I must admit that I’m a bit of a lurker, but enjoy your every post. Anyway I just have to try and win this lovely prize! Today there’s actually been sun and a little bit of warmth – making me too think of spring.

My favorite spring memory is from when I was a kid, walking in estate gardens just outside of Bristol. With my parents and brother, my dad always liked to point out the huge statue head of the green man, and I laughingly climbed over it. Anyway my dad said that I’d upset him.

Later on, I made somewhat of a wreath of flowers, placing them on my head. I think they got stuck and tangled and I later got a rash. My dad had no sympathy, just smiling knowingly.

What a lovely giveaway!

My favorite spring memory is sitting outside on a blanket enjoying the warm sunshine with my son when he was 9 months old. I can remember that day like it was yesterday – and my son is 9 years old now.

WOW, I can’t tell you how hard I’ll be crossing my fingers to win this one!! I have been seeing bees and honey references everywhere and been very inspired by them! My sister also gave me your Honeybee Stories print for Christmas, which I absolutely adore and had been wishing for.
My favorite memory of spring was just this past spring when I started my first herb garden. I would sit on my porch behind the flower boxes and sketch or read while the little seeds were growing and sprouting into yummy herbs that I’m now enjoying this winter in my hot tea.
Ok, off to find lucky talismans to rub and hold until the week is up and a winner is chosen!
PS have you seen the documentary The Last Beekeeper? Its very fascinating and eye opening. I think seeing that earlier this year has been whats inspired the bee and honey imagery in my mind so much.

Hi Sarah, I discovered your blog through your article in Artful Blogging. Your blog is beautiful – what a treat! I look forward to visiting again often. I live in Virginia, and we too have been smothered in snow! My favorite spring memory is the spring of 1989 when I fell in love with my husband. We were high school sweethearts and I had no intention of falling in love right before graduation. I was planning to sever all ties and re-invent myself in college. But God had other plans. That spring we spent hours sitting on my front porch talking, laughing and dreaming about the future until it way after dark. My parents used to flicker the porch lights to signal that it was time to call it a night. That was 21 years ago, and now we have two children who sit with us on our own front porch. Springtime takes me back to those pricless memories. Thanks for letting me ramble! Have a wonderful weekend,

Amy

How refreshing to think about spring! I love your art and this is a beautiful giveaway. My favorite spring memories are watching my girls when they were little hunt easter eggs dressed up in their little dresses. My oldest is getting married in july this year and my other is 14 so they no longer hunt them .

I absolutely love that necklace. So sweet. My favorite spring memory would have to be planting little flowers with my mother in her garden.

Thank you for an awesome giveaway

You have made me swoon once again. This is the most wonderfully delightful giveaway that I could ever dream of having the chance to win. Your Honeybee Stories print is one of my favorites.

As for my favorite Spring memory, I have so many, but the first one that popped into mind was back before my husband and I had gotten married. I have always loved the beautiful flowers that herald in the beginning of Spring, and one day as I arrived home from work, I opened my front door, and there to my delight was an apartment filled with gorgeous, cheery daffodils. It looked like he had found every daffodil in the county to fill my little abode. It was my own private Dr. Zhivago moment and it has held a very special place in my heart every since.

Thank you for such a delightful giveaway and for always filling my days with the beauty and inspiration that your art and your blog provide. Have a blessed Spring!

Warmly,

Michele

Oh, oh, oh! Count me in your giveaway please! I’m a fan of your work. You are such a good visual storyteller, Sarah.

Okay, favourite spring memory… Well, this is also a favourite family tradition as it falls on the Easter weekend – which for me is the holiday kickoff for spring.

For the last couple of years, my husband’s sister’s family from Canada spends the Easter weekend with us in New Jersey. They have two young daughters, ages 4 and 7, who look completely different from one another. Annabel is brunette with dark brown eyes and is a sensitive spirit. Her younger sister, Ellie, is blonde and blue-eyed and is a hurricane.

Last year, after the little ones and I made Easter cupcakes, we each made an Easter bonnet covered with spring flowers – crocuses, tulips, cherry blossoms – along with glittery butterflies and bumblebees.

The next morning, we drove into New York City to take part in the annual New York City Easter Bonnet Parade. It’s such a fun event! New Yorkers and visitors alike tumble out of their winter hibernation and onto 5th Avenue wearing the most ridiculous spring getups. We’re talking entire dresses made of peeps and giant spring bouquets balanced on heads. Alice in Wonderland showed up last year along with her father, The Mad Hatter. So did a man (at least I think it was a man) dressed as a topiary. There are drag queens with pink boas and elegantly-dressed older men with carrots tucked into their breast pockets. Everyone is in such a terrific mood, congratulating each other on our bonnets, asking one another to pose for the camera. The little ones loved it! Annabel surprised us all when she asked to pose next to a woman dressed as a giant cake and Ellie was in heaven riding her father’s shoulders over the walking, talking, laughing garden of flowery bonnets.

For me, that’s my favourite Spring memory. And we’re going to do it again this year – hurray!

Hi Sarah, what a lovely locket! I think that I guessed the right painting. I don’t know that I have one favorite spring memory. But I will share what I do love about spring. It’s a time of renewal, when all the flowers come into bloom. Each year, I love watching the crocuses and daffodils and (my favorites) tulips starting to spring up in our yard. It was our tradition to plant new and exciting tulips each year (but we seem to have run out of room!). So, I watch for all the different varieties each year to blossom…reds, yellows, pinks, and whites. I love seeing the first robin in springtime, and I’m always eager to see if they continue to build their nests in the lilac bush right outside our back door. I like the cool nights, where I can still snuggle up in a cozy sweater or a blanket on the couch to read. And I enjoy going for walks on the many trails we have around here, drinking in all the springtime beauty.
Sincerely, Theresa

Beautiful items!

I think my favorite spring memory is attending Rutgers University and sitting on the lawn by Murray and Scott halls and reading. There’s so much energy and life and movement on a college campus in the Spring. I love and miss that kind of energy.

Hi Sarah. I always love reading your blog! Your artwork is inspiring! I can see that you need a little spring right now. One of my favorite children’s author/illustrators was Alvin Tresselt. Every year when my family of three children became desparate for spring I would read them his amazing book HI MISTER ROBIN! In his beautiful prose, Tresselt told the story of a little boy impatient for spring, who would question the little robin about when spring would arrive. The robin would show him where to look in nature for the signs of spring. The book begins”It was time for spring, but spring didn’t come” and ends with ” and they all walked in a new green world”. One spring, when my children had grown up, they gifted me with an e-bay copy of this book. Each spring, I have it on display for the neighborhood children who stop in. They all love the sequence of gray to spring pastel pictures. I wish I could send you, and all who are desperate for spring, a copy of this book. As an art teacher, I use it to inspire spring crayon resists with my fifth grades. Hang in there, spring will be here soon. Your fan, Brenda

*GASP* I love this! It is so beautiful. I think, if I were lucky enough to win your pretty honeybee locket, I MIGHT give it to my mom (if I could part with it!). She has always adored bees and has been somewhat of a honey snob; so much so that she’s been working on starting her own hive. Which, no doubt, would be a real treat.

I don’t think I could pick a single favorite part of or memory of Spring. It is undoubtedly my favorite season altogether. With all of the new life that comes after a long gray winter.. gosh. I can’t get enough of that energy and the inspiration it provides. Young colts, new birds, the crocus and bright green new leaves.. pussywillow and the thawing of creeks..the smell! I could go on and on and on!

To end, I appreciate the opportunity to win one of your lovely creations. Thank you Sarah!

Picking lady slippers with my grandmother

The locket and the tin are gorgeous! I love all the little detail you put into your work.

Spring makes me think of my grandmother and her lilac bushes in the front yard. Fresh bouquets of soft and dark purple lilacs adorned her dining room table and filled the house with the fresh scent of the season. Best part of spring!

How odd….all evening I’ve been sketching out a girl holding a big fuzzy bee….doodling bees, and hives….and now I stumble upon your giveaway! I should say that’s meant to be

Ah, well, spring to me now has a new and lovely meaning. My girl was born march 10, 2007. Thats when the first daffodils start blooming around here….now I always associate her birth with the coming of a vibrant new season. I’m just hoping the flowers bloom as early this year…it has been so cold and snowy….

This is a lovely giveaway! I’ll hope my hardest that my name makes it out of the bonnet!

oh sarah sarah sarah!! i love it! oh the bees! i have to put this on bee haunting for sure! well, as for favorite spring memory i am not sure if i can narrow it down. it just seems to me that i am never really expecting it and suddenly it’s spring and i am in love. i just remember when my daughter was still a babe, a toddler even and spring was the time that we could finally come out of the house and just enjoy the outdoors, the grass, the flowers, the sun. that’s what spring is to me

My favorite memory of spring—the Easter egg hunts with the children—we used to have so much fun–I miss them being little. My favorite memory from when I was a child was going to Pacific Grove to see the monarch butterflies return—it was beautiful and amazing!
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My favorite Spring memory is from just a few years ago, the year I realized I actually like Spring… I’ve always been more of a Fall person, but I remember that time; there was still snow, and cold, and in a sense very much Winter still. It was early and I was heading to school, shivering in the cold despite the sun, waiting at the tram stop. The memory is fused into my body as well as my mind because I remember so vividly walking over to the bench to sit down, bracing myself for the sensation of the cold wood. And then I sat down, and even though it’s such a small thing I was almost shocked when I realized that the bench was already warm. That the sun had already managed to warm it despite the cold air. The small pleasures.

On a side note, what I’m longing for right now, though, is too hear birds again…

I love your work and what a fantastic give-away!
My favorite spring memory…. While taking a walk in April of 2001 my husband and I found a tiny kitten in a field. We brought her home and looked for her owner, but no one claimed her. She’s a happy member of our family today!

Hi Sarah . . I love your blog and your work . . it is so beautiful and magical. I have you bookmarked now. : )

It’s been a while since I’ve let my mind travel down this memory path, but here it is. . . It was during the Spring when I was 15 years old. The most beautiful boy I had ever encountered invited me to go horseback riding with him in the country near his home. His name was Clint and he lived about 100 miles away from me in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It was the most perfect boy-girl coming-of-age memory I have. Lovely ride with a young gentleman who offered some of the sweetest kisses I have ever known.

My memory comes from a time when I lived in Minnesota and seasons were extremely different. On this particular spring day, the skies were overcast, but not with grey winter clouds, but rather rich greenish storm clouds. After long, hard winters – where darkness dominates and life appears to be black and white, It is insanely refreshing to see the skeleton trees budding with little bits of green and budding the trees were! And surrounding those trees was vibrant newly born green grass overwhelming the the last few tiny spots of snow.

The rain falling had so much energy and life compared to the previous months filled with slowly falling fluffy snowflakes, waltzing to the ground. The lively rain had wet the wildly exposed tree bark; saturating it even further. What is so remarkable to me, that is to say, what I remember fondly about this particular spring day is the intensity and richness of the wet shiny green grass against the blackened tree bark beneath a green sky. The liveliness of the color after a long winter is like finding an oasis after stumbling for days in a desert with a drink of water. A refreshing memory that I hold on to dearly because it seems so amazing and full of life. The colors overwhelmed me.

oh, my…first off, lovely lovely locket – I absolutely love your art! and a favorite spring memory? that would have to be a recent one – glowy sunset evenings spent with my sweet niece playing in the mustard at our local educational farm.

What a beautiful giveaway, I love bees…. and honey

My favourite spring memory has to be the day my oldest daughter was born. After days with rain and clouds, the sun suddenly burst through all the grey and shined through the window in the hospital were I lay with my newborn daughter. She`s born on Easter Day, and we named her Tiril after the yellow flower Bird’s-foot Trefoil called tiriltunge here in Norway.

Lovely work… Spring?! It seems like this past year spring and summer never came; only chilly weather and snow snow snow… However, I remember the family orchard during spring time. Walking down the long rows of trees,smelling the blossoms on them, the honey bees buzzing in the hives ready to fly to the pollen… Use to also sit on the porch and watch the hummingbirds as we took turns with the crank to make homemade ice creams… *sigh* Those were the good ol’ days…

it may sound cliche, but it’s true.

i grew up on the high plains, which is almost a desert.
my favorite spring memory is learning that april showers REALLY DO bring may flowers!
i’ve loved the rain since.

