IF YOU GUESSED A "BUTTER PADDLE" You were right...

"SPRING is HERE"

My choice for naming this one...

The reasons being, the punch needle piece is securely attached to a vintage, wooden,Butter Paddle, therefore:

1~ Spring Fraktur style Bird is a mellow butter, yellow and 

2~Pussy willows are one of the first signs that Spring is about to start bursting out all over.  I stitched these longer than everything else and lightly tinted them for a touch of realism.

3~Purple/Lavender background represents springtime, stormy, rainy, weather... 

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FYI~the Color Purple/Lavender calls for creative doings and seeks inspiration and originality through its creative efforts.

~ The Pussy Willow~
 is truly one of our most enduring spring rites, performed before spring even arrives. Snow still covers the earth, but warmer weather brings you out of winter captivity on a February day for a walk in the woods. You round a bend in a swampy area and, lo and behold! pussy willows greet your spring-starved eyes. You prune off a few branches studded with the furry catkins, to be brought home and honored as spring's earliest harbinger.
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Can you tell that I am very fond of Pussy Willows? 
They bring back happy childhood memories. 
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Am now waiting for some 'Pussy Willow' stems

 that I recently ordered.  

I will display them in one of my olde pint size 
milk bottles that Papa recovered while
 doing some excavation 

on one of his jobs here in So. Cal 
a few years back.  
the milk bottle does not represent spring time 
but it connects it to the butter paddle.

Final touch, I tied on my "Spring is Here" tag.

All other so appropriate for the meaning of Spring.

Oh yes, in case you did not notice, I did modify the 
original design...sometimes less is more.

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As always, thanks so much for visiting...Enjoy!

I dooo like company.

Have a very pleasant week and always, 
Peace for ALL,

Barb