Kindred spirits and the tid-bit box ~

Something wonderful happens when you have a blog. The readers that really end up loving your blog usually like many of the same things that you do. That's what draws us to our fav blogs, these common tastes, what we enjoy doing, collecting or creating.

Today I was fortunate enough to talk to my sweet friend Vikki in Iowa. She found my blog and we are truly kindred spirits in our love of creating ~ so it's always wonderful to talk to her. She will soon have her own blog where she can share some of her creative ideas with everyone.

I'm cheering her on and hope to be introducing her to everyone soon!!

Then I received a phone call from France. Another sweet friend that found my blog a while back, Su, called. She's excited about Gail's new contest going on over a Mind Wide Open, is working on her entry. We worked on her brand new blog together, me here in Georgia and Su way over there in France! We have become kindred spirits as well ~ I'll be introducing you to her very soon too!!

Amazing, huh? Talking to these two precious women, so very far from me, who love my taste and I feel the same about theirs. Kindred spirits. That's what this land of blog does. It brings us together with those we can relate to, share with and enjoy getting to know.

Oh and the box? I call mine a tid-bit box. When I have small pieces of papers left from projects, not big enough to go into the big drawers of papers or folders of images, but too precious to toss. They go in the tid-bit box.

I asked both of these friends today, "do you keep a tid-bit box?" Guess what the answer was. Of course, YES!

I value these tiny things. Snippets of paper. Items that others may see as trash. And these dear friends see their value too. I'm so glad you found me ~

Wishing you a wonderful Thursday dear friends ~ xxoo, Dawn

Some beautiful French images for you ~

I love to share my collection of old papers and images with you. Quite a while back I bought a packet of wonderful old papers from Corey of Tongue in Cheek. They are like brittle antique treasures to me. I keep them all in a very sturdy box for safe keeping. I scanned a few for you today ~ be sure to click to enlarge, then right click with your mouse, select save image as and left click. Then you can save them to a folder on your hard drive!

When you enlarge them, look at the dates on these pieces . . .

I hope you'll be able to use some of these in your artwork. I'm not sure if you can do this with your software, but did you know that if I open one of these images in my photo editing software and then go to print while I'm still in it, I can select all different sizes to print the images in. It's designed for using with regular photos but I love using it to print my vintage images. Try printing on beautiful scrapbooking paper cut down to feed into your printer too!

Have a great Wednesday sweet friends!

xxoo, Dawn

Have you ever heard the saying,"10 lbs. squeezed into a 5 lb. bag?"

That would be my artroom. I love stuff, and by that I mean supplies to create with. I don't deny it ~ I love that if I need a gift for someone special, I have the materials to create a one-of-a-kind gift for them. But we live in a 3 bedroom ranch with a bonus room over the garage. And this little extra bedroom downstairs is my artroom. I have to tell you though, I just love it!

I'm so very thankful for it, however small it is.

My husband is always patient and knows that I have to have space for my "things". I just happen to have a lot of them! I think the measures of this room are about 10' x 10' . . . I finally organized it enough to show you a few photos! It still could use a little more work ~

I came across this little guy that I made about fifteen years ago. He's made with salt dough! One Christmas I made tons of ornaments and sold them. He's all I have left of that creative binge. They were very inexpensive to make though . . . flour, salt, water, paint and sealer ~

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DON'T FORGET, TODAY'S THE DAY . . .

to pop on over to Mind Wide Open and read all about the art challenge that Gail has cooked up and the prize you'll receive if you win!!!

Thank you so much for your sweet words about the Bible verse artwork. I did sell that one but am working on several others now. Hopefully I can get them into my Etsy store as soon as I can find it! Etsy has moved their servers and my internet or whatever has not found the new location. I do hope it's soon though ~

Have a great Tuesday and try to take a little time today to do something you love!

xxoo, Dawn