I just loved the vintage postcards. So enjoy.
Monday, 29 September 2008
Ephemera
These are photos that I took in the summer holidays (2008). Just a little slow in uploading them. So I know I can't do anything with them, as I don't own the ephemera, but they were taken up north in the Bay of Islands in one of the museums there.
I just loved the vintage postcards. So enjoy.
I just loved the vintage postcards. So enjoy.
Glimpses of Hope
Hope for a peaceful future,
Hope for a better outcome,
Hope for a wrong to be righted.
These are glimpses of hope,
For everyone to share and know,
And of course to pass on.
Hope for a better outcome,
Hope for a wrong to be righted.
These are glimpses of hope,
For everyone to share and know,
And of course to pass on.
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Vintage Romance Story in Pictures
This is one of Tatjana's quirky Victoriana's star books she made. Remember when making these books we are confined to the resources and materials we have as supplies, so often we have to make up the stories with what we have, and then it can get really quirky.
The opening is entitled "Together Forever"
The next page is scattered with red love hearts, and is showing the story unfolding about the couple's correspondence with one another.
A tiny envelope of ephemera with "The Sweet calm days in golden haze, melt down the amber sky."
This page shows the lady and where she stores her love letters.
Next page is about sweet nothings: sugar pie, honey bunch and sweetheart. Alas, she is now winning him through food.
Here we have an elephant doing a balancing act on a globe. Love equals balance.
And for some kinectic stuff, yes part of the globe slides down revealing 'together forever'. Fly me to the moon.
And here we have a few stolen moments.
Then she unravels her fan and out explodes another letter with lyrics to a song "once in a love", with the violin ready to be played below. Rhapsody in love.
... further on She said .."isn't it romantic and they said it wouldn't last." (the gossips). And the 'tying the knot' – the cord with a heart on it .... He said ....
Embrace destiny my soul mate.
The end. A fine romance by Passion Seekers Anonymous.
The opening is entitled "Together Forever"
The next page is scattered with red love hearts, and is showing the story unfolding about the couple's correspondence with one another.
A tiny envelope of ephemera with "The Sweet calm days in golden haze, melt down the amber sky."
This page shows the lady and where she stores her love letters.
Next page is about sweet nothings: sugar pie, honey bunch and sweetheart. Alas, she is now winning him through food.
Here we have an elephant doing a balancing act on a globe. Love equals balance.
And for some kinectic stuff, yes part of the globe slides down revealing 'together forever'. Fly me to the moon.
And here we have a few stolen moments.
Then she unravels her fan and out explodes another letter with lyrics to a song "once in a love", with the violin ready to be played below. Rhapsody in love.
... further on She said .."isn't it romantic and they said it wouldn't last." (the gossips). And the 'tying the knot' – the cord with a heart on it .... He said ....
Embrace destiny my soul mate.
The end. A fine romance by Passion Seekers Anonymous.
The Cross
"We live by faith and not by sight"
I haven't blogged for ages, it is more to do with the assignments I have been working on (non-art projects) and having to cope with a massive flooding in my office (the bursting of an air con pipe) rather than having no material to upload. Anyway, life is almost back to normal.
This cross I made awhile ago and I was inspired by the work of Michal Negrin one of my favourite artists (she is listed under my favourite artists). I have used a collection of Victoriana stickers that have been scuffed (distressed) and then applied on to some beautiful paper by Walter Knabe (another favourite artist). On top of this I have added Dimensional Magic, a product that looks like ready made resin. It coats it beautifully with lots of lustre and shine.
This is the reverse side:
I haven't blogged for ages, it is more to do with the assignments I have been working on (non-art projects) and having to cope with a massive flooding in my office (the bursting of an air con pipe) rather than having no material to upload. Anyway, life is almost back to normal.
This cross I made awhile ago and I was inspired by the work of Michal Negrin one of my favourite artists (she is listed under my favourite artists). I have used a collection of Victoriana stickers that have been scuffed (distressed) and then applied on to some beautiful paper by Walter Knabe (another favourite artist). On top of this I have added Dimensional Magic, a product that looks like ready made resin. It coats it beautifully with lots of lustre and shine.
This is the reverse side:
