There was a girl who spoke to bees. Not to be confused with the girl who spoke to geese. (Although, an interesting concept to say the least)
She understood them, and they her…
One day, she wandered through the wilderness, in search of her friends, the honey bees. She hid in a tree, and peered through a tree hole, waiting to surprise them when they came buzzing along…
She waited for what seemed like ever so long, yet her delicately winged friends didn't seem to be anywhere in sight. She climbed out of the tree, and sat in between some tree roots that cradled her ever so perfectly. She started to drift to sleep, when she heard the enchanting sound of bee wings in the distance.
She sat up…
One large plump bee, buzzed hello. She sat perplexed, wondering where the others were. She asked Mister Bee, who said he didn't know. He also said that little by little, less and less bees joined him in flight, until, this solitary bee was left to fly alone.
She pondered the situation….
She realized, there were fewer and fewer bee friendly buds in bloom. So, she vowed, to always wear fresh flowers in her hair, for any bees she saw passing by…
Yes, that was a perfect idea thought the bee girl, otherwise known as Stella Primrose Hawthorn. Funny enough, the Hawthorn flower is known to symbolize hope. Hope for the bees perhaps?
Stella spent 2 days in my garden, remarking at what a good job we were doing to help keep the bees a flutter. With water sources like fountains and dog pools, and lots of native flowering plants…
We sang a beautiful tune called Wilderness, as we watered the garden in billowing gowns and visited with all the bees. It was a delightful time.
Stella wanted me to remind you about something…
There are ways you can help the bees… There is a website with lots of tips and a PDF download with all sorts of things you can do in your garden to help the honey bees.
www.helpthehoneybees.com/ – go to the section called "How you can Help." After you click on the link, click under the garden picture, on the words "Dig In" for more details and a PDF. Don't those bees at the website, flying with little signs just make you want to hug them? Thanks to Raspberry Sorbet addictions, I found all this out right on my Haagen-Dazs container…
Plants for honey bees, yes, what a good thing indeed. Each one of us can do a little, and make a huge difference…
Now, I think it's time for me to go play a tune or two - for the bees of course, on my antique pump organ. It looks different but sounds a bit like this.
Free Mother's Day cardlettes made by me, in printable PDF form, can still be found by clicking here…
Have a beautiful Mother's Day if I don't see you before then!! 🖤 🖤 🖤
Oh and, Miss Stella Primrose Hawthorn, can be found in my online Shop.
(update: Miss Stella is now on her way to a new home, however I have added her in canvas print form, to my shop)
Make sure to have a hearty laugh or two today ;) It's such a good feeling, isn't it?
🖤,V
What a coincidence, now I’m first :0) And thank you so much for the link to help save the honeybees. It has been so sad to hear of their loss and I will be glad to offer any help I can to help them. Stella is a might luck lady to wear fresh flowers in her hair all the time.
You are such a peach for sharing your beautiful work with us. I can’t wait to play with the cards. And I wish you a special and magical Mother’s Day also!
{{hugs}}
OH OH OH!!! (forgive me wailing like a banshee) but….Miss Stella Primrose Hawthorn is SO LOVELY!!!!
“Your a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgood, that’s what you are”
Okay, so I’ve been re-watching Fried Green Tomatoes, again!! tee hee!!
Oh, Sigh, Vanessa, she’s just so beautiful!!
I love how you incorporate your lovely tales into what you want to support! I absolutely love your art and you have definitely inspired me to be more creative and not afraid of my dreamer ways. Sometimes I feel I need to calm them down but you showed me my wings are free to fly! Miss Stella Primrose is gorgeous. Have a wonderful weekend!
Oh the sweet little bees, they are disappearing indeed. We don’t use pesticides here at Brambleberry Cottage and yet I still find wounded little bees all over my gardens. It’s so sad for I love them so and find that they’re perfectly content to go about their garden chores while I’m tending to mine.
Miss Stella is such a darling little creature!!! Does she play the pump organ too? Yours wouldn’t happen to be a “Hammond” organ would it? I have always wanted one, but alas, for I have no wall to spare.
Have a lovely day my Fanciful friend!!!
xoxox
Cori
V~
Stella Primrose Hawthorne is absolutely s-t-u-n-n-i-n-g 🙂 Oh how I wish I could bring her and her bee home with me…teehee She could come plant some Hawthorne flowers at my house.
Oh and I really enjoyed the sounds of the pump organ…such an enchanting sound.
Have a lovely weekend!!
