So, the awesome giveaway I wrote about in the previous post...I WON!!!! In fact, I won the top prize, a $100 shopping spree!! You have no idea how thankful I am, and how happy I was to write to my brother that his gift has once again changed my outlook on life.
My son and I have enjoyed looking at every item in Michelle Allen's
Close to my Art store today, but I am still in such shock that I didn't commit to anything. I do love this Sweet Cupcake clock:
We also love this clock, a cat with a mouse pendulum, because our cat Mina is an accomplished mouser! (We live in a rural area, with a huge field for a backyard, so mice are a constant problem.)
My favorite thing is how
fun her art is. As an untrained Art Journaler, there are many areas of art I am still too scared to try. A cube? No way! A face? Nope, unless it is in the cute, smiley-face style of my mom's when I was in elementary school. I shouldn't take it so seriously.... That's my insight of the day :)
Actually, this is my deeper thought for today:
You never know how something can change another person's life. My brother was just buying his sad sister a gift, hoping to make her smile. There's also another story behind my pink girl bank too, about God and my son James and prayers being answered, but it's rather "round-about," so I'm not going into details. But that girl has really made her presence known around here! So she deserves two more pictures in the limelight:
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| Sitting next to my unfinished jewelry box |
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| Sitting next to my treasure box, also by Michelle Allen |
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