Getting back into the studio!

It's been awhile! But I really feel like my creative juices are flowing again.
I'm ready to get busy and use up more of this stash.

I have a new bag of fresh lavender buds so I thought I'd start with a
few pretty sachets. I even filled a vintage glove with lavender
and adorned it as well!

If feels so good to get back to what I love.
If you'd like to take a peek, they are listed in my Etsy shop!
CLICK HERE TO VISIT

Plus, I have a few new magazines and I think you'll love them!
I've taken a few photos inside to give you a sneak peek.
Both are January 2016 issues so you should be able to find them easily.

Wonderful, right???
I've gotten very picky about which magazines I buy now but
these two are definitely keepers.

I hope your new year is going so good!!!
I'm truly going to get back to what I love...
making pretty things ~

Thank you always for stopping by to see me!!
hugs and love,
Dawn

So how's your December going? I've missed you!

I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to post...life sometimes takes over!

I found a wonderful magazine a Walmart a few days ago

and just HAVE to give you a preview because

I know you are going to love it like I do!!!!

My sweet little mitten ornaments ~ you can find the free tutorial HERE!

A few gorgeous old ornaments I ran across one day, they are beautiful to me!

Here's the magazine!

It's the Spring issue of Romantic Country and

YOU ARE GONNA LOVE IT!!!!

Just take a peek....

It's AH-MAZ-ING! I promise! And definitely a keeper for sure.

I hope you are doing so good and that you are enjoying this

beautiful time of the year ~

Thank you always, always for stopping by to see me!!!

Hugs and love,

Dawn

Simple stitches ~

I've made strawberry pincushions in the past but I had the bright idea

to make a few that were filled with lavender buds!

You can hang them on a knob or hook and enjoy their simplicity and fragrance.

I just finished this pair yesterday and they sold mighty fast!

I'm always thankful when someone spends their hard-earned money on

something that I've made!!!

I still wanted to share them with you here.

I post my items first on Facebook and

eventually I end up writing a post about them on my blog.

The photos make them look different but I guess it was because

there was different lighting everywhere I took the pics.

I really enjoyed sewing the simple French knots on each one.

AND....I splurged and bought myself two sweet diamond doves last weekend!!!

They are so calm, cool and collected and pretty too...

I just love them!!

I already had a huge black bird cage so I scrubbed it up and now

they are living here with us. Noah has named them some goofy names

from that movie Dumb and Dumber (Harry and Lloyd) and I just let him

but they know they are my sweet babies!

This past Saturday I finally went to Michael's!

I promise you, I haven't been in MONTHS...

Well, they have TOTALLY remodeled ours and it looks wonderful!

I found some gorgeous handmade paper that looks like a muted bronze,

a few seed beads for my next pair of lavender strawberries,

glue that my sweet friend Lisa turned me onto and

some beautiful teeny frames that would look gorgeous

on some artwork....good finds!!!

Another treasure that Lisa told me about...this magazine!

I found it at Walmart and have the first issue too.

This is the second issue and it's GORGEOUS!

If you see it on the newsstand, pick it up, thumb through it and see if you agree.

Now a few photos to share from our home.

This is the field right behind us and they just cut it.

They started baling the cuttings into those huge hay bales...

And here is the field beside us...all baled up and beautiful!

I have one last photo to share with you.

It was so beautiful here in Georgia last week, the temperature was even mild!

I was walking to my car and looked at the porch ~ I had to take a pic.

The giant magnolia tree out front is in full bloom, my ferns are very happy and

the front porch was just so pretty!!!

Thank you always, always for visiting me here!

I wish you a beautiful week and a productive one as well ~

Hugs and love,

Dawn

Just playing around ~

I'm about to start working on a few more treasure organizer orders

but took the weekend off and have been playing around with some

of my new Waverly Chalk Paint!

You'd think I was their spokesperson but I promise, I'm not.

I just love that it's cheap, right here in town

and that there are beautiful shades to choose from.

I found these sweet baby shoes at the thrift last week and thought they would be PERFECT

to experiment with using the new Waverly chalk paint I found at wallyworld!

I mixed half of the "ballet slipper" shade with half of the "plaster" shade to come up with

a beautiful pink to paint them with.

Ohmygoodness...it dried like VELVET!

I just love the finish!! I need to give them a coat of matte varnish but think

the pink is just beautiful. These will end up being pincushions.

I'm sure I have some sweet little roses fabric to fill them with!

I also found these chubby little resin birds at the thrift last week.

The colors were too loud for me so I thought I try the chalk paint on them as well.

Here they are after one coat of the shade "plaster"....I haven't decided if I'll antique them or not, we'll see.

Here's one of the finishing coats they offer...I love a matte finish so it's the first one I purchased.

So...now every time I visit Walmart I go by the display to see if there's another shade I like!

Here's my latest purchase..."crystal" I love the beautiful pale blue-gray shade!!

Our precious granddaughter Clara went fishing with her daddy this past Saturday

and caught FOUR fish!!! She was so proud and she even told me that she now

has a fisherman's thumb! When you take the fish off the hook and your thumb comes

in contact with the fish teeth I guess your thumb gets tough??? Sweet, sweet girl ~

And I wanted to share a photo of our sweet grandson Murray.

I watched him last week when his mama and Clara went to the library.

Here he is watching trains from our front porch...he LOVES them!!!

We are only about 500 feet from the tracks so he was in heaven ~

Wishing you a beautiful spring week dear friends!!!

Thank you always, always for visiting me ~

hugs and love,

Dawn