{"id":19408,"date":"2015-01-26T03:05:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=19408"},"modified":"2015-02-11T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T01:09:20","slug":"pale-purple-poppy-palette-premo-recipes-vol-081-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/pale-purple-poppy-palette-premo-recipes-vol-081-b\/19408\/","title":{"rendered":"Pale Purple Poppy Palette | Premo Recipes Vol-081-B"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pale<\/a><\/a>1<\/span>-B<\/span>: Pale Purple
\n2-<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Purple Poppy<\/span>
\n3-<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Poppy Stamens
\n<\/span>4<\/span>–<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Poppy Stem<\/span>
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When we moved into our current house over 15 years ago, it was during the fall and most of the flowers were done their cycles, and the leaves were beginning to fall off the trees. So when Spring and Summer came along, it was a complete surprise to find all the different variety of flowers and bushes come into bloom.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the surprises was these purple poppies. The whole vegetable garden was full of them. Some were a darker purple, much like the color of the flower center in today’s photo. And the rest were a very pale purple.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time I had never seen this type of poppy before… only being familiar with the red varieties and the pretty orange California poppies. Since then though, I have seen even more varieties, including a frilly pink poppy that grows in my friend and neighbor Diane’s garden.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh by the way, just like the Bee Made Columbine from the previous Vol-081-A Columbine Bud Palette<\/a>, our pale purple poppies somehow bonded with her frilly pink poppies and made fluffy pale purpley-pink babies. The bees had bit of a trek to spread that pollen around too. They had to fly from our back yard to the front, cross a very busy street, and then head down a few houses to Diane’s place, so they could buzz around in her garden… Amazing really!<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, one year I thought I may never have another purple poppy in my garden again… some garden raider stole all of the poppy heads, just leaving some crunchy dried out stems behind. We never did solve that mystery…<\/span><\/p>\n

But low and behold, there must have been a few seeds left in the soil, because sure enough the following summer a few of these guys popped their heads out of the soil and slowly but surely begane to propagate themselves again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nature is such an interesting thing… Ain’ it!?<\/span><\/p>\n

I do hope you enjoy this inspiration for our next Vol-081-B Series color recipes for February 2015. Inspiring colors for a fresh new year!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Pale<\/a>Everyone who is subscribed to our Polymer Clay Guest List<\/a> will be able to download the following recipes free, one per week on Friday mornings during the month of February 2015:<\/span><\/p>\n