When gardening begins to co-opt your indoor hobbies, you just might have crossed the line into obsession. This past fall I took a pottery class in October at Feet of Clay Pottery Cooperative in Brookline (feetofclaypottery.com). Nice place, lots of interesting artists -- it seemed the perfect thing to do as our garden approached its blight-ridden, anti-climactic conclusion.
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But then came fairy doors and fairy houses. That is, little garden decorations to nestle into cozy corners of your garden. And garden markers. Beautiful, fragile, impractical, glorious garden markers. You see where this is going: Pottery garden accessories, as irresistible to any young-at-heart adult as they are to my 5 year-old son.
And so membership at the co-op followed, and now I'm making berry bowls and wall flower vases for my harvest, giving garden-related gifts of pottery to family and friends, and thinking about items to sell at the open studio sale.
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| I made this berry bowl for my sister-in-law for Christmas. I also made another one for my mom. My son wants one for his strawberries as well! |
And so somehow, mid-winter, my garden has surprised me again, winding its way into my life like a pumpkin vine from my neighbor's plot. In fact, I might need to make a winter fairy house -- my son is already collecting acorns, pine cones and other interesting natural construction items. I see a trip to the library for fairy house books in my near future.
