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"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. So, back in the enchanted garden to check up on things. All's well-watered... mostly thanks to the Mister placing auto-drip irrigation around. Flowers are growing. Had to stop and make a garden smock for my dear little helper here. Had this lovely fabric called, Language of the (from Susan Branch) that was perfect for it. I'm not sure if it's available anymore, purchased it through mail-order 
when it first came out quite a few years ago. By coincidence, this project falls on the heels of the 'Heart of the Home' store opening in California, this Mother's Day Weekend. Looks like it will be a fun event!
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I don't think anything teaches patience more gently and naturally to a child than tending one's own little spot of earth. So, back in the enchanted garden to check up on things. All's well-watered... mostly thanks to the Mister placing auto-drip irrigation around. Flowers are growing. Had to stop and make a garden smock for my dear little helper here. Had this lovely fabric called, Language of the (from Susan Branch) that was perfect for it. I'm not sure if it's available anymore, purchased it through mail-order 
when it first came out quite a few years ago. By coincidence, this project falls on the heels of the 'Heart of the Home' store opening in California, this Mother's Day Weekend. Looks like it will be a fun event!
That's a perfectly adorable smock for a perfectly adorable girl. Your daughter is so beautiful!
Posted by: Isabelle | May 12, 2006 at 12:38 AM
This garden smock is adorable...everything about it, but I especially like the eyelet trim. Your sweet garden helper looks adorable too! Love Susan Branch's website and have a few of her books. Wish I could go check out her new shop, but like you would probably wait 'til things died down a bit. 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!
Posted by: Mrs.Staggs | May 12, 2006 at 12:42 AM
LOL! In the time it took me to write my comment Isabelle posted her remarks....both really are adorable Vicki!
Posted by: Mrs.Staggs | May 12, 2006 at 12:45 AM
I Keep reading your weblog and I keep loving it!
Beijinhos*
Suzanne
Posted by: Suzanne | May 12, 2006 at 05:35 AM
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.
Posted by: Debbie | May 12, 2006 at 06:15 AM
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.
Posted by: Toni | May 12, 2006 at 07:33 AM
I love your blog more everyday. What a great quote..what a great pillow idea!
Posted by: brit | May 12, 2006 at 08:04 AM
Your daughter is adorable! such a sweet beauty....she really really looks like that Mary Engelbreicht illustration! astounding!
Posted by: brenda | May 12, 2006 at 08:29 AM
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!
Posted by: gkgirl | May 12, 2006 at 09:23 AM
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!
Posted by: Dawn | May 12, 2006 at 12:20 PM
Adorable photos (that watering can looks almost big enough for her to climb in - ala' Peter Rabbit!). What a pretty garden smock.
I hadn't heard about the Susan Branch store opening - I love her artwork; and the San Luis Obispo area. Now I have one more reason to want to visit (but like you, I think I'll wait for the crowds to thin out a bit). 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!
Posted by: tinker | May 12, 2006 at 12:48 PM
This little life of yours is just like a picture book...
Posted by: Alicia A. | May 12, 2006 at 12:53 PM
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.
Posted by: Meg | May 12, 2006 at 03:14 PM
This is so precious, did you use a pattern? And shes a doll too!
Posted by: Angela | May 12, 2006 at 07:50 PM
Of course another thing we have in common. I have all of SB books. And would so love to have been at her shop opening, but yes it was probably crazy. I do hope to go one day. I love your smock, very spring like. Clarice
Posted by: Clarice | May 13, 2006 at 06:51 AM
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.
Posted by: Blair | May 13, 2006 at 07:14 AM
Very pretty. Pink gingham is one of my most favorite kinds of fabric.
Posted by: Linda | May 14, 2006 at 02:25 PM