Gardening Angel

This is a gardening angel I made some time ago. What's fun about making angels is that they can be done with different themes. The wings provide a nice area for embellishment. I've also made sewing angels and have decorated the wings with running stitches, buttons, snaps and little scissor charms. This one has a bee stitched on one wing and long running stitches to show his flight path. On her hand I embroidered a ladybug and on her legs, vines and flowers. I crocheted the collar--a craft I learned long ago from my grandmother.

Quite a few years ago, I made an angel doll for a dear friend of mine. She had been diagnosed with cancer and the prognosis was not good. She has always been a very positive person, and she was delighted with my gift. She named her angel Wendy. Two weeks ago I called her to wish her happy birthday. She's doing famously, with a few aches and pains (don't we all!) and she reported that Wendy is still up on her bureau keeping her company.

I would do well to have my own gardening angel. I've never had much of a green thumb. I've always preferred digging through my fabric stash rather than digging in the dirt. Although I have managed to nuture along two house plants in recent years. It's amazing what a sunny window and a little water will do! One is a huge spider plant, and the other is a Boston fern. I named the fern "Ferna" after my grandmother--the one who taught me how to crochet. I've never ever heard of anyone else with that name, but then, she was one of a kind!