Whimsical Wire Art

Today Bob and I both took one of the  new classes offered by  The North Carolina Arboretum this season, Whimsical Wire Art.  We both really enjoyed it.  

We have had a membership at the North Carolina Arboretum for almost as long as we have lived here. We enjoy going to the Arboretum in every season and often take our house guests there.  There are special events we look forward to each year like the Orchid Show  We have not taken classes there since the early years we belonged, but we signed up for several classes each this spring. 

Today we learned how to make some funky plant identification stakes, quirky fasteners, hooks and a small twig trellis.

I decided to use a couple of the wire flowers I made as plant identification stakes as embellishments for my trellis. 

                                           

I've always loved making things with my hands from bread making to needle arts to weaving my own wild grapevine wreaths.  I work more slowly than I used to because of arthritic hands, but I'm OK with that

In addition to ideas for the garden, today gave me some great ideas for embellishments for some of my other creative projects.

On the evaluations for Arboretum classes, they always ask a question about what you noticed at the Arboretum today.  What stood out to me on this rainy day was the beautiful texture of the lacebark elm trees that line the drive near the main building like the one in the first picture above.

Comments

[Darla]

The wire art looks like fun. The trellis will be a pretty addition to your garden.

Darla

[Marjorie Jumisco]

I live in Asheville and am quite jealous that you knew about this fun class and I did not. Where am I going wrong? do I need to get a m'ship to NC Arboretum (sp) to find out about these happenings?

Your final projects are lovely.

Truly,
Marjorie

[jane powell]

Hi Betsy
I love this post and would love to see more of your recent work on your blog. I KNOW that you have some.
Jane