vintage peacock for Shelly

Shelly asked for a birdpage in vintage style. I dumped peacock, lace edging and white cotton into tea for a tinted effect. The peacock is embellished with wax pearls and the blue lace has ivory colored beads that I received through a swap. Being Dutch, I'm not really familiair with vintage. I was glad this one turned out OK

back of the page with letter and viewcard

Tea - Page from Susie

This delightful page has been made by Susie. It's quite amazing in all its details - the little ceramic cups are such a pretty addition. Love them. 

Love the teaspoons with sugar, don't you.
Thank you Susie for this beautiful page its going to make my little fiber book all the more special.

Helen I'm running late on your page but I'm working on it.

Funky Bird by Teresa

This is the adorable page Teresa made me. Isn't it a fun page?!

backside of page

 plus goodies. I got spoiled














I have received all my pages, but I have to send 2. One is halfway, one has to be started soon.

Funky Bird

 Last night I received this gorgeous page by Frances. She didn't have to make up a funky bird, because the Australian emu qualities completely for this title.
I love the emu print and photo's and also the handmade silkpaper is gorgeous.
Thank you Francis, I love everything you've made and sent. A lovely addition to my book.

These are pages I received this week from Maya and Cobi.......beautifully done....thanks girls.

Maya's page is beautiful silk fabrics with lots of stitching and photos attached. It's beautiful rich shades of blue and blue/green exactly as you'd expect the ocean to be. I'm not a sailor nor a boatie but I do love looking at the ocean and water in general......there's something very calming about being near the sea.

Cobi's page is all about the stunning tulip fields of the Netherlands. I've never been there but the colours and photos I've seen in travel magazines make me wish I was able to see them in person. Lots of lovely hand stitching and again, beautifully rich colours.

This is the page I made for Shelly.....her theme was "Vintage & Birds". I received a box of vintage doilies so I embroidered one in variegated cotton to use a background. I had a piece of vintage silk from an old coathanger of my grandmother's and I ironed an iron transfer for the flapper and gramophone onto the silk. I machined those pieces onto the doiley using rayon thread & a decorative stitch on my machine. I embroidered the flapper using a variety of threads with pigment pen highlighting her legs, arms, gloves, face & hair. The gramophone was embroidered in cotton floss. The birds were very faintly stamped on and I embroidered them using a thicker silk thread.

I was pretty pleased with the way it turned out & I think Shelly was too.

Frances, from Australia, wanted her pages to be "In the Garden".  I thought she might like to walk along a path in her garden and view a variety of flowers.  I mixed hand embroidered, silk embroidered and purchased flowers with embroidery on top for her garden. Shelly from south Florida, USA