In life we don’t alway find everything topped with a glittery crown…

…or can we?

I love adding the final touches to a wonderfully crafted piece of art.  One of my favorites is to add a glittery, shimmery crown.  I was working on one such piece today.

Sweet Gracie sits and watches over me as I create...always with a satisfying look of approval~

~I mentioned that I am moving my on-the-move art studio back to the not-so-glamorous laundry room – which is going to work out perfect (so I keep telling myself).  Each time I rearrange this part of my life, all I can think about doing is creating that next piece.  I think it has to do with the freshness and tidiness of it all.  Let me tell you, this area is still showing a bit of chaos but every little bit I just have to sit down and tinker.

I then moved on to washing all of my windows feeling a little bit pouty because I just wanted to make something fun.  Because I had just made the sweet crown for Miss Gracie, I found ‘myself’ telling ‘myself’ that life isn’t always going to be about adding the fun glittery crown.  Work has to be done and my life demands that I be productive in a variety of areas.

Well…the longer I washed windows the happier I got.  I LOVE clean windows so much and they have been BAD for a while now.  As I was standing here…

You know the place I'm talking about!

…so I could reach the tippy top of my windows I found myself smiling, not just because I like to live a little on the edge, but I was able see the wonderful benefits of my hard work.  That’s when I decided that my finished product, even here, was indeed a shiny crown.

this view demands clean windows!

I began thinking deep thoughts like:  when we do what is right and good there are always benefits, we may not see or realize them as quickly as we can when we wash 2 sides of a window and sometimes we have to look long and hard but it’s there, even if it’s just the joy we experience from it (joy can never be over-rated!!!).

Watch for the shiny, shimmery, glittery crowns in your life!

So often we’re surrounded by those crowns but we just aren’t looking hard enough to see them.

Custom soldered charms…

Here are a few orders that I am getting out today

These two girls, who are on their way to Tennessee, are two of my favorites. – They seem to be on opposite extremes but farmgirls all the same.  They would both fit in at Mary Janes Farm.  I’ve got to tell you that she {Mary Jane} puts out the best magazine.  I’m so excited that just this year it has become a regular subscription (she used to put out 1 or 2 a year…and it has always been a quality magazine).  With each issue that comes I just get tingly all over.

I wanted to say thanks to a new blogging friend @ Diane Knott’s Musings, for giving me some painting advise.  What a delightful gal with some great inspirations…as an added BONUS, she has vintage images that she shares throughout her blog.

I was just reminded that my original artwork of the girl picking the apples has this on the bottom.