Happy New Year!

Wishing a

Happy New Year to you all!

I hope 2015 will be a good year for you.

I thought you would like this cheery image from The Graphics Fairy. It is from a French vintage 

 New Year card.

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas to you all!

I have chosen this beautiful image from The Graphics Fairy to 

wish you Seasons Greetings.

Sewing Box

I have made a sewing box, somewhere to keep all my  little bits and pieces for sewing . I used a wooden box, which I painted with matt vinyl white paint. I used images from The The Graphics Fairy, which I printed off and decoupaged to the top of the lid, the inside of the lid, and the inside of the box.

Spring Flowers from The Graphics Fairy

Although it is not officially Spring, some  Spring flowers are appearing, and when the sun shines,

it feels that Winter is on its way out.

Here are some beautiful flower images from The Graphics Fairy, which Karen says come

from an Antique Botanical Wildflower Book, Circa 1860.

 I was reminded of a couple of quotations by Shakespeare about daffodils, both from The Winter's Tale.

When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.
The Winter's Tale (4.3.1-4)



                 Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
The Winter's Tale (4.4.133-50)

Merry Christmas!

  

Merry Christmas to you all and thank you for visiting my blog.

The image I have chosen for you is from The Graphics Fairy of a Christmas postcard by Ellen Clapsaddle, dated 1908.