:A Sentimental Journey: Vintage Inspired Flowers

Postcards From The Heart

Happy Weekend Everyone.. I thought I'd bring you some vintage inspired flowers in the form of postcards. I started these 'postcards' over a month ago but for some reason I have never quite finished them... Some of you noticed one in my last post... so I thought I'd put a few together for you.. They were inspired by the water colour paintings my mum had in her childhood autograph book. Or perhaps from memories of the childhood posies we gathered for our mothers.. Happy little bundles plucked from a neighbour's garden and wilted from their travels in a child's clumsy grasp. Little bundles of love that sit by the kitchen window, smudgy floaty and bruised by the late afternoon sun.

Wild flowers
Inspired by afternoon walks by the sea...
Wild purple flowers that rise up defiantly from their sandy bed ...

Q. V. Markets


A bit of history: The 'Postcard' layer comes from the back of an old family photo... It contains the text Q.V Markets Sydney. I need to do a bit more research on this but suspect it was the Queen Victoria Markets held on the site where the magnificent Queen Victoria Building now stands... Perhaps that is a post for the future ...




Have a lovely weekend everyone..
And once again thank you for your kind comments and visits.
I'll leave you with the words of John Lennon



All You Need Is Love


And a working internet

IMAGE SOURCE

All text, photography and artwork [altered images] by [Being Ruby©]

Return From Exile and The Week That Was

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Internet Exile

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Hey everyone... I'm finally back in the land of internet and able to post and visit. It's only been a week without internet yet somehow it felt much longer. Since moving to this new rental my internet has been intermittent if at all ... but it finally gave up the ghost permanently last week.. What changed I don't know.. but it seems I live in the internet equivalent to the twilight zone... some sort of communication no-go zone where my wireless internet [which I've been using for the past four years] has no coverage. The first few days I decided wishful thinking would somehow get it happening... then I built the tower of babylon to accommodate the modem ... but still no cigar ... so after days of a big fat nothing I was climbing the walls. I don't know.. call me crazy .. but I like to be able to send and receive emails.. post and visit blogs... and importantly ... research new providers!! So that's where I've been this last week... The internet not working was just another straw that broke the camel's back of 'this new place isn't really working out for me' .. So... in a need to make the place more comfortable.. and what else to do with all this new found spare time!! I decided to do a bit of decorating... As some of you have asked to see more of Casa Julie... here's another peak. All done with smoke and mirrors... well.. mirrors.

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Decorating with White Linen

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As my large country dresser is sitting in the garage waiting for a coat of paint I created a temporary fix. My new dresser is actually just a bookshelf turned on it's side and covered with a white sheet. The dresser mirror is a long saved vintage door I've been carting around from place to place. Rescued from my grandmother's vintage robe, waiting for it's moment to be put into service. Although.. in one of those shots, you may think I rescued the lot from the Titanic dining hall.

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My linen slip-covered chairs.. are actually just white linen pillowslip slid over the chair backs.. Add a chair-pad and voila... a folding chair gets a face lift.. A 'temporary' solution I put in place over six years ago.. Seems to have stuck. And finally ... my impromptu centerpiece .. just more of my lightbulb obsession. At some point I also decided to paint some photo frames white.. then I found some blue paint.. which then progressed to painting anything that wasn't bolted down.. Maybe if I keep going I will finally get around to painting the dresser and the bookshelf can become a bookshelf once more. And NO.. I didn't paint the shell.. I actually bought it that way...

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So there you have it.. My week in exile!!

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Thank you all for visiting and commenting in my absence.. Let's hope I'm back on a more permanent basis.

Wishing you all a lovely week..

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IMAGE SOURCE:

Text, photography and artwork by [Being Ruby©]

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The Trinket Box [& internet wilderness]

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The Trinket Box

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When I'm old and dotty [not long from now] my newly acquired trinket box will come in handy...

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Handy to recall where I've stashed all those memories .. Memories that fill my heart with melancholy and joy... Simple little trinkets that represent my stories... Stories of my youth and that of my ancestors.. Memories of family... a mother's love.. a grandfather's courage.. Keepsakes from my travels across this vast globe and reminders of travels closer to home and the sea that beckons me daily with it's salty air.

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And jumbled in with all these savoured memories, are vintage purchases holding imaginary adventures to worlds unknown. Imaginary adventures fueling dreams that have become tangled and entwined with my own history. Dreams to be realized and new memories to be stored and revisited when spirits are flagging. Yes this little trinket box will come in handy to store my treasured memories under it's wobbly vintage glass. Memories old and new....

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Where I've been, what I've imagined, and history I wish to create.

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... I hope everyone is having a lovely week ...

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I thought I'd break up the week with a little white contribution to White Wednesday hosted by the lovely Kathleen of Faded Charm. This trinket box is my latest purchase and although not vintage.. I like to pretend it is with it's paint splotched glass and white washed timber. I'll be back later in the week with Sea of Love Part II and more trademark blue of The Andaman Sea.... internet permitting.. Until then.. have a fabulous week and thanks for your continued visits and hello to my new followers .. Just like my memories..

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... there is joy to be found in old friends and new ...

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IMAGE SOURCE:

All text, photography and artwork by me - [Being Ruby©]

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