Secret Stash Chest..............

 The trouble with posting things I really want to show you is that I usually can't  because they're a gift.  That was the case here.  I made this chest for my daughter's birthday which was February 25

 and because of the weather I couldn't get it to her for a month. 

Yesterday I made it to Billings and gave her the late birthday gift.  I think she was delighted with it.

The legs and key as well as the knob are Tim Holtz and the prints that I covered it with are from The Graphics Fairy.  

A whole lot of love......................

Mother was in a nursing home for several years and I know how long the days were for her.  She said once " I just love it when I see somebody from the "outside""

For Valentine's Day I created a Valentine for each of the patients in one of the local nursing homes - 65 people.  Each was made with Valentine greetings as well as a small scripture verse.  Our local Hallmark store is going out of business and they were kind enough to let me have envelopes. It will be fun to deliver as many as I can personally. 

Not mine but to God's glory.
                                                                                                                  Diane 

Journal page.................

This sassy little girl looked just right for claiming ownership of her home.  I like to do cutouts in my journal - they look so good laying on top of another page.  This is in a little 4 x6 journal and I'm almost at the end of it.   I kind of like the way they look all together

 and they're small enough to take anywhere.   Diane

Sparkle to share...............

I made this several years ago.  It's made from a lot of broken jewelry and other sparkly embellishments.  It weighs a lot.  I have to hang it from a very sturdy branch on the tree.  It always lifts my heart.          Diane

The state of my studio.........................

 Christmas has come to my art studio and I'm long overdue for a post.  So here are a few things, some you've seen, some you haven't.  The sweet little tag hanging from the top of the mirror (blue ribbon) was made by my daughter as was what you can see of the scherenshitte. 

A little Halloween still occupies the top of a chest of drawers.  My little great-grandson made me a picture and I just love it there so I left some potion bottles out to give it some company. 

Just like your house there's much creating but most of it I can't post - Santa's secrets, you know. 
It's been so cold here so it's great for spending more time writing, creating and playing in my studio.  I've definitely decided the yellow in this room has to go.  A dreadful job moving all this stuff to paint but sooner or later I have to do it.  I'm thinking maybe one wall at a time...............or maybe a half wall at a time. 
I hope you're having a wonderful December.    Blessings, Diane

Not quite rich.................

The last two evenings on the news they've been talking about an anonymous graffiti artist in NYC who creates his street art and is gone before anyone can see him.  People think they could make a lot of money on his art if they could just find it in time. One of the pictures he created sent me running to my journals.

I had found an old book - maybe the 1960s - at SA and liked this picture (same one) and put it in my journal.  The picture was longer but I had to cut it down to make it fit my pages.

                                                                          Diane

Poe

Don't we all just love Edgar Allen Poe?  Quite a nice looking gentleman, really, a bit on the morose side, though.  He fits this little SA frame quite well and I think he's looking forward to Halloween fun.  Diane