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I just adore all of Dawn at The Feathered Nest's Creations and I love reading her blog~

She is having a wonderful give away right now that is just as precious as can be ~

I love the publication, Somerset Life ~ it is always so much fun when a new one comes out and I rush down to Barnes and Noble to get it as soon as it does ~

This issue was even better because one of the features was about an amazingly talented lady that I have met through her blog ~ I was blog surfing quite awhile ago and ran in to Dawn Edmonson's blog called The Feathered Nest ~ it is one that I visit every day because she always has such beautiful things whether it be something she has created or something just to show us ~ In Somerset Life she shows how she recreates vintage baby shoes in to sweet treasures ~

Visiting blogs amazes me at all of the talent out there and can be quite addictive ~

There are awesome giveaways going on right now that I wanted to tell you about ~ These ladies are so very talented and always have the yummiest things on their blogs ~

Click on the picture to visit Dawn at The Feathered Nest ~

Click on the picture to visit Lisa at Tarnished and Tattered ~

Click on this picture to visit Daphne Nicole & Lynda Cade ~

Click on the picture to visit Barbara Jean at Treasures from the Heart ~

I was thrilled to finally be able to attend

one of Lisa of Tarnished and Tattered's classes ~

The one that I got to take was on

Elements of Collage and it was taught at

Cottage Panache in Richland Hills, Texas ~

It was alot of fun to get to soak in some of Lisa's talent !!

She had a sweet box full of treasures waiting

at each of our spots and tons and tons of laces,

trims and ephemera for us to play with ~

( Excuse the not so hot pictures, some were taken with my Iphone )

This is the awesome collage that Lisa did for our sample ~

This is the collage that I did ~

Dawn from The Feathered Nest made

all of the precious shoes ~

They are sooo cute !

Here are pictures of the other ladies artwork ~

I love how they all came out and

it was fun to see the differences in them ~

I am looking forward to more classes soon !

I just adore vintage buttons and skeleton keys
so I collect them everywhere I go ~

Last year I bought one of Dawn from The Feathered Nest's tutorials,
I love them all !
I wanted to play with some of the vintage buttons and skeleton keys so I made
little picture holders using old salt and pepper shakers ~

This is also some lace that was added to my website last night~
It is wrapped around a tea dyed stamped tag that is ohhhh so cute !

If you would like to purchase the little picture holders or lace cards
you can find them in our Vintage Finds Category ~

Spring is here, and you don’t even need to look outside your kitchen window or open your front door to know it. Just waking up to the sweet melody of a backyard robin cheerily singing outside your window is enough to tell you that life is renewed and spring is reborn. The birds of spring have returned and the earth reawakens.

Outside, in our fenced yards and open fields, brightly colored bluebirds and streaked song sparrows flit between tree branches and land carefully among the budding leaves. Singing songs of love to each other, chirping madly over jealousies. Bringing home odds and ends to build their nests - bits of bright string, broken twigs. Items insignificant to everyone else, but the stuff of life for the feathered set.
With the return of spring, we find our winged friends building homes in every unclaimed corner…. under the eaves of buildings, in riverbanks, on rocky ledges, suspended from tips of tree branches, hidden under flaps of loose bark. Even in the nest boxes we offer up with hope. Hanging baskets, mail boxes, old boots, flower pots. Any place that somehow looks like home.
No matter where we live, or what the season, avian accessories create eternal springtime in our homes too. Birds and their nests placed carefully upon our shelves, painted delicately on a wall, stitched on a delicate needlepoint. Perhaps we invite into our homes the same birds we see each spring.

Make sure and join Katies Rose Cottage and the participating shops at Make Mine Pink for Pink Friday "For the Birds" ~

The vintage images are from Lunagirl.com