Stacked Stones Studio!

I had so much fun writing a guest blog post for Shanna Noel's Blog today ! She asked me to share whatever I felt led to do and perhaps share a couple of my current Journaling  Bible pages! You know me....she didn't have to ask twice, did she?!?! LOL If you have not met Shanna yet - you will LOVE her for sure...so be sure and scroll down past my post and meet her and some of her previous guests! I also created a printable page of tabs based on some of my artwork - and for those of you that use a Silhouette, you will find a cut file there for download too! I will be back with some fun new things to share very soon...but didn't want you to miss the goodies over on Shanna's blog! Hope you are enjoying the Advent and Christmas Season! Blessings, Jann

I brought this birch bark box back (say that three times fast!) with me from Russia several years ago. I loved it's embossed top and the lashing that holds it all together. I have loved birch trees since I was a young girl. Our family would spend time up in the Boundary Water area in Northern Minnesota...and the white papery bark of the Birch trees always caught my attention.  My sister and I would find pieces that had "flaked off" and use them for all sorts of creative projects. While we were in Minnesota, she and I would use the papery bark as roofs for the little stone houses we built from stones we gathered from the edge of the lake. Sometimes our Barbies got to live in them...and sometimes we dreamed that little elves and fairies would find the homes we had built for them and would think we were the "best-est" home builders ever. *smile* We also would use pieces of it to write postcards to our grandparents...I still have a couple of ...