all you need to do to win is leave a comment telling me your favorite natural thing that is tiny, that is under 1 cm in size. I will pick a winner on friday at midnight. Oh maybe you are wondering what it is that you will win? Well I have dyed and crocheted up a little clan of bamboo stones. They are all dyed with natural materials and I love them so much. The colors sing true to me and I am not sure I am going to be crocheting much with synthetic dyed fibers much any more. It might be just neutrals and natural colors or nothing. I think they look extra beautiful photographed alongside the wooden stones that lisa has so brilliantly made for me. She sent them to me to have little coats made but they are just so gorgeous in their birthday suits that I just have not had the heart to clothe them. By the way Lisa has moved her shop to big cartel and it looks amazing. I am wearing one of her vessel necklaces in one of these photographs. I wore it all day and it had scilla in it for a while and then I placed a tiny pussy willow branch in it. So the prize will be one of these special new stones, packaged in a very special and not yet revealed way.
ps even my tunic is hand dyed
and the lovely smokebush zippered pouch is from bookhou
Margie, these images are just STUNNING! I didn't even notice my bare little stones next to those beautifully clothed gems. Really, words fail me.
Thank you for showing a glimpse of you wearing the vase and for the very kind mention. Much love to you. xo
Posted by: Lisa at Lil Fish Studios | April 25, 2011 at 09:08 PM
i think a wee green inchworm is my favorite natural thing (although some are longer than 1 cm). the bamboo stones are wonderful; all the photos are too.
best.
Posted by: annri | April 25, 2011 at 09:13 PM
great colours, almost autumn-y, warm and subtle.
my favourite thing that is under 1cm in size (hard to see!) is the tiny feathers around my little bird's face. they are so delicate and shiny like snowflakes. whenever he moults i always have to examine them for a few moments before letting them go.
Posted by: Caitlin | April 25, 2011 at 09:15 PM
ooooh oh my goodness me these are beyond beautiful. i love that you are using wood now! one of my fave natural items. i would LOVE to win one of these treasures.
Posted by: kristin | April 25, 2011 at 09:16 PM
...lovely rustic photographs. Yours and Lisa's co-ordinated items look fabulous. My favourite little gem from nature, would have to be a lady-beetle.
Posted by: Carole M. | April 25, 2011 at 09:17 PM
ooops. my fave natural tiny item. i have SO many... my shelves are filled with jar upon jar... if i have to pick i say a small smooth beach stone with a stripe running through it.
Posted by: kristin | April 25, 2011 at 09:17 PM
Hmm, what an interesting question. My first thought is diatoms. I am drawn to pictures of them and their intricate shapes.
Posted by: Jennifer | April 25, 2011 at 09:18 PM
These are so beautiful, you're really inspiring me to try some natural dying again.. I've done it once and it was great, but I only tried one colour and there are so many things to use! It's a shame it's almost winter here.
My favourite tiny natural thing is a seed, any seed.. I think seeds are incredible, the way they lay dormant for so long until they hit the right conditions and then come to life! :)
Posted by: Amy | April 25, 2011 at 09:24 PM
Ohhh... Margie, the pictures are gorgeous, I just have to share one of my favorite things with you in the hopes of being a winner! Every so often on our hikes to Taughannock my daughter and I find the most precious little acorns, little runts that have not grown but are UTTERLY perfect in every way. A favorite for sure!
Posted by: Laura Nelkin | April 25, 2011 at 09:27 PM
Tiny you say? Well, the tinier the better! The newborn baby gnomes in my garden are the tiniest thing that I love :-) Thanks for the gorgeous giveaway. I've been hoping for one of your amazing creations for a long, long time!
Posted by: Rain | April 25, 2011 at 09:27 PM
one of my favourite natural things to gaze at, even though in actuality very large, is a twinkling star up in the sky... from so far away they all look so tiny and lovely.....
Posted by: marta | April 25, 2011 at 09:28 PM
I think the tiny details are the best parts of everything. A small section of a water color painting (how the ink disperses and flows), a smooth little sprout piercing the cracked earth, a tiny knot of thread. all beatiful!!
Posted by: Krista H | April 25, 2011 at 09:30 PM
why, a limpet, of course!
Posted by: Sarah | April 25, 2011 at 09:36 PM
Yes I would love to win... I love the tiniest little snail shell in the garden,
so simple and sweet.
Posted by: Michelle | April 25, 2011 at 09:37 PM
Oh, so different from the white-yarn ones and so nice too! My favorite thing under 1 cm is... many things, but I think sand. I love sand from different places in the world, and if you look close the grains are all different. Some have black lava grains, others shells, others coral, some pure clear quartz. I like that sand is something that is both eternal and also something that erodes and shapes and grinds into smaller pieces. I used to collect sand in little bottles, and now those are in the attic at mom's house in a box that says Save Forever on it. Her house is in Sweden and one day I will get them over here to North America, all the little grains.
Posted by: Klockrike | April 25, 2011 at 09:49 PM
when we're "snailing" the strawberry fields at the farm we frequent we find some of the tiniest little buggers....they are my favorite.
Posted by: sarah | April 25, 2011 at 09:50 PM
It depends on how natural you consider the last crumb of a chocolate bar to be... and if not that, then definitely feathery barnacle eyelashes in a rising tide. Thanks for the chance at the giveaway!
Posted by: Lucy | April 25, 2011 at 09:50 PM
My favorite tiny things are some extremely minuscule, tiny seashells I found off the coast of Capri. I keep them in a small ceramic box from the same place.
Posted by: amy good house | April 25, 2011 at 09:54 PM
my favorite tiny things are jacob's cattle beans - they are delicious and each one looks like it has been handpainted. no one the same.
http://www.seedsofchange.com/garden_center/product_details.aspx?item_no=PS21185
Posted by: hannah | April 25, 2011 at 09:56 PM
oh.. the tiny things in nature... only to the eyes who really want to see, revealing themselves soooo amazingly to the ones who dare to pay attention to the small world. I just love some seeds, like the wonderfully red pau-brasil seed, or the flying ipê seeds, dandelion's seeds, some new born frogs are so tiny too...and the other day i saw an amazing orchid that was under 1cm and asked for magnifying glass to be seen!
Thanks for the giveaway :)
Posted by: glaucia | April 25, 2011 at 09:59 PM
What a great collection! My favourite small things include moss (especially with the little sporophyte generation sticking up), tiny beach worn pebbles, and zooplankton!
Posted by: kate | April 25, 2011 at 09:59 PM
I love tiny lemon balm and forget-me-not flowers together. I also love all the luminescent tiny algae in the ocean. I saw a confetti nudibranch in a tidal pool on my island. It was less than 1 cm long and was white with tiny orange, brown, yellow and green spots. Each sand grain, in our world, is beautiful and unique. I collect them, and ask my traveling friends to bring me samples, that I place in glass jars to admire. I enjoy coming to see your blog each day. Your creations inspire me to keep making things. Happy days to you and yours, Sherry
Posted by: Sherry Harmes | April 25, 2011 at 10:15 PM
Yesterday I say my 1st one. A red velvet mite. It crawled all over my hand with its teeny tiny tickling legs. They are very sweet looking, bright red and less than 1 mm. http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2006/11/post_155.html I love so much of your work!
Posted by: Robin Romain | April 25, 2011 at 10:20 PM
PS. The "plain" wooden stones that Lisa provided are beautiful just the way they are. I love the offset graining and colors. They look great with the ones you have "dressed."
Love to you and yours
Posted by: Sherry Harmes | April 25, 2011 at 10:23 PM
My favorite tiny thing is an ant -- small, black, scurrying about on it's ant-y way. :) When I was a small girlie, many moons ago, I'd climb trees and spend a happy afternoon breathing the breeze and watching all the different kinds of ants crawl. Big black ones, medium red ones, black and red small ones, small black ones. :)
Linda
Posted by: lindaschiffer | April 25, 2011 at 10:24 PM
little acorns are absolutely divine!
Posted by: Shawna Zimmerman | April 25, 2011 at 10:32 PM
those are stunning! & my favorite tiny natural thing? baby fingernails...they're just like big people nails, but tiny & less gross.
Posted by: Lacey | April 25, 2011 at 10:33 PM
Beautiful!
Nature creates wonders in every size. When I was young, I remember catching these teeny wee frogs that were the size of my fingernail. They were so cute! I also always have much love for dandelion seeds, blowing in the wind.
Posted by: Heidi aka Digital Misfit | April 25, 2011 at 10:35 PM
I would say ladybugs would be #1, but snowflakes would be a close #2!
Posted by: Rosie | April 25, 2011 at 10:41 PM
Tadpoles. Teeny black toad tadpoles. Love them.
Posted by: Lisa at Lil Fish Studios | April 25, 2011 at 10:43 PM
I love those rocks. I can crochet so I try and make my own with vintage doilies. One of my favorite artist does tiny carving on pencil lead - its awesome. http://soozeque.blogspot.com/2010/08/dalton-ghetti-pencil-artist.html
Posted by: SooZeQue | April 25, 2011 at 10:47 PM
tomato seeds :-)
Posted by: maria | April 25, 2011 at 10:48 PM
The wooden stones are beautiful! And your crocheted stones continue to amaze me. I have no idea how to crochet!
My favorite small things are little fuzzy lavender buds!
Posted by: Laura | April 25, 2011 at 10:56 PM
Oh my those are beautiful! My favourite tiny thing on nature would have to be a single lilac blossom. They're so simple and sweet on their own but put them together and they become such an impressive yet delicate thing to behold.
Posted by: Heather Gordon | April 25, 2011 at 11:05 PM
A LadyBug. It has always made me smile and happy when I spotted.
Posted by: Poorvi | April 25, 2011 at 11:15 PM
Just a bit of earth. I love the feeling of the soil in my hands and the rich warm scent.
Posted by: Genevieve | April 25, 2011 at 11:33 PM
Wow - these are stunning - I would love to win one! :o) My favorite tiny thing - hmm... I love looking up close at the tiny little details in plants (like moss or the little flowers that grow wild in grass). I also think seeds are amazing - so much potential in such a tiny little thing. Thanks for the giveaway!
Posted by: Joshandbethstone | April 25, 2011 at 11:47 PM
Moss. I always wanted to be the right size to sleep on a bed of moss. Lichen comes in a close second.
The "rocks" are gorgeous.
Posted by: Melissa H | April 25, 2011 at 11:50 PM
I would have to say one of my favorite natural things that is that small would be a ruby. I love the color red and jewels make me feel feminine. Hence my love of your above photographs because of the red background.
You are an amazing artist and I love visiting your site to admire all that you make and share with us through your eyes in pictures.
Posted by: Ashley Lee | April 25, 2011 at 11:53 PM
It may sound a bit creepy, but I'm thinking my kids' baby teeth, that I've saved in a tiny chocolate tin...
Posted by: Andrea in Argentina | April 26, 2011 at 12:06 AM
I absolutely love dewdrops ... They are so lovely glittering in the morning sun - one of my favorite things to see!
Posted by: Edamommy | April 26, 2011 at 12:09 AM
When I am leaning down to look at a tiny mushroom and there is an even tinier bug under it! I am already so pleased to have found a tiny mushroom and it is made more special by the tiny bug crawling on it.
Posted by: Kate | April 26, 2011 at 12:36 AM
I wood, I wood like to win! :)
My favourite (natural) thing under 1 cm? Well, the first thing that popped into my head was the visual of rabbit droppings. lol It's not really my favourite natural thing under 1 cm; but now I can't get it out of my head. lol
Perhaps a blueberry? A baby winkle? A pea? :)
Posted by: Kit Lang | April 26, 2011 at 12:58 AM
We have an ever growing collection of tiny, dead rhinoceros beetles. Please understand, we never collect living ones! But the whole family has an eternal eye out for the less living versions and they are all, gobsmackingly beautiful (and rhinocerosy).
PS. I admit that some come in at over one centimetre.
Posted by: Tania | April 26, 2011 at 01:25 AM
I adore these images of your wonderful and Lisa's too. Her vessel around your neck looks like she designed them just for you!
The natural colours are fabulous.
Please don't include me in the giveaway as I'm already the happy and fortunate recipient of Margie stones but I enjoy reading the other answers. I love so many tiny things already mentioned but I'm also in awe of the eager faces of tiny baby birds cuddle up in nests.
Posted by: joanie | April 26, 2011 at 01:40 AM
My favorite natural things are rocks--smooth round rocks. I especially like really small ones, and have them all over my house. I collect rocks from everywhere I travel.
Posted by: Rosa | April 26, 2011 at 02:11 AM
I remember studying a dandelion flower up close at recess and the wonder of delicate furry anthers and petals they have. It was like a miniature world in my hand (Like Dr Suess!) I still love the smell and softness of a dandelion (not located on my lawn:)
Posted by: Chess | April 26, 2011 at 02:15 AM
Lovely, just lovely.
I think hermit crabs are pretty neat.
Posted by: Sarah Wick | April 26, 2011 at 02:16 AM
I love those little teeny tiny green spiders. Some people call them money spiders. I love them because they are so delicate and sweet. x
Posted by: Dyana Wiggins | April 26, 2011 at 02:21 AM
sooo beautiful!
i do love all things tiny, among them, tiny decaying leaves... like just the skeleton of a leaf.
:)
Posted by: sara f | April 26, 2011 at 03:55 AM