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

Time to say "Good-bye" to Google Reader

The countdown begins....Google Reader will be shutting down 

at midnight tonight, June 30th

 but never fear if you wish to keep following me 

 you can click on the Bloglovin button on my sidebar 

(under Google Friend Connect followers)

 and continue to follow me here at Suziqusthreadworks.

 I would SO miss not seeing you! It's super easy to transfer all of the blogs you follow in Google Reader and into Bloglovin! Go ahead...give it a go!

You can also follow me by email or just by using
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Wishing you all a most posperous and artful week!

Suzy xxx

Creating with Gifted Lace

 Hello Dear Readers

Well I really hope you are not getting

too bored with me by now

always talking about

lace, linen and doilies - receiving it, buying it,

 talking about it and creating with it

because I have even more to share with you 

today

This most beautiful stash of the finest vintage net lace

doilies, broderie englaise and an array of 

bits and pieces including these most gorgeous

 hand tatted and Vintage knitted lace pieces

arrived in the mail from my most generous friend

Judy McCarthy who recently suspended her blog

"Judy's Fabrications" 

for a break for the time being.

 Thank you Judy so very much for always thinking of me!

Some of these have already been included in my works!

♥♥♥♥♥

And, all the way from Bornholm, Denmark

came this most beautifully wrapped gift

from Dorthe of

 www.denlillelade.blogspot.com

Another bundle of the most beautiful lace pieces,

vintage curtain, beaded ribbon,

with this accompanying die cut and lace tag

with a stone angel and wings - isn't it beautiful?

 (The other wing is on the underside of the tag!)

with an assortment of precious cut lace, collars,

embroidered doiley, handkerchief and motifs'

 Dorthe included some of these

beautiful glittery stars.

See how they sparkle?

These beautiful pieces will be used

when I create my Christmas angels with their

 soft flowing dresses of vintage lace and silk.

Thank you so very much my very dear friend - 

it's priceless and precious  

when our blogging friends know us that well that

they know what makes our hearts sing!

Little jewells of beauty!

Please go and visit Dorthe's blog if you don't already

know her and her gorgeous doll and mixed media

creations.

♥♥♥♥♥ 

"Thoughts Far Away"

is the theme of this collage created

for another dear blogging friend (whom has not as yet received it).

I've always loved this image and 

I realize that very often these are the source

of what inspire me to create pieces that

will become endeared by others who also have

the same passion for laces, satin and sari ribbon and

embellishments like roses as I have!

Oh what beautiful textures!

This last collaged tag was a little

creation I came up with

this afternoon with some

French accents

it was made for a girlfriend's Birthday!

Hope she enjoys this little tresor!

Thank you everyone for enjoying 

your visits here and to all those

people who know how much I appreciate their

wonderful gifts of lace - the more they see

of these little creations - the more they

seem to want to offer and I am so

very grateful for that!

I'm linking to Ivy and Elephants
with this!

Thank you for your lovely comments - always!

I can feel another "Giveaway" mulling around in my head

for all of my faithful followers to enter

and know it won't be long before you see it posted here

so keep checking!

Love and blessings to you xox

Suzy

Buntings for Vicki's Birds Nests

I am sure many of you are familiar with

our wonderful blogging friend,

Vicki Boster from

2-bagsfull blog
who creates the most amazing "nests" from
her huge range of threads, fibres, laces etc.
Well Vicki also creates a range of
"Designer Nests"
 where the proceeds from the sale of these she donates
to a charity. How incredible a gesture is that from
one women?

Vicki loves to include the creativity of other people in these
Designer Nests and she approached me about being
a contributor! Well I just couldn't be more
honored and below is a picture
of her "Vintage Spring Nest"

which she has designed and created using the most
beautiful millinery flowers from her own 
personal collection and 
my own contribution
will be these teeny weeny little buntings
which will hang down the side
of these sweet nests!

These nests will not be available until May, 2014
because there is so much to organize for these
nests

but preparations are already
taking place now

 so that they will be available and on hand

for Vicki as she creates each one individually.

These little buntings are approx. 4 inches long

so that gives you an idea of the actual size.

I have used a variety of soft Spring cotton prints

and embellished them with ribbon, 

embroidered motifs, lace,

beads, buttons and

bling!

Vicky explained who would

benefit from the nests.

"The charitable donations from these nests

will be given to our brand new

Pediatric Addiction recovery center 

here in

Huntington, West Va. 

Lily's Place will be the new home of a regional and national leader in the care of babies suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, or drug addiction."

I believe this is the only one of it's kind 

in the United States!

(maybe even in the world???!!!).

(Some of the beautiful millinery flowers Vicki will use).

No wonder this project is so near and dear to Vicki's heart

where everyday in her nursing career she witnesses

so many babies suffer from the complications

of maternal drug addiction

and

this new facility will forever change the way

that babies will be treated for addictions.

(Some vintage Jewellery Vicki has chosen for the nests).

So what better venture could I throw myself into

other than making a number of tiny buntings

which could benefit so many

dear little souls?

There are two other amazingly creative artists whom will also
be contributing to these Vintage Spring Nests

and they are

Karen Bailey of Todolwen Blogspot
and 
Deb Hembree of Mosaic Magpie Blog

so if you would like to go and check out their blogs
you will be able to view their contributions also.

For further reading about this magnificent
project go to Vicki's blog and read
about how you can order 
one of these
for yourself!

 Thank you so very much Vicki for choosing me
to be part of this wonderful project
created in your heart and mind!

♥♥♥♥♥

In the meantime I have been slowly plugging away at
creating a new Lace book

(I wish I wasn't so addicted!!!!!)





and so here is a sneak peek until I reach the end!
Linking this week to Becky at
Blissful Whites Wednesday  
and
ivyandelephants.blogspot.com "What's It Wednesday"

Sharing some words from Kahlil Gibran

"Your living is determined

not so much by what life brings to you

as by the attitude you bring to life;

not so much by what happens to you

 as by the way your mind 

looks at what happens."

And finally friends I'm just so grateful for all of your

wonderful words left over my "Birds Inspire"

Fabric and Lace book

and for always coming to visit - new and old

followers too!

"Sincere thanks from my heart to yours"

You are the best!!!

Love and hugs, Suzy xox