tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54844062582785837062024-03-18T20:09:49.962-07:00Lace Age GirlSeeing beauty in a moment... my creative journey.Lace Age Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17898779208090759814noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484406258278583706.post-36428588669041769832019-12-01T00:46:00.000-08:002019-12-01T00:54:36.195-08:00Car crashes, illness, aged care and a bushfire or twoHello my blogging friends,<br />
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I haven't posted here since July this year due to an unusual year of family commitments and accidents and illness. I've only been able to see a few of your blogposts and leave a few comments here and there. I've made nothing crafty and my craft space is a mess.<br />
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My house is full of dust and now ash from two out of control bushfires burning towards the coast (South Coast NSW Australia) about 60 kms and 20 kms away from our house as the crow flies. My sister on the Central Coast has been in a similar situation, living every day for weeks with the threat of evacuation and losing their house.<br />
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My partner was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier in the year which has returned after treatment. One of my sons has a mysterious vomiting problem that doctors can't find the cause of. He spends one or two nights every week vomiting all night. And no, he doesn't do drugs, alcohol or cigarettes and it's now a year since we started getting ultrasounds, blood tests, gastroscopy, and even a brain scan. Still nothing is known and no remedy in sight. He's learning to drive as well, on his good days, so I'm the number one driving teacher. 120 hours of practice takes a long time!<br />
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My aging Mum became ill this year and needed support. I've had to put her house (interstate) on the market for sale, and sell her possessions which she didn't need any more since she preferred to be looked after in an aged care facility. Mum didn't want to move to the coast where we live. She hates the humidity , and we don't have air-conditioning in every room. Also she's afraid of the bushfires here as we are surrounded by thick bush - frankly, so am I! Even though the aged care institution is under review and has failed to meet current standards, my Mum feels happier and safer, and says the food is simple but good, using locally sourced veges.<br />
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So I've had many trips interstate, three garage sales and a constant stream of stuff on FaceBook's Buy Swap Sell. We have a garage full of stuff to sell, and our lounge room is now a storage and clearing depot for stuff I've photographed ready to sell.<br />
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Aged care is so expensive, and a room of your own even more so. I hope to be able to allow Mum to stay in her own room for as long as possible. The paperwork has been phenomenal, and understanding the costing system and your rights takes a lot of research. It's so much better to stay in your own home if at all possible, but more difficult for those without a partner to lean on each other.<br />
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This has been the hardest year of my life so far. My poor blog has been neglected, and I am drowning in paperwork - paying extra bills, medical bookings, researching things of Mum's to sell like massage machines I've never seen before, hoping I am pricing them fairly. I'm a full time Personal Secretary (unpaid) at the moment.<br />
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We bought Mum's car so our teenagers would have one to share, but on the way bringing it home my eldest son hit a kangaroo and wrote off the front end, which an insurance company would write off rather than fix. Too sad. Luckily a neighbour fixed it up over a couple of months, but it was another expense we didn't need. A few days ago I reversed into Terry's car when he parked behind me down hill on the sloping driveway, where he never usually parks. The garage was closed and I thought the car was inside as usual. I couldn't see it as it's so low - a Mazda sports car. I thought I'd hit a wheelbarrow and got out to look. Ouch!<br />
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I did manage to attend two climate action rallies as I am so worried about the lack of action by Australian politicians to alleviate the effects of climate change. Australia is selling coal to China, and will not meet the promised paltry Paris commitments. I am embarrassed to say that Australia, by aiming to be one of the seven largest producers of fossil fuels, is actually becoming a major driver of the climate crisis. Our Prime Minister thinks our increasing bushfires have nothing to do with climate change, and even refused to meet with our major fire fighting leaders recently.<br />
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So any precious time I have has gone into supporting the world's school children on their school climate strikes, and I have joined Australian Parents for Climate Action and campaign with them too.<br />
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So I'm sorry but I don't think I'll get to make any Christmas cards this year to send out. I was meant to put up the Christmas tree this afternoon with my daughter, but the bushfire became upgraded to emergency because of high winds, so we practised using our fire pump instead.<br />
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So, I'm off now to finish the final amendments to our fire plan and print it out ready as we watch and wait to see if the fire is blown our way.<br />
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I hope to be back blogging soon, but this could go on all Summer...<br />
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Once a month I meet with a local gardening group to share seeds, produce, expertise and occasionally, muscle. We weed and dig and admire each other's garden's, sharing cuttings and a delicious afternoon tea where we all contribute our home-made cakes and biscuits. One of the gardeners, Belinda, brought along her childhood doll to show us (well, me mostly, as I'm an avid collector and maker of various treasures).</div>
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Belinda produced a hand-woven basket she had used for her own babies when they were small, with a lumpy towel inside. It was exciting to unwrap her. Sadly, her eyes were stuck shut as she'd been stored a while and the blinking weights had become gummed up. </div>
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I was totally gobsmacked when Belinda offered her to me to enjoy, to appreciate and look after. The doll, an antique German bisque doll with a composition body, had been given to Belinda when she was about 13 by a friend of her mother's. Belinda called her Josephine, shortened to 'Josie'.</div>
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Since this doll was made in 1910 and about 109 years old, I was worried about how to open her eyes without damaging her. I checked the Internet but didn't feel confident to attempt it. That night, I rang the convener of a Sydney Doll Fair, who gave me the number of 'The Doll Doctor,' Barbara Hancock. She kindly explained how to peel back the wig, check the head markings and fix the eye blinking movement mechanism from inside the head. What a relief when her eyes moved after several moments of gentle prodding! After cleaning her eyes with a cotton bud, she was as good as new. How amazing to think she is still in such beautiful condition after all these years.</div>
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Here she is wearing the smocked dress Belinda made for her in school sewing classes. What a sweet dress! Belinda decided to hold on to her dress.</div>
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The doll was uniquely numbered and marked, made in 1910 by Armand Marseille, who was born in 1856 in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of an architect. He emigrated to Germany with his family in the 1860s. In 1884 he bought the toy factory of Mathias Lambert in Sonneberg and started producing porcelain dolls' heads in 1885, after acquiring the Liebermann & Wegescher porcelain factory in Köppelsdorf. At the height of his business, the factory produced a thousand doll heads a day. These were produced until about 1930.</div>
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I love this vintage floral fabric which Belinda's Sewing teacher gave her to use.<br />
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I spent the next day rummaging for suitable clothes for her to wear, dressing her in them, and photographing her. She is quite large, about 60 cm tall, and vintage baby clothes fit perfectly.<br />
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That afternoon I made a collaged hanging for Belinda with heartfelt thanks. I tried to find fabric scraps that matched her dress, and kept to a vintage colour scheme. I included a feather from one of my Laced Wyandotte chickens as Belinda had loved her own Wyandotte chickens years ago.<br />
