My Lacebook is Back Home with the Birth of Spring

My Lace book has come home and

it is now completely finished!!!

Chamara of www.gypsypurple.blogspot.com

has just featured  my Vintage Gypsy Lacebook

"Gypsy in My Soul" on her blog. 

Chamara's blog is her take on a

French Gypsy's collections -

it is just stunning and so addictive!

You will love it!

Thankyou for your kind acknowledgement!

It's getting quite exciting with these lovely warm days now coming

with the approach of Spring here in Australia

because now we can can say goodbye to Winter 
 for another year 
and these everyday
things - like the firewood

which has kept us so warm for the last few months

and the tools which we have been using

every day

like these and the wonderful old hand crafted bellows

which we have been using to aerate the fire embers
if they die down to sleep!
You can see the worn leather on the sides after 40 years of use
but these are just some of the wonderful home comforts
that we live with.

So Spring is all but upon us now and already we see
evidence here 

with the very first of the climbing roses "Lorraine Lee"

but I also wanted to share another birth because
after 6 long months of creating with a group of most wonderful
creative souls mainly from the US and Canada in a
Lacebook Round Robin Group
I have completed, sewn pages, embellished, and finally
bound my own pages into my version of
"Vintage Gypsy".

Each woman created two pages each of their own
particular vintage subject and then passed
it to the next woman for her interpretation of that
woman's subject.

(Each month - over the 6 month period -
 I created two pages based on their themes
and each month one member created two pages based
on my theme -Gypsy in My Soul - so that I ended up with
my own book back which I began with covers and four pages, with
two pages created by each member of the group.

So that meant we all had a hand in each other's final works).

The first few pages including covers were of my own
choice and design 

This is a side view where I incorporated a piece of a

vintage clutch along with

many layers of vintage laces and trims.

This shows the binding using vintage buttons over a
crushed velvet wrap around the whole of the lacebook.

This shows the inside front cover and first page

Next two pages

I know that some of you may have seen these
single pages on a previous post some months ago.

Many collaged layers of soft silks, chiffons, netting, hand-

dyed lace, satin motif, embroidered and beaded

chiffon motif, pearls and jewellery

go into making up some of these pages.

Many of these fabrics have been recycled.

Next two pages

Sequens, trims and fabric laces.
That beautiful silk ribbon was a gift from Pat Winter
of 
www.gatherings100.blogspot.com


The pages below were created by
Karen Dorcas of www.alaskabluemoose.blogspot.com

The images, lace and composition are so lovely!

These two pages below were created by Socrates of
www.alteredmeditations.blogspot.com

Liz Deck at www.nearingfull.blogspot.com

Some little personal added bits of memorabilia!

From the  very creative hands of Teri Flemal at

www.quinceberry.blogspot.com

came these two gorgeous pages!

Now look at this amazing handpainted image -

how clever is this girl?

Oh and the last contributions came from Deb Byers

so simply beautiful aren't they?

My last two pages including inside cover with pocket

to hold the ATCs which we created for each other 

before we created the pages.

The back cover in rich ginger coloured and embroidered

crushed velvet!

And finally a side view of this amazing lacebook!

which represents so many precious hours 

of lace worked collages and a true

keepsake.

It was such an incredible journey and many hours
of shared friendships, inspirations and lasting memories!
Thank you Lacebook girls - I was proud to be 
part of that wonderful group!

Thank you to all my new followers of late and to everyone
who has left such kind comments especially those left
on my Giveaway post and the one following  - it shows such
kindness even in the face of not winning - this time!
 these are so
always appreciated!

Hope this post has not been tooo much of an overload!!!

Love and thanks to you all,
Suzy xox