The Fruit of the Spirit ~

I've always loved this Bible passage...

Galatians 5:22-23:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Against such things there is no law.

Such beautiful promises for us all ~

When I create multiples of one item,

I love to label each one

just to help me tell them apart

should they sell.

The fruit of the spirit verse holds

such wonderful labels for each little piece!!!

Thank you all so much for your kind comments

and words of encouragement on my health.

You all are such precious friends

and truly lift me up!!!

Here are a few photos of what I've been working on:

The best surprise arrived in the mail yesterday!!!

A beautiful copy of the newest issue of HandCrafted ~

Why?

I had no clue!

But as I looked inside...I soon discovered why :)

Stampington republished a piece of mine

they published back in 2009.

How neat is that??

It really is a wonderful issue too!

You can find my new Christmas candy cups

in my Etsy shop!!

Today,

I feel blessed and so very thankful ~

Happy Tuesday dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Very honored ~

I love this photo ~ I took it way back the beginning of the year I believe....

some of my very favorite things to collect!

Yet another repeat baby....so sorry, I need to go shopping!!

I received a beautiful magazine in the mail today.

I'm so honored that Stampington added my Advent calendar to

this current issue of Handcrafted!!!

This issue is a gathering of past published artwork using

tons of different mediums...from sewing, to sculpture, to collage and more.

I found a few close-up photos of this labor of love calendar...

It was quite a doozy to create!!!

I loved using so many trinkets and treasures as little ornaments ~

I've had a few folks asking about the different glues I use ~

Below are my basic favorites!

I use Fabri-Tac for EVERYTHING!!

The matte gel medium is what I use to collage papers to surfaces.

I have several more goodies that I've acquired over the years

but these are my stock items!

I hope you're staying cool and comfortable during these

terribly hot days of summer ~
I am SO thankful for air conditioning!!!

Have a great Tuesday sweet friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Déjà vu sweet friends!

Do you know what déjà vu means?
It is French for "already seen" and is used to refer to
when a person experiences the feeling that they have seen or
experienced something at an earlier time....

And what am I referring to?
My very first article in Stampington's Somerset Life
has been republished!!!!!
What a true honor to be in their upcoming (July 1st)
Handcrafted 2010 issue!!!!!

I received my free artist's issue a couple of days ago
and have since been able to look through each and every bit of it.
Friends, this is a WONDERFUL issue!!
And I'm not saying it because my pincushions are inside ~
I had to take a few photos to give you a preview.
I think you'll love this one!!!!

My little article ~ and they even used totally different photos from
what they originally used in the Life issue!!!! Neat, huh?

Now, for a little taste of what else is inside:

OK, I'm in LOVE with this bear!!!! And they even include the pattern!

I just had to share this with you!!!




Mitzi of Mitzi's Collectibles has a few wonderful ideas for wallpaper
on her latest post....take a look HERE!



AND

Julie of Junkin Julie is celebrating her 100th Post with a giveaway HERE!





OH, and I JUST realized....I have reached 1400 POSTS!!!!!
Goodness, I'm a blogging FREAK, aren't I??!!
But I've been doing this now for 3 1/2 years so they do add up :)
I think a giveaway is in order, don't you??
And I think tomorrow's post will be the giveaway post.....


Thank you for always coming by...
and for the sweetest comments
on my recent soap box art!!!!
Do you think I should give it away? Hmmmm....

Have an amazing Wednesday precious friends,
hugs and love,
Dawn