What a lovely piece! The 8 foot tall sunflowers we planted one year.

My best spring memory was last spring, when I first became a beekeeper. Getting the supplies and painting the hive body was all very exciting, but the most incredible day was introducing the bees to their new home. Their hive has been painted sky blue and is named Terpsichore, after the Muse of Dance. We have another hive named Urania, after the Muse of Astronomy…this year we hope to have more, but I digress! Three months later, we harvested our first honey. Those bees have taught me how to see the world with new eyes. I am forever changed!

Thank you for your beautiful blog and your artistry.
Your friend,
Juliette (Abeille a Miel)

ohhhh… the locket, like your artwork, and like your blog, is so magical!!!!! i cannot wait for the prints i’ve ordered to arrive to adorn my walls… and oh how special i’d feel if i could wear a little piece of your work in that lovely locket every day!

my favorite spring memory? i’m not sure if it is looking at your artwork that reminded me of this, but when i was little, my first crush was a boy named joey napalitano, and he was my older brother’s best friend. i must have been 8ish, and he 11ish. i was sooooo moony eyed over him. and one spring night, the night of the first fireflies, we were all out in my backyard, and i was chasing them and trying to catch them, all while swooning over joey. eventually my mom came out back and said i had to come in and get ready for bed – it was “well passed your bedtime young lady.” so i relunctantly and with a not-so-effective pout made my way inside. at some point between brushing my teeth and arriving to my bed, joey had filled a jar of fireflies and put them on my bedside table. i’ll never forget falling asleep listening to the hum of the little creatures, watching them blink, and dreaming of the day i’d be mrs. napolitano.

of course, we all know what happened to the poor little things by morning. and 25 yrs. later i’m still very much a miss, but that will alwasy be my warmest memory.

thank you for your art, for sharing it, and for inspiring backyard memories of the sweetest kind!

What a lovely blog! Found you in “Artful blogging”. You are truly inspiring! I will definitely follow this blog.

Now to the spring memory…
Hm….My birthday is in the spring and I have so many lovely birthday memories. When I was little I normally started the day with going out in the garden and talking with the birds, and they would answer me back (I lived by a lovely forest in Norway). And then I would run inside when my mom told me the bowl was ready to lick! One year she made me a beautiful butterfly chocolate cake.

Btw, if you translate “Butterfly” directly from Norwegian it is “Summerbird” (sommerfugl). I think that sounds pretty beautiful:)

Thank you for being you!

My favourite spring memory … ?

I must have several, but all could think of now is that day in London where I went to Hyde Park and there were crocuses, daffodils and snowdrops blooming everywhere …
And we saw little squirrels but also *bunnies* wandering about !
We admired the swans in the pond, walked ’till the Prince Albert Memorial (I am obsessed with Queen Vic & Prince Albert), wandered along the Serpentine then finished by seeing the Peter Pan statue …
Absolutely perfect day !
x x x
___mathyld___

Snowdrops in the melting snow……

Just lovely! =) I would have to say that my most memorable…maybe not favorite but then again it was a pretty cool experience….was when we hiked Old Rag in Sperryville VA in March. The weather was awesome home but the closer we got to the trail head the colder it got and the more snow that was on the ground. I was sick, so it just about killed me, but the views were breathtaking. We didn’t finish it since there is a large and dangerous rock scramble at the top and ice everywhere. But that just gave us the motivation to do it all over again! When we did it was in spring again…it snowed when we got to the top! strange. I’ll never forget either experiences on that mountain.

One of my best favorite memories of spring is taking my son out for a walk last spring, and having him say “Oh Mama! It smells so good! Is this what spring smells like?” He was two years old then, and we proceeded to talk about all of the different smells–fresh air, moist soil, new tiny flowers and buds on trees. It was a great outing, with the sort of exploration that only a 2-year old can direct. I learned a lot that day, and I am looking forward to doing it again: a beautiful spring morning walk with my now-3-year-old and his 6 month old brother. Spring can not come soon enough for us!

Thank you for the opportunity to win your locket and tin! It is very a gracious gesture, and the winner will be the luckiest person in town!

Happy Spring!

Yes, it´s so beautiful. I can almost hear the bee, smell of flowers and feel the sun warming my skin. I like the winter, but I long so much for spring now! (We’ve got plenty of snow here in Sweden this year!)

I remember one day late in Feburary when I was about 14-15, and there was still snow and ice on the ground, but the sun was (finally!) shining brightly and it started dripping from everywhere, birds sang … So me and my best friend put on nice dresses, leggigns and sandals and went out for a picnic in the park. Unfortunally the sun went down (as it tends to do every night) and it got cold, freezing cold. So perhaps we overdid it a little, but the feeling of spring coming and winter finally passing away made us so happy, the heart beating faster, everything felt possible and love was in the air.

My favorite spring memory is from just last year: a robin decided that the best place to make her nest was in a little alcove just over our front door.

Now, we use the front door all the time so I don’t know why she thought that was a safe and secure place for her eggs/babies, but she did and we had to honor that by trying to remember to use the back door.

We were rewarded soon enough by the peeping of babies, and as far as we could tell, all three were able to fledge and we hope they grew into robins who will return this spring.

22nd February, 2010

Sarah,

I poured through my spring memory box, from as long ago as I could recall, right through last spring…44 years worth of memories by my count, as my earliest spring memory I believe I must have been nearly three. I was riding on my Grandpa Harry’s shoulders, wearing a pair of little Red Ball Keds sneakers. Yet much as I adored him, the memory that fills my heart happened when my sons were just tiny boys. I treasure the memory because it was the first time I saw them truly engaged in their own magical playworld.

We were spending a lazy April Sunday with my parents. It was warm enough to be outside, and the sun was shining after what had been a rainy week. The boys, ages three and one and a half, were wearing Osh Kosh B’Gosh striped overalls and engineer caps, rolling about in the soft newly green grass, and laughing as only carefree children can.

