Vintage - Tag Tuesday

here we are then another tag for Tag Tuesday although I have to say that I did make this one a while ago but its one of my favourites, (I've even named her Flora) and so wanted her to have an airing!

I don't know about you but I sometimes the feeling of history and age in even the smallest found item can give me a real buzz, unfortunately I find it very hard to get rid of anything with a personlaity, the roof rafters are groaning!.

Flora is only 9cm (3 inches) long and almost 5cm (2 inches) wide. She is made with a found photograph, vintage fabric from an old sample book (not mine) and has a couple of wrens feathers (found in my garden) for embellishment. I wish I could make out what her brooch/corasage is.....

Flora may have been Scottish I felt and so added this scrap of old tartan tothe back but nodded to Wales with a tiny daffodil pendant, another found item, a tad rusty but it adds to its charm some how. The other two pieces are from an old earring and an even older bracelet, both bootsale purchases.

vintage collie dog brooch

Another of my dogs but a bit less life like than the lovable Beany. I'm just mooching around today, still a bit shellshocked from my hand in on Friday, but in a good way.

this is a nice little vintage pin

I visited Niagara Falls when I was 12 and then Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe 34 years later, not sure which one I liked the most but I remember both of them so vividly, I wonder which falls I should visit next? One things for sure, I'll be seeing Canada again within the next two years......

close up of my best Bee

and the wings are articulated too!

bug brooches

I collect bug brooches. I was lucky enough to be give the  Bee and Butterfly by the wonderful Christopher. Bees seem quite hard to come by though, don't see many of them about. I can see them coming into my art work when I finish University.....can hardly wait.