Shades of Plum and Pink

My pages for my next journal are slowly growing. With more dyed lace and silk with plum chiffon, brown and gold sari silk, silk organza, shabby dyed tassels, lace and beads it is taking shape.

A close up view of the first layer of lace which came from an old blouse of mine!

Thanks to the wonderful appreciation of Diane from Diane Knott's Musings Blog my followers have increased quite quickly past 100 so I am currently preparing a GIVEWAY which I will be offerring very soon so stay tuned!!!

Next Journal Page

This, in fact, is the final look as I have added more in the way of a flap on the side of the page with 

some more embellishment here and there!

 

Moving into some shades of pinks and browns for this collage with fabrics of ticking, tapestry, paisley, rust, velet, organza, a dyed damask serviette and satin embellished with dyed lace, tasseled fringing, motif and button. I shall be adding more later when I put the journal together!

Early Spring Roses

As promised earlier I have posted some of our early roses in our Spring garden. The roses which always show themselves first are the Climbing Roses, such as Lorraine Lee as seen in the first pic, followed by Zephrine Druin, then Dublin Bay, Pierre deRonsard, Cecile Brunner and finally Crepiscule (not quite out as yet).

This pic shows just how full and wild the garden is - there are
Grannies Bonnets, Lavenders, Foxgloves, a Lemon tree, Valarian and Orange Blossom.

A David Austin rose here, I think called Jude the Obscure (what an amazing name!)

And finally here is a mosaic I made to show the garden as it is at present but, as you know, gardens are continually growing and changing so the next garden post will display many more roses for your enjoyment!
Hope you all have a great weekend!

Tattered Silk Tassels

This is the second in my series of the "Pre-Raphaelite Vision". This dreamy model's face has been adorned on a heart of some very old emboidered gold satin, black printed organza, black and gold paisley lame, rust dyed silk, lace, tassels, and broches.
From "Love and the Maiden".