Vignettes

One definition of a vignette is:

any small endearing scene, view, picture, etc.

As someone who loves books and illustrations I've always taken a fancy to little illustrated vignettes.  These latest pendants remind me of them.  Lately I've been daydreaming, wishing I could live in the country.  So here are my dreams sneaking in among the clay and paint in my beads:

 Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune--without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

-Emily Dickinson

April

The roofs are shining from the rain,

The sparrows twitter as they fly,

And with a windy April grace

The little clouds go by.

Yet the backyards are bare and brown

With only one unchanging tree--

I could not be so sure of Spring

Save that it sings in me.

-Sara Teasdale