Friday, January 25, 2013

No trees were harmed

No trees were harmed in the making of my branches.


While I was painting some branches a few days ago, it dawned on me - I would hate for someone to think the branches in my shop came from me hacking away at some poor tree.

All of my branches come from long-been-dead trees. They come from walks in the woods behind my house, or my parents house. And I still have quite a lot that I brought from Austin. Yes, when we moved across country - I packed some branches along.

The idea for my branches came from when our property in Austin was just a graveyard of trees who had perished from the prolonged drought. I even have some neat, very large ones - that I had painted and are now displayed in my livingroom on the wall.

But when I was painting the other day - I thought.. hmm... there may be people who view my listings and think I am willy nilly hacking away at the forest.

Such is not the case, and now I feel better for saying so.

4 comments:

Liz Mays said...

I hadn't thought about it, but that's good to know!

Duni said...

Kristin, I just couldn't picture you hacking away at the trees ;-)
But good thing to let people know about your branches!
Hope you're doing great!

LimeRiot said...

I think it's great that you are giving these branches a new and beautiful life!

My Amazing Days said...

This is so pretty!! We have lots of dead branches behind our house too. It's sort of recycling isn't it :D