My older son, Graham, plucked a dandelion that had gone to seed and carried it carefully to my younger son. He held it up to his brother, Harry’s little face and told him to blow. Harry wasn’t sure what to do, so Graham demonstrated. He puffed out his cheeks, and blew so hard the seeds flew, spinning magically into the air. Harry, overjoyed by Graham’s magic trick, picked another dandelion. He studied it, poked at it with chunky toddler fingers, knocking a few spinners loose. Finally, he held the fragile fluff to Graham’s face. As he said, “BWOAH!,” the seeds flew round about and both boys fell into the grass, giggling and rolling, sun on their faces and April breeze in their hair.

Nearly twenty years later, I hear deep, rich voices… laughter coming from their old bedroom down the hall, reminding me they still occasionally steal a moment of joyous innocence.

Thank you, Sarah, for having us delve into our treasure box of springtime memories. You must share your wonderful memories with us.

Wendy L.H. Becher

My favourite spring memory is spotting a little robin’s nest in the mulberry tree at the front of my house. As I went up and down the stairs I could peek into the nest from the stairway window and see what was going on. One day three little beaks were raised to the sky so I knew that spring had hatched!

my favorite spring memory is my the birth of my sweet child benjamin , born at sunrise , easter sunday
of course he was called benjamin bunny for the longest time until he began his jazz music and then he became benny goodman.
Love you art sarah and your lockets are so dear. We really should talk about a trade.

My favorite memory of spring is the first spring after we bought our home. Since we bought our house in November, I had no idea what the previous owners had planted. So when spring arrived, my first surprise were the crocus. Then as the weather warmed up even more, I got to see grape hyacinths, daffodils and lots of other surprises. It made the new house feel more like home.

My Favorite spring memory is from a while ago when i was about 11 years old.

There is an old farm down the street from my best friends house. It was our favorite place to go in the summer. We would pet the horses and pack picnics down by this magical little pond.

So one day in the late spring we were getting a little anxious for summer to come so we could go on our farm excursions. It had just rained so everything was wet and there were puddles everywhere. Naturally as 11 year olds we were jumping and splashing in them. There was also a fairly large ditch that was filled with mucky pond water. We thought it would be a good idea to see if we could jump over it without falling.

yeaaaaa…. I jumped, and my feet got stuck in the mud before I could leap and I went face first in this yucky green pond ditch. At first i was motionless with shock, but after about 10 seconds my friend and I never laughed so hard in our lives. I will never forget that day, It was the best rainy spring day of my life.

I’m thrilled to have found you just now from a link on another blog! And even more happy to have landed in this amazing giveaway. Your work is so sweet and I would feel so lucky if I win this.

I remember when I was about 8 years old being at the neighbor’s house down the street. His Irish Setter had a huge litter of the cutest pups and they were all out front romping around together on the front lawn. I’ve always loved dogs so much and seeing them all together like that was so special. The sun was bright and it was still morning so it was a bit cool also. The grass was the tenderest green with those playful shiny red puppies playing on it was so beautiful it almost didn’t seem like it could be real.

Since so many responded before me, I enjoyed reading a lot of the comments which were really great stories. It was eerie reading Karla’s story about the guy with the horse because I had something very similar happen. It was in the summer though in the mountains by Santa Cruz, CA. Definitely another favorite memory!

Thanks Sarah!

What a beautiful locket. I just bought a gorgeous blouse from Anthropologie and it would look great with this necklace.

I love Spring! I think my favorite memory of Spring is my first one in California. It warmed up so quickly and by the time mid-March rolled around, we already had Spring flowers and wonderful weather. I was so thrilled!

My favourite spring memory is of when I was 22 years old and living in Norwich, England after leaving art college. I had had a particularly gruelling first winter of post college life, having a messy break up with a boyfriend and generally wondering where on earh and what on earth I was doing with my artistic life. My memory was of stepping out of Norwich library in my favourite flowery blue dress and being hit by the spring sunshine and suddenly realising everything was ok. I sat on the steps for ages just soaking in the sun and the moment. I always get that feeling of starting again at the first taste of warmth in the air but that one was the most powerful. And it was alright!

I have so many favorite spring memories, but the one that comes to mind now is walking through the park with my husband and a vanilla latte. There’s nothing better to do on a spring day than walk through the park with the sun shining and a slight breeze rustling through the trees. We’ve had too much winter here in Virginia this year. Spring will be a very welcome sight.

Love your blog!

~Kat

Ooh! How utterly delightful!! I just adore these sorts of little lockets, and the whimsical touch of the bee and beehive is just so darling…

My favorite spring memory is spending an afternoon in the mountains of western Northern Virginia in late March/early April. We’d usually have a warm day or two tucked in there, one that was deliciously sunny. I’d always love to take one of those days to just go for a long drive, pack a little lunch and go hunting in my favorite antique and thrift shops. There are plenty of old, picturesque towns out that way, and in the Virginian mountains that time of year everything just seems perfect and magical. I always felt so renewed and refreshed after a dreary winter!

♥ Casey
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Sarah,
This is so pretty and delightful!
My favorite spring memory is having tea under our flowering apple tree with my daughter when she was small. Today is her 15th birthday, and I can’t believe how quickly time has passed! We used to gather a quilt, pillows and all her dolls and place them under the flowering tree. I’d make tiny sandwiches and fruit drinks and put them in a basket and then we’d sit there for hours and just enjoy the magic! Sometimes she would give me dance recitals, and twirl around with scarves – reminding me of the fairys who live in our garden!
Thank you for pulling up my memory!
Hugs
Ulla

your blog is so lovely! I just stumbled over here from your etsy shoppe and your wandering heart mention in keep it weird (although I favorited you ages ago) and now I love your blog.

My favorite Spring memory right now is the walking down Brooklyn streets and watching the trees go all white and pink with flowers. I’ve spent my last two Springs in Florida, so I’ve missed the pale pinks and whites and greens of a North East Spring.

btw. I don’t think your Wandering Heart print is weird in the slightest.

Sarah,

My favorite spring memory is tromping through mud in my wellies while on an archaeology field trip in Ireland. We went to look at old, crumbling down castles while blackbirds circled overhead. Even though it was spring, it was still brisk and chilly so my friend and I went to a little tiny restaurant and had a deliciously hot cup of tea to warm up.

Hayley B.

P.S. Another lovely spring memory was finding your blog a few years ago, I love all of your work

My favorite spring memory is when I went to Tuscany for a week and got to take in the wine, food, beautiful weather and amazing people. Someday I would like to live in Tuscany…I’m even learning Italian now!

I love this giveaway! Thank you for offering it.

As a kid, I used to catch tadpoles with my dad in the spring. We did it every year and watched them turn into little frogs. It was memorable and educational.

Spring has always been my favourite season, so its hard to pick one memory, but I think if I did it would be something to do with the flowers in my childhood yard. We had a massive old cherry tree that was about 3 stories high, and it had clouds of plush pink blossoms all over it in the spring time. When they started to fall, it was like pink snow everywhere. I also had my own wee little flower garden along an old rock wall, with purple primroses and crocus, and I always loved playing in it with my dolls, pretending they were fairies from my flower fairy books. I can still picture it now, and the magical feeling it gave me.

I love this giveaway too, it reminds me of the crowds of bees around the fruit trees in spring, and my grandmothers’ and great-aunts’ embroideries. Thanks!

I remember one spring, waking up to the warm sun shining on my face. I am not a morning person at all but this time it was a very slow and gentle nudge to get my eyes open. I felt basked by sunlight and just felt so at peace. I have a window by my bed and I just looked out and listened to the birds who have come back, while letting in the crisp spring air which reminded me that the frost has not gone but soon there would be green everywhere.

One spring memory I have is the first one I was in Missouri (after southern texas), and winter was awful – real snow! and then spring came and I could not believe how green and flowery everything was. Totally made winter worth it.

My favorite Spring memory would be when I went to my grandparent’s beach house in Bucerias, Mexico. I can’t say I was in complete culture shock, but it really made me reflect on how much we take things for granted.
Yet, even then it was so beautiful there. The artwork, the music, all the buildings with flowers and vines crawling on them. So scenic, that area.

In college I would wonder aimlessly around the campus after midterms or finals. Spring time was always the best because no matter how things went, the walk back home through campus, seeing all of the beautiful flowers and the green grass while breathing in the fresh smell of the ocean in the spring was always a true TREAT. cheesy i know

Lovely blog – lovely giveaway!

My birthday is in Spring and freesia are my favourite flowers.
My favourite Spring memory is waking on the morning of my birthday to the delicious scent of freesias which my mother had picked from the garden that morning and placed in a vase by my bedside.

My favorite spring memory is planting flower in front of my then boyfriends front yard and then when they bloomed he proposed to me.

my favorite spring memory is when i was young and just wandering around outside in the woods and getting some fresh air after being cooped up for so many months! i still remember how it felt…

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My favorite time in the spring is when my lavender plants start budding. I usually see the first bee in late April trying (sometimes in vain) to get the pollen. Two months later my yard is filled with gorgeous lavender scent and a ton of bees… which I love!

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I have never experienced Spring in Singapore where it’s practically summer all the time. But i imagine spring would be like when i was young chasing my kid bro with a hose getting us all wet, getting yelled at by mom and eating pastel colored ice-cream afterwards.

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Jane

Well my birthday is in the spring, so I have many wonderful days to choose from. Once though, when I turned 8, I decided I wanted to have a picnic. My mom made little egg salad sandwiches with no crusts and packed some strawberries and we went to the park and ate in the lovely outside. Then after we went out for ice cream and it was just a beautiful afternoon.

Spring in Australia means Christmas (and the holidays) are near
my favourite spring memory is the party i had with my closest friends in the local public gardens. the property was left to the public by a late resident of the area, as she wanted a place where her neighbours could relax and enjoy the beautiful Australian flora. We all wore floral dresses and ate lamingtons on the grass…such fun!

I love watching the daffodils bloom. They’re such happy flowers and yellow is definitely one of the most cheerful springtime colors. Thanks for the giveaway!

These are utterly adorable!
My favorite spring memory is also a tradition. It was started in my teens and has continued on: every year, I buy a blue hyacinth and place it next to my bed, so I can breathe in it’s heady scent as I settle in for bed. My mom started this in my teens and I like to continue it on.

I love the apple blossoms in my grandparents’ apple orchard. I go there every spring just to drink in the scent and adore the beautiful blossoms!

my favorite spring memory was happening upon a bush bursting with tiny red berries. as i walked closer, i realized they were moving… adjusting my eyes i noticed these were not berries at all, but hundreds, possibly thousands of ladybugs. and they were all mating. ever since that day i have felt a strange connection to ladybugs, and this was about 20 years ago…

How CA UTE!!!!!!!!!! I wanna win!!!

What I love most about Spring…well, my Bradford Pear Trees look like giant q tips in my backyard with the thousands of whilte flowers that pop out when Spring rolls in (course, we just lost half of one of the trees 2 weeks ago with the GREAT TEXAS SNOWSTORM of 2010—very sad for all my tress). And I love when the hubbs starts mowing the grass again (makes me sneeze to high heaven, but you can’t beat the smell of fresh mowed grass.)

Angie

wauw, this necklace is truly amazing! The winner will be very lucky!
I’ll just share my favorite first-day-of-summer-memory…
i met my boyfriend on the last day of spring two years ago. We talked on the internet and without ever having seen eachother we decided to take the train and go to Paris together. So we met on the train platform on a bright sunny day, both really nervous and a little shy. In the evening, while walking under the Eiffeltower, he kissed me for the very first time. We’ve been together for almost two years now.

enjoy spring coming up and keep up the lovely blog!

I loved it as a child when the first lambs were born on our farm…then we really knew that spring was around the corner. They had so much energy and would literally bounce in the fields on their spindly legs!

I love the locket!

One of my favorite recent spring memories was last year. After a long winter of being cooped up inside with a two year old we were finally set free. We were able to go to the playground and on walks and just breath in the fresh air. It was awesome to see my little girl discovering spring. Especially the blossoms on the trees. I love the blossoms. I can’t wait!!

My birthday is April 4th and usually around Easter (this year on Easter) I have fond memories of easter egg hunts and scavenger style hunts for my Birthdays.

In college we’d have “Street Painting” every April where we’d literally go out and paint murals on a street. We’d get more paint on ourselves than on the street! It’s not a very romantic memory but SO much fun!

my favorite spring memory is a bit of an annual event! taking my boys to the local park and walking by the river in search of wildflowers! melissa is hebrew for honeybee….fingers crossed!

I can imagine that my favorite spring memory will occur this spring. I’m due to have my second child in a month and my daughter (2 years old) loves to be outside. I’m looking forward to taking them both to the park all the time! My son won’t really be able to consciously enjoy it, but it will be nice to be out with my complete family (when my husband can go, too)!

Really? You are giving this away ? What a prize! So beautiful.

My favorite spring memory is when my 6 year old was born in April. Every morning I would swaddle her up in a pale yellow flannel blanket and walk her all around the yard, telling her about the plants, the buds, the sounds, the smells. Then we’d sit on the back porch and just relax and enjoy. I kept that yellow flannel blanket.

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Wow! What an awesome giveaway.
My favorite spring time memories are the fresh air smell and the fresh cut grass for the first time in spring. Ahh love spring!

That is an amazing giveaway. (:

My spring memories.. Let’s see.. I remember long spring walks with my grandma, picking mushrooms in the forest and celebrate finding each one of them.. <3

Yeah I love spring too. (:

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My favorite spring memory is going up into the mountains with my sister and my grandma and picking wild flowers and plants, which she would later cook up for dinner! She made some interesting stuff for us to eat…they were all edible and tasty, though:)

Let start by saying I love your pictures. They are so artistic! They really pull the eye toward your shop. And the locket and tin are so cute, great job. I am not a gardener at all and one spring day I was with my brother who was about 4 walking in the yard and he could name off all the plants that we came to. Then one flower was lopsided and he know how to correctly fix it. I was amazed that this kid knew what he was doing and was correct! Crazy boy…ambrerose(!at)aol.com

My favorite spring memory has alway been the one where my siblihgs and myself are all dressed up and running around the front yard. We all have baskets and are looking for eggs. To me, this memory has always been the one I file under “The Age of Innocence.” It has been frozen in time.

What a lovely blog & what inspiring lockets! Well my favourite Springtime memory belongs to many many years ago when, upon my insistence, mother convinced my father to take us off to the country for a picnic. We went to this new seaside place I’d never been to before & I was staggered at the beauty of the sea and the waves from what looked like cliffs to me. years later, when I revisited the site, I recognised it immediately and realised it had all looked so huge and overwhelming to me because I had been so very little.

My favorite spring memory is my little one all dressed up in a fancy Easter dress for her preschool graduation and standing outside in front of my Iris’s for a picture.

Now I’m in the mood for spring as well! My favorite springtime memory come from sophomore year in college. After a very rainy winter one day I woke up and found the clouds had blown away and the sun was shining. Everyone caught spring fever: professors opened classroom windows, students took their books and blankets outside for studying on the quad and impromptu games of frisbee and soccer sprang up. For that one afternoon everyone seemed to take a break from the stress of school to just live in the moment and soak up the spring sunshine.

wow that is soo adorable. I love bee’s….we use honey from our local farm in our tea each day…
Could we get that cute jacket tooo? hehe so cute!
My favoite spring memory is my Grandma Jeannes home on Easter she would create these amazing we would say UPcycled goodies….a bleach bottle cute out to be a bunny decorated with clear plastic squares like you would with pencil and tissue.. to be his fur…I don’t think I wanted to hunt for eggs that year I just kept petting the bunny. HEHE
THanks for this sweet memory recall! Fun times
Warmly
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Lovely! Thanks for the chance.

My favorite spring memory is hunting for mushrooms with my grandfather.

That locket is beautiful! It reminds me of my best friend and I would definitely suprise her with it if I won! My favorite recollection about spring is that feeilng I get on the first spring bike ride every year. My lungs open up, the sun shines, and I just feel amazingly calm and happy!

I love the locket and love bees…. I use bee products for health all the time!

My favorite spring memory is taking my kids on the golf course (where we live) to see all the animals and fishing in the pond on hole 17! Truly springtime!

One of my favorite memories of spring is my nature walks I used to take with my friend Katie. Once the flowers started to bloom we would both grab our cameras and go for long walks taking pictures of everything. It was a really special thing we did together and I will always cherish that.

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CUTE LOCKET!!

Every year-starting about now I love love love when daylight lingers around just a little bit longer. The creeping in of Spring is one of my favorite times of the year.

If I have to pick a memory of Spring it would be taking my pup to dog beach and finally seeing her swim…granted the water is still freezing but she jumped right in and loved it.

I hope this is the right place to post for winning the locket….first time on the bloggiveaways site.

My favorite spring moment is being outside with my cousin on her roof late at night ( 2am) it not too cold, not to hot. Just sittin there talking about our childhood and growing up.

My favorite spring memory is the day I graduated from college. It was a day to look ahead to the future and say good bye to great friends.

My favorite spring memory is taking my bike out for the first time and enjoying the sun on my face and the burn in my legs!

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My favorite spring memory is that when we were performing on the stage of a pub with my band. It was fun!

My favorite Spring memory is when I used to have a little dove that I rescued after she fill of a tree. She became like my friend, standing over my shoulder all the time.
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Hi! First of all, the locket you are giving away is very beautiful.

My favorite spring memory is when I was little and around my parents house grew all sorts of colors of tulips and I could smell the lilacs from my mother’s lilac bush. The bush now doesn’t grow flowers right because of being frost bit. I also enjoyed seeing the daffodils and jonquils in bloom as well.

Excellent giveaway…thank you for doing this.

My favourite spring memory is going to my friends farm and seeing all the newborn spring babies goats,lambs,bunnies.Thanks fingers crossed. Helen

My favourite spring memory is when I was little and obsessed with looking for four-leaf clovers. Whenever I saw a field of clovers I just had to look for one. I searched a looong time, day after day, without actually finding one but I was too stubborn to quit. I think my dad thought it was a little sad when I went searching for like the twentieth time without any luck, because one day he decided to help me search. I still have the two four-leaf clovers we found that day after hours of searching, he told me to save them in my favourite book, and that’s where they are.

