Mother's Helper

"Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't think anything teaches patience more gently and naturally to a child than tending one's own little spot of earth where there is care and waiting for flowers to bloom.  So, back in the enchanted garden we go, to check on the progress and we find that all's well-watered thanks to my darling little helper.     

Comments

[Isabelle]

That's a perfectly adorable smock for a perfectly adorable girl. Your daughter is so beautiful!

[Mrs.Staggs]

This garden smock is adorable...everything about it, but I especially like the eyelet trim. Your sweet garden helper looks adorable too! Maybe you could find a gardening friend or neighbor who would help you dig up the roses in exchange for getting to keep them? Course if they were neighbors, I guess they have deer dropping by for dessert too!

me: actually most of my neighbors have very tall and electrified fences around their yards. i'd rather adjust my "offerings" than resort to creating a compound and shutting the wildlife out. i'm sure i can find a few friends in town though that might like the roses, that way i can still visit them!

[Mrs.Staggs]

LOL! In the time it took me to write my comment Isabelle posted her remarks....both really are adorable Vicki!

[Suzanne]

I Keep reading your weblog and I keep loving it!

Beijinhos*

Suzanne

[Debbie]

The smock is adorable. Do you have a pattern? I have three daughters and would love to make smocks for them. thank you

me: yes, it's made from a really old pattern from 1972; simplicity #5272.

[Toni]

Oh that smock is wonderful! I wouldn't want it ever to get dirty! Maybe I would use it just as a 'lets go around and see how things are growing' type of smock, haha.

Happy Mother's Day freind!! xo.

[brit]

I love your blog more everyday. What a great quote..what a great pillow idea!

[brenda]

Your daughter is adorable! such a sweet beauty....she really really looks like that Mary Engelbreicht illustration! astounding!

[gkgirl]

ahhh.
i don't know how i managed to miss
THREE posts!
ack.

but i love the flowered smock
and i absolutely adore the tan one
on the other post...that is the kind
of thing i want someday...so easy breezy looking...

i love coming to your site for inspiration!

[Dawn]

Sweet little smock! I was just looking around for an appropriate pattern to make myself a gardening smock of some sort ..in a nice floral. I know what I am looking for..now to find it.
Happy Mother's Day, ~vicki!

[tinker]

Adorable photos (that watering can looks almost big enough for her to climb in - ala' Peter Rabbit!). What a pretty garden smock.
Remember the book/movie/tv show "Please don't eat the daisies"? That's what your deer tale made me think of - Maybe you could put up a sign "Please don't eat the roses!" :>)
Have a happy Mother's Day, Vicki!

[Alicia A.]

This little life of yours is just like a picture book...

[Meg]

That's a beautiful smock, probably the prettiest of all I have seen around the blogs lately - perfect for a wee girl. I might be a copycat and sew a couple for my own girls.

[Angela]

This is so precious, did you use a pattern? And shes a doll too!

[Clarice]

I love your smock, very spring like. Clarice

[Blair]

I would also love to know specific on any pattern you used (or not). That smock is darling, so is your model, I love her blue crocs, my daughter has purple ones she wore all last summer.

[Linda]

Very pretty. Pink gingham is one of my most favorite kinds of fabric.