Sweet mail love ~

Friday was an amazing mail love day! I cannot believe the goodness here in this land of blog. The sweet friends I've made and the size of their hearts! I received the most beautiful art print from Teresa K. Sheeley of French Poppy. I won one of her giveaways last week. She even let me choose which one from her Etsy store! Don't you love my choice? You should pay her a visit . . . I loved the French bowls with numbers too! Thank you so very much Teresa ~ I will treasure it!!

An then, a mysterious package from Judy at The Spice Cupboard. She owns a wonderful store in PA called The Cinnamon Stick!

Well, I had posted earlier about her fairy garden class and how much I loved them.
Look at what that sweetie sent me!!!!

All the makings to have my very own FAIRY GARDEN!!!

Just click on the photo to enlarge so you can see all of these tiny treasures!!! Small garden tools, a chair, a mirror for the tiny "pond", plant markers, a tiny wheelbarrow and fence . . . aren't they PRECIOUS??? Oh, and the little brown bag is filled with lavender!! Plus I LOVE the aged fabric words...they will stay in my studio! I went to the store last night to buy my tiny plants and I'm potting it all up today!

Thank you so much Judy for your kindness ~ what a precious, thoughtful gift! May blessings shower down upon you my sweet friend ~

Hope you're having a wonderful Saturday!!!

xxoo, Dawn

(ps. I'll soon share about the light box...I'm still perfecting it!)

I love beautiful things!

I wanted to share a few things with you that I love ~

First is Delila's artwork at Sepia Art Studio ~ everything she creates to me is simply magical.
Her work has a beautiful simplicity to it.

She took this photo of the sweetest baby bird ~

And this is a necklace she recently made ~ isn't it lovely?

You can visit her blog HERE.

Judy's blog The Spice Cupboard featured this amazing Fairy Garden Class that her store,
The Cinnamon Stick had last month.

Aren't these amazing? I just love them and want to make one . . .

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This isn't really beautiful but I wanted to share with you a few of my favorite supplies. The adhesive that I use to glue papers onto the plates and platters is Liquitex Matte Gel Medium. You can find it in the artists section at Michael's. And if you use their discount coupon from the newspaper it doesn't hurt quite so bad when you go to pay for it!

Most of the images I used for my last project were printed out from my computer printer. Well, if you apply the gel medium on top of these images it will smear and muddy them. I layered my images using a simple glue stick. Then for my final gluing of the sheet music to the plate, I simply painted on the gel medium to the back of it. Keep a damp cloth nearby to wipe off any stray medium after you placed the paper down. The matte finish of the glue will show up on the glossy plate.

This is the adhesive I love to use to glue my nests in my boxes, my jewelry fragments to my artwork and other items that I glue in place. Like the broken watch on my last plate collage. It bonds wonderfully. They carry this one at Wal-Mart for a great price and you can find it at Michael's as well but bring a coupon to save $$$$!

Thank you all so much for your kind wishes for the Fourth ~ it really was such a nice day for us. I forgot to mention but the two pool jumpers are our two youngest sons!

Wishing you a peaceful, restful Sunday ~ xxoo, Dawn