Churchmouse Green Village
December 20, 2014
I have to say out of all the projects we did for this years theme,Churchmouse Yarn & Tea, this is my favorite. I guess because it came out just as I pictured in my head. I wanted to do a table-top village bit something with real plants and moss. Plus remember no glitter, fake trees or plastic building. This is what I did.
I took a large, very heavy silver tray and lined it with heavy plastic.
Then I dug up some dirt from my raised beds (I had to watch for earth worms. I did NOT want them on my village :-O)
I collected from my garden lots of moss and small plant starts. I found laurel, holly and wild violet. I mound the dirt up around the plants. Also more dirt in the back, so those buildings would be higher than the ones in the front. I covered everything in fresh moss (again watching for bugs and worms as I pulled off sheets of moss from my old stone walls).
I borrowed my mothers charming little houses and all the sheep from our 2 nativity sets. Poor baby Jesus does not have any sheep this year. Evey day I give the whole thing a good spritzing down of water and a little extra water for the plants. It have been a week and I think it will last for the next week until Christmas.
PS, I went to water my village yesterday, as I do every day and noticed the violet is blooming. How cool is that!!
I love it! I'll take living things (or natural things) over plastic every time. I especially like that the violet is blooming.
Posted by: Jody | December 23, 2014 at 07:06 PM
Pretty, I like it. Merry Christmas friend to you and yours
Posted by: Shelley | December 23, 2014 at 01:37 PM
This is so beautiful Clarice! I just love it!
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Manuela@A Cultivated Nest | December 21, 2014 at 08:34 AM
Very quaint Clarice and perfectly placed on the gorgeous tartan.
Posted by: Ann | December 20, 2014 at 10:12 PM
I have so enjoyed your Christmas decorations. Your village is charming. I was knitting today and realized that I am using a Churchmouse Yarn and Tea pattern. I would love to visit their shop, but alas if your would mark a place on e US map that was in the lower 48 and the farthest away, that would be me. Perhaps someday.
Posted by: Gwyn | December 20, 2014 at 03:11 PM
This is so cool, love it.
Posted by: Linda | December 20, 2014 at 09:47 AM
So adorable! You are so creative!!!!
Posted by: Teri Jo | December 20, 2014 at 09:32 AM