Tag Tuesday and White Wednesday

This week's Tag Tuesday Challenge was " SCHOOL RELATED ", but not just any old school related stuff. Oh no,, not that easy, lol, we were given a list of different subjects from which we had to pick, and I chose HISTORY CLASS.

As we spend a lot of our time at the cottage in France, it had to be French History of course, and knowing that so many of you love Marie Antoinette, I made her my subject for the school tag. The background is a French school book cover, the building is of course the Petit Trianon, Marie Antoinette's residence at Versailles, and the beautiful image of her is from the Graphics Fairy, who else, lol -


On to WHITE WEDNESDAY. I didn't really have anything apart from yet more lace ( and you don't want to see more lace, do you? ) to show, but I was in crafting mood, so I decided to make a small collage on canvas. I used vintage music paper, a sweet little image of a young girl, a lovely old doily, lacy bits, a couple of jewellery elements and a few sparkly accents -


Here are the links -

Tag Tuesday Challenge on the Blog Challenge Garden Blog

White Wednesday on the Faded Charm Blog.

Until the next time, toodlepip xxx

Collages

I spent a few hours today creating a couple of collages. I do so enjoy working with gorgeous old lace, vintage images and lovely little bits and pieces.

I can't get away from soft colours though, I find them so soothing and gentle. So, the first collage is made with neutrals, soft whites, creams and little hints of darker caramel. Vintage sheet music, a sweet old doily, a snippet from a Vintage French Missel, coffee dyed lace motifs, MOP buttons, vintage French seam binding, a tiny antique French key and of course a little bit of sparkle, and there you have it -


I like combining soft blues with the creams and soft whites, so for the second collage I used blue braid, fringing, seam binding, and a gorgeous vintage lace motif over the background sheet music and the rather beautiful doily. Of course, this one had to have one of those darling little French keys as well. See those tiny little blue butterflies in the bottom left corner? They were part of a little paper bag my lovely friend Dorthe sent me ( with a card inside ) last year.


And just because I had so many bits and pieces out on the table, I decided to make a matching tag for this one as well -


Yikes, I just realised that I haven't made my inchie for Every Inchie Monday yet........ oops. Hmm, it might have to wait until tomorrow.

Have a lovely day/evening wherever you are, toodlepip xxx

Lavender Angel

I do love the scent of lavender, and I adore old images of angels. So I decided to combine the two and make a lavender sachet with a little image of a beautiful angel. I used an antique hand loomed French linen, blue striped vintage French ticking, a very old blue and white ribbon, vintage lace, vintage hand embroidered French broderie anglaise, MOP buttons , and some fairly new flower trims. Ah, and of course poils, I do love the subtle shimmer of faux pearls. The sachet hangs from a velvet ribbon, so that it can be used as a door hanger or perhaps hung in the wardrobe to scent the clothes -


It takes me ages to put together a fabric collage like this. I keep adding bits, taking away bits, changing placements, it makes me laugh actually, the way I fuss and fiddle. Wanna see some of the stages this sachet went through?

I had already discarded at least half a dozen versions before I thought I'd take a pic. Just in case I fiddled too much and wanted to go back to this version. Or the next......


A dozen versions later and I am quite happy with the one I finally ended up with. And oh, it smells so good, I do love lavender.

I am linking this post to VINTAGE INSPIRATION FRIDAY over at Debra's Common Ground blog. Aaah, so many gorgeous things to look at!

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Toodlepip xxx