This lovely cameo bracelet. If anyone knows when this is from please let me know!
I forgot to get a photo of this DVD before I lent it out so here is a stock photo. It was not the best mystery ever but good for its time. The hero is adorably awkward and also really not great at art. I am not sure if the latter was intentional or they forgot to hire someone really good at art to do the portraits like they usually do on TV shows. They might have been making a point about rich people back then being dilettantes but I was not sure. Everyone acted like he was really good.
This weathered but lovely edition of Poe.
This school copy of Tennyson, given as a prize. I don't know if a lot of schools did this, but it can't have been cheap.
The bookplate with the details of the prize winner for needlework in December 1920. The school is a girl's school in Sydney. It was originally opened in a terrace house by Miss Marian Clarke on 20 July 1885. It moved to larger premises at Wahroongah in 1898 and appears to have operated at that location since. It is a private school, currently for girls from pre-school upwards and high school students can board onsite.
The Abbotsleigh motto, Tempus celerius radio fugit, may be translated from Latin as "Time flies faster than the weaver's shuttle". As the shuttle flies a pattern is woven; the shuttle of time also weaves a pattern of which the threads are people, buildings and events. The motto was given to the school by Miss Marian Clarke, whose family crest was a weaver's shuttle surrounded by the motto, Tempus fugit radio celerit. The school used this form until 1924, when it decided that the ungrammatical Latin should be changed to the present word order, which has been used ever since.
The reference to the weaver's shuttle is also believed by many to be a reference to the "proper" place of women in terms of domestic duties/servitude to men. Some members of the school community have called for the motto to be changed to keep pace with modern views on feminine rights. Wikipedia.
As you can see mine still has the ungrammatical original motto.
The Wicked Lovely series is one of my favourite series of Fae stories. You can read about some of my other favourites here.
Akira graphic novel part 1. This was one of the first animes I saw.
A memory book with some very OTT llamas.
My violet plates. Violets are one of my favourite flowers and feature on my floral tattoo sleeve.
The other pieces of my violet collection so far. The two cups on either end were opshop finds, the one in the middle was from a friend, I believe she got it secondhand.
My new William Morris mugs.
What did you think was the best find? Do you have a favourite china pattern?
I loved that BBC adaptation of The Moonstone, it was just as good as the book (not often the case). LOve the Poe & Tennyson books, they're beautiful. I'm not really a fan of dainty china - terrible considering I'm descended from one of the great Staffordshire pottery dynasties! I love the bold designs of William Morris so those mugs are a winner. x
I had two really cute blouses, neither of which was a good fit. Blouse One: Cute fit and pintucks but it is loose at the top and opens up badly at the front if you don't constantly tense your shoulders. Blouse Two: Absolutely gorgeous yoke but many, many sizes too small! Just to make things harder, the second blouse is so well sewn! The seams are even covered over with a beautiful selvedge! Lots of work to unpick! The yoke unpicked. Finally! The yoke pinned to the other blouse. Thankfully, the neckline around the top was nearly an identical match! It still took a bit of effort, though! All sewn together! It's not perfect, the collar underneath peeks through a bit at one point. The machine did not like all the layers so the sewing tension inside is a bit messy, thankfully it looks good on the outside. The skirt is from Dangerfield's The Lady and the Unicorn collection. This was a collaboration with the Art Gallery of NSW when the tapestries came to Australia...
DAY 1: Sunday We arrived at Gold Coast Airport from Sydney early in the morning and got a bus to Surfer's Paradise. Once there we got an early check in at our hotel in the Q1 building at about 12.15, and went out to look around. We checked out the shops and beach. We had an ocean view from our room and could see and hear the waves. DAY 2: Monday Day two's weather was punctuated by rain showers but we were doing mostly indoor activities, so it wasn't a big problem. We started out at Ripley's which was just off the main street in Surfer's Paradise. Ripley's Believe it or Not Robert Ripley ( February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949) began his career as a sportsman and cartoonist. He was fascinated by unusual events and objects, leading to his "Believe it or Not!" comic strips which became very popular. He enjoyed travelling the world to find oddities and opened his first museum in Chicago in 1933, then known as the Odditorium. In 1936 he was voted the most popu...
I finally finished my skirt from the McCalls M7500 pattern. I posted about the mock up here . The fabric is from a friend, Roli . I love the key pattern. The ruffle is made from a bedsheet. I am finally getting used to sewing ruffles which I have always found incredibly frustrating. One of the reasons it took so long is because I tried a few different types of waistband. In the end I wasn't happy with any of them so I ended up turning the fabric over at the waist to make a channel for the elastic as I did on the mock up. I am quite happy with this as it allows a lot of adjustment if my weight fluctuates and it still looks quite neat. Without petticoat With petticoat. Obviously it would look better with a white/cream petticoat so I will have to get one. I think this will become a go-to pattern, I have more Steampunk patterned fabric I want to use. Next I want to make a matching bolero if I have enough fabric left over.
Those William Morris mugs are fab!
ReplyDeleteI loved that BBC adaptation of The Moonstone, it was just as good as the book (not often the case). LOve the Poe & Tennyson books, they're beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really a fan of dainty china - terrible considering I'm descended from one of the great Staffordshire pottery dynasties! I love the bold designs of William Morris so those mugs are a winner. x
Some great finds here, Laura. I'm particularly loving the cameo bracelet and the Poe! xxx
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