sweet as a clementine

so, i have been more busy in the last 3 weeks than i think i've been this entire past YEAR!  but, feb/mar are usually like that for me because it is the time of the year that 4 of the 6 of us have birthdays . . . so we have visitors, projects, etc non-stop it seems.  but, i've also been doing A LOT of crafting lately, and i had promised to share what i was up to . . . so here is the first of some of the goodies i want to share!

my kids LOVE little clementines & i always thought it was so cool that they came in this little wooden crate.  so, i had saved the crate from one of our purchases & finally had a chance to play with it.  i wanted to make a little something to sit on my shelf in my craft room & so i made a little "crate art" out of the clementine box.  i've always thought that raising kids was a little like gardening -- a delicate balance of paying just the right attention at just the right moments, etc -- so i titled this little number "my garden" . . . and it turned out PERFECTLY with the help of some very pretty Jillibean Soup papers & some Prima vines/fibers.