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Here's Josephine wearing her vintage crocheted silk dress which I had collected and mended.<br />
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I've given a delighted Belinda her wall hanging, and she's seen the new outfit, and taken her smocked dress home as a momento.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thank you, Belinda!</span></b></div>
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Here she is with a new friend... </div>
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This special gift reminds me of other kindnesses I've received over the years. Once when I was going through a hard time in my thirties, a lovely gift of $200 appeared in my mailbox, in an unmarked envelope. I never did know for sure who it was, but I suspected a gentle family who I used to visit. I was feeling sad as I'd gone through a couple of years waiting for a court case over workplace stress, and broken up with a boyfriend. With that money I bought a beautiful Birman kitten who purred and snuggled with me for 21 years, bringing so much happiness. <br />
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This is a collage I did of Tara after she died. Her full name is in the frame... <i>Her Serene Adjacency, The Lady Tara Fluffy Bum.</i><br />
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Now it's my turn to offer some kindnesses back to the universe as the opportunity arises...<br />
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I'd love to hear of special gifts of kindness you might have received or given, too.<br />
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It's been quite a while since my last post here. Sometimes life takes you away from the screen. My partner has been in hospital but is now recovering well and we are catching up on all the balls we let fall...</div>
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I haven't done much creating, but I have painted our deck and stairs which were sadly in need of repair. These cards are ones I did a while ago...</div>
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The bird's egg and nest is a serviette which I tore. I added an egg tag which fits into the front pocket, and finished with a paper flower and a netting piece of a lace doiley. Very quick and simple, it was a last minute rush.<br />
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This image of Maud Fealy is stitched onto hand-made paper layers over a scrapbooking paper, embellished with a lace scrap, daisies and pink butterfly.<br />
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The cardboard frame was perfect for this beautiful baby, layered over hand made paper, an embossed texture, stamped script and a snippet of lace, and finished with a satin ribbon.</div>
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Next, a baby card suitable for a boy. Over a grey-blue scrapbook paper background I added a leafy wreath, white butterfly wings, a tiny flower and seam binding bow, an embossed gold crown and some buttons.<br />
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I like this cheeky boy's smile.<br />
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I have been doing some photography when I can, and I edited this image of Willow in photoshop. She has the most beautiful eye colour.</div>
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Here's Willow again...</div>
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Here are pictures of our deck before and after I painted it... what a huge job! It took about two weeks to do three sets of stairs, two small decks and the main deck.</div>
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I think I'm just in time - a couple of boards will need to be replaced, but when T is quite recovered...<br />
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What a sucker for punishment I am - no sooner did I finish painting the deck, I started the next garden project - putting in rocks to hold back the soil and mulch... luckily I just finished these projects before the cold change hit us. Now I can be cosy and do indoor stuff.</div>
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Despite the lack of rain since January, my roses are still blooming in June, along with hibiscuses...</div>
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Do you have some special vintage clothes you'd like to display to enjoy them? Perhaps a vintage baby dress, or a wedding dress to bring out of the cupboard?<br />
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I decided to play with some trims and doilies to decorate some plain coat hangers so they could add an old-world feel to vintage baby dresses and clothes I want to photograph and display. This ivory satin baby hanger was an op shop find.<br />
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I chose a small doily which had a minor stain (part of the vintage look). It had an open weave, so I folded it to work out the half-way point, then mounted it over the hook.<br />
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I snipped off a a piece of another doily and a short lace motif from a roll of recycled lace I collected from an old garment. The centre hole was just large enough to thread over the hook. You can experiment with wrapping a piece around and securing it with some small hand stitches.<br />
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A length of cream satin ribbon can be draped around the hanger - enough to tie a bow plus a little extra, about 40-50cm. You can trim it at the end.<br />
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Fold the ribbon around the hanger from front to back, and tie a bow at the front of the base of the hook.<br />
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The finished hanger - mine needed no sewing as it stayed nicely in place.<br />
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Here it is with a vintage baby's slip which I embroidered with a bow and some grub roses.<br />
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Here are a few more ideas... a satin button as the centre of the flower motif. I hand-stitched each end so the doily wouldn't slip off.<br />
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Starting with a padded hanger makes it a quick and easy project with great vintage style. Here I've added some pearl beads, an ear-ring and a velvet rose as accents.</div>
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These apricot shades are my favourites...<br />
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I'm joining Wen for Simply Neutrals # 55 over at her blog, <a href="http://appleapricot.blogspot.com/2019/04/simply-neutrals-55-taking-break.html#comment-form" target="_blank">AppleApricot</a>. Come and join us for a feast of neutral beauty.<br />
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<br />Lace Age Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17898779208090759814noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484406258278583706.post-51261744515565301732019-03-17T04:45:00.002-07:002019-03-17T04:45:47.674-07:00A New Perspective on ProblemsHello my friends across the world,<br />
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I'm focusing on natural beauty and our precious world today as I join Wen's Simply Neutrals Party # 54. It makes me feel better in the face of all that's happening in my life at the moment. I haven't had a chance to do any arty stuff at all, but I can share some of the beauty I've observed, and an inspiring experience. <br />
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These are some hydrangeas from my garden this Summer just past... I love the gentle pastel shades with their tonal variations.<br />
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Below, a single leaf with rain drops I noticed on the ground - we haven't had rain in so long, and it's raining now. So comforting after a long hot Summer breaking heat records again.</div>
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Life has been such a roller coaster lately. It seems everything has been breaking down at once.<br />
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After spending two weeks loading software and moving data across, my new computer worked like a dream. Then it died mysteriously after a week. My teenage son built it from hand selected parts, and we are having trouble working out which part has died. It's so frustrating in a house of computer junkies, now I am using a horrible old, slow laptop with a worn out space bar and vowels 'a' and 'e', and I am missing my passwords, my favourite software and photos...<br />
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Our household has also been suffering blackouts day and night due to a faulty earth leakage detector, then our air conditioner leaked water all over my favourite vintage books from 1890 ( I almost cried!), our hot water system died (cold showers!), and my car battery left me stranded. It was getting ridiculous, and we were feeling so frustrated.<br />
