Hand Dyed Ribbons and Random Sweetness

Hand Dyed Dove Grey Ribbons

It's been a quiet day. The birds are building their spring nests. The wrens have returned to the window sill where they nested last spring. Their song is a welcome change to the cold winter wind.

French Blue

My studio needs much attention but rather than clean and sort through more boxed treasures, I decided to dye some seam binding. the rayon ribbon takes color so nicely. I dyed a new batch of dove gray, which turns out a little different each time I make a new batch. I also primmed up some bright orange seam binding, and tried a new mix which turned out very "French" looking. i love them all! I may spend the rest of the day dyeing ribbons!

Prim Orange

Ruby Flanders

There's a small antique Whitman's chocolate tin sitting on my desk. it's full of antique photographs and snippets of ephemera. One of the photograph shows Ruby Flanders as a young girl dresses in fancy lace with her hair down. She's so beautiful. I thought I'd share her portrait with you today. Ruby is my husband's grandmother.

What's New

New French Paper Collage Packs

What's new Wednesday is not really new at all in most ways. I am doing what I love and enjoying being home alone in my studio. The new part is my super fun find from the local thrift shop. I found these two awesome French school books with the binding all broken and taped over, the pages inside all written in French!

The books were similar except one has a lot of French handwriting on the inside. Because the books are so well used and loved and falling apart, I did the obvious, I separated the pages and packed them for resale in my etsy shop, triple trouble.

French Paper pack no 2

The packs are full of fun graphics and images. Some have sheet music, others have religious photographic images. The pages are naturally stained from age, too! The patina is wonderful. It's hard not to hang on to these great finds. My heart kept saying keep these and my head kept saying pass them on. So it is, I am passing them on to you all, hoping someone will make something pretty with these sweet and wonderful papers.