tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630351803383991912024-03-04T22:31:54.417-08:00Carol SeatoryAn online scrapbook: drawing, making, collecting, looking.Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-72497409885598409012015-04-29T13:38:00.001-07:002015-04-29T13:38:37.753-07:00New laser cut acrylic jewellery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-88645515479993140292014-10-18T12:38:00.001-07:002014-10-18T12:38:40.069-07:00Modern life<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Two street drinkers outside the Co-Op. The man is hanging on to the wire crate holding all the cardboard boxes to help him stay standing up. Swaying, he gives some money to the woman. As she goes into the shop to calls out to him: "What do you want if they haven't got goat's cheese?"</span>Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-39730728950092333632014-08-30T16:27:00.002-07:002014-08-30T16:27:32.497-07:00More upcycled vintage curtains...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-24444944690383401672014-08-30T16:10:00.000-07:002014-08-30T16:12:48.086-07:00A little scarf can go a long way!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">I make clothes, cushion covers, purses
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clean and all the best stuff has ended up in fancy vintage shops now, there’s
always a basket of scarves, and you can make a simple garment out of a couple
of these. Scarves come in different sizes, from small<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“pocket squares” to sarongs, but a common
size is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just under 70 cm square, and
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success of the garment. Your fabric your scarves are made of needs to be the
same weight</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">– although not necessarily
of the same type. If the scarves are very old, check that they have not thinned
through wear or exposure to the light, or the fabric may tear. Look for moth
damage or cigarette burns – if you are being economical with fabric there is no
margin for wastage. Finally, if you are not sure you’ll have enough fabric, buy
an extra one to use for facings (the linings inside the garment that make sure
the neckline</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and armholes lie flat).</span></div>
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shops and fleamarkets. Originally I bought them for the illustrations of the envelopes.
Go by the measurement, not the dress size as sizing has changed considerably
over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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scarves as a source of dressmaking fabric are the prints. When choosing scarves
to re-make have a good look at the print and, as well as working out how the
colours and prints are going to go together with two or more scarves, consider
the placement of the print. As these scarves are not designed to be worn flat,
rather they would be tied to go around the neck or folded to be worn as a
headscarf, the print is often more dense around the edges than in the centre.
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to use the areas where there were more leaves and to incorporate the border and
the rolled edges of the scarf rather than hide them in the seams, so I put the
side seams of my pattern piece right up against the edge of the scarf. The
rolled edge prevents fraying and means I can get away with the tiniest of
seams. You might like to use the zip foot on your sewing machine to sew tightly
up against the rolled edge or baste the seam first (this is a good idea anyway
as the silks and rayon fabrics usually used for scarves are slippery to sew).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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make a sleeveless top or a simple skirt, or a dress or a shirt for a small
child. The only things you will need to buy are a lightweight zip and a small
amount of iron–on interfacing (although I often skip this and sew the facings
down, pressing them first to make sure they lie flat).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Two smaller scarves can make a cushion
cover. These are, on average, 40 cm square. All you need to do is sew in a zip
then sew around the remaining three edges. You can get away with using lighter
weight silk scarves than you could for clothing if you back them with iron-on interfacing
first. You can also use damaