Matchbox Gallery #43

"Blue Bird Eggs"

Bird eggs found in the yard and on the street this summer. I have never found one like the blue with brown spots before. I was amazed at the size of the bottom egg, so much of the shell is in tact.

"Finding Frido Kahlo"

“Finding Frida Kahlo: Diaries, Letters, Recipes, Notes, Sketches, Stuffed Birds, and Other Newly Discovered Keepsakes” is the book that showcases these suitcases and their contents.

Images from New York Times.

By Barbara Levine at Amazon.

Finding the above book on Amazon led me to "Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress" about Frido Kahlo's fashion and the story of her wardrobe.

Suitcases for Storage and Display

suitcase used for storing mattress ticking for the lining of bags

first you have to find a suitcase that is not smelly

beautiful colors

Above two images from forrestbound

above two images Oh Sweet Woods

Matchbox Gallery #42

"Burned Out"

I'm not, but it is too funny a tile not to use. It has been interesting to me that the type that is inside the three different matchboxes that I have used is always in a different place, here it is going up the side of the box. This may be of no interest to anyone but me,  just an observation.

Isak Dinesen

Odds 'N Ends

tag from my collection, two kinds of string

tags from items bought by forrestbound

what is it about old tags like this: beige, bended, folded, string, type, handwriting, a story...

French Casaquin

French Casaquin or Jacket of earlier brocaded silk with sprays of flowers in corals, peach, green, ivory silks on a silvery/ivory ground woven with small repeat spot motif, the front with large square neck, front opening, the linen lining with eyelet holes to both sides, the bottom squared and with a pleated frill edged with pale pink silk, three quarter shaped sleeves, the back with wide gussets narrowing to the waist and splaying out to the skirt, edged with horizontally pleated frill, edged with pale pink silk, lined with coarse linen with an oval blue printed stamp.

This bodice was probably a skirt in a former life because the sleeves have old fold marks as if they were the pleats from a skirt. All adds to its fascinating history. The front bodice opening has been pieced so there are horizontal joins, another indication that this piece had a previous history.

I have always liked quilted peticoats. This one must be used just to show off the top. They would never be worn together.

From Meg Andrews via Mothtales.

Photographer Burcu Avsar

Images from photographer Burcu Avsar via Please Sir via Seen and Said.

Random Images

Images from Seen and Said.

Helen Beard's Ceramics

Information about Helen can be found at Crafted, an group that supports crafts in the United Kingdom. The images from Helen Beard.