A Birthday Wall Hanging and Other Neutrals

It's Simply Neutrals Tuesday # 11. It's about time I created something! Here is a wall hanging I made for my mum's birthday last week. You can see Suzy's influence here, but I have always loved these muted colours and 'beautiful ladies'.

I had to get some images printed at a printer as mine had died. I am waiting for my new printer to come by mail soon. I much prefer having control over the images. This one was printed on a canvas, which is a lovely texture, but a little shiny up close. I found the fringe on a roll at Vinnies last week, too. It's always fun going in to see what treasure may be discarded by someone else!

Here's a closeup. The berries at the top were a Vinnies find, too - an old Christmas wreath decoration which I spray-painted white. There's a tiny scrap of wedding dress pearls in the corner. 

Here is a bear I made from an old fur coat from an op shop. It was a leather base, so sadly it must have been a young goat or something similar. The hair is so soft. It was very fine and brittle and hard to sew without tearing.

A closeup of Henrietta with one of my quilts behind.

 

Here's a couple of quilt blocks from that quilt -not really neutral, but all together the quilt reads as neutral on the wall :)

Here's the quilt on the wall:

I took this photo years ago with my Olympus OM2-N SLR (not a digital camera).

Gypsy our cheeky cat loves sleeping in cosy places... the doll pram.

A bunch of my Spring roses for you all.

Have a lovely week, and check out all the wonderful Simply Neutrals blogposts at Wen's blog at http://www.appleapricot.blogspot.com.au/  Thank you Wen for hosting this party.

Oh, and some lovely news - our band Ballyhooley has been selected to take part in the 50th Anniversary national Folk Music Festival in Canberra at Easter. I posted some old photos on my facebook page if you are interested:

https://www.facebook.com/jesse.rowan1/posts/10153257352776045?pnref=story

Hugs,

Jesse