Thank you to all who have inquired. I am hale and hearty
and knee deep in my many little passions: chiefly
gardening, tweaking the colors of my world through paint
and dye, and collecting small representative bits of an
18th century world. After a Summer of loving having my big kids
around…it’s back to editing the flotsam and
jetsom of twenty years in this old house and starting
on plans for a big landscaping project in the Spring.
A few recent photos from about the yard…
Stephanotis vine…
the most divine fragrance….
Coquettes des Blanches
Bourbon c. 1871
Madame Issac Perrier c. 1881
the most fragrant antique Bourbon rose…
Love moody dark grays and brights…
and dyeing my own linens
Madame Ernest Calvat…Madame Issac Perrier…Souvenir de Malmaison…
Old French roses and worn French paperbacks….
18th century French fabric reworked into ecclesiastical stole
on hand dyed Carolyn Quartermaine fabric
In search of the inimitable….
Hand woven, hand stitched…
An ageless love of nature’s little frills worked through silk,
treasured, handed down, reworked, honored…
Old leather bound books and butterflies…
a gouache cartoon…preparation for a woven tapestry…
Antique silk shoes…late 18th or early 19th…
when soles were neither right nor left…
plumped with linen and tied with striped bows…
great site here
My collecting always seems in pursuit of a story…
In the 18th century The Ladies’ Memorandum books
showed a glimpse into pre-blogging woman’s lives….
More here
Though occasional rains signal the closing of the gardening season…
I have parrot tulips and Icewing daffodils and English bluebells to
plant….and a few roses always manage to bloom in December.
I’ll try to pop in from time to time…..
Hope you are all happily busy this Fall…
XOXO
Trish
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