Framing an Artist's Work

You may remember me mentioning in this post, back in October, my lucky winnings from the fantastic mixed media artist

 Becky Shander.  

She had a giveaway for a copy of the new publication of Mingle magazine.  That was a great gift in itself, but making the giveaway even sweeter (and in my opinion  maybe even better than the mag!) was Becky enclosing a piece of her gorgeous mixed media art.

I knew I was going do something special with it for sure.

I finally got around to repainting a tiny, ornate frame that I picked up at GW a few years back.

Mounted the sweet little fabric tag onto burlap and a piece of cardboard, and placed it in the frame.

That special little piece of artwork is hanging in my living room on a little bit of wall.  

Perfect fit.

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Quiet Saturday Morning

It's an absolutely beautiful Saturday morning here.  Sunny and crisp outside.  Quiet and peaceful inside.

Hubby's gone to play a round of golf.  Son No. 3 is still in bed.  

And I have a new stack of reading material.  

Romantic Homes.  One of my favorites of all the "romantic" decor style magazines.

At first I was going to take my cup of vanilla biscotti coffee and the pile of new mags outside on the deck, but it was still just a bit too nippy.  So, I decided I'd venture off to a place I rarely visit . . . well, rarely visit for the purposes of relaxing, that is.  

The living room or sitting room.  

Off I went.  

I plopped into one of the soft, oversized chairs, threw my feet up on the ottoman, and got lost for a while within the pages of all that new inspiration. 

And, yes, that's a tattoo on my ankle.  That was my "turning-40-midlife-crisis-I-need-to-do-something-crazy" moment.  

Joy!  The new issue of Country French.

Always a great source for cute and quick paper crafting ideas.

Oh be still my heart . . . the new PB and Ballard catalogs.  Well, not fresh off the presses, but they've been in my mail basket for a while and I'm just now getting to them.

What a nice way to start out the day.  

Why don't I come in here more often?

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