Pretty locket. I love that as it’s worn, the bee inside is like a cute little secret.

The first beginning of Spring memory that comes to my mind is a couple of years back. Our home schooling family has a “quiet hour” and I usually spend it in my room, getting a rare moment by myself. But early in March we had a glorious week of sun, after months of cold, dreariness, and rain. So I spent each day’s quiet hour on my back patio, reading in the sun, and got my earliest sun tan ever. A simple pleasure. That time of year is right around the corner!

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My favorite spring memory is of playing outside on my swingset with my little brother. I was 7 and he was 5 and we had just been to the circus. We were reenacting what we saw at the circus high up on the monkey bars and were just enjoying each others company. Sibling rivalry went by the wayside that day.

I’m really excited about this giveaway!

So pretty!!

My favorite thing about spring is the waiting and waiting for my tulips and daffodils to bloom! I LOVE them! And my son always picks them because he thinks they are beautiful too…even though he’s told not to But they look pretty in my house in a vase too!

These are lovely! Thanks for the giveaway!

My favorite spring memory – the feel and smell of the air, sticking my hands into the warm dirt and dreaming of a garden, feeling the sun and actually being warmed by it, little flowers poking their heads up through what’s left of the snow or brown grass, etc. Love it… and can’t wait for it this year!

My favorite spring memory was attending the Cherry Blossom festival in Washington, D.C. The weather was a perfect, sunny 70 degrees and the cherry blossoms and magnolia trees were breath-taking.
Thanks for the giveaway!

I loved going to the Strawberry Festival when I was younger!

First spring with the boy during our last year of grad school – lots of afternoons in the park on a blanket reading children’s books. It doesn’t get much better than that.

My favorite spring memory is gardening with my grandma. Would would spend countless morning in the garden, then she would make homemade lemonade and a special lunch. I love spring.

My favorite spring memory was sitting under a blossoming cherry tree with my one year old daughter. She was sitting on a blanket because at the time, she was so fearful of the grass.

Very cute locket! I’ve actually been stung quite a few times by bees, but the locket is still very cute.

My favorite spring memory could have taken place during any season, I suppose, but my friends threw me a surprise party in the park last year for my birthday. It was so fun, and we picnicked and had a marvelous time.

my spring memory is the easter egg hunts we held every spring for my girls and now my grandkids, and watching the littlest ones tip toe through the grass!

I adore your work! Blessings!

My favorite spring memory is driving thru Santa Fe New Mexico in the early 70′s when lilacs were everywhere and the top was down. I was truly intoxicated by the heady lilac perfume.

I remember when I lived in WA state, and how green everything would get in April as spring came in. The California Poppies would be a beautiful bright orange contrast with the green of the grass and the trees in their new leaves.

When I was a girl we lived in New York City, and I would take the bus home from school. I remember the walk home from the bus stop. Even though it was the city, there was one little garden plot, where every spring crocuses would pop their little purple heads through the snow and signal the warmer days to come. My sister and I would race home to be first to tell our mother that Spring had officially arrived.

I love lockets!!!! and i think this is the cutest one ever! reminds me of spring i would love to win this..

my favorite spring memory:
Is when i got my rabbit pierre the first day of spring 3 years ago. I will always remember the cuute little baby bunny i got from a yard sale for a couple dollars. He recently passed a couple months ago from getting sick . My besst spring memory

What a cute locket!!!!! I loooove it! Hope I win!

My favorite spring memory is going to d.c. when I was a kid and seeing all of the the beautiful trees that have just bloomed! It is sooo gorgeous! We would go just to see them! …and while we were there we frequented the museums! And of course all the monuments! I looved going! Maybe I’ll take my daughter this year!! What a great idea!!
Thanks sooo much!
Hope I win!

I think my favorite thing about spring is when it finally get’s warm enough to go to the beach and bring along a bathing suit. I grew up in the Bay Area and it is a common misconception that it is boiling year round. I love that first day when you can don a bikini and shorts and bring a delicious picnic out to the beach with friends and really soak up the sun. God I am right there with you looking forward to spring. Being thousands of miles from home in still very cold London I would like nothing better than a huge dosage of vitamin D right about now!
Here’s to warmer weather ahead!
xo
B

… my favorite spring melod- i mean, memory?

Probably the springs of my youth. Spangles of sunlight, watching the world turn green under the azure sky. cherry blossom walks while holding the hand of the boy I secretly danced for, the walks in the park. Long lengths of time suspended in air on the swings, letting the momentum fling my imagination on a flight to freedom over the fences around us.

One particular sunny day, we went for a walk in pairs. The rope that held our line together brushed roughly against the calluses on my hand from the monkey bars. We passed by a yard abloom with dandelions and their puffy offspring , and all us kids immediately rushed into these, yelling and getting fluffy bits stuck in our hair and clothes.
It was fun.

Good luck, everyone!

… my favorite spring moment….

Living in Williamstown Canada my favorite spring moment is always waiting to see my first robin of the season. Once the robins appear it is not long after that that the snow starts to melt and buds start to bloom. So it is with great anticipation that I wait, hopefully by the end of March, they will be singing by my back door.

Thanks for all you inspiration!!

sneaking out at dawn in my nightgown, barefoot, when I was very small to collect wishes (dandelions in their seed phase) and mustard weed for my sleeping momma and papa. so quiet except for the birds.

My favorite spring memory is celebrating my husband’s birthday, which is March 21, and listening to the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky while skiing the slopes of Sunshine in BC/Alberta.

This is beautiful and and so enjoy your posts. I L-L-LOVE it when it gets warm enough to _enjoy_ and play in a spring rain. About once a year, it’s a tradition.

When my daughter was a little under a year old and just starting to say a few words, we were taking a lovely (and wobbly!) Spring walk around our local pond. I was in awe as she discovered her new world with all the wonder of Spring bursting around her. She would run from one fresh flower to another, stopping to smell each and every one. As we rounded a corner a mother duck and her 10 little fluffy ducklings waddled out in front of us and my little duckling squealed with delight! It was truly magical and for the first time in a long time, I realized how wonderful our changing world really is.

What a lovely locket. I’m charmed.

