Lost n' found ~

Another sunset to share with you....

we've been having so many gorgeous evenings lately!!!

So what was lost then found???

My pressed flowers!!!

We've lived here almost a year now (the end of Sept.)

and I stashed it away and haven't been able to find it this whole time ~

Finally, today I ran across it!!

Look at how teeny this fern is...I placed a pin beside it to give you an idea of it's size.

These are African violet blooms....I know I've shown you these before ~

 Here's a variety of flowers, nothing fancy ~

I love the texture of these....

I picked a hydrangea bloom and wanted to see if I could press pieces of it...

The color is fading on these but I love them so ~

Do you know what this is? I found it growing in our flower bed!

It's a little meaty to press but I have to try ~

My wonderful and fabulous flower press...a big ol' yellow pages book!

Have you heard of this store?

Our son Brad just loves it and he found me a few treasures here this past weekend ~

I guess their Spring items are on clearance and he bought me this set of three nests!!!

They are pine needles held together with something...I just love them ~

And what am I doing in the studio right now?

I've had a few commission jobs to work on

and one is a sweet little charm

for a friend ~

I love using these microscope slides but they are very tricky to cut smaller...

The charm holds an old photograph of Pam's father ~

she lost him several years ago but wanted to have charm

to wear in memory of him...

I'm a little rusty with the soldering but it came out pretty good!

It's only 1" x 1", teeny, right? :)

I need to get these projects completed (finishing my flea bag is next!)

so I can get the studio cleaned up for

Where Blogger's Create this Friday!!!!

I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday precious friends ~

hugs and love,

Dawn

Speckled egg charms, bunny fluff & beautiful postcards ~

I started working on three little egg charms that will adorn "little bird girl" dresses ~ I'm a little rusty with the soldering but got a little better the more I did. Thank goodness the "look" I'm going for is rustic! BTW, I use microscope slides for these charms....I cut them in half! Not an easy task either but I'm trying to get better at it :) I found these two boxes on ebay....

When I went outside today look at this sweet little tuft of bunny hair that I found! I couldn't resist it....I know, I'm crazy :) I just hope the rabbit wasn't hurt while losing it!

I keep my soldering supplies in a small suitcase in my studio. I still can't believe I'm calling it a studio but oh well, it just sounds so "official".... but back to the suitcase, it keeps all the items together and works really well. I have a box of beautiful old postcards that I've been collecting as I love to make color copies of them and sandwich them between two pieces of glass then solder around. I just had to share some with you!!!

Please click these to enlarge, then right click to save to your own computer. You can frame the copies that you print out or use in your artwork ~

You all are so wonderful ~
have a great Tuesday sweet friends,

xxoo, Dawn