Belle of Dirt
Missouri Ozarks mom, mover of earth, photographer, maker and plant enthusiast
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Christmas ornaments
Hi folks, Hope you all are at least TRYING to have a Happy Thanksgiving, in spite of all the crazy in our country right now. I’m going to miss our annual trip to the theater this year. Since my daughter was 3 or so,… Continue Reading “Christmas ornaments”
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Alley Mill
Thanks to Covid I’ve been able to drag my daughter on nature adventures on her days off school, since every other form of entertainment is currently closed/off limits/frowned upon, etc. Our theatre has been closed since March, there were no parades or festivals this… Continue Reading “Alley Mill”
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New art available!
I have two new sawblades now available on Etsy. This first, I’ve already posted about, it’s my wild turkey painting on an antique handsaw, you can see it on Etsy here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/889423336/wild-turkeys-antique-painted-handsaw The second is a winter snow scene of a child adding the… Continue Reading “New art available!”
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Turkeys
New painting from sketch to finish. (Pardon the color being off and the seam on the saw- I patched two pictures together to get it all in up close. I tested my Black-eyed Susans out on the sketch paper also. Wasn’t sure how to… Continue Reading “Turkeys”
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I Kissed a girl and I liked it…
…the taste of her cherry chap stick… You don’t have to be a Katy Perry fan to want better stuff to put on your lips. I made my first batch of organic lip balm today and I don’t think I’ll ever buy the Chapstick… Continue Reading “I Kissed a girl and I liked it…”
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Painting saws
I have another saw blade available on Cordes Farm’s Etsy shop! This one is on a hand saw, rather than the round blades I’d been using. I found it on the wall in our red shed- which according to our neighbors that have lived… Continue Reading “Painting saws”
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Throwback Thursday Painting murals
I came across these pictures from several years ago and thought I would share. Don’t remember if I ever posted these on Dirt or not… I was volunteering at Ely’s school in Camdenton, Missouri at the time. I had been working a couple days… Continue Reading “Throwback Thursday Painting murals”
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Garden Progress Year 4
Whew! Ok, so finally caught up to the present. Jim brought me several massive tractor loads of manure this year. Have I told you yet how freaking amazing our neighbors are? They invite us to stuff, they always seem happy to see us, they… Continue Reading “Garden Progress Year 4”
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Garden Progress Year 3
The third year I didn’t make many structural changes to the garden, though I did learn a bit from my plants that they desperately needed some form of compost. The strawberries I’d planted in hugelkultur mounds were so thick with plants, I barely had… Continue Reading “Garden Progress Year 3”
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Garden Progress Year 2
Early spring the next year I started digging out the the big tractor tires. I emptied all the dirt out, added rotten logs, twigs, straw underneath, then replaced the dirt. I planted one entire tractor tire full of strawberry plants, to replace the ones… Continue Reading “Garden Progress Year 2”