My favourite spring memory is from when I was a child, bounding in fields of wildflowers. The sun on my back, the smell of flowers everywhere… and the silence. I felt like I was weightless and could run across the world.

Season’s do not change much here, but Spring is just a little nippier..my favorite memories of Spring is standing out in the freshly scented air after an overnight cleansing rain, closing my eyes and lifting my face up to the soft warmth of sun peeking through the soft clouds…breathing…lightly breathing…thinking of absolutely nothing.

I love the sound of birds chirping. Another favorite memory is Easter, my favorite holiday!

My favorite spring memory is seeing fields of wildflowers in the hills beyond Ojai, CA – I love seeing wildflowers in the spring, esp. when they are in great profusion.

me and my honey have recently moved to puerto rico, where spring has a whole new meaning! my newest favorite spring memory is moving to p.r. and eating breakfast on the porch while counting baby avocados on our tree. very cool locket! docR

love love love it! so cute! my favorite moment of spring is when you get a whiff of the first flowers blooming outside. i love the “smell” of spring!

jess

Loving the bee theme!

I love working with my husband outside in spring, especially early spring. The anticipation of watching the new seeds sprout and new plants take root is always invigorating after a long long long upsate NY winter.

My favorite thing about spring is being able to run outside again. I am not die hard enough to run outside through the winter but as spring starts to bloom everything is so beautiful and I feel like it wakes me up from the lull of winter!

Wow, that is such a cute necklace. I like when things look vintage and still look classy. The little tin that it come in is adorable as well. Living here in the constant snow of the winter has made me long for the smell of spring rains and sweet little spring flowers. My daughter is just about old enough to start enjoying that with me… I’m so ready!!

oh how perfectly lovely!!! I just love the anticipation that spring brings, so much hope in small seedlings and dreams of blooms and butterflies, fresh herbs and honeybees, and songbirds setting up their new nests while calling for a mate!

My favorite Spring memories are of doing a big Easter party and egg hunt every year when my children were small and filled with wonder and happiness at the idea of the EASTER BUNNY!!

My favorite spring memories are seeing the tulips coming up through the ground and hunting for easter eggs around the house.

x o

This locket and tin are beautiful! I love them. Just the thing for springtime… something about them reminds me of Pushing Daisies.

My favorite springtime memory happened just before Easter one year, when my mother tried to wrangle us all into matching floral teal-and-pastel frocks for a picture… I wasn’t so fond of it going on then, I was in my early teens and wanted to do just about anything else, but looking back, standing there squirming with my two younger sisters in front of our house was actually a really loving moment. My only wish was that had appreciated it more at the time. Now that I’m living on my own, the idea of being close to them–even united by what we thought of an inconvenience–warms my heart.

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My favorite Springtime memory was my friend’s birthday party last year. It was Alice In Wonderland themed. We had tea in the park and had scavenger hunts and played chess like we were in preperatory school. It was beautiful.

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I remember going to the garden of my grandmother to see the flowers and play … I love the Spring! I was born right at the start of Spring:)

My favorite spring memory is when I was a child and I would help my grandma plant her garden. Yum, strawberries later!

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Since I live in Michigan, my favorite spring memories are always the first day you can go without a coat & the first day you can take the kids to play at the park. It feels like winter is finally breaking when you can spend a few hours outside w/o frost bite!!!

My favorite springtime memory is taking a walk in a local park with my best friend to sketch the arrival of spring and all the while listening to the water run down the streets from all the melting snow.

Easter candy. Does that count? I love spring and it seems like spring is just around the corner when pastel color peeps appear in stores.

My fave memory when Spring had Sprung was almost greeting the elusive Easter Bunny when I was still a “wee one”. Here comes Peter Cottontail up and down the bunny trail was playing on the Old Skool record player as I searched for hidden eggs. I fly around the internet alot and love “things with wings” ladybugs and bees are favourites! Thanks for this sweet chance to win this precious item.
Good-bye, gotta ~FLY~
Tooth Fairy

lying on the grass
feet over my head
mountain laurel blossoms on the breeze
laundry in the trees

And not even caring that I was soaking wet and had to go do it all again, because the sunshower had just made rainbows on everything, and it was all grand.

What a lovely locket!

My fave spring memory is the smell of freshly cut grass and newly bloomed roses.
My green-thumbed parents loved tending to our massive garden and we have about 10 different types of rose specifies. During spring they bloom and I love looking at the pretty colors and smelling the fragrances.

We were visiting a colleagues parents in Germany and knowing that we were historical reenactors they took us to see Nuremberg. We had toured some of the major sites, medieval and WWII, including the site of the 1935 Nazi Party rally. It had been raining and dreary all day and we were standing where Hitler stood when he addressed the rally when the wind whipped thru these odd latticed metal stanchions with banners on them. The sound it made was like voices moaning or wailing in the distance-very eerie. Later as we left Albrecht Durer’s house we walked thru the city gates into the gardens around the Nuremberg Castle and the landscape went from cold and gray to almost magical. All around us the ground was strewn with the creamy petals of the Pagoda trees ringing the walks. All the gloom from the morning was lifted with this surreal view of faux snow and what sounded like little buzzing airships enjoying the respite from the incessant rain.Now whenever I think of spring or Nuremberg that’s the first image that comes to mind, that soft silky snow made from flowers

sucking the nectar from the first honeysuckle blossoms when i was a child in virginia…

I may be too late but just wanted to say how pretty your locket is!

Favorite spring memories are Easter, all 8 of us children in our Sunday best. The girls all wearing silly hats, holding on to them as wind catches them as we look for colored eggs all over the yard. In Mom’s garden carefully stepping on the rocks between the flowers only to find an egg tucked in with the daffodils ♥

my favourite spring memory is my first – it was my first time in europe and had never experienced it before. i was walking to the shop with my friend, and she pointed out the daffodils that had just sprouted. it was the first time i’d seen daffies too, so i was really excited!

my favourite spring memory is how i used to play megadrive with my older brother, when he was alive, we had some much fun… and figths…

I instanty in love with your drawing on a tin & locket…They just fit perfectly and I adore the colors you’ve chosen for the drawings…sooooo goooooddddd!

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