Birds....beeswax...and nests ~

I love this artist's work....

I found her illustrations in an old Victoria magazine ~

The artist is Isabelle de Borchgrave....

I've given this little bird to you before...

don't you think it would be precious embroidered onto something?

I finished my beeswax collage!

I'm so in love with using beeswax now ~

I still have a lot to learn but I love the old patina it gives the layers.

I added it to my Etsy shop too!

Look what my sons brought me over the weekend!

Two of the most gorgeous abandoned nests....

from two different sons!

They know me well ~

I think I need to come up with something to strap them to now!!

Have a beautiful Tuesday precious friends ~

hugs and love,

Dawn

Do you love speckled eggs??

Well, if you do.....they're here!!!! The Feathered Nest Egg Soaps, that is!!
They turned out so beautiful to me ~ the sweetest size ever too....
I've listed them in my Feathered Nest Shoppe!!
Please be sure to specify which color you love.....or.....mix them up!

~ CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE SHOPPE ~

Plus I've added a couple of little artwork pieces too....

I'm going to be listing more items in the shoppe later today ~
some wonderful small treasures that I hope you'll love!

Wednesday was an absolutely gorgeous day in Georgia....
in the 70's and we had sunshine all day long.
These cool fall days make you smile and have such a thankful heart.

Happy October sweet friends!!!!!
And happy Thursday too,
hugs and love,
Dawn

Bird gifts and my creative process ~

I scanned a few more images from my new book for you!! What is it about the sparrow that I'm always drawn to?

I'm in the thinking stage of a new art quilt.....thinking and playing ~ piling things together, taking things away, nothing's really attached but everything that coordinates is being considered.

It's so much fun to find the items that work and that your mind saw before you ever physically placed them together. The creative process is soothing therapy for the soul ~

I hope you have a wonderful Saturday sweet friends ~
hugs and love,
Dawn

Monday gifts for you ~

I scanned in a few images from my new little books ~ well they're new to me but are not new at all! I hope you don't mind that these aren't in color but I love them like this ~ they have a simple beauty . . .

The boys are back in school today and I've got to get busy creating!!

Winter is an etching,

spring a watercolor,

summer an oil painting

and autumn...

a mosaic of them all.

Stanley Horowitz

My sweet friend Juno cleaned the egg print up for us so here it is again, thank you so much Juno!

Hoping your Monday is a wonderful, productive day!!

xxoo, Dawn

Sunday gifts for you ~

I've been collecting beautiful images for years now. When I look through them, searching for the right one for a piece of artwork, I find more that I want to share with you. This bird print is so beautiful to me! Please right click, scroll down to "save as" or "save target as" and then left click to save to your computer!

Another gift for you ~ the sweetest little baby just ready for you to alter! I'm thinking this little one needs a hat, don't you?

I'm so excited!! I put my thinking cap on tonight and have figured out a neat way to make a nature journal and I'm going to turn it into a new tutorial for you!!! I hope to have it up for sale at The Little Speckled Egg soon ~ also I'm making a tutorial showing you how I create a Silver Sugar Dish Pincushion . . .

I'll leave you with one of my very favorite Bible verses:

Pleasant words are a honeycomb,

sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

PROVERBS 16:24

Wishing you a wonderful Sunday dear friends,

xxoo, Dawn