Honey Spas 2017
Good use for an Egg Coddler
It is August fourteenth, and Constance is making a special coiled basket…
Special basket
…she finished the bee skep just in time, and took it to a quiet corner of the garden…
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Bless the bees
In Russia and Ukraine, it is believed that today the bees stop collecting nectar, roses stop blooming, the swallows start their migration south and the dew on the grass becomes cold. This celebration marks the beginning of the end of summer…
Bless the honey
Happy Honey Spas. We hope people everywhere are able to celebrate a joyful and abundant honey harvest!
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Quimper Hittys 
Thank you for those good wishes for a good honey harvest. We’re hoping that we might be blessed that way this year. Earlier, it looked quite sparse, we’ll have to see what’s up.
Constance did such a fine job on the skep. Her industriousness paid off in a beautiful way.
We do try and make our garden friendly to bees – I know the skep is really too late in the season to be actually useful, but we thought Honey Spas was the perfect excuse to make one.
I do love the celebration of Honey…our neighbor has many beehives in his fields and the bees visit our gardens…I think my girls need a skep! Thank you for the inspiration.
We do too – and we think that celebrating the honey harvest is a way of saying we care about nature’s interdependent web.
Constance is very clever and those tiny teddies are so-o cute.
The tiny teddies live in a basket at the foot of the Hitty’s glorious bed most of the time – they are glad to have an excuse to appear – especially since it may involve honey!
Very Cute honey bee basket. Just have to wait and see if any bees make it their home. Denise
We all hope so – we love Honey!
Always interesting to read your posts as there is always something new to learn. What a fabulous little bee basket.
The skep was fun to make, and even though late in the season, we hope to lure a few interested bees in search of a new home!
I love your Beehive and the lovely photos that feel like they are full of amber and honey!
Thank you very much – the light is so beautiful at this time of year, I am so lucky to be able to capture it in some small way!
I made a Hitty hat during a Julie workshop in PA, that looks like a great bee shep. I think I will convert it with a small opening and a wooden base! Thanks.
Sounds like your Hittys will have a bee in their bonnets!The more bees the better, we say!