Where has the time gone sweet friends?

I just realized something.

Tomorrow,

Wednesday, February 11th, 2015

I have been blogging for

EIGHT YEARS!!!

AMAZING...AMAZING!!!

My first blog post was on February 11th, 2007.

I share one little photo of our bedroom...

I was so proud of it!

Here it is:

Can I just tell you how wonderful it's been?

I have "met" so many precious friends

through this little blog.

Friends who've been with me through this entire journey even!

I've shared so many projects, things I've made and ideas as well.

Thank you so much for being there for me!!!

Thank you for visiting and cheering me on ~

I've been little lazy lately and haven't posted very frequently

but really do plan on getting back in the groove!

I already feel that 2015 is going to be a wonderful year

filled with goodness and promise.

I found a few Valentine's Day images to share!

I have a few projects in the making.

I'm working on a couple of treasure organizers!

One is a special order for a baby nursery and the other

will be up for sale in my Etsy shop when it's finished.

I still haven't gotten around to those needle books though!

I need make a tutorial for those because they make

such sweet little gifts...

Thank you again for visiting me here,

always for your kind comments

and for caring about what I'm up to!!

Happy Tuesday precious friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Our little chicken whisperer.....

Can you believe this sweet girl???

Picking up chickens like they're nothing...and loving them so!

My DIL Emily took these sweet pics of Clara ~

I can't even believe our precious Clara will be THREE next month!!!

What in the world happens to the time?

A few Valentine images from my files for you:

Today is the last day of my 5 years of blogging celebration giveaway....

Be sure to CLICK HERE to enter!

Wishing you a wonderful Friday precious friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

On creating . . .

As I stroll through so many old blog photos,

I realize how much I really DO love making things!!!

And that I'm not too good at making multiples...

or even the same type of item twice ~

So I guess if you ever buy a piece of my artwork,

or anything else that I've made...

you're pretty much guaranteed that it's a one-of-a-kind!!

I don't know why I'm like that, I guess

my creative muse must love change...

and that's really my reason for offering my tutorials too :)

A sweet Valentine image for you ~

Some wonderful treasures I've found in the past...

Pillows I made from my most favorite barkcloth I found EVER!

These even had feather inserts....

I love making the back of the pillow gorgeous!!

Plus you can easily remove it to launder ~

Another assemblage that I made back in "the day"

circa 2007

I just love paper clay ~

I want to make a doll next....and make her clothes too!

This little fairy stood only about three inches tall ~

she was one of my very first paper clay creations.

Yes, she is chunky,

and yes, she has cankles

(calves that really don't have ankles :)

And my boys make fun of her expression but I loved her!!

And so did my daughter-in-law Emily....

so she has her now!!!

Simple patriotic pillows I made for the antique store ~

The pillow on the right?

It's just an old muslin feedsack that I slipped a

feather insert inside,
then folded over and tied with a red-checked bow!

GREAT TIP:

Look at Ross, Marshall's or TJ Max for clearance pillows that

have feather inserts!!!
Don't worry about how ugly they are,
all you want is the inside!
You can buy them for under 10.00 or so and

then create a totally new pillow cover!!!

Just fabric-covered cardboard with a sweet image

I scanned and printed out from my computer

housed inside the most precious little window ~

More paper clay sweeties ~

Paper clay work in progress items ~

Here's the one in the center finished ~

Thank you so much Joy!!!

Just seeing these older works is so inspiring me!!!!

I really need to make something....SOON  :)

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I have GOT to show you the sweetest tutorial that my

friend Karen just posted on her blog Todolwen!!!

These precious flowers can be made and used in

so many wonderful ways.....

I hope you are doing great, staying warm and safe ~

I know so many of my sweet friends

are experiencing bad weather....

please know you are in my thoughts and prayers.

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday dear friends!

hugs and love,

Dawn

What is love?

Love is....so many things ~
I Corinthians 13:⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I love you all sweet friends......

Wishing you much love on this Valentine's Day,

hugs and love, Dawn