Inspiration Friday ~

I'm joining Debra of Common Ground's Inspiration Friday!

Now that it's December and just a few weeks away from Christmas

I thought I'd share a few photos,
images and projects I've shared here earlier ~

I love this photo of our vintage ornaments...
feel free to use it if you'd like!

My vanilla rag ball...

Sweet cones created from office file folders, spray glue, fabrics and trims ~

My chubby sparkly snowman ~

The most adorable vintage postcard I scanned for you ~

Be sure to click to enlarge and save to your own computer.

A copy of an old Christmas postcard on thin wood ~

The projects from my Christmas Treasures tutorial ~

A small metal star I spray painted cream,

then sprayed with spray glue and sprinkled with clear glitter.

You've seen this guy before :)

A vintage snowman I scanned for you too ~

The Christmas season is certainly upon us now ~

Wishing you a wonderful Friday dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Playing a little with design ~

I worked most of the afternoon yesterday on my very own label design!

As I fumble through Photoshop :)
my sweet son Brent gives me tips and I try to

learn one technique at a time.
Layers, opacity, etc. it's all a lot to absorb.

I used to be a graphic designer by trade
but just barely dipped my toes

into Photoshop before I "retired" as my sweet DH calls it :)

I've sold a few packages of my shea butter egg shaped soap
this past week and

knew I needed to get the design for the label finished

so it would be consistent

on all the packages.....

The new label is really quite simple and

it will look beautiful with the robin's egg blue soap too ~

and of course I HAD to use seam binding with it,

I just love crinkled seam binding!!!

These photos were taken at night....
I'll try to take a few more in the daylight ~

If you need a package or two...

you can purchase them HERE.

Our Noah put the tree up the other night and started adding

ornaments then had to stop at bedtime ~
I've got to get busy and finish it....

it's already beautiful to me though.

I guess it's beginning to look like Christmas around here!

Wishing you a wonderful Thursday dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Small steps ~

Since moving to our new/old little farmhouse the first of October

well, really the middle of September....

I've not made much progress in decorating our new home!

I've been weeding out our stuff,
and trying to figure out what goes, what stays ~

I think we still have too much but I'll keep weeding.....

a true hoarder's promise, RIGHT??!!!!

I still have NOTHING on the walls and if only you knew how much

I have to hang...you would LAUGH your head off!!!

But I walked through the dining room today and thought

it didn't look too terribly bad and
I took a couple of photos to share with you.

I love this old place.....

can you see how much stuff I have crammed in that shelf????

You gotta love a hoarder just a little bit :)

BEFORE:

AFTER:

I hope to show you more of the farmhouse soon...

maybe even with something on the walls!!

Ellie likes the new digs pretty good herself!

Have a WONDERFUL Wednesday precious friends ~

hugs and love,

Dawn