#purple blooms

[samirafee]

#MY PURPLE GARDEN in JULY💟🌿

@samirafee

[sitting-on-me-bum]

"Lunaria Annua"

"I watched this plant grow and bloom in a friend's garden, transitioning from full purple blooms to one flower at the top, surrounded by translucent seed pods."

© Ecaterina Leonte | cupoty.com.

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[nncastle]

Alliums are such hard-working flowers that are often overlooked by gardeners. Deer don't touch them, they last a long time, and pollinators flock to them. Plus, they're stately and whimsical. I love purple and blue blooms of all kinds.

[mike-jacque-c-the-world]

04/19/24 - Lago Vista, TX - GNARLY LOOKS BEAUTIFUL - We inherited some big gnarly looking cacti in our backyard. We think they are cane cholla or something similar. They don’t look that great but you don’t really want to get rid of anything that’s tall, mature and drought tolerant around here. So what to do: just enjoy the week or so a year when they are in bloom. Love that purple color!

[leahberman]

lightly lilac

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[egophiliac]

2025 is the year of the DRAGON SLIPPERS

[juliamstarr]

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[gbiechele]

Iris Aglow

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[succulentsiren]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Purple and White ~

[percy-draws]

Sunburnt blue or red who forgot to shave? 🤔

[zivazivc]

Say hello to my bug eyed baby boy 🐛👀👶

He was in an egg since September but about a week ago he finally hatched! 😊😅 jk jk but it did take me this long to finish this plushie of baby Leslie that I can hold close and snuggle. 🥰🧡

In the last few days I took him out with me so he could explore the woods for the first time, and so I could take some photos of him for you guys (and me lol).

No I could not trim this photo set even more, do you have any idea how many photos I took?? and he's precious in all of them. 🥺

I don't have a sewing machine or any other special equipment so he's entirely handmade with a pattern I made myself by trial and error, but I did use two of my plush toys as reference to study how they're stitched together.

I was pretty limited with my material choice because I had to find everything in Leslie's colors or at least the closest I could get to his colors, and I've realized that they're not very popular colors. His hair sadly ended up being the most off, but I'm still happy with it.

His body is something like sweatshirt fleece but the fabric being turned the wrong way so that the soft fuzzy side is on the outside. But I had no luck trying to find sherpa fleece fabric that would fit his coat colors so his fur is all embroidered using a stitch called turkey work.

And his lil pickle dreads are made with the same technique as friendship bracelets, just that they loop around. I've made so many friendship bracelets in my time that this wasn't hard to figure out how to do lol. And in the end I also sewed shiny pearls onto them to act as sparkles, since I'm not a fan of glitter or sequins. 😅

And lastly his hair is made out of genuine hand dyed sheep locks! Wondering how to tackle the hair gave me the most trouble. I was thinking of sewing it together out of fabric, or tying together fluffy yarn in the style of macramé and other ideas I can't recall anymore, but either the idea didn't sound good enough or I wasn't able to find the right material to try to pull it off. In the end I stumbled on sheep locks kind of on accident while browsing etsy and the idea was just too tempting. They're the only part of him that I ordered online and I was really worried it wasn't going to be what I needed, or that I won't like the color once I see it irl, won't like the feel, etc. But I'm super happy with how it came out in the end. Yes it's much lighter in color and now he's curly, but I think it really suits him, and it feels soft like actual hair. 🥰

Some details from up close:

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by Anne-Marie Leflaive

[hikariwolf]

Pikmin Boo

[melvinandlugnut]

I’m never going to top this Pikmin name