Announcing an exciting venture for Refind Creations! Starting May 16 we will be selling our creations– candles, home decor, and art projects at the Whatcom Art Market! As members of the Whatcom Art Guild we will be focused on providing beautiful pieces to compliment your home. Hand poured soy candles in antique vessels will be our first featured item. Hope you can come out and support local artisans here in Bellingham!
My husband has joined the creativity and produced his own Refind Creation. Using wood from an old chair to create the frame, copper sheet metal embossed in great detail to form the sand dollar – beautiful addition to our home
Nostalgia
Remembering the past
Idealization of times gone by
Days of old
Bittersweet memories
Nostalgia
Childhood freedom
Unrestrained laughter
Swinging and hiding and seeking
Discovery and dreams
Nostalgia
Longing for what never was
Aching for a past never experienced
In the way it’s remembered
Reminiscing
Leaving out the struggle
Nostalgia
Faded valentines
Handwritten letters tied in paisley ribbon
Envelopes with abbreviated addresses and one cent stamps peeling at the corner
Albums with velvet covers
Sepia toned portraits
Hiding stories of days gone by
Frozen smiles or frowns
Everyone dressed up in their Sunday best
Portraying ideal families in ideal situations
Their own nostalgia created on a tin photographic plate
Someday someone will long for the days of old
And they will mean today
So fun to attend the Whatcom Art Guild monthly meeting tonight.
Got 4th place in Artist of the Month for our candles. Antique insulators and bobeches filled with scented soy wax.
so many beautiful and creative projects presented by very talented people. The theme for the art challenge was “monochrome” so I entered Rust&Roses. This is antique cork taken from old life jackets. I used barbed wire for the rose stems and real dried roses.
These are old things in my otherwise modern home. They are things from my childhood or things I acquired somewhere along the way. Some things I made while others I collected. Enjoy!
Apple Head Dolls – made in about 1974 with our very old neighbor lady Mrs Van Mater
These were given to me when I was little by another elderly neighbor lady Mrs Pate. I love old grannies!
My great aunt Fanny gave me this vase as a wedding gift and this is her family photo album –
This was given to me by another old neighbor lady when I was a child and is still beautiful
And here are several things from my great aunt Margarett, my Grandma, and others:
I have been blessed with treasures from the past which have inspired my life and given me an appreciation for the beauty and details of history and craftsmanship and especially for making beautiful and fun things by hand. Thank you Mrs VanMater for countless hours spent with three little neighbor girls letting us stitch and craft and bake. To my great aunts, grandma, and my own mom for spending time with me and always encouraging me.
Blissful and blessed
©Belindabotzong2017
I know money doesn’t grow on trees
But at Refind Creations sand dollars do!
Sand dollars are one of my favorite Refind Nature sources. The intricate details were created by my favorite Artist! I just embellished those perfections with acrylic and gold pigment to create a unique ornament that can be displayed all year. Mine hangs on my rearview mirror to remind me that the creator of the universe took the time to include minute and magnificent beauty in the details of a simple sand dollar. He loves texture and patterns and leaves his unique fingerprint on every design, as seen below. If you’re out shopping for unique gifts this month please stop by. They are $5 each!
Whatcom Art Market
My latest project .. a Nature Refind Creation.. the original design is my favorite artist in the universe.. I just embellished His amazing handiwork!!
These will be featured as ornaments but for year-round display. I have mine hanging on my rear view mirror.. let me know if you get one how you display it!
Be it ever so humble
There’s no place like home ..
adding Refind Creations home decor with one of my favorite themes .. Home Sweet Home and Heartstrings..
For sale in our booth starting next week
I will place 30 candles to our space at Whatcom Art Market. Fragrances like Home Sweet Home, Peppermint, Lavender and Bergamot Citrus will fill your home with beauty and comfort.
If you’re out shopping and need some unique gifts come check out space at Whatcom Art Market in Fairhaven
10% of all candle sales will be donated to Lighthouse Mission in Bellingham.
My dreams are the color of rust
Sepia tones of things from days gone by
Rusty pipes and brass tinged with the ages, things once useful now forgotten
Refind into new and beautiful
My treasures are covered in dust
Found in bins and trays and hidden places
Discarded glass in hues of blue and green
To be Refind into visions of light
Inspired by things layered in crust
Bark, cones, flowers and leaves
Nature made
Fallen to the floor of the forest, washed up on a beach or piled in a junk store
Refind into creations uniquely beautiful
©Belindabotzong2017
