Salvaged Pieces Inspire Me

 This image was the inspiration

for my next piece of artwork!

It's a scrap of 100 plus year old weatherboard with 

peeling white paint salvaged from a very old

barn that was being pulled down on the farm next door.

The Royal "We" - i.e. Jeff and I have almost completed

 the building of a garden room

using these beautiful old tattered   

weatherboards as well as

some old painted and unpainted corrigated iron

for cladding.

So I bought some into my studio and put together some

ingredients to create a new collage including

these tea bag papers, some stamped and rusted linen, 

feathers, bits of metal pieces, 

a frozen charlotte,

some carded silk tops, some lace pieces

as well as an old broken/repaired

bee hive frame from the beehives out in our paddock.

This was the result!

 The first step was to adhere some really open burlap

to a piece of masonite which I then covered in

gesso to which I added vintage book pages.

 

I then attached the torn lace fabric to the wood

and proceeded to create layers of batik 

fabric, tea bags, torn lace, a piece

of a very old embroidered handkerchief,

a stamped piece of rusted linen,

black lace holding feathers

then wrapping and attaching the whole collage to 

the weatherboard  with some cream sari ribbon

creating a pocket for

this beautiful vintage postcard which was rescued

from a house fire (still showing signs of singed edges).

 You may even be able to see some machine stitching

over some rust colored dyed silk tops!

If you look closely you can still see the

wax comb created by the bees.

Oh and there is also some of our Angora Goats' ringlets

hanging with strands of lace near the bottom of the

collage too!

I thought I might share just a few pics of our Angora girls

only about 4 weeks to go before shearing these beautiful locks!

It's not every day you see goats eating roses -

like this! But this is a real treat for them!
And I recently found this beautiful mosaic on
Rini's blog - ♥Catharina's Love♥

which I thought was amazing and I wanted
to share it with you!

Enjoy!
and please go and visit her beautiful blog too!
♥♥♥
  I'm linking up this week to Becky's
 Blissful Whites Wednesday
as well as
Ivy and Elephants "What's It Wednesday"
so you can join me over there to visit some beautiful blogs!

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu 

Hugs, Suzy xxx