New Work "Dancing Fairies" Lacebook and Giveaway Winner

What an amazing success the 

Grow Your Blog party

has been - I am sure that Vicki, our amazing host,

is reaping the benefits of all her dedicated effort she

has devoted to making this happen.

Thank you Vicki 

for giving us this opportunity to meet and greet

so many wonderful new bloggers.

I am personally delighted to have met some fantastic

new friends and blogs that I can now add to my list to visit from

now on. It's amazing just the variety of talents and new blogs that 

many of us would never have known existed!!!

Thank you so very much to all of you who have left such

amazing comments and to all those who have joined

as followers

I do hope you enjoy your journey as you travel
along with me!

 This is my Giveaway Prize and the Random Generator

has chosen one number out of 135 comments  

so this Vintage Lace Collage will be going to

No. 90
www.campandcottageliving.blogspot.com

where Kimberly is living the simple life with her husband on the shores of Lake Superior in Ontario Woods, Canada.
Congratulations dear Kimberly!
This giveaway will be posted to you as soon as you email
your address to me.

Thank you all so much for entering.  I do offer Giveaways

of my Artworks from time to time 

so keep checking here for one coming in the future.

♥♥♥♥♥

"Dancing Fairies" Lacebook

has just been completed by me for

a special customer who requested a journal with fairies

My inspiration for this came from the most amazing

illustrator of children's books,

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)

Layer upon layer of chiffon frame

ethereal images combined with

some vintage lace collars

binding with ribbon

and some coffee coloured guipure lace

with recycled lace beauty, silk organza

and printed chiffon surrounds this fairy

in this spread

arriving "home by dawn" adjacent to a pocket of a lace

handkerchief.

Printed and embellished silk pages

edged with laces capturing the light as the

sun shines through

and

adorned with more lace fabric walks

a fairy princess.

These gentle words close another book away from our world of

reality (we all know there are many others!).

This lacebook contains around 100 pieces of beautiful
lace and soft silk and other fabric pieces
layered upon layer!

Accompanying this lacebook will be this vintage

style pincushion 

where I have incorporated some vintage lace

and embroidered handkerchief

with machine stitching.

Thank you sincerely to all those expressing concern
over our recent brush with the bush fires here
where we live on the far south coast of 
Australia
we have since been blessed with some
beautiful rain which has
put our hearts and minds at peace
(for the time being anyway!).

We still have roses to pick but many like these have been
 scorched and singed by the feirce heat (50degC)
on the day of the bush fire
and then damaged by rain!
but we are still here
to see it!

♥♥♥ Love and hugs to all

xxx Suzy