Seeing the beauty ~

Gifts for you....

I was so very fortunate to win a little bundle of French treasures
from Marcy of The Brocantess ~
Just the simple beauty of the bundle made me swoon....

Gorgeous treasures, each beautiful all on its own
but together...so wonderful!

Of course you know I had to share the religious card with you ~

Thank you so very much sweet Marcy!!!
The treasures are so beautiful and
very much appreciated ~
hugs and love to you ~

I forgot to show you this one little butter pat I found last Saturday.
Crazed and a bit stained ~ but so beautiful....

Our son Brad works for Kirkland's and they were throwing away a broken angel from Christmas....and look what that sweetie saved for me!!!
Angel wings...a bit worn, a bit tattered but beautiful.

I hit the jackpot at one of the places we stopped Saturday
and I bought all of these galvanized jar lids,
with the porcelain inserts.....
perfect for simple linen pincushions for our space ~
Rusty, rugged and old but just beautiful.

Books that I found simply because I loved their covers.
Old, scuffed and torn ~ but beautiful because of it all....

And this little goodie is not so beautiful
but definitely helps to create beauty!!
I found this at Walmart, it's a Martha punch
that makes photo corners!!!
I'm so loving this thing.....

I hope your week has been going so good....
I've been working on my new tutorial for Artist Class ~
My angel collage....
If you'd like to sign up just click here, be sure to type in
thefeatherednest
for a 10.00 discount!!
There are so many other artist's involved in Artist Class too.
And the best thing is that you don't have to do all of them
right away. Save each of the tutorials to your own computer
and make them when you have the time!

Wishing you an amazingly beautiful Thursday sweet friends,
hugs and love,
Dawn

Confessions of a blogger ~

So what am I going to confess?
Well, sometimes....I got nothing. I mean it.
Sometimes I've not been creative,
or I'm tired and just I have no imagination whatsoever!
But does that mean I won't blog?? Not a bit!!!

I still have to say hello, that I'm so glad to be here,
that I'm so very glad you're here
and that I've been fortunate enough
to "meet" so many of you through this blog of mine.

I'm coming up on my 3 year blogiversary
February 11th and of course
I want to have a giveaway to celebrate!!
So now I just need to decide what to give away....


Here are a few more images I scanned for you
from the books that I found this weekend!

I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday precious friends,
hugs and love,
Dawn

Something old, something new....

I scanned a wonderful page from one of the old books I found Saturday ~
I hope you can use it in some way....

Here are a few of the treasures we unearthed Saturday too ~
I found a few goodies for me :)
I cannot WAIT to make this silver tray into a collage....

The books were so inexpensive and the more rugged and worn, the better!

I know you've seen one of these serving pieces before,
it's not old but I've always thought they were neat!

And this, an old stamp holder....

an old folding ruler ~

This is the largest, heaviest pair of scissors I've ever seen!

I found these journals last week at Books-a-Million
and loved that they are covered in creamy fabric....

I've been wanting to make a few velvet strawberries lately,
but this is about as far as I've gotten....

Our lunch with our old classmate Ray and his wife Holly was so much fun!!!
It's still hard to believe that we hadn't seen each other in thirty years....
Ray creates pottery (as well as being a teacher for gifted students)
and he gave Dawn and I both some of his art pottery!!!!
I think it's beautiful ~

I have some wonderful news too....our second oldest son,
David, is now engaged to his sweet love, Jerri!!
We are so excited and they are going
to have the neatest wedding in October ~
they will be married out in the country on some land
with a little cottage and a barn ~
they will be roasting a pig!!!
It's going to be such a blast ~

Thank you so much for stopping by to see me...
I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday sweet friends!!!
hugs and love,
Dawn