Laughing Brook Creative Arts Studio/Gallery

.the planting of seeds, ideas ,hopes and dreams for new growth, renewal of mind body and spirit.....and so it begins .

Very proud to be a part of this great program

Thank you to Jacqueline Steudler for posting this.

You can use this flower crown technique with any long-stemmed blooms! . How-to diagram by Madison Safer, an herbal, botanical, woodland illustrator whose feed a...nd blog are both filled with joyful recipes and art. Find her on Instagram @madison.safer, or link to her shop + writings here: . https://madisonsaferillustration.tumblr.com/ See more

Bound for Joggins Fossil Cliffs for first two weeks of May as Artist In Residence. Sooo excited. If you live in the region, consider visiting Sat. May 1 at 2 p... m for a short "Meet 'n' Greet" followed by a ROUND TABLE discussion, slide show, and Q&A focused on the ups and downs, successes, failures (and goofy experiences) of a writer’s life. NOTE: As seating is limited for the presentation, you need to register. Contact Laurie Glenn Norris at 902-251-2727 ext. 224 or [email protected] See more

Join Bonnie Baker in making a collagraph, an easy, fun way to create prints with ordinary materials you have on hand at home. This Studio From Home is supported by family and friends in loving memory of Ruth Rideout.

Here is a simple way to grow beans in a jar with kitchen paper towels. We love activities that involve growing plants. Results in those are usually noticeable only a few days later. So the process requires a lot of waiting and taking care of plants. #TheDadLab

Naturally colored Easter eggs! There's a clever trick to getting the botanical design on them too. Do you know it?

Teach the children. We don’t matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. T...he lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin-flowers. And the frisky onesinkberry, lamb’s-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic onesrosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms. Attention is the beginning of devotion. - `Mary Oliver Artwork by Catrin Welz-Stein See more