Dowry Mirror Garland no. 2

Embellished with lucite bellflowers in soft mango / peach and tied with a rich 'antique gold' satin ribbon and adorned with flowers in a fabulous pink. The ends of the ribbon are finished in mirror stars and flowers. You can find it in my Etsy shop here

The Chateau at Vizille

The Chateau at Vizille near Grenoble is now a Museum of the French Revolution. We went there yesterday in searing 36 degree heat, the humidity inside was as severe as the heat outside. The grounds were stunning, on hindsight we should have brought a picnic or even just some bread (or maybe that should be cake) to feed the ducks and swans. As usual I'm just going to post images - please click on the links above for more info on the history of the chateau and the revolution

Get the Look :Home Decor Edition

Well yesterday I got very excited because one of my garlands was featured in Etsy's mailshot /Storque article You're Invited for Tea I was wondering why I was getting so many shop views until Mitsy aka Artmind told me about the feature! In fact the garland was the very one I photographed the making off in my last post here.
You can see the article here - it features lots of vintage, cottage and shabby chic finds!

Choosing the elements of a garland

I gathered together some pieces this afternoon for another garland, and thought it looked so pretty I'd take a photo. I've still to cut out two stars for the ribbon ends. I'm in a very girly mood with my glass at the moment - a delivery of more peach/champagnes, whites and palest pink arrived today and I can't wait to use it ...maybe I'll make some pale peach wings ...

My Little Flower Shop

Well that's what it's starting to look like anyway :) There's another shopping bag still to empty, I'm waiting for more deliveries and I'm hoping to hear back about some totally gorgeous shabby flowers :) Aaron said this morning over breakfast that I have slight obsessive tendencies - I can't believe it took him this many years to notice .... I'm simply stocking up for xmas production 2012.

Waiting for Fersen - a stained glass garland or bunting

My latest garland has been featured on one of my favourite blogs - Cafe Cartolina!!! I'm really chuffed :) You can see the feature here

For this garland I've used a fabulous mouth blown 'antique' glass in sea foam green blue - it is beautifully fragile and sweet. The solder has been given an antiqued copper patina to give that garland a pretty vintage feel.

I've decorated the glass with faceted glass beads in an old rose colour and tied the garland with ribbons of grey satin and hand dyed duck egg blue rayon seambinding ribbon.

The garland is adorned with aged shabby chic pink millinery roses and little cream rosebuds.

The ends of the ribbon are finished in stained glass stars more of the pink roses in an antiqued filigree setting.



And for those of you wondering who Fersen is - Count Axel von Fersen was allegedly the lover of Marie Antoinette :)

A Vampire Romance

Yes, I know you can't get away from vampires these days (and quite frankly when they look like Robert Pattinson why would you be wanting to run away !) But this mirrored garland is so vampy goth I couldn't really get away with calling it much else.

The mirrors are embellished with opaque black lucite and glass bellflowers and the centre is a black glass faceted briolette bead. Decorated with aged shabby dark red roses and tied with ribbons of black velvet and satin.

The ends of the garland are finished with little puffed mercury glass hearts and vintage 1930's black millinery blooms (I love love love these shabby little organza flowers - the stamens have been dipped in black glass chips, which give a fabulous weight and movement )



You can find it in my Etsy shop here