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

Puppies, cats, glue & baby bibs . . .

An adorable photo that my ten year old took ~ dog and cat resting comfortably together!! (sorry it's so blurry)

The glue that I discovered at Michael's Friday ~ maybe it will work on the pearl pins a little better. The next bottle I buy is going to be The Crafter's Pick . . . I love having TONS of glue!

A tiny tattered bib ~ stains and all. I discovered this the other day when I bought the doll clothes and forgot to picture it. No one loved it anymore so I had to bring it home. Just look at that sweet embroidery!! Maybe I could use it for fabric on a pincushion, how precious would it look popping out of a baby shoe?

Thank you ALL so, so very much for all of your kind comments about the magazine!!!! I truly am about to bust about it! You all are always so encouraging and sweet, I thank you for that.

I can remember being in the library when I was in middle school (back then we called it Junior High, oh well) and enjoying looking at magazines! I would grab the current issue of Teen and Glamour, find a table and just pour over each of them. Reading tips and enjoying the ads. Remember Pam Dawber in the Sweet Honesty ad?? Oh well, I'm sounding quite old. But anyway, I enjoyed magazines then and I still enjoy them to this day. And to actually have something that I made be featured in one, is such a dream come true!! I sound like I've won an Oscar but I guess it's my Oscar . . . thank you for encouraging me and helping me feel good enough to even try!!

Wishing you all a very Happy Father's Day!