A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July–
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear–
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die.
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream–
Lingering in the golden gleam–
Life, what is it but a dream?
This was my most time-consuming spider to date with its pencil-colored picture of Alice (peering up over a mushroom) inside of an antique gold keyhole; an antique gold charm of the white rabbit; a gold and teal painted mushroom; the Mad Hatter's hat (complete with three hat pins that this photo does little justice to highlight); and a beaded hookah on a wire. I used a stray pink Mickey Mouse head bead as an accent.
Materials: keyhole finding, brass rabbit charm, plastic mushroom, Monopoly hat game piece, black baking clay, copper tape, head pins, coral wire, coral Mickey Mouse head charm, brass findings for hookah, light and dark teal bugle beads, gold bugle beads, gray bugle beads, coral bugle beads, lime green bugle beads, red seed and E beads, gold wire
