Feathers ~

I hope you have an amazing Thursday dear friends,
xxoo, Dawn

Thank you all so much!!

Because of YOU....
I won the beautiful French burlap king pillow slips
from Michelle at Petit Coterie!!!!
Thank you for commenting on my behalf ~ you are such angels...
and believe me, they are BEAUTIFUL!
I love the texture and the graphics ~ Thank you so very much Michelle....
they're absolutely wonderful!

We don't have a king-sized bed, just a queen, but knew that I could use them in a different way to enjoy their beauty....at first I thought I might use them as valances but I ended up deciding on chair slips for two ladderback chairs in my studio. I'm just going to stitch them loosely by hand so if I ever do want to use them on pillows I can! They're just pinned together now ~

And I have to share with you a sweet little doll dress I found ~
look at the tiny blue handstitching....

I even love the crumpledness (is this a word?) of it ~ precious......

This sweet angel dozed off after playing so hard in her little jumper ~ hugging her glow worm....

Cindy at The Plum Tree has another contest going on this week!!! The prizes are featured in the photo above ~ such beautiful goodies! Just click HERE to read all about it....

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday sweet friends,
xxoo, Dawn

A peek inside a favorite ~

Do you have this book Vintage Treasures? It's one of the books I chose to take with me last week and I forgot how beautiful and inspiring it is!!

Just the cover alone makes my heart skip a beat ~

The ideas throughout are simple, elegant and so beautiful ~

This is what my lavender sachets need to look like!! I'm going to try this.....

Apply vintage lace to lampshades to enjoy its beauty ~

Simple vintage pins and satin ribbon adorn gifts ~

You would love this book!

I added a little snippet of lace that was a gift to the knob of my cabinet ~

Placed a vintage crocheted bootie inside my stained and crazed creamer ~
the other bootie is on my advent calendar I created for Somerset...
it signifies when our first son was born December 20th.

And I added a tiny bundle of hair pins still wrapped up ~
why do I like them? I don't know....
I just do ~

I just love new bloggers. I feel like they are sweet little chicks that we should wrap our wings around, don't you agree?
I've recently found Amanda and her blog I should be grading papers....
how wonderful is that name?

I would love for you to stop by and show her the blog love
when you get a minute ~

I hope you have an amazing Tuesday dear friends!

hugs and love,
Dawn

What inspires you?

When we left for our trip last week, I packed a bag FULL of books and magazines ~ it was so heavy I could hardly carry it!! Now, I'm not talking fiction or novels, but books chock full of ideas and inspiration.

Just looking at magazines and books can get your mind going. One idea will lead to a new thought, and you may think of something you already have and that you could use to make that idea come to fruition.

Somerset Life is so full of imagination ~ you can see someone's creation and then make it your own by using what you have around you and incorporating your style and taste.

A little set of pens I found at Hobby Lobby.... love them!

The beginnings of fairy shoes.....I molded the shape first out of thin aluminum foil and then covered them with the paperclay ~ they seem a little bulky, kind of like wooden shoes, but we'll see how they turn out! I want to cover them with velvet petals cut really tiny....

Some more goodies from Hobby Lobby. The beads are going to be eyes in a paper clay doll ~

And you know something else that inspires me?
Precious friends who take the time to send you paint swatches that you fall in love with on their blog!!!!

Isabel of Maison Douce painted several things with this shade that she mixed herself!
I commented that I'd love to know the formula and she mailed me swatches so I can get it color matched at the store ~
Thank you so much Isabel, you are an angel!!

Simmering ideas inspire me as well.....this little doll dress has been resting inside the back of this canvas for awhile now. I've been wanting to work on the back of a canvas and I think it will make a beautiful showcase for this precious dress.

I'm not even going to iron the creases out ~ don't you love the way it looks just as it is?

Thank you again if you purchased one of my tutorials last week!!! I had an amazing response and appreciate it so much! I still have two customers that haven't let me know which tutorial they want and I've tried to contact them but with no response. If you're reading this, and didn't receive your tutorial, just email me at: sewmanyroses@yahoo.com to let me know :)

Wishing you a wonderful Monday sweet friends!!!
hugs and love, Dawn

A sweet giveaway!!!

Sherri at Punk Rose Journal is having the most wonderful giveaway and you know I love sharing the giveaway love.....just CLICK HERE to visit her blog and comment to win!!!

xxoo, Dawn