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On Friday it was the day of the world school student strike for climate change. Both our younger teens were sick. We wanted to go to support our local kids but my partner had an urgent medical appointment in Canberra, so we decided I would represent us all and join the march in Canberra. As my partner nobly put it, "My health problem really only affects one person and our family, but climate change affects us all."<br />
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So I marched with the school students in Canberra for two hours (my arms are still sore from holding up my sign!). What an uplifting experience it was to be alone in a sea of people all keen for action and democracy. It gave me a fresh perspective...<br />
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It made me see most of our problems as "First world" problems - our luxuries letting us down. How lucky we are!<br />
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Listening to the students' speeches, reading the signs they carried, and seeing so many standing in support of a clean energy revolution via the media later was heartening. The school students were joined by university students and thousands of adults young and old. Many stopped me and asked to take a photo of my banner, and people congratulated me on my signs. One of the photos taken of me held a surprise - graffiti angel wings in perfect place!<br />
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Some people didn't like that sign as much as the other side:<br />
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I think the words "intergenerational theft" are powerful, dark and guilt-inducing. Maybe it was too negative. But I spent all the previous evening trying to hone what I wanted to say so I could add my own voice of support to the students' march. </div>
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The media in Australia has been largely very supportive, with many making the point that most of the world's most educated and eminent scientists are in agreement that leaders must take urgent action to try to slow the effects of using fossil fuels or face more floods, bushfires, famines, sea-level rise and hotter temperatures.</div>
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It was rewarding to be out of my comfort zone, talking to strangers and making warm connections with them, being part of the action. The School Strike for Climate Change happened in 1769 places in 112 countries around the world. 16 year old Greta Thunberg who inspired the first school strike for climate change last year has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. </div>
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I know these pictures don't all fit the theme of 'Simply Neutrals' (perhaps 'carbon neutral' is stretching it?), but I'm joining Wen on her blog, <a href="http://appleapricot.blogspot.com/2019/03/simply-neutrals-54-taking-care-of.html#comment-form" target="_blank">AppleApricot</a>, as I know she feels a close connection to nature too.</div>
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Wishing you time to tread in peace among trees soon.</div>
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Recently I made this wall hanging for a friend who is going through a tough time, having experienced domestic violence and psychological abuse for many years by her husband. At last she decided to leave, the best decision she could make for her and her teenage daughter's safety. She is much relieved to be out of the 'cooking pot', and is now embarking on a new job, in a new home, and rebuilding her life.</div>
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I wanted to give her some support from far away, something that might help her feel better. It's only a little token, but she was very touched when I gave it to her. I chose her favourite tone, aqua, and the bird nest to symbolise her new safe home. The sentiment 'One day at a time' was one I've found useful in huge upheavals. A few other sentiments appealed to me too, so I made a few extras that she could change depending on what spoke to her, and tucked them into an envelope on the back. They were: </div>
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The image of birds is a copy of a vintage postcard. The wall hanging was assembled on a blue canvas vintage book cover and hung with seam binding. I used a found feather, gum leaf and skeleton leaf, old sheet music, old pearl beads, blue and gold tissue paper and various scraps of vintage doilies, fabrics and laces to embellish it.</div>
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Now to introduce you to my new girls... At last I have a small chook pen and four darling hens who I hope will lay some fresh eggs for us in the next few weeks. They are four different kinds: A Crested Cream Legbar (who lays blue eggs), a Silver Laced Wyandotte, a Silver Pencilled Wyandotte and a mystery (the cream coloured one). They are settling in well and when they are big enough I will try free-ranging them. Hawks can easily take them when they are small.</div>
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I look forward to watching them contentedly forage, making those happy chooky noises I remember from my childhood. I'm linking up to Wen's Simply Neutrals Party #53 at her blog, <a href="http://appleapricot.blogspot.com/2019/02/simply-neutrals-53-winter-gatherings-of.html" target="_blank">AppleApricot</a>.</div>
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Can you believe we are almost through the first month of the new year? With kids back to school, I'm starting to catch up. I sent some Christmas and New Year cards out late - yes, that's typical me! So I thought they deserved a viewing here. (I didn't want to spoil the surprise before they were received!)</div>
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A New Year Fairy with embossed butter foil wings, a lace collar, gold star fabric, scrap booking scraps and teabag layers...</div>
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I started in Photoshop, combining several images and adding digital stamps. This was printed, torn and aged using Tim Holtz Distress ink. The base was some old cardboard, torn and tattered.<br />
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I embellished it with some old music, a floral doiley, a gathered silk striped scrap, some dried flowers and leaves, scrap booking paper, a heart scrap, a used teabag, doiley scraps, a wooden gold painted star, fabric scraps and a seam binding ribbon to hang it.<br />
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I had fun with the colours on this fairy wall hanging. The crimson and pink laces were from old clothes from opportunity shops. I used an embossed silver butter foil trimmed to shape, some old music, some special tissue paper I'd saved for years, a gold painted wooden star with crimson glitter, hand-made paper, a crochet doiley scrap and fabric scraps all layered onto a vintage book cover<br />
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It was fun playing with a different palette of colours. I used the old book scraps as texture, too.<br />
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This fairy was layered onto a gold star fabric scrap, an embossed pattern inked in gold and some vintage paper, lace and fabric scraps. I love how effective the black striped ticking looks here. The bow was a salvaged one from a long-ago gift.<br />
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Now I'm showcasing some special cards I received from lovely friends. The first is from Dorthe. It features a gorgeous bird and a vintage Winter dressed child. The leaf has lovely dimension and glitter along the veins, and the scrap of fragile brown lace looks very old. Dorthe has cleverly used many layers and details of text, print, texture and glitter, finished with two pretty orange stars. I love it, Dorthe!</div>
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The next one is from Suzy. I am always intrigued by her layers of aged papers, fabric scraps and text stitched on and put together so perfectly with the chosen Christmas image. It looks deceptively simple, but it just works beautifully all together. Thanks, Suzy! I love your card too.</div>
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This card is one Suzy sent to me last year, and it deserves showing. It has a gorgeous fine black lace scrap -I don't know how Suzy has the heart to cut into these vintage laces, but what she makes with them is a worthy display. Suzy has layered fabric scraps, vintage music and a sentiment with a beautiful Christmas image stitched on to the card. Beautiful, Suzy!</div>
