CRO Scratchings #1, a little handmade BOOK

I'm going to be making a little series of little books and this is #1 in the series of CRO Scratchings!!! PLEASe make me an OFFER if interested!!Thanks! Have a SWEET day!

CRO'S PURPLE CROW WITH TREASURES HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PURPLE CROW??? NOW YOU HAVE!!! SHE COMES COMPLETE WITH THE SHINY TREASURES SHE FOUND HANGING FROM HER BILL!

PURPLE CROW IS 7" LONG AND 3" WIDE! sHE HAS POLYESTER BODY WITH YELLOW BUTTON EYES! SHE IS VERY LOVING BECAUSE SHE HAS EMBROIDERED light BLUE X AND O'S ON HER BACK AND FRONT! eMBROIDERED bILL AND SEAM BINDING WINGS. SHE CAN BE HUNG BY HER TOP KNOT FIBER YARN HAIRS! SIGNED BY ME, CRO(with embroidery!)

PURPLE CROW COMES WITH THE TREASURES SHE HAS FOUND! 3" STRAND OF BEADS

CAWWWWWWWWWWWWW CAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

SHE CAN BE YOURS FOR ONLY $12.00!!!(this covers the envelope and postage to ship to your house, only in the USA!)

CRO PRIM X AND O KITTY CAT 10 " TALL, ARM SPAN WIDE OPEN 12" A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE!!

THIS PIC WAS TAKEN OUTSIDE TO SHOW YOU HER PURPLE COLOR BETTER!KITTY CAT IS ALL HAND SEWN AND MADE OUT OF MUSLIN BODY AND PURPLE POLYESTER HEAD, ARMS AND LONG 14" TAIL! MEEEEOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!

SIGNED BY ME, CINDA RAE OLIVERIO, AKA CRO

KITTY CAT HAS A SEAM BINDING CRINKLED RIBBON AROUND HER NECK, AND A SWEET OLDE DOILY ON HER FRONT. YELLOW BUTTONS FOR EYES AND A TINY PINK ONE FOR HER NOSE. MOUTH STITCHED ON WITH EMBROIDERY THREAD, ALSO THE PINK X AND O'S!!! KITTY CAT HAS BEEN TOPPED OFF WITH YUMMY CINNAMON!

MY CRO STUFF IS NEVER PERFECT BUT ALWAYS MADE WITH LOVE!!! XOXOXOOXXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXXOXO $24.00( INCLUDES THE POSTAGE to SHIP!!!!:)

I LOVE TASCHA'S ART, THAT IS HER ART UP IN THE RIGHT HAND CORNER OF MY ART! SWEET! THANK YOU! TASCHA FOR ALLOWING ME TO USE YOUR ART ON MINE! I LOVE IT!

Once Upon a Time a CRO(that's me, Cinda Rae Oliverio, the wider gal in white! I've got to work on that this year! UG!) met MISTY MAWN!!! I met Misty at one of her FAVORITE places, on the beaches of Lake Erie! She and her family lived there at the time! I think it was 2005!!! Phew! That is hard to believe!

Anyway, I have known of her art for a good while, even when she was known as Wheel Thrown Pottery on Ebay! I bought several pieces of art from her back then! hehe I even bought a pottery beautiful green mug and a blueish dish from her and when we were saying good-bye from our Lake Erie visit she gave my husband and me 2 wonderful brownish big mugs!

Over the years I have bought more SWEET BEAUTIFUL MISTY ARTWORK, I must have at least 20! This includes ATC's, panelboards, wood, a canvas,prints, postcards, Originals on watercolor paper, cardboard and wire! I even had to delicately wrangle a sweet piece of her art from the outside of a package she had sent me!!! It was on the outside!!!It was of a tree coming out of a hand......

What can I say???!!! I am a BIG FAN, A groupie of Misty Mawn!!! LOL Misty is my FAVORITE ARTIST! There's a lot of us out there!!!LOL

Well, to get to the point of this story, last month on this date, December 17th was a MOST BEAUTIFUL DAY!!! I opened the door to my front porch and there it was!!! A brown wrapped package from Misty! I knew it was from her, she didn't include her return address! I know her writing by now!Like a mad woman I tore into that package, not breathing I don't think!!! THERE IT WAS!!!!!!!! THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BIRD PAINTING I had ever seen(there are a few dozen more out there, have YOU seen her artist's papers from Somerset Studio??? the BLUEBIRDS?!!just to name one, hehe)

WELL, SUCH A GIFT AT SUCH A TIME,FROM SUCH A DARLING WOMAN, I'M JUST SPEECHLESS, WORDLESS, STILL THINKING OF THAT DAY! There are 2 birds on this artwork, there is a little bluebird also, a bluebird of HAPPINESS!!!

I went to the kitchen and there they were!!!! Mostly CARDINALS, some other BIRDS too and they were SINGING on a branch right outside my window! They have never done that in winter ever at this certain location and I haven't seen them back!!! SEEEEEEEEEEE what it says on the painting......"here sky, land, will watch over you. I will sing to you." This was my MIRACLE! After such a time I had in October and some of November from the depression I was in, this GIFT touched my heart and the birds coming to sing for me after getting this bird painting, well, YOU can know how I felt! December 17th was a magical day for me! I think back on it often. Misty has given me other gifts too, she has been sooOOOOOOOooOo kind to me!!!She is the one who sent me SWEET BAKLAVA through the mail her mom had made! mmmmmmmmMMMM! She is indeed a special in my heart friend. THANK YOU MISTY!!! I told YOU I was going to try and capture that day on a collage! It was JOYOUS!!!and your gift is a GIFT that goes on GIVING every day!!!every time I LOOK at it and that is often!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RPCFfudmU&feature=related

I want to WISH a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! to my sweet peeps who like to visit me here!!! xoxoxoxoxx, CRO aka Cinda

sent this in december, I'm not sure when the auction is! http://corazon.typepad.com/photos/cigar_box_shrine_gallery/cinda-rae-oliverio-front-for-the-sweet-children-and-you.html