More on Vintage style Paintings & Alannah Hill

I loved working on my little original vintage style painting so much yesterday I thought it would be great to do a series, it's always nice to offer a variety for people to group together.

I've got some lovely vintage frames tucked away....somewhere in that shed!

I was looking through my photo files of some of my older completed vintage style paintings, I thought it might be nice to show you a few.

In the process of hunting out these files I found some articles on Alannah Hill, for anyone who hasn't heard of this spectacular fashion designer you can visit her website by clicking here .

If you look closely on the wall behind Alannah you can see a few of my original paintings, the magazine articles date back to around 2003, these were some of my very early paintings. I can't tell you how excited I was when I found out she actually owned a few of my original paintings!! That's another story.

above ~ You can see my two paintings just behind Alannah's shoulders

I've been reading so many fantastic, interesting new (new to me) blogs lately, a few had mentioned Alannah Hill (sorry I can't remember which blogs, I am hopeless I know!) so I thought it would be interesting for you to see these articles.

Thanks for visiting

Gail

Vintage inspired painting & My giveaway arrived!

First of all my lovely Christmas decorations arrived!!!, I actually won a prize in Shannon's give away, I was so excited, she especially made the decorations for me to fit in with our 2007 colour scheme, the teal green ribbon and colours in the cute little stocking are just perfect. I think Shannon has more decorations for sale, you can go to her blog for details....just click here

Thanks so much Shannon for being so kind and thoughtful, I'll post more photos when we get our tree up, we love to have a real Christmas tree, better to wait till closer to Christmas day to put it up, otherwise a spell of hot weather can leave you with a wilted brown tree, we wouldn't want that to happen!

Now to my latest Original Painting

It's often such a shame to paint a vintage frame white. This was the case with my finished painting in the photo above, I love the end result and think the colours in the painting look great with some of my favourite treasures. I've always loved vintage colours, I think that's why I was inspired to start painting roses.

Above are some beautiful handmade brooches and bags some special friends made for me. I'll treasure them always

Above

Just a few from a set of trio's hand painted by my Aunties, at the time these ladies were considered to be hobby artists! I'll post some more photos of some of their beautiful work soon.

Above

Not sure of the origin of this beautiful vase, all I know is it came from Tony's side of the family....I think Sweden maybe, it's very old and I love the colours

Last but not least, this is from my lovely friend Siobhan her work is outstanding, she gave it to me on my last birthday, it was, you know that big birthday!!! no not 21 sadly. I'll treasure it always.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you're all having a productive and happy week

Gail

Carla's House, all the way from New Zealand

I don't think I'll ever get over the thrill of selling via the internet.

Carla's beautiful home you can see in the photos below is in New Zealand, about 3 years ago she was living in Mt. Eliza, which is about 5 minutes away from where we live, we had never met. She had bought from a shop in Maling Rd, Canterbury who we supply to when she lived in Melbourne, but I don't think ever directly from us

She's recently bought some goodies from our website and has kindly sent me some photos, I've never visited New Zealand but believe it is beautiful, can't say I've seen many photos either, apart from spectacular scenic ones, I thought I'd share her home with you all too

Here's just a few, I'd have loved to have put them all on but my computer doesn't seem to like working hard on a Saturday evening...very slow!

Carla's love of birdhouses

coffee table made by her hubby

The photo above was from the first lot Carla sent me, I asked her to send me more of the beautiful garden I was getting a glimpse of through her window

Carla's birdhouse made by her clever hubby

beautiful courtyard which she says was once a tatty garden shed

her love for cherubs

Her love of roses!

Thankyou Carla for sharing you beautiful home and garden with us

Last but not least!