What's Orange on Top?

What's orange on top, fun inside and can fly your direction instantly?
This TattooDreams Box........
$79.00
Purchases on etsy can be shipped directly to the recipient and shipping is free!

Thanks in advance for purchasing handmade!

Patricia

What Magic is This You Say?

A simply charming magical box awaiting the right person to hit the 'Add it to my cart' button and make it theirs!

On etsy
$79.00----includes shipping

Patricia
TattooDreamer

Twenty Nine Winters Ago Today.....

Twenty nine winters ago John Lennon was doing what most of us do daily - he was on his way home from work. Home from working in his recording studio. Earlier in the day he signed an autograph for the man who hours later would end his life.
IMAGINE if things happened differently that cold night.

Twenty nine years ago I was unmarried, living in my first apartment in Florida. I was 20 years old. It was a warm night and I had the windows open. I recall the searing message that came over the tv, then the radio, then everywhere. I remember newscasters crying. Howard Kosell in tears. A hole was drilled right through me and pain entered. An unsettling silence.
The world mourned the loss of this amazing iconic individual. A visionary of peace who was far more than a musician or rockstar. He wrote of the world 'being one' and perhaps it took his bloody death for that to happen.
How sad.

I recall the days afterward laying on my living room floor listening and crying to every Beatle song played on the stereo and radio. So many possibilities ended with his murder at the Dakota. For a pacifist to die by way of a weapon of steel seems a fate worse than cruel.
Across from his home lay Strawberry Fields. Another irony is the sign posted there. "No playing of musical instruments allowed". Where better than there?

As a society, we allow guns to become available to people who have no business having them. Freedom to own a firearm........to protect yourself. A right of the constitution.
As a society we allow instruments of creativity to be purchased, but ban where and when they can be played. Why? To protect others peace?
This is just more madness in a world overcome by rules that 'allow' people to not have to think or take responsibility for themselves or others.

Some things make little sense to me.
Some things never will.
The legendary lyrics and music from the Beatles are dogma.
Time honored art that collectively became a prayer for peace,
a mantra to end war
and birthed hope for generations to follow.

Here we are twenty nine years later.
The music still resonates but now with a new generation.
To those who grew up with them, they are forever with us.

We need to give peace a chance.
We need to IMAGINE.
We need to Imagine Peace

✯ Christmas Card Box ✯

What childhood Christmas memories do you cherish? Was it a particular way something was made or done? A favorite cookie or carol? A particular tradition you still hold onto? Mine was our holiday cards. We strung them on twine that we covered in paper drinking straws. They hung around our living room and each day with the delivery of more mail, the string got longer and longer.
For some, the memory is an object that only came out at Christmas. A decoration or item passed through families that made the holidays all the more magical just by it's annual appearance. I hope I made one of these today.
My husband Jon built this wonderful box from cherry and I rubber stamped it with selected holiday stamps from my vast collection. I chose somewhat 'retro-feel good' stamps that reminded me of my childhood and simpler times. A warm fuzzy for certain!

This box is ideal for safely keeping your holiday cards or treasured ornaments. A usable nostalgic box that can be lovingly passed along to your children as they go out on their own.

••Buy several and begin new traditions this year!••

This box measures 10" x 7" x 7 " ( 25.4 cmx 17.78 cmx 17.78cm). Adorned with green feet and a red ball knob. Both are trimmed with fringe, one red and the other a sparkly cream. Inside trim is gold. Inside the lid is stamped for more magical goodness! This box is not lined so your cards can be easily removed for sharing with others.


69.00

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Ho Ho Ho!! I ship for FREE so load your sleigh and let TattooDreams make Santa's work easier this year!!!

Thank you for buying handmade!

What Do We Really Need?

What's going on? The holiday buzz is upon us. The retail weirdness of shopping on Thanksgiving Day......What could one possibly 'need' that has to be purchased on Thanksgiving Day other than foil or cranberry sauce?

We were in the grocery store on Wednesday,along with the rest of Bloomington and what I saw made me feel good. People smiling at one another! In a time of what soon becomes the rush of the holidays, give the easiest gift of all - a smile. I found people all day returning them to me.

It's the simplest recognition.
It's the easiest of gifts.
To someone it may mean the world.
That someone noticed.
Cared.
Took the time.
Bothered.


Today I posted more boxes to my etsy site. I hope you'll peruse them, hopefully finding something that tugs at you for a gift for yourself or someone else. Tomorrow we'll do the Bloomington Farmers Market with my TattooDream Boxes. Next weekend we'll do our last show of the year, the Unitarian Universalist Church Show.
After next weekend, our busiest year doing shows comes to a close.
25 shows, all over the country, 2 bodies of work.

I'm feeling ready for 2010 and a new beginning.

Some things look yummier close up! This is a detail shot of one of my new boxes.

Give away a few smiles-the person getting one may be more in need of one than you know!


Patricia
TattooDreamer

Garden Recipe Box

For you or the chef in your life---this is my Garden Recipe Box. This wonderfully handcrafted cherry box was made in our Bloomington Indiana studio and adorned with fruits, vegetables and pasta rubber stamps. It measures a generous 10" wide x 7 1/4" deep x 7 1/2 " high (25.4 cm x 18.41 cm 19.05 cm). A great box accented with cinnamon paint and knob. A small set of feet raises it ever so gently off the surface.
We leave the bottom of this box unlined to allow for easy flow of the 4" x 6" recipe cards it holds. This impressive box makes a marvelous gift for the chef or foodie in your life--maybe even you! If a different color trim is preferred, please contact me and we'll see what I have made or I'll make another. We're happy to accommodate!


My boxes are quietly making their way into esteemed collections around the world- Perhaps your home will be one of them!
If you're interested in a custom box, please feel free to contact me.


••I love making special things for special people!••

More boxes can be found on my etsy site:
$89.00 includes shipping!

Patricia Hecker
TattooDreamer

Tea Bag Storage Box

This little box gets around! Used to store your tea bag collection, these cute handmade cherry boxes make great gifts for you or a friend. Santa's sleigh will have more than a few of them on board.
Be sure to order yours now!!!

More tea boxes will be posted to my etsy site tonight.
Also, coming to my etsy site----a groovy new recipe box!~

http://tattoodreams.etsy.com


Patricia