Eiffel Tower Construction 1887-1889 – Animated GIF file

The Eiffel Tower took a little less than two years to build: I have used a series of contemporary time-lapse photographies to create this animated gif file, in two versions and two sizes, with and without a blue frame 🙂 These files are not very large, what you see here is what you get! Right…

1899 Eiffel Tower Wallpaper

This is one of my all time favourite Eiffel Tower depictions, painted by Georges Garen for the Exposition Universelle in Paris, 1889: I have resized it to use as a wallpaper for my iPhone 6 and iPad Air: If you have an iPad Air or iPhone 6, you too may download my wallpapers, and adorn your…

DIY French Victorian Embroidery Tags

Here is the next set(s) of embroidered tags, you are all getting the hang of this now, yes? So I'm advancing to a bit more challenging patterns, most of these were found in vintage French Sajou embroidery booklets on PatternMakerCharts (link below): It's supposed to be: Bee, Heart, Butterfly, Key, Crown and Fleur de lis...,…

DIY Easter Peat Pots

Did you enjoy my Vintage Easter Peat Pots yesterday? But frown upon printing on paper towels, thus dismissing the idea? Don't worry, I have the solution for you to simplify the project: Decoupage with any pretty napkins you have laying around the house 😀 I also cut out some tags from corrugated cardboard, and gave…

DIY Vintage Easter Peat Pots – Free Printables

I've been obsessing over Peat Pots lately! They are so promising of spring, both by appearance and fragrance, and I love the prim, worn look of them. Furthermore, they are really cheap to buy, and offer amazing texture for all sorts of artistic whimsies 😀 I must admit I have crafted more than a few…

French Cherubs In Gilded Hearts 1904

I like the contrast in these cards! The rich saturated backgrounds, the soft pastell cherubs, the pretty gilded hearts, and the surrounding flowers. All 3 cards were used in France in 1904, one of which in Paris. Bonne Année means Happy New Year, and sending cards to greet the new year must have been very…