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To finish, a little splash of colour from one of my dahlias, a very old-fashioned flower I planted just last year. They are stunningly gorgeous happy flowers.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I decorated this shadow box using scrapbook papers and natural findings including butterflies, feathers, dragon flies, leaves, insect eggs (they didn't hatch) a cicada and some tiny dry crabs and and sea urchins I picked up at the beach.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As Christmas draws closer I'd like to share with you the few hand-made Christmas cards I managed to complete this year, and most of which will be received after Christmas since I am not a good time planner!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first card features gold foil I saved from the tops of butter, put through a Cuttlebug with an ornate die cutter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I love this tender image, and used photoshop to make it monochrome with a purple tinge.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some frayed open weave fabric, pieces of brown and white lace, some old sheet music and gold leaves to compliment the gold butter foil, again put through a cuttlebug.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some baby fairies and a lovely mother and child image feature on the cards below.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What magnificent dahlias have flowered now. I picked them just before it rained.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I experimented with a beige and red theme here. The fabric has red roses on a beige linen, and the angel was stitched on through the layeres, something Suzy showed me to do. The angel is stamped on in brown on coffee-dyed paper. Thanks, Suzy! The gold fake diamantes came on a large roll, so I cut a strip to give it a festive feel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These old bells I had were used on our fire truck for the Christmas Eve Santa Run. I sprayed them pink with mat chalk paint.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Santa used to ride up on the back of the trucks, but due to changes in safety regulations he now sits in comfort inside the cabin of the truck. This ritual takes place across Eurobodalla, with many local volunteer fire brigades joining in. It's a time to remind people to donate to their brigade so they can afford various extra equipment such as navigation instruments, electronic hose reels, sunhats, folding chairs, drinks and snacks to pack on the trucks for fire-fighting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As Santa rides around with sirens blasting out to call the children out excitedly, families gather to wave from their footpaths and driveways. While the children line up with arms outstretched to catch the lolly bags, adults toss their donation envelopes into buckets held out of the truck by the volunteers. Often packs of beer or bottles of wine are put into the bucket as thanks for helping to protect the area from bushfires.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 2009, I got to be a Santa! I had the fun task of sweating in a Santa suit in the Summer heat as our brigade drove around one Christmas Eve. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I put on a very deep gruff fake voice and Santa laugh, and totally covered by the Santa outfit, I don't think many recognised Santa's gender change!!! Even my own children, then quite young, didn't recognise my deep 'Ho Ho Ho'. Not even when I saw they'd left their own street without permission and commented gruffly, "Does your mother know you are not in your street?". They high-tailed it home, in time for the fire truck to arrive there, ready to catch their lollies. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wish you all a peaceful and happy Christmas, and hope your 2019 brings you closer to your dreams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">These little metal frames hanging on a tree caught my eye at a thrift shop, and I couldn't resist displaying some of my precious orphan pictures from days gone by. I have no idea who they are, but they are the sweetest little angels.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A gorgeous old print of a bunch of mauve roses in its chippy paint frame called to my heart. There's a signature at the bottom - 'Morgan' - but I couldn't find it on the Internet. I can't tell if it might be under copywright or not. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This aged and stained mauve silk doiley I've had for years goes perfectly with it. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's from the personal collection of my friend Donna who has a wonderful vintage shop at Burrill Lake near here on the South Coast of Australia, called </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/lakesidevintageburrilllake/" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">'Lakeside Vintage'</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Donna sells via Instagram, too, and can mail some things. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had fun pulling out mauve stuff to display with it. Another reason I've not produced much art this month! Too much playing! You'll see it appears further down in this post with another picture.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Apart from gardening, I have been creative too. I pulled out a pile of old clothes I've been saving to alter - things that didn't fit properly, or needed some attention, or were just not quite right. Some were from charity shops, bought for their fabric, to turn into something else. I set about altering some of them... I stitched the grey rose in chiffon by hand, and attached a piece of lace cut from a round doiley. That made it flow nicely. I then gathered some mauve seam binding to cover the seam, and added a brown ribbon accent. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gardening has taken over my life these past few months, and our garden is looking magnificent. The roses are the best they have ever been. It's raining here now as I write this...surrounded by vases of roses I just HAD to save from browning in the rain... 29 vases of them!!</span><br />
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good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages
which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and
unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to
the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion
sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This month I've been busy designing posters for one of our local Museums, the <a href="https://mgnsw.org.au/organisations/moruya-museum/" target="_blank">Moruya Museum</a>. I just want to show one poster draft here, and I will be posting the others soon. What treasures we have hidden away in museums! The top picture here is a cherub from the old baptismal font from Moruya's Catholic Church. The tintype on the left is a wonderfully preserved example of a cased ambrotype, one of the earliest examples of photographic methods from about 1860. The centre is a part of a vintage lace tablecloth, and the right picture is a framed Irish Land League propaganda-style poster depicting the 1881 trial of Charles Stewart Parnell and other leaders of The Irish Land League in Dublin, dated 1890.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Visitors to my house say my place looks like a museum - I love displaying my old collections. This gorgeous picture cost a whole $1 at a vintage fair - I've continued the mauve theme as it complements the green and mauve tones in the background of the picture. These roses are fake - but pretty good, eh? Garage sale dust collectors - I just washed them and put them in the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm enjoying taking photographs of all the beauty I see every day. It's like a gratefulness journal of appreciation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">These images will be available on my Etsy shop when it's up. I am currently preparing images from my own collections to sell, and I hope it will not be too long before I take the courage to open shop! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've tried to limit my palette for this post to neutral colours and pastels so I can join the 50th Simply Neutrals Party at Wen's blog, <a href="http://appleapricot.blogspot.com/2018/11/simply-neutrals-50-party-time-and.html" target="_blank">Apple Apricot</a>. </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Please follow the link and check out the display of wonderful neutral beauty there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Vintage baby clothes have always tugged on my heart-strings - especially gentle whites and creams, even those yellowed with age. I've been collecting since I got my first job as a teenager. I could only afford charity shop prices - back then 50 cents or $1 was the norm. My Hope Chest gradually filled with little items that I hoped to see on my own babies one day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had to wait at least 20 years for it to happen, so that's a lot of collecting!!! Below is a cotton petticoat on which I embroidered a pink bow and some rosebuds. 'Sugar Britches' is the model here, a porcelain ad cloth life-sized baby doll I made in my twenties.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't believe how people could throw out beautiful heirloom items. This pure wool blanket is light and warm and soft, tastefully embroidered with cream flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And yes, I did use it, as a pram blanket in the old cream cane pram I bought from a shop called 'No Horse, No Wife, No Moustache' about 30 years ago, which served my three beautiful babies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And another Summer baby! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This dress below is superb - in a soft, light wool crepe, in a golden creamy tone with fine white cotton lace. What a glorious find!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And here is my daughter Roisin wearing it years ago!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With Spring awakening here in Australia, I'm looking forward to the butterflies, roses and new life happening. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had some fun decorating the lid of this pretty yellow box which I am using to store cut out butterflies ready for some projects...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speaking of butterflies, here's an unusual one! My kitten, Jasper, was a great model for me, and I used Photoshop to give him fairy wings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He's grown up so quickly - here he is as a small kitten with gorgeous blue eyes, with his cute cheeky brother. So hard to choose!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was a rescue kitten - he's still in his cage here, too young to leave his mum yet.</span><br />
