Giving With Love

Valentine's Ornament: Collage, Wire, Beads, Ribbons

I want to do more giving this year.   I actually started in December when I gave this heart ornament to a customer.  I had not responded to an order within the time frame which I had allotted myself, so I apologized and promised to send him a free gift.

For artists and crafters the best free gifts are the ones we'd rather keep, or sell, or reserve for special people.  True love involves sacrifice, and while I can't say that I loved my customer from California, I can say that my giving spirit was based in love.  I do appreciate my customers and want them to always feel that I care enough to provide them with the very best service.



Valentine's Ornament -back-: Rubberstamping, Hand-lettering



I really liked this ornament, especially since I had salvaged it from a group of three wooden hearts.  They were rustically strung together with twine, and made to encircle large candle jars.  Years ago I had ordered it from a coworker who shared a catalog from her child's school.  I had never used it before I decided to clip, snip and create!

You know that I enjoy working in small spaces so much, which is why my palm-sized ornament is so elaborate and exquisite.  It was a labor or LOVE, but isn't just about everything for us creative types?  When I stamped this cherub on the back, it didn't transfer perfectly.  I had to lovingly fill it in with a metallic pen.

I released it with joy, knowing that it was flying away on the wings of a good cause.  I keep a box of items that I prefer to give as incentive gifts, and I add to it from various sources.  This thank you gift was not from that box, but that is okay.  In a way it was sold too, just as any other item ordered from me.