More Altered Art for the Bathroom

I have a clear glass pump bottle in my bathroom that holds my hand soap. I refilled it with some bath gel that one of my girls got for a gift at some point (angel food cake scent). I poked some tiny glass pebbles through the neck to sink to the bottom of the bottle. I also poked some itty bitty silk flowers into it - to kind of float in the liquid soap.

Then I made this little tag (about 2x4 inches) to tie onto the neck of the soap bottle in my new sepia and wine colored bathroom.
The base is cardboard. I scanned a piece of old music and a wedding picture and printed Hand Soap on it. The bit of lace is again from Betty at She's Sew Pretty. Thanks Betty!
I added a little paper flower held on with a black snap. Lastly, I "laminated" it with some clear packing tape, punched a hole in the top and added a cutting of twine...The twine from the magazines I found curbside!!!!! Recycle, indeed.

Image you see in your mind

I know this is a common image. One you may see many times over.

To me this is a comfort image. A copy of this picture in a cheapy plastic frame (the kind that yellows with age) hung in my bedroom as a child. This is what I saw every day when I opened my eyes, every night before I fell asleep and all the in betweens.

Sometimes as an adult, when I feel stressed out, I close my eyes tight and bring that image up to the front of my mind like a slide show of zillions of things my brain has processed.

That is comfort to me.

Doodles

I have been in an art mood lately. These are some of my recent doodlings. The little cabin is ink with watercolor paint. The others are colored pencil.

The mushroom house is ink with colored pencil and uses daisies snipped from scrapbook paper above the mushroom roof for a tiny bit of texture difference. I colored the bird and nest and bluebird on the mushroom picture separately and then snipped and pieced them on for the same reason. I like the way it looks in person - it may be hard to see the paper layering effect for you.
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