Birthday Girl

 

Yesterday was my birthday and a lovely lady sent me this gorgeous card. As you can see it's from art PRESS who do sell great cards.I just love it.
More wonderful millinery hat prints on this link.http://hprints.com/fashion_prints/Milliners/391-298.html

Vintage Hat Prints

You may remember that a while ago I bought myself some vintage prints, well here they are framed and displayed in all their glory in the shop.

As you can see I have a green selection sitting on my desk at the moment but any colour scheme seems to suit them so next week when I change items around I don't think it will matter at all.

Hope you like them as much as I do.

Lady wears feathers

I was pleased to find out where my vintage hat prints came from and also thrilled to be offered this wonderful print of a woman wearing plumes of black feathers in her hat.
They all came from a 1930's catalogue
" Album du Figaro" La Mode de printemps.
Originally it cost 250 francs and is full of wonderful images of the fashion of the era.
There are quite a few more so I may be tempted to buy again.!
The hat in the print has glorious black feathers so I have taken some pictures of a few of my feathers which I am using at the moment for various pieces.
These chequered feathers are achieved with a burning technique and are known as brulee, just like the dessert.

Vintage Hat Prints

I found these prints last week at a local antique fair and it appears that they are taken from a book as there are page numbers at the corners of each one.
I would love to know where the book came from and the title but there was no information from the seller.
Now to decide where to hang them once I find two frames.? I do have a nice space in the shop so maybe that will be their new home for a while then I might just have them at home to enjoy them myself.
Hope you enjoy them too.