A good book and other inspirations...

So I know I promised to post my faviouite finds each month...but clearly that didn't work so here are a few books I found as a way of a catch up!

The Liberty book of home sewing

This can be purchased form Amozon but I bought it form 'The Book People' and I am sure it is widely available.

 A lovely book with some simple sewing projects. The projects I thought were much like any you would find in a standard home sewing book (not that that's neccessarily a bad thing), but what made it stand out to me were the print pages which featured some of Liberty's beautiful patterns.

This was definately my faviourite page in the book-'The print Glossary'

and it features a floral fabric that I own and it is one of my faviourites!!

 And here it is (bottom right) as a bird perching on a cage. I purchased the fabric from 'Fabrics galore', they don't have an online shop :( but they do have a shop in London (search 'fabrics galore' to find the address) and you can catch them at craft and textile shows- I found them at the Festival of quilts at the N.E.C. They buy end of line fabrics from Liberty so you can get them at a reasonable price! The other fabric is from C and H fabrics and comes in other colourways.

Vintage books

I found this World Atlas at R.F.R Charity shop in Queensway Bognor Regis (one I have come to visit rather often!)
They have soo many books that they had to put them on a 10 for £1 offer just to make space!!!

So of course I had to buy some!

 The map pages look charming in their colour and font.

It would look lovely to cover a book with or as some sort of background...but I'm far too attached to it at the moment!

And most exciting of all was what I found when I go home! Two portraits that were hiding in the index!

 :O And look at the year they were sketched!-1940!!





And last but most certainly not least is 'The Vintage Tea Party Book'

I think this is probably my faviourite craft/cook book...ever.

Although essentially an eccentric cookbook with many weird and wonderful recipes, it is full of inspiration for throwing the perfect tea party from invitation ideas to making an apron and styling hair and make-up.

 Wonderfully British and truly eccentric. I loved this book!

 And it is full of charming illustrations.

This pretty little Robin illustration inspired me to paint a Robin myself. I used a poem called Robin Redbreast as a background. 

This also got me thinking about Christmas decorations so I made a Robin tree decoration too!

I used woolfelt form 'Blooming felt' which has a lovely texture and rigidity to it. I am really happy with my Robin, who is yet to be named so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I am going to experiment with scale and features and some brief instuctions and plan to post that before christmas.

Wow this has been quite a long post; I hope I haven't rambled but I'm far too excited by all the lovely things I have found.

I hope you have enjoyed reading,

Millie

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