This is it! (so far.........)

Almost there! Remember what it looked like back in February? Just some finishing touches now– like shelves and hangers!, but I’m planning on moving some stuff in and using it anyway, so I wanted to photograph the empty space.


The old wardrobe turned out fine and the new steps leading to my current workroom are much safer than the old wooden ones with the hole in the middle!


Tomorrow I’m off on a shopping trip to get the finishing bits and pieces and then I can play at displaying everything – it feels like xmas!

Bunting

I finally got the fabric bunting for our garden sewn up! I bought some squares last year in Paris when we were on our way to catch the train back home, so the colours/patterns were picked very quickly but I just wanted pretty and dainty and colours that would fade and mellow nicely in the sun.

I plan to hang it up between the apple and the quince tree at the old entrance to the 'front' of the house. The grassy public path beyond is the original road that led from the hamlet, straight down the mountain to the village of St Pierre d'Allevard. It is used now by walkers and trails bikers etc or just by our neighbour going to her vegetable garden :) So the garden is just open to the countryside at this bit and the bunting will just give a little decorative closure at times :)

Now and Then

This is first piece of stained glass I ever made :) I completed it in my glass class in 2003. The pattern I took from a pretty little hair clip I wore (still do!). This is only a quarter of the size of the pattern - the original was a little too adventurous for a first attempt lol. The piece is made in traditional lead work a much different process than the copperfoil I work with now - but the glass cutting is the same :) I am currently adapting this pattern for a blue and white "chintz" panel.

The recent piece "The Wedding Festival" is a custom order for I wedding I completed earlier this year.

You can see more examples of "Then and Now" pieces by other European Street Team members here

Dragonflies

Last month, I was asked to make a custom Flutterby with 'crystals' or little charms for a girly 21st pressie, so I got out my jars of beads and box of jewellery attachments, findings and treasures and started to play. I finally settled on a pink swarovski heart and various tiny glass flower beads but in messing around I came up with a copper filigree and pear drop bead ensemble that reminded me of an insect and I knew I'd found the perfect partner for some iridescent glass I'd recently purchased.

And so my dragonflies were born!


I used swarovski beads for the tails of these three but I've some other great glass beads that I want to play with too. They remind me a little of the Art Nouveau era and would be perfect hanging at a dressing table mirror in a romantic boudoir :)


You can find this one here in my Etsy online shop.