Making Something...

...With Nothing

There's a Cottonwood tree in the creek behind our house that

I can see perfectly from my kitchen window

{if you know me, you'll know this is my favorite perch}.

Cottonwoods are thirsty trees and for some reason, parts of the them always seem to dry out and stop growing leaves, making them not so pretty.

"Our" tree was just like that until about 3 months ago.

Mother Nature must not have like it either because she rained and winded one day,

so hard, that the rotted/dried part broke off.

And it was BIG!

I got to witness it!

I love the rain so this particular morning

I just happened to be standing at the kitchen sink looking out

 (with the window open),

and BAM! there it went!

It was pretty cool!

The sound, mesmorizing.

My thoughts:

Oooh, there's alot of pretty dried wood to make stuff with!

My first project: Window Treatments!

(my idea and actual attempt didn't quite match up-Scratch!)

Next: Stars!

(this was~and is~a fun one)

I will have a few of these for

The Vintage Marketplace.

Call it my version of a

"Starfish".

{remember; I'm a mountain girl, not a beach girl~but I have to play along}

*Here's my star*

Simple and not much to it.

It's pretty big though.

This one sits at the top of the stairs

and is special...

True story:

This picture right above did a very strange thing

to my camera when I clicked.

It froze.

The picture remained on the screen, where it usually

stays on for a couple of seconds

then goes off,

it stayed.

I turned the camera off,

it stayed.

I freaked out!

I had to take the battery out to fix the problem.

Then guess what?

When I downloaded the pictures,

my computer froze on this picture!!

~????~

I think this is my lucky star.

:)

There's alot of history on the land that we live.

We'll touch on that another time.

Happy Monday everyone!

See ya soon!

xo, Amber

Oh, one more thing!

The girls say hi!