Happy Thanksgiving

This is one of my latest pieces of art and it looked befitting for Thanksgiving as the girl seems to be thankful. This piece was made from a small tin, purple beads, a small doll from a thrift store, a playing card and a "crystal."

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I am thankful for my health, my patient husband, my 2 children in college that will be with me tomorrow and through the weekend, and my art. I am sad that my dad is still in the hospital after 6 weeks. I don't know that he will ever be going home. I love you Dad.

Small tins boxes and a bit of imagination...

I have collected small tins for a while just because they might come in handy some day. I also had a little drawer of metal "spacers" to use in between a piece of art and a picture frame to take up some slack. I was playing around with my metal items and figured out I could take the top of the tin off with plyers and glue the spacer to the top of the tin so it could hang and be a little "shrine."