Getting Caught Up

It was a busy weekend, but good busy. I am afraid though, this might sound like a brag post when it is all finished.
I am never very comfortable when I do that, but I just had to share some things I am very happy about today.
First things first. My daughter who has three children and is very busy but has managed to draw and write in spite of very full hands. One of the things I have loved about being a mother has been seeing my children far exceed anything I ever dreamed. Just so you know, in my head as I write this, I hear my grandmother's words,
"Aw well Kim, every crow's baby is the blackest." So I will stop.
A e-zine used her art work for their cover art. I am so excited and so very proud of her.The e-zine is called The Cross and the Cosmos.

We finally got the cubby box finished and mounted. Do you like how I always add "We" My husband did all of the work. I just tell him what is in my head and he figures out a way to make it.

You know how I prefer old wood over new wood. A year or so he found a old desk in an alley when he was at work. He brought it home and we used it for awhile outside. Then he finally took it all apart and we have used the wood for nesting boxes for the chickens, he had made planting boxes out of some of it and he had just a couple of drawers left and he asked me if I could think of anything to use them for. Well, I had been thinking of this lady's house I visited when I was young and she had one of these things in her entry way. I stood and looked at each treasure she had and in one of the boxes she had a brass ring from a Merry-go-round. She told me all about it and I was thinking about her brass ring and her box. So out of the leftovers he had left he made me this. I think it is just so great.

I put all of my little treasures on it last night. I have such odds and ends.

I have a tea set and an old salt and pepper set that were my grandmothers. In the lower right hand corner are a pair of gloves that were in my grandmothers things, they have rhinestones down the side where your little finger is all the way to the wrist, with black jet beads. They are lovely and make your hands look so pretty.
I have old wooden sewing things and I put my rug hooks on it. I will change it as I come across things I have collected through the years. I even have a tiny little fish from one of my daughters birthday cakes. It is Flounder.
Just a bit of fun. Each thing though tells a story. None of it has much value but it means something to me. Each thing I hold makes me remember who gave it to me or where I found it like the old insulators that were for electric fence, next to the rooster, those were on all of the fences when we moved here. I have picked them up and saved them.

 All of it just like life, it is the littlest things that become the biggest treasures and blessings, and it is the tiny things that make up the magic of life.
Have a lovely week.
~Kim~