Please Meet Esther!

I know I should have been cleaning or packing but I couldn't help myself...
Esther was tugging at my heart! 

Who knew that a mismatch of this and that could go from trash to treasure!

Here's what I started with:...a brass candlestick holder, a wooden bowl, a funky metal plate,
a jello mold, vintage buttons, crystals and the tips from the finials
I used for the legs on the boxes I made for the girls last Christmas.

And here's what became of it all... say "hi" to Esther!Hard to imagine that out of that pile of cast off's could come something
so sweet and delightful.

Do you love her bingo earrings? I chose the numbers... 9 & 14... for the ages
of my granddaughter's... but when Michael saw them he noted
that it was also that's day's date... the day Esther was created.

Do you recognize the jello mold and funky plate?

Check out the transformed candlestick holder!
And when I bought these weaver's spools at a yard sale a while back,
I had no idea they would become Esther's arms!

I love these vintage buttons royally seated on checker game pieces!

And this sweet filigree was a gift from my daughter's ephemera stash...
thanks Michelle!

As I stand back and look at Esther she makes me smile.
And she reminds me... and I hope she reminds you too...
that God can take the trash of our lives that seems to have no value...
and with divine creativity and loving kindness...
He transforms it and us into something delightful...
fit to be the bride of the King of Kings.
And I know that when He looks at us... like when I look at Esther...
He smiles!

Lord God, help us see ourselves through Your eyes rather than our own.
May our lives be like Esther's... knowing that we were created
for such a time as this... to be a reflection of You in this world...
for Your glory!