I am so excited to share today’s artist with you all! I think what she does is just beautiful and takes just the right creative eye to do what she does. I’ll let her do the talking in this post! I hope you all enjoy her work and definitely go check out her fabulous Etsy site to grab some of her awesome items!
And thank you Dawn for being so wonderful through this process. I am so glad to have come across your beautiful work.
Meet Dawn.
Hi! My name is Dawn…I am a junker…a modern day treasure hunter of sorts. I love finding old and quirky things for the home. I love the forgotten, the tossed away, the broken, the imperfect, the rusty. I see beauty in things that have been abandoned. I go for long walks and come home with my pockets full…a fabulous shell, a heart shaped rock, beach glass, or an incredibly cool piece of driftwood. I prefer silly flowers on the rise of the road to flowers from the store. I also spend hours sewing and re-purposing old grain sack and burlap bags…my latest obsession are old bank bags. I love the graphics and the unexpected element it provides in a room. I love flea markets, salvage yards, swap meets and going through old homes. I feel a bit like an archeologist…digging through lots of junk and saving bits of history at the same time.
I am inspired by nature, the beach and the creative process. Nothing feels better than making something beautiful out of something old and headed for the dump. I love anything French, architectural, and industrial. I just love the ying and the yang. I sell at local markets in the Seattle/Portland/Spokane area. I also sell smaller vintage items online at www.greatfindz.etsy.com and my pillows are in a few stores in the Seattle/Portland Are. I am blessed to have an incredibly patient and talented husband…and my kids, well they are wonderful. In our free time we head to the beach, relax, make great food, walk the beach, roast marshmallows, fill out pockets and come up with more fabulous ideas.
Aren’t these just gorgeous!
Dawn also created these beautiful framed artwork. She harvests seaweed from the Puget Sound and presses them. Then she mixes them with ledger paper from the late 1800’s. Amazing.
