthday (in mid-February), and the daffodils were already up, with even a couple of tulips peeking out of the soil. I whispered to them all that they needed to stay down for another couple of weeks, as there was sure to be another cold snap (and of course I was right).

We finally made it back last week, and some of the tulips were already blown and gone, but most of them were still in prime condition...

Not as many unique color combinations as in past years, but I will never, ever complain about pink tulips!!

Since we were there for a member evening, we also got to see a glorious sunset peeking through the trees.

I wish this photo had truly captured the deep lavender that was in the sky. It was glorious!

March is also when all the lovely new things come in from the Nashville needlework market. I tried to be restrained (hahahahaha)...here is what I ended up with from Needlecraft Corner...

The little scissors fob was a birthday gift from Drema...she is so great...a couple times I've called her up when I didn't like a color here or there and her substitutions have always been great.

I did not get the pincushion meant to go with the "BUZZ" pins, because I already have a bee pincushion in mind for them, but I obviously had to get them because my college mascot is named Buzz! =)

I used to be so averse to getting kits (I think because they used to have poor-quality floss rather than DMC, and often did not contain enough!) However, now these limited edition kits contain so many cute and hard-to-find little bits and bobs, I would rather get a kit in some cases! Here's what came with these designs...

I have some Eiffel Tower scissors already, though they are much bigger than the ones pictured here. I'm hoping there is enough of those cute pink fabrics to allow me to make the pocket big enough for my scissors...if not, well, c'est la vie!

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