Books

I still love books.  I have discovered that I could reserve books online from the whole library system and pick them up at my local library, so I usually have a huge stack of books that I'm reading all at the same time.
 As you may expect a lot of these books are on art and craft.  I also have developed an interest in natural beauty books and have found some that I love. I figure that any book that I would consider actually buying must be worth recommending!

So this book is called Green Beauty Recipes by Julie Gabriel.  Right at this moment I'm trying her "milk and yeast lifting mask" (on my face!)  It's supposed to make a big difference in over-30 skin when used twice a week for 2 months +.  I'll let you know how it goes.
My plan is to plant an herb garden and create my own little mixtures for skin and hair. 

Do you have any favorite natural beauty secrets? Or favorite books?

Another use for tea towels

I had a couple of crazily cut tea towels, so I decided to use them as curtains- I think they turned out pretty cute (if you don't mind me saying!)...

Top Secret

A friend of mine is putting together a fund raiser called
Art2Life  where artists fill a box with whatever art they make, and the boxes are sold off for $100 each.  The purchaser has no idea what is in the box- how fun eh?

Anyway these are my block prints that I made for my donated box. 
A set of local barns.

Little Houses

As you might have noticed I love little houses- I have been seeing them all over for the past few years, and now lately more than ever.  Here are a few of mine...

going to stores (yah!)

little villages on little bags

found at a local thrift store

one of my pocket pillows