Kylee
hMMMMMMMMmmmm. Stella Primrose looks very familiar. A self-portrait perhaps? I love the detail in the flowers that you painted. And thank you for the great distraction; I should be working and instead I am mindlessly happy clicking away on little flying bees! Happy Weekend! **blows kisses** Deborah
I absolutely adore bees in art. I do. They are captured so much throughout history. I am so sad that they are now struggling to live in the same world as us. If the bees go for good, it will not be OK.
She is so sweet..her eyes are beauty-full, almost hypnotic! I love bees..in fact when my husband and started dating (12 yrs ago?) that was his nickame for me “Bee”:) When my son was born he was “baby bee” though I just refer to him simply as Bee now.I never call him by his name unless writing about him! I include bees every so often on my dolls in the form of a bee brooch~there is something magical and wonderful about them~their sting hurts like heck but they give us one of natures finest treats.
Have a lovely weekend!
What a cute painting. The girl looks so serene with that bee buzzing around her flowers in her head. I would be wildy screaming and dancing about the room running away from it. Not a calm picture at all. Humorous, maybe, but not serene, LOL! 🙂
OOh, your painting is so wonderful! I love her so much! And, I love everything about this post! My Uncle had bee hives and would give us all honey until one year there were less and and less bees. Now there are none-not good! So very sad. Thanks for all of this. This is the same Uncle whose Mother, my Grandmother, gave me my German Pump Organ and it is such a Glorious thing. I think the best gift for my Mother this Mother’s Day would be to play it for her! I have no idea how you got your’s outside for those amazing Halloween photos! He he! I am sure the Pixies and Faeries help you a lot!
Take care,
merle
p.s. I am nuts for Bat for Lashes!
once again Vanessa you have outdone yourself!! These cards are fantastic! I just wanted to let you know that I finally opened up an Etsy shop. It only took my a year to get my act together!
http://ellencrimitrent.etsy.com
Hi, Vanessa! I love Miss Stella Primrose Hawthorne, she looks beautiful!
Stella Primrose Hawthorn could be me…except she is young and beautiful.
Let me explain. Last week for three days in a row every time I went out either to sit in one of my seating areas or walk around in my gardens, a Bumble Bee would do a dance right in front of me…in sort of a wave pattern, up and down and sideways. Then he would stop and make a buzzing sound right in front of me…occasionally another bee would try to do the same only to be chased by my “new best friend” my Husband found it very amusing that a Bumble Bee had fallen in love with me :):) I tried to get his picture but he was to fast for me.
So she could be me…or I could be her. xoxoo
beauuuutiful painting!!!
beeeeeeee-autiful! 😀 😀 😀 😀
I’d feel calm and happy all day looking at this.
Ah, the delightful Stella has been whisked away already! Such a lovely girl. As for the bees, good info. Merci bien! xoxox
OMgoodness…. Ms Stella is beeeeeeeeeelightful….. and on top of that I have to tell you that I fell in LOVE LOVE LOVE with that little Berry Chocolate Truffle cupcake below… along with all your other babies….. !!!!
Cant get enough of your creations…. I too have planted a bit of bee and hummer plants…. I havent seen too much of them lately… very few compared to last year…heres hoping…
LOTS OF HUGS
JO
Lovely painting <3
I love bees, we have a hive inside a rosemary bush of ours. They're all quite friendly, and the rosemary thrives because of them 😀
I love her eyes and how sweet of a story. Hugs, Bobbi Jo
She is so sweet. I can see why the bees love her! Wonderful post Miss V! Wish your momma a very Happy Mother’s Day from me!
I love her face! This is great!
Hola, Chiquita!!
I’m sending you a great big CONGRATULATIONS!!!! WOOO HOOO WAY TO GO!!!!!.
I was reading my weekly Creative Impulse news letter from Somerset/Stamington and who do you think was the featured Artist??? Yep none other!!! Your post card sets are just way to cute!! 🙂 Here is the URL:
http://www.stampington.com/html/creativeimpulse_04.html?
Pattie 😉
Mazatlan Mx.
Sweet honeyed dreams surely swirl in her pretty head.
Just “bee-utiful”.
We’ve had 2 hives in our trees outfront………we were told that these were not “nice” honeybees 🙁 and there were over 5000 of them!! We were a wee bit scared. Especially when they started hitting the front window trying to come inside!
Denise
You paint the most beautiful faces, just fabulous! happy mom day, I have to work can’t go up North and spend the weekend with mom, bummer, but I’ll send her some of those cards, she will love them, thanks bunches
Karey
mmmmmmmmmmm-you do make my heart sing-you divine over the top girl….singing and skipping-love jo
I found your blog today.. and I have one thing to say… is very very hard to find genuine artist I always happen to run into people who call themselves artist and brag about their skills..
And I just look at them trying to understand.. by reading your posts and checking out your store .. you have the whole package , an artist is a creator and you have created a little world for us to see..
It’s so refreshing and I’ll be reading from now on 😀
Miss Stella you are so beautiful!!!
I love to hear how you are helping the bee’s what a sweetie!!
Always a delight Vanessa to see what you are up too!!
I leaped for joy when i saw your adorable comment on my blog!!!
You can pack your bags any time and come visit:)
It is also my turn to entertain any of your critters you would like to send on vaca:)
Have a wonderful weekend..hope you get to spend some time with your Mom.
Hugs,
K
First time coming to your blog. A very beautiful blog with pretty pictures!
🙂
What a brave and kind girl Stella is! Have a lovely weekend! Twyla
Happy that lovely Stella flew to a happy home! Love this BEE site…we have our wild bee hive that has been FASCINATING to watch all winter and now it is really coming to life.
I will be planting lots of bright flowers to entice the BEE’s to the mango studio…
happy weekend to you!!
x..x
As the bees’ go; so do we. So sad! We have fields filled with wild flowers and a wonderful peach tree but alas, fewer bees have been visiting this year. I am so worried. Miss Stella is a delightful woman child and such a great reminder to us to save the bees!!!
Hugs
SueAnn
Mmm Haagen Daz…okay, now my tummy is growling 😉 Love the painting V!
Jamie 🙂
What a lovely piece and oh what a wonderful story!!!!
She is beautiful and I always love your stories! Have a wonderful weekend, sweet friend! You are special!
You have a beautiful blog, love your new painting!
Vanessa,
Miss Stella Primrose Hawthorn is simply adorable. I love her eyelashes. They look so real to me!! Whoever found her is a lucky girl (or guy) indeed.
My mother-in-law’s mom was named Stella and we all called her “Miss Stella”. Very articulate and informative in any news that happened to be going on at that time. She was the one you could ask a question about anything and she always had the answer.
She wore her hair up in a bun and it was almost silver and very long when she took it down at night. She was the epitome of someone with class and she didn’t even recognize that she had it. I can still remember her taking her hands and gently trying to pin up the wisps of hair that had fallen around her face.
My heart skipped a beat when I read your post, and I think we must be on the same wavelength because my latest piece (currently in progress) is “Blessed Bee”!
Although allergic myself, and a bit nervous in close proximity, I think they’re such magical creatures. We have a flowering crabapple tree near the koi pond which they seem to adore, and I hope to plant more roses soon, as well as all the annuals. 🙂
~ Carolee
PS – have you heard of the old custom of “telling the bees” when someone in the family had passed on? There’s also quite a good folkloric sort of band by that name (artwork on their website and CD by Rima of the Hermitage) – very cool!
Enchanting! Bees have always fascinated me. Thanks for the whimsy filled journey!
Hugs, KJ
just a lovely painting!
A Lovely Painting VV!!!!
Also, we really DO need our honey bee’s!
We are dependent upon them so we can eat!!
Happy day to you madear!
And to Mr. L.
xox
Constance
Sweet bees! I just downloaded the screensaver of the cute winged ones….I have yet to buy my container flowers, but I will be asking for bee-friendly varieties for sure (now if it would just stay above 60 degrees for awhile!). Miss V you are a friend to the flowers and birds and bees. You are sweeter than honey, my dear! Enjoy the day! xo Erin
Lovely story and important cause. We have plenty of bee and bird friendly plants and trees. Along with fresh water. We still don’t have a pool….I know how they loved the one at our previous house.
Vanessa,
She is lovely. I love your paintings. I have been lost in the land of beeswax collage lately. I love it! My mom always reminds me to have a bit of local honey when allergy season kicks in. It’s the perfect natural cure. Hope you had a lovely weekend. After having breakfast with my daughter Ashley, then I drove to see my mom in Vermont with my daughter Sarah. Hope you had a lovely Mother’s Day.
Karen
Hi Vanessa,
I’ve already had 2 or 3 hearty laughs today and my dose of “take your breath away” enchantment from your lovely post. Thank you for that!
Michelle 🙂
Such a good idea. To help the honeybees. I would consider keeping some myself, but I’m not sure if Edward would find himself in trouble if I did. I shall visit the sites you’ve posted. Thank you.
And I had such a hearty laugh last night that my sides are still aching!! Nothing like it!
I am so worried. Miss Stella is a delightful woman child and such a great reminder to us to save the bees!!!