Those of you who have ever received cards and letters from me know, I always treat you with a cool stamp. (you should be saving those...hint,hint.) This is the style I bought today, when I discovered I had used up all of my Jamestown stamps at Christmas.
I've been wanting a bottle tree for a long, long, time. The first one I ever saw was way back when I was at AU. I kinda had a bottle tree (bush)while we were at Bell Road, and I moved my small collection of Blue bottles. After almost loosing the collection to a clean up effort, (I can see where they may look like drunken garbage)I decided I better plan my bottle tree here at ThirteenEleven. Our yard here is still a bit of an overgrown kudzu jungle, and I think there is a fine line from a bottle tree looking junky rather than artsy, cool, and historic so I am not sure the timing is right for the tree. These are some Ideas that I like, I tend to favor the more organic looking trees over the post looking trees, and I definitely like the all cobalt blue trees over the multi colored trees.
I went to see a private collection of Russian Icons.
a little closer.......... he looks like "the one".
this representation must be a younger version...
and here........ another representation of Saint Nick....
All of the photographs are copyrighted (or I would show one here)but there are some incredible pictures that tell the story of raising a coyote, Charlie, in the wilds of Wyoming. Love it!!!!
http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com
Look at the new banner and I made it myself. !!!!!
The letters on the left look a little fuzzy so I need to fix that.
Inspired with what Plum Tree Studios is doing with children's clothes and LullaBelle and Easy Edges Studios are doing with bags, etc. I thought I would play around with some scrap fabrics that I picked up working on the condo project. It is a square pillow topper. I guess..... It still needs ironing and my tension was a little tight. But kinda fun for a first fabric project in a long time. In college I made a lot of pillows and gave to friends and family and sold at a craft sale. I saw some things like this at market the other week, so I thought I would give it a try.....
Art inspired from.....all the trips out west.......
