Things I love...

So many different things inspire me...

beautiful old bits and bobs, magazines, books,

amazing artists and their creations ~

and then there are these....

wonderful, gorgeous, old illustrations and paintings.

I love to collect them ~

Don't you just love them all?





Please don't faint...but I am READING A BOOK!!!
And a WONDERFUL one at that!!!
Jessica Dotta sent me preview copy of her first book
Born of Persuasion
and I just LOVE IT!!!

It's perfect for those who love Downton Abby.....
I'm still not finished but will give a review very, vert soon PLUS
I'm participating in Jessica's 31 days of giveaways!!!!

Wishing you a great Friday dear friends ~

hugs and love,

Dawn

Sweet speckled eggs ~

So....I've been working quite a bit lately!!!

And on what you say?

Creating these wonderful, speckled soap eggs ~

Each little one is hand-poured...hand-cleaned...then thoroughly

inspected before we package them up for shipping!

Being the perfectionist that I am, I've learned quickly

how to clean them, smooth out any imperfections and

of course, you know I love the packaging part!!

I made these robins egg blue soaps just yesterday ~

don't you love the pale blue shade?

Each one is approx. the size of a quail egg,

a perfect size to me!!

We're creating them in other shades now, pale green and pale yellow too ~

But the blue, pink and of course, ivory are still my favs.

If you like to peek at our soap shop

just CLICK HERE!!

I hope you're having a great week....

wishing you a beautiful Thursday precious friends ~

hugs and love,

Dawn

Creating a little and missing you...

I love blogging so.

I love my friends here and our connection to each other ~

you always, always inspire me and you know

that I pray that I can do the same for you!

We had a wonderful, relaxing weekend and I finally got back

to making a little something!

I've had this most amazing vintage ironstone sugar dish for a few years now

and finally decided it was time to upcycle this sweetie into a pincushion!

Here she is all finished...perfect with staining, crazing and of course

you know I had to add a little lace, seam binding and rhinstones :)

I've added this new pincushion to my Etsy if you'd like to take a look!

A week or so ago, we went to an estate sale so I thought I'd share

my teeny tiny finds with you!

The pincushion is in the pic and was in progress....

Not much but still sweet things ~

I love this little chair so much...it's stained a little too much but I hope to fix that ~

I think some folks collect these...

And our precious grandson Murray visited Sunday
as Brent and Emily took Clara

to the movies to see Despicable Me 2.
Look at his two new teeth! He's already 10 months old ~

good grief the time just flies by.

Clara was a happy girl after the movie and I know she loved

having some one-on-one time with her mama and daddy!

I hope you are doing so, so good

and thank you always for visiting me here!!!

Happy Tuesday precious friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn