Make It Monday!

A Lovely, Tea Cup Planter!

These are fun and easy to make and will Brighten the bleakest winter day! Vintage lusterware creates a lovely juxtaposition with succulent plants!

Supplies:

• An electric drill 
• a porcelain drill bit
• Tea Cup and Saucer
• E6000 glue
• several glass flower arranging stones or marbles

Directions:

1. From the outside of the cup, drill 3 drainage holes in the bottom of the tea cup, go slowly, pushing too hard will crack the cup, if you are using very thin cup try placing a cork or wooden block on the inside of the cup for added support
2. Use the E 6000 to adhere Glass gems to the saucer, use as many as necessary to fill the indentation where the cup normally sits
3. Fill the cup with potting soil and a small succulent
4. Water and enjoy a Lovely Cuppa!

Summer Collage

Segundo has been drying flowers in an old dictionary all summer, finally he has started to use them. Fairies in Garden with Dogs and Butterfly!

Nurture Creativity

I try to live my mission every day NURTURE CREATIVITY - I find myself repeating it now and again because it is easy to loose sight of it. Getting bogged down in the daily routine, laundry, dishes, driving to and from school, dinner, baths bed - seems to be the biggest drain on creativity, both for me and the muses!

Try to do as many chores as possible like this put a load of laundry in the wash before going to bed, put in the dryer before leaving for work or to do errands the next morning - for me it is like getting 2 things done at once. The bonus is that then it does not cut into the time you spend with your cherubs encouraging curiosity!

Allegorically Speaking

The Muses dancing with Apollo, by Baldassare Peruzzi

Mnemosyne was the personification of memory in Greek mythology This titaness was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the Muses by Zeus. In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses. Zeus and Mnemosyne slept together for nine consecutive nights and thereby created the nine muses:

• Calliope (Chief of the muses and muse of epic poetry)
• Clio (muse of history)
• Erato (muse of erotic poetry)
• Euterpe (muse of lyric song)
• Melpomene (muse of tragedy)
• Polyhymnia (muse of sacred song)
• Terpsichore (muse of dance)
• Thalia (muse of comedy and bucolic poetry)
• Urania (muse of astronomy)

Mnemosyne was also the name for a river in Hades, counterpart to the river Lethe, according to a series of 4th century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter. Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when reincarnated. Initiates were encouraged to drink from the river Mnemosyne when they died, instead of Lethe. These inscriptions may have been connected with a private mystery religion, or with Orphic poetry (see Zuntz, 1971). Similarly, those who wished to consult the oracle of Trophonius in Boeotia were made to drink alternately from two springs called "Lethe" and "Mnemosyne". An analogous setup is described in the Myth of Er at the end of Plato's Republic. According to Pausanias in the later second century AD[2] there were but three original Muses: Aoide ("song" or "voice"), Melete ("practice" or "occasion") and Mneme ("memory"). Together, these three form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice. In Delphi three Muses were worshipped as well, but with other names: Nete, Mesi, and Hypate, which are the names of the three chords of the ancient musical instrument, the lyre. Alternatively they were called Cephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, whose names characterise them as daughters of Apollo. In later tradition, four Muses were recognised: Thelxinoe, Aoede, Arche, and Melete, said to be daughters of Zeus and Plusia (or of Uranus). One of the persons associated with the Muses was Pierus. By some he was called the father (by a Pimpleian nymph: called Antiope by Cicero) of a total of seven Muses, called Neilo, Tritone, Asopo, Heptapora, Achelois, Tipoplo, and Rhodia. [1] Though taken together, the Muses form a complete picture of the subjects proper to poetic art, the association of specific muses with specific art forms is a later innovation. The muses were not assigned standardized divisions of poetry with which they are now identified until late Hellenistic times. The canonical nine Muses, with their fields of patronage, as established since the Renaissance, are:

• Calliope (Chief of the muses and muse of epic poetry)
• Clio (muse of history)
• Erato (muse of erotic poetry)
• Euterpe (muse of lyric song)
• Melpomene (muse of tragedy)
• Polyhymnia (muse of sacred song)
• Terpsichore (muse of dance)
• Thalia (muse of comedy and bucolic poetry)
• Urania (muse of astronomy)

This information is from wikipedia