playing with watercolours
Little glimpses - work in progress...
...some more little homes for my exhibition, these are taking a bit longer than i thought to make, lots of fiddly bits of work involved, but i'm getting there.
Two items that sold in our shop this week...
...I so wanted to keep this set of early 1900's french button drawers, maybe there's only one of these in the whole world. They would have been given to retailers back then free of charge to display the goods advertising them, a lot of them have probably been destroyed since, the lettering and colours are simply gorgeous.
and this ....
Indigo Moon looks very different without them! we sold a few other large items, time to do some more buying i think.
We have a new antique shop opened in Montgomery "The Old Stores", we're very lucky, i found some lovely old french ticking fabric in there a few weeks ago, they have a piece of 17th century fabric (part of a curtain) for a few hundred pounds! Needless to say I left that. The owner, Mark, kindly gave me some old french fabric he couldn't clean up enough for the shop...
I love this rich red colour, i can't wait to use it on my collages as well as these cards...
i loved the french handwritten notes on them, i'm not sure what i'll do with them yet, i'm just enjoying looking at them
...and last but not least, more practice with my new sewing machine and free motion sewing, i never knew sewing could be so much fun. This is the sewing version of a detail of the watercolour above and the other two house will have a brooch pin on the back. I still have a lot to learn but am getting there with controlling the foot pedal.
XOXO
