“The moon is an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun” A favourite quote from a Shakespeare play which makes me think of moonlight streaming through windows, illuminating scenes not intended for you and I, an instance frozen in time in which only dust motes can betray the stillness, what happens […]
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Assemblage Brooch
OK, I’m a little late with this post; it should have been put up last night. I’m trying to keep to a schedule (well Tom is, he’s so orderly 😉 he thinks I’m chaotic, blaming the artist in me 😆 ) posting Monday, Wednesday & Friday with the addition of posts whenever I list something […]
Art Dress Assemblage – What Katy Did
Now we’re in March I can see that spring has arrived; the delicate but hardy snowdrop has had its time, the bright yellow of our daffodils alluding to the spray of colours yet to come. This put me in mind of a poem by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey – Time To Go, the opening verse which […]
Marianne (Marianne Dashwood Sense & Sensibility) – Assemblage
Sense & Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1811. A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England in 1792 through 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, daughters of their father Henry’s second wife, Mrs. Dashwood. The sisters are […]
Assemblage – Alice (Drink Me)
I was given a tiny old 1930’s encyclopedia and loved the size of it. So, I just thought of Alice in Wonderland, where she enters a minature world. When I took the photos for our online shop and Etsy store the sun was out and I managed to get some good photos in the natural […]
Assemblage Art Dress Made From Paper and Fabric – Alice
I seem to make this size of assemblage dress quite regularlly. This is the latest and, as with the others I’ve made recently, the theme is the Mad Hatter’s tea party – a tea party dress. A full description can be found at our Etsy store or online shop.