Lacebook Journal Pages and a Few Finds

You might remember that I am taking part

in a collaborative Round Robin

Lacebook Group.

There are 6 women in our Yahoo Group.

The subject of this book for Deb (Deb has no blog)

is "Victorian Couples" which gave me this

opportunity

to feature my grandparents!

Isn't that the most beautiful posy Clarice is holding!

She was born in 1899 and married Edward (Fred)

in the early 1920's.

These are the parents of my father, James, who died

only last August at the age of 90.

The next page (of the two I had to contribute) is

of an unknown couple.

This is an original postcard which was retrieved from a

house fire, the owners of which were not at all

interested in keeping, so it ended up in the

hands of my husband along with many others

like this.

The postcard shows some brown tinging with evidence of

a fire.  I surrounded this postcard with a hand crocheted

cream frame which was the perfect size for this

piece.

Some of the vintage lace, and beaded lace

were gifted to my by some lovely friends which I

was able to use in these pieces.

I do hope Deb will be happy with these additions to her lacebook

when it arrives back in the U.S.

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Speaking of lace - I have a few gorgeous pieces of

vintage lace to show you

These tiny treasures I have acquired very recently

and am so looking forward to using them

in some future projects.

As well as these I thought you might like to see some

beautiful crochet cottons which I purchased as

a lot

along with this very nice frame

which is begging for a vintage cabinet card, postcard

or something similar!

And to finish off this post I am going to show here

the most delightful little antique plate

which has a diameter of only 3inches.

Isn't that just so beautiful?

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A huge "thank you" to all my wonderful followers -

new and old for visiting and commenting

even if it is just to say "Hi" - you are so welcome

and appreciated.

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"Success is not final,

failure is not fatal:

It is the courage

to continue that counts"

...........Winston Churchill.

Love and blessings to all!

x Suzy x

"Spring Blooms"

 It really wouldn't matter what

the season was when it comes to rose blooms

because in our garden they flower all the way from the

beginning of Spring to Winter

so I have decided to call

this new journal

"Spring Blooms"

because, although we are now experiencing

Autumn here in Australia,

our fragrant rose blooms started in early Spring

hence, the name.

I have used some of my favourite pre-raphaelite

images in this book

as they worked in really well with the soft 

Spring colour tonings.

I also decided to bring out my embellisher,

silks, sheers, raw silk

doilies, coloured laces, in all the lovely Spring

shades and tonings

and pearl buttons.

I also found some pretty sheer pinkish fabric

covered in roses which I think

added to the effect.

From memory I think there were altogether

four signatures plus the journal covers.

I showed just a glimpse of these pages in the making

a couple of posts back

and it was claimed almost immediately from just these

two pages so 

it has almost arrived at its overseas destination already!

Back cover is shown here

and

the journal in it's entirety looks a bit like this.

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I have also just been featured by Gillian Allen at

Art-e-Zine

You can also click this button below on my sidebar to visit

and view more of my journals, collages, clutches, cards. etc.

Art-e-Zine is a wonderful resource for anyone

interested in  journalling and collages and most everything related to these. Here you can view other artists' creations,

their backgrounds as well as lots of other

links.

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Wishing you some lovely time over the weekend

enjoying this gorgeous sunshine that

we are just so very fortunate

to experience!

Love and hugs to all

including all of my new followers and faithful

older ones too!

Love and hugs,

Suzy xxx

Easter Eggs and Blessings

To each and everyone

I wish you Easter Blessings!

I would also like to welcome all of my new followers

and give thanks to all

for taking the time to leave encouraging comments!

You are so appreciated by me.

Real organic brown and blue Easter eggs

She, the silver Aracana hen, who lays the perfect blue Easter eggs

(and all year round eggs!)

produced here on our farm from our beloved feathery friends

and a view of the changing Ornamental Grapevine

as it loses its leaves in the Autumnal days

as we approach Winter

here downunder

with the last of a few remaining blooms

Wishing you all a peaceful Easter Break

I send this lovely Easter card from

The Graphics Fairy

with love from

Suzy xxx

A Little Journal for Amalia

Amalia is the daughter of my hairdresser

and she asked me to create

a birthday journal

for her

and as she wanted something very feminine

for her 13th Birthday

I created this.

Here is the back cover.

I thought I would keep it quite simple

using water colour pages

with lots of vintage lacey bits

and pieces, some printed linen, seam binding,

a pretty image,  gold and pearl buttons,

and some stamping.

There is still some gorgeous plants still flowering

in our Autumnal garden here

in Australia

like these gorgeous Windflowers

in double white

and

single pink.

(I'm still mastering my photography and editing

so hopefully my images will improve!!!).

I have also completed the journal on my previous post

which has already made it's way to

New Jersey

and I will show this one

on my next post.

Hope you are all enjoying some beautiful sunshine

whether it be Spring in the Northern Hemisphere

or

Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere

and 

"May the light of Love

Shine upon you and

In you!"

xxxSuzy