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

The Tea Dress and other buntings

The Tea Dress

One French Summer

I've been busy with work and life in general these last weeks and have been neglecting my blog a little. So this is another lazy posting of some garlands recently added to my Etsy shop.

You can find The Tea Dress garland still available here

I'm in quite a garland making mood, with several in various states of completion and I'm experimenting with a few variations inspired by vintage corsets - I hope they work :)
I also wanted to thank Jen Kindbom for including my bunting in an article she wrote for Handmade News - you can read it here
Jen also has an Etsy shop called Seat of my Pants where she sells her cute custom bags, totes and wallets - take a browse around her shop here

A Summer Wedding

Enchantment

Aren't these so romantic and magical? I found these swans whilst indulging in one of my little hobbies...browsing other people's favourite's on Etsy :) They are made by SophiaMcD a London based artist working in many mediums, from film making, interactive video installations, web design to paper and wire sculptures.

Perfect for floating in the moat when you have friends around to your chateau for drinkies :)

You can find them in Sophia's Etsy shop here

Mr Lawrence caught catnapping

Somedays it just all gets too much for Mr L ..... all that eating, sleeping, eating, chasing Chataigne, Liquorice and the other hamlet moggies from his patch, cleaning .... eating... he has it far too easy :)

Little mirrored dandy bird gathers new adornments no.1

I was worried that my mirrored birdies would look a bit ..well... budgie accessory, if I made them in mirrored glass but they actually look much more grand than the coloured glass (maybe because they are heavier with 2 layers of thin mirror soldered together) I'm quite fond of this little chap especially with his dandy velvet ribbon and shiny black sequin rosettes on his bum.

You can find him for sale here

A Medieval Fete at the Tower of Avallon

On Sunday afternoon we went to a little medieval fete at the hamlet of Avallon We pass by the hamlet on our weekly grocery shopping trip to nearby Pontcharra but had never stopped there before.

A little bit of escapism on a Sunday is always good