Your Mid Week Pick-Me-Up!
From trash to treasure! Artist Carolyn Mason takes discarded dish soap bottles, casts them in shiny porcelain and stuffs them full of brightly colored flowers to get this cheerful result! I loooooove the mass grouping on the fireplace - such......
From trash to treasure! Artist Carolyn Mason takes discarded dish soap bottles, casts them in shiny porcelain and stuffs them full of brightly colored flowers to get this cheerful result! I loooooove the mass grouping on the fireplace - such......
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