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William Morris (<wbr></wbr>1834–1896) was the 19th century's most celebrated designer, famous for his wallpapers and textile patterns. His wife Jane (Burdett) embodied the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6a6a6a; font-weight: bold;">Pre</span>-<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6a6a6a; font-weight: bold;">Raphaelite</span> ideal of beauty. She was a model and muse for him, and also for Dante Gabriel Rossetti.</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">'Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found this lovely pale pink cloudy vase below at a market, and it's perfect for this rose. The scrapbook paper background reflects a similar style rose, and a vintage baby dress with rosebuds next to a lacy deep pink evening dress made a lovely foreground in the golden early morning sunlight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My garden has given me some outstanding roses, and I've been reflecting on how friends are like roses </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- roses awaken our senses and nourish our spirits with their gorgeous scent and beautiful blooms, and friends bring special moments of connection with others that we can cherish.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>'A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.'</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having close friends makes such a difference in our lives. There are some who are like our soulmates, people we may not see often, but when we get together we just pick up from where we left off, </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">offering a warm connection, </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">enjoying listening to each others' life stories, and a mutual affirmation of who we are and where we are in our journey. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether or not you have a loving partner or family, friendships can offer a safe space for us to be ourselves, and the chance to reach out and grant that same gift to others.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our long-time friends who have stood by us over years are like the best wine, laid up to mature. Sadly, we, or our friends, may move far away, making it hard to see each other, but just knowing they are there helps us to feel that we are not alone - just a note or a card or a phone call away...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The connections we can make online can also nurture us, and we can reach out to others to affirm them, too. We mustn't underestimate the power of our online comments - for positive or negative affect.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So thank you to those special people who have taken the time to read and respond with thoughtful and heartfelt comments - you have left a special gift at the bottom of so many of our posts, and helped make our day brighter, like the scent of a rose.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I put one dress on the display stand for a while and spray-painted a cake stand pale pink for a little vignette of velvet roses, a tiny bear and vintage baby shoes with a fairy (my sweet daughter 13 years ago - she's not impressed with being a fairy!). She wore the baby shoes with the many vintage dresses I showed her off in. The roses are from my garden. I only have a few blooming, but it's the middle of Winter here on the south east coast of Australia. We had a trace of a frost this morning, but now it's glorious sunshine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Previously I showed you my plans for the cover of an old lace sample book I have been working on. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's now finished, but it turned out a little differently from my first plan - but looking back, I like them both! I should have made two!! Here's the finished cover.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some of my chrysanthemums from a few weeks ago - they are finishing now, looking bedraggled. But here they are in all their Mother's Day glory!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now for a natural interlude... Our local lyrebirds are calling away madly trying to attract a mate. There are mounds just near our house - this forest is at our back fence.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A perfect habitat for lyrebirds, a myriad of other birds, possums, gliders, wallabies and snakes. We've only seen red-bellied black snakes in our garden, not the browns, thankfully, but they are around here too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had to leave the track to follow his sound - not an easy walk! Sneaking as quietly as I could as I came closer, closer, so slowly - they are so timid and can run fast through the undergrowth. I was rewarded! My camera was not so good, and it was so hard to hold it still in the low light understory of the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here he is with his tail over his body like an umbrella... calling his heart out for a mate! I was about two metres away from him, trying not to crack a stick under my feet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So awesome! His song was so loud! I tried to move to get closer only while he was singing, so he couldn't hear me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His song was amazing, mimicking crows, magpies, cockatoos, whipbirds and other local birds, as well as what sounds like a nail gun to me. I managed to video him for about an hour, and edited it down to this:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In January 2018, I posted <a href="http://lace-age-girl.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/simply-neutrals-baby-lorraine-comes-home.html" target="_blank">here</a> about three lace and fabric collages I made using a vintage baby photograph given to me by Dee of <i>Dee's Funk'n'Junk Shop</i>, in Ulladulla, on the </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">South Coast of Australia. A</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bove is the one I made for Dee in thanks...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I promised to show you Dee's shop, so here we go on a tour of the vintage, retro, and grungescent <i>Dee's Funk 'n' Junk Shop</i>. If you see anything you'd like to buy, contact Dee through <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Dees-funk-n-junk-163353427052719/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dee's sense of decor and decorating is quite eclectic and unique - a cross between sea change and shabby chic with a distinctly Australian vintage feel. The shop is always changing its face as furniture is sold and replaced with more vintage or fantasy pieces. Dee has an artist's eye for seeing beauty in things many might overlook, and for telling a 'story' through her vignettes of found treasures. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So let's meet the person behind the shop name... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dee was born and bred in Ulladulla and lived in nearby Burrill Lake too. <i>Dee's Funk 'n' Junk Shop</i> started </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11 years ago </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as a hobby she loved doing, and after a while she gave up nursing and dental nursing to follow her dream, to do what she really wanted to do with her natural gifts and talents. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"An old man once said to me that when you do something you love doing, you never work a day in your life," says Dee smiling, </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"so I made that choice!"</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dee has always loved recycling and making things. She can see treasure in old worn things that just need some work to bring out their beauty.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dee loves timber and is appalled by cheaply produced chipboard furniture and the IKEA imported wood style. She enjoys recovering sad upholstery and refinishing worn old timber furniture. The pieces that are beyond restoring might get a coat of shabby chic style chippy paint to restyle and resurrect them for another family's use. Dee is proud to be a keen recycler!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vintage costume jewellery is a favourite of Dee's, but she appreciates the past and its stories in every piece she finds. She loves the stories told by generations of colours of paint on a piece of timber furniture, like a gift she unwraps to find the secrets of changing fashions in the past. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A grand treasure-hunter, Dee finds it in unexpected places. She been part of her community for over 50 years, and locals know she'll be interested in their 'old junk' they no longer need or like.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Music from her collection of LPs for sale is always playing in the shop, setting the atmosphere to help you step back into the past, where life was harder, things took longer to make, and great care was taken to make things look beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I asked Dee what was her best-selling stuff. Her answer - </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"People look for something unique, something one-off and special - not mass-produced and spiritless. Like this broken old grandfather clock made into a timeless china cabinet. These pieces go to their new homes to be loved and treasured in a new life." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Does your house look like this too?" I asked her. "Is it full to the brim of the beautiful stuff of the past?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It's even BETTER than this, because I do take some favourite things home", says Dee. "But I've had to make a rule for myself that there's only so much you can fit into your living space, so if I'm tempted by something, I have to sadly let go of something else. I try to limit myself, but there's often a special thing that I don't have and it's so tempting!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I built my own house out of recycled timber and bits and stuff - old windows and doors", says Dee. "It's a timber frame with gyprock. The verandah is made from old timber sleepers from a railway station. They even have the old metal on them. I'm still building my house - you never stop..."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I really want to encourage people to stop importing </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rubbish-quality </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chipboard furniture from overseas", says Dee. "Stop and look at what we have here, things you might have walked past because they are the wrong colour - instead, try to re-style, repaint or remake a solid timber piece. It doesn't have to cost the earth!" </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dee's favourite product for bringing out the natural wood finish is Mastertouch Carnauba Wax, which has an orange citrus smell. It rubs on, and leaves the timber refreshed but not shiny, keeping the vintage patina while protecting the surface.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So now for a peek at the shop...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First, my all-time favourites I coveted but couldn't afford/fit it in/make it work with my decor... the Post Office Cupboards. How <i>stunningly gorgeous</i> are these? Sadly, the Abbey is sold!!! Just imagine either of these in your craft room stuffed with vintage lace hanging out a little, or coloured paint pots, coloured crayons/pastels or small collectibles! Every now and then you might find another piece done in a similar quirky and clever way... these are just one of a few unique cabinets which come in on consignment by a friend of Dee's - exclusive to <i>Dee's Funk 'n' Junk Shop</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you like old sewing machine drawers, below is a sample of my Pinterest board on them...you can see more ideas on this Pinterest Board <a href="https://www.pinterest.com.au/laceagegirl/sewing-machine-drawers/" target="_blank">here.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today I'm showing you my vintage lace sampler. I picked it up at a vintage market in Sydney a few years ago. It has come from a millinery shop in Tasmania - that's all the vendor knew about it. I keep it in a gap between some sewing machine drawers which I've painted in a shabby chic style. It's held in place by a worn old book without its cover.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I rarely get the opportunity to go to Rozelle Collectors' Market, but I've enjoyed it each time, and found some great vintage treasures. The trees are huge and very old, and their shade is very welcome in Summer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The market is held in the grounds of Rozelle Public School, built in 1877 - a magnificent-looking building.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can find vintage clothes, doilies, lace, china, bric-a-brac, antiques, old postcards, ephemera and interesting food. I love this old chest of drawers below. Quite expensive, though!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the pages had separated, and it had no cover. Here are some of the pages...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think it's all machine-made lace, but I'd be interested if anyone can tell me more about it. I looked up Tasmanian lace and found nothing relevant.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my <a href="https://lace-age-girl.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/shearing-shed-art-and-memories.html" target="_blank">previous post</a>, I started to describe my process for making my new blog header (version 2 is below), but I wandered off the track a bit to tell you the story of the background - a texture from the wall of the Yarralumla Shearing Shed stands in Canberra, Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My new blog header is a celebration of things I make and love... collages, fairies, old books, vintage laces, luggage, cabinet cards and ephemera. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second version here was too large, so I had to cut down its depth while trying to simplify the clutter a little. (I get inspired and want to include everything!)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been working for a while on creating a new blog header for this blog. I took photos of various vintage elements I thought I might use, then extracted some from their backgrounds so I could use them in a digital collage. I did a few versions. The one below was too busy and cluttered (yes, that's me!).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started with a base image of a shearing shed - the Yarralumla Woolshed, Canberra, where I used to go bush dancing in the 80's and 90's and later singing for the dances. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the pictures below I'm singing at this woolshed for a bush dance (the waltzes) while holding baby Breandan in late 2002 - that made it very hard to breathe properly to sing!!! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The band (part of The Canberra Ceili Band) is in front of some of the old shearing stalls, and the sheep would be pushed through the openings behind us after being shorn, down a chute to wait under the shed to be herded back to paddocks or into trucks. It still reeks of sheep and lanolin, but being a country girl, that brings back good memories for me. See those boards behind us - that's where I found the background texture. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The magnificently large woolshed was constructed in 1904 for the landowner, Frederick Campbell, who ran a sheep farm there on 8 000 acres, called 'Yarralumla'. He had bought the Yarralumla property in 1881, and completed his mansion in 1891. He had been using an older woolshed previously.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Yarralumla Woolshed is such an iconic building for the middle of Australia's capital city, not far from the Governor General's Lodge - which was originally the homestead owned by Campbell. On his father's death, Campbell owned 39 000 acres of prime land in the Australian Capital Territory - including Belconnen and Yarralumla. His grandfather had owned Duntroon, built in 1833, the oldest surviving building in the ACT and Blundell's Farmhouse, built in 1860.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the outside of the woolshed... It's since been made accessible for disabled people as it's used by the community for various functions. I took these photos on a sentimental visit in 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The back door - this is where we entered on bush dance nights. In Summer we would gather outside in the cool evening to chat and rest after the strenuous dances. In Winter, we huddled together and kept dancing to keep warm - the poor musicians froze!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the ramp for herding sheep in to be shorn. There are sheep pens underneath too. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's Terry McGee inspecting his old stamping ground... He played Irish flute in many bands between 1970 and the 1990's </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for many of the bush dances here. Funds were raised for Canberra Stereo Public Radio (later ArtSound FM), a community radio station dedicated to folk, jazz, poetry and radio drama. Some of the bands include Colonial Experience, Dancereye, </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Perfect Cure and The Canberra Ceili Band. Sometimes there would be 500 people at the dances!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inside, the sheep stalls and pens are intact, though the machinery has been removed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found many articles about the woolshed on <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/" target="_blank">Trove</a>, ( The National Library of Australia's search engine of books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music and archives), </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">including one from The Age, July 1904 when the woolshed was just finished. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fred Campbell (the Yarralumla property owner) was the President of the Queanbeyan Hospital, and he offered his new shearing shed as a venue for a Winter Ball as a source of fund-raising for the hospital. I've included excerpts from the article below, which paint a wonderful picture of this community event.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A large table was set up for a midnight supper, and the women would have baked their best cakes to bring for it, being a fund-raiser. This is the official first dance at the new Yarralumla Woolshed! (They were a regular event at his old shed after the shearing, as I found in Trove.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wool, from merinos of Boonooke and Wanganella extraction, became one of the most valuable in the State, according to Campbell's obituary in The Tumut and Adelong Times (NSW), 28 August 1928, p 1.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Campbell had his three-storey mansion completed in 1891, attached to the older elegant, Georgian-style homestead, the main parts of which were erected from local stone in the 1830s. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can see the original older homestead behind the mansion below.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Attribution: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/farewell-tears-as-wish-came-true-20131006-2v26u.html</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Commonwealth Government bought Yarralumla from Campbell in 1913, and the land and homes of all who would be in the way of the new capital of Australia - Canberra. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can't help feeling sorry for Fred Campbell, who borrowed money to build this dream home for his growing family, developing his sheep farm extensively, building the biggest and best woolshed in the district, on this beautiful land by a major river.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Canberra Times reported in 2013, 'One hundred years ago this week, Frederick Campbell (1846-1928), the squire of Yarralumla, was overwhelmed with emotion as he said goodbye.'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Campbell's vacated home was used as a temporary residence for the Governor-General of Australia. Another three-storey block was erected behind the existing one and a new entrance portal was constructed on the southern frontage. A stable block was constructed to the west of the structure and cottages built for staff. Since the 1920s the building has been extended and refurbished several more times; but the basic structure of the 1891 house can still be seen clearly when viewed from the south. I prefer the old homestead, seen on the right in the photo below.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Yarralumla Woolshed was hired out for local sheepfarmers to continue using until 1964. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At its peak, an average of 20 000 sheep from the local region were shorn each year, going through 15 shearing stands in the shed. The last shearing season was 1964. In its 60 years, the shed has seen one and a half million sheep shorn! </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another article from Trove describes the last shearing...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That was a major digression from my original topic of creating a new blog header, but I found it fascinating to read up on the history of the area and the Yarralumla Woolshed - since I lived only a kilometre away, in one of the original old worker's cottages from when Canberra was first being built, and I went to so many wonderful bush dances there. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few weeks ago I posted this pair of vintage book cover collages I made recently - but they were shown in low saturation so I could post in Simply Neutrals Tuesday. Cheating, really, I guess, but they did look interesting in those muted shades. Today I'm showing you their real colours...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For over 35 years I've collected vintage baby dresses from op shops, since I had any income of my own. I could pick up a dress or knitted set for fifty cents back then. I used to dream that babies would be left on our doorstep, and I would be the one to find and look after them., since Mum was too busy! I remember the feeling of waking in the morning and excitedly looking at the end of my bed for the bassinet - only to be disappointed on realising it was just a dream. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later when I had my own babies, I dressed them in these old fashioned dresses (the boys too!), along with hand-knitted or crocheted matinee sets when it was cold. I have kept the special old ones, even though some are almost falling apart. </span></div>
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Lace Age Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17898779208090759814noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484406258278583706.post-25190061834671383722018-04-11T03:15:00.001-07:002018-11-08T03:52:07.235-08:00Home, Sweet Home - Collecting versus De-cluttering<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.5px;">Hello Friends,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am caught on all three of these reasons!!! Reflecting on why, I realised that I have another reason: it's the sense of 'home' that I have attached to my stuff. 'Home' to me is feeling peaceful, fulfilled and living in a sense of order. (Yes, my clutter is very ordered!) 'Home' for me is emotional fulfillment. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I like to surround myself with beauty and memories of love as a buffer against the stress of negative emotions. My childhood wasn't easy, moving to over 20 schools in new places, never having lasting friendships, living on isolated farms. A couple of traumatic events in later life, including going through a severe bushfire have left their impact.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I left home at 16 (while still finishing school - my parents moved on again!), I took my single bed and my chest of drawers with me. It made me feel at home to have these childhood 'friends' as I began to rent a room, study, work and then gradually buy my own furniture and decor. Almost everything I owned was second-hand (still is!). The worn, aged patina of something well-made always appealed to me over the plain, cheapness of mass-produced stuff. I couldn't afford new things that were fine quality, so I re-covered, repainted, remodeled, or just enjoyed the patina as it was. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Living alone for so many years while waiting and hoping to meet a partner to start my own family, moving from place to place at least every six months, meant no stable home for me. So I had to create that sense of home in other ways.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My sense of 'nesting' led me to learn various crafts to help furnish my home. </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">I taught myself to make things like cloth dolls, smocked baby dresses and teddy bears in the hope that my future would hold children and motherhood. (Which it did, many years later, thankfully). </span><span style="color: #666666; letter-spacing: -0.5px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">I've carried my bags of baby clothes with me since I was 16, starting with my own precious ones given to me by my Mum, </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">hand knitted by my Great Aunty Bid, who never had the opportunity to have a baby of her own.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I moved from rented group (shared) houses to flats and bedsitters over 15 years of being single, I'd unpack my stuff, set it up around me to create my 'home space'. Being alone, without family nearby, I invested a sense of emotional security and homeliness in my stuff. I enjoyed how I could set my things up creatively and change them around yet still I'd feel a sense of home. Unlike much of life, my stuff was within my control. Gradually I developed a sense of style that brought me much happiness - the joy of rearranging, of presenting it to tell its story... just playing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">My family on both sides have a history of being hoarders of one kind or another, and the few possessions that have been saved and passed down the generations to me are solid memories of the people who have gone before me in my family tree. I cherish my Nana's </span><span style="color: #666666;">Singer</span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span><span style="color: #666666;">treadle sewing machine with the drawers still full of her things - like the huge needle she used to sew up bales of wool in the shearing shed on their sheep farm. I have half of my paternal grandmother's tea cups of fine bone china (my sister has the other half), her old postcard collection (shared between me and my sister), diaries, family bibles, photographs and mementos going back several generations. Since I was the one grandchild who showed interest in the family tree, I became the Keeper of a cupboard full of old photos, ephemera, and memories.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">I think I missed my calling in life - I should have been a museum curator! I especially love vintage things with a sense of history and story. I enjoy volunteering at our local museum, displaying and photographing vintage items and atmospheres.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My mum learned to be extremely frugal. Her early childhood was lived in the shadow of the Great Depression of the 1930's - things were still difficult in Australia in the 1940's. Having lived in a slab hut with six brothers and a sister who shared a double bed, she knew about surviving on very little. Luckily hers was a family of great love and resourcefulness. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hut had a bare dirt floor, and a huge open fireplace which was limed to make it look white. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mum told us stories about how she and her brothers and sister would lie in the bed together, throwing their shoes at the rats whose feet they could see running across the hessian bag ceiling lining. The children only had a few simple toys, mostly home-made, and all of them had to help out - fetching water from the creek, </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">weeding the vegetable garden, </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">carrying the dead rabbits my Grandad trapped so he could sell their skins, pegging them out on the makeshift clothesline. They ate rabbit stew, and trout that my Grandad caught.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is Mum's old </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1940's </span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">family home </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Glen Abbey' from different angles</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, photos taken in the 70's and earlier, after Mum's family moved out. It</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> has since fallen down...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mum brought her own childhood frugal experience into our family. She was a talented seamstress, and made many of our childhood clothes. She recycled my dad's old trousers into overalls for her four kids - good sturdy country play clothes, and she knitted and crocheted in any spare time she had. We rarely threw anything out, as there was usually another child who could use it, or there might be...so I too learned to keep things for repurposing, or until someone needs them.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There wasn't much spare money, but we had what we needed and never went hungry growing up. Dad's vegetable garden supplied the pantry (wherever we moved, he would start another!) There was the time when my father served us beetroot (from his garden) sandwiches with brown sugar and cream ( from the cow), because Mum was away having another baby...and his famous 'critters' - deep fried leftovers in flour, which he could never replicate!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My father collected rocks wherever we went, labeling them carefully with initials of where he found them. He knew what kind of rocks they were and what was special about them. We moved house over 20 times in my childhood, and his rock collection always came with us. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Functional' is the way I'd describe the furniture of my childhood. There was no extra money to replace things that were still serving well, no matter how ugly. The same fake leather lounge suite that we all sweated on in Summer came with us on the trailer to each house we moved to, along with the shiny laminated fake wood buffet cabinet, the matching kitchen table and chairs, our double bunks and beds that served us year after year, with the same matching bedspreads.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It wasn't until her later years that my Mum could afford her own personal collections - porcelain dolls, craft supplies and pretty china were her favourites.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once I became independent, it was a pleasure to choose my own style, even if it was second-hand. By the time I met my partner I had enough furniture to begin to set up our house. In my mothering years, being early at garage sales and checking charity shops regularly meant I could get plenty of great toys, books and clothes for my young children (they're too fussy now!), and the odd ornament or what-not to re-purpose, all on a small budget. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's especially hard for me to part with things that cost my time, talent and effort, particularly those things I made in the small spaces of 'me time' while my children were occupied nearby, or asleep. This became apparent to me in my panic when police ordered us to evacuate during the Canberra Bushfire of 2003. I had to quickly decide what to save - limited to what I could fit in the car with two young children in child restraints. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That traumatic event is a tale too long for this post, but after fearing for our lives and our home, we were lucky that Terry stayed to defend our home from spot fires while I evacuated with our boys, one a baby aged 10 months and the other a frightened five year old clinging to my leg. Luckily our home was spared, but six houses were burned down in our street. I found out later that the explosions I heard were actually the ducted gas heating systems exploding into flame, and not the water-bombing helicopter saving houses as I had thought! We had the same gas heating system, but luckily Terry put out the spot fires that started in our yard before they got to the gas pipes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A very understanding and helpful counselor </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">remarked that it is common for people who have been through </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">difficult and traumatic experiences, especially over years in childhood, to try to regain a sense of control in their lives by controlling their environment. My artistic need to creatively display my memorabilia is invested with emotional tags of 'Wow, I'm proud that I made this myself!', or 'made with love by a family member', 'a special gift', 'a memory of a family member', 'a piece of nature's beauty to soothe my spirit', or 'something beautiful to be appreciated'. As an example, the shoe pincushion below was a gift from my Mum.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Collecting gives me so much joy, and my possessions make me feel 'at home' in my space. There's always a great book to read or lend out, or something to make, paint, fix, or re-purpose creatively - I am never bored!</span></span><span style="color: #666666;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be </span><span style="background-color: font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">beautiful</span><span style="background-color: font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.'</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, there's my problem - I see beauty everywhere! I cherish stories and memories, and maybe I'm just not yet in that spiritual place </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">that some people grow into, </span><span style="color: #666666;">to be able to let go of 'stuff' ... maybe when I'm older?In the mean time, I do so LOVE treasure-hunting, with all its potential fun creating or re-purposing something! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her style fitted in with pre-Raphaelite artists, and she approached photography as an art form, often dressing up her subjects as historical characters. Her images were dreamy and ethereal. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used dried flowers and leaves, a dried fern, lace daisies and a rose I made from cheesecloth dyed with avocados, and a fine scrap of old lace. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Old suitcases - one of my favourite storage displays - but it's so hard to remember what's in each case! I will do some labels for them, I think...</span><br />
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