Indulge Your Shelf

I've made a commitment lately to participate in the Tag Tuesday blog , where we have a weekly theme and create and post a tag.  This week's theme was "Minibeasts" -- aka, bugs.  It was a challenge.  I personally am not a real bug person.  I admit that while I admire bees and such, I don't particularly care for them, nor do they inspire me to want to make art -- not even butterflies.  So after a lot of thought, I ended up making this tag based upon a favorite book, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. Charlotte, you'll remember, was a spider who befriended a small pig named Wilbur and saved his life with some clever web-writing.  Now, I must tell you, of all the beasties in the whole beastie realm, spiders are my least favorite.  I am actually very afraid of them, and have been all my life.  I well remember hearing about Charlotte's Web when I was in first or second grade and being sure I wouldn't care for it -- being about a spider and all.  ...

I couldn't believe that I found a fish image that inspired me for Tag Tuesday!  In this case, Un poisson d'Avril .  Isn't she adorable?  You can read about it over at Tag Tuesday ! Today's my buddy Rebecca's birthday and I'm surprising her with a piece of architectural salvage I found at a friend's sale downtown yesterday; I added a very simple burlap tag I made in place of a birthday card.  I couldn't get a photo of the whole thing, but it's quite a bit taller than I am.  I can't wait to see what she does with it! Tomorrow we're remembering the 11th birthday of the child we sponsor through Compassion International; he lives in Peru and is getting so big!  Little boys have a way of doing that. Of course, this birthday made me very happy this week as well.  The emotion I felt was unexpected, but they are young and their lives as a family of 3 are just beginning; it brought back many, many happy memories of when Dennis and I were...

I thought you'd like to see the progress I've made on a couple of recent projects: You may recall the holder I fashioned a while back from old architectural trim and fencing; here it is, with a few tags hanging from it; I decided to add the wreath I made at Birdsong III in the center.  I really like the look of the two projects together! Here's  that trunk I bought a few weeks ago, chalk painted.  It's a work in progress, but I am liking it so far! If you get chance, please visit the Tag Tuesday blog ; I'm playing along with many other contributors with a different theme each week.  This past week:  The Roaring Twenties I must admit I'm having a bit of difficulty being inspired by the most recent tag themes; but, that might just be because I'm not doing as much creating these days so it takes me a while to find my muse.  Especially with this week's theme: Fish.   Fish?   I'm sure I'll be blown away with what everyone else com...

I'm excited to be a new contributor at the fun blog, Tag Tuesday .  Each week we have a theme, create a tag, and post it.   Then we get to enjoy everyone's tags all week. My first tag, for the letter "U", is now up on the blog .  Everyone's welcome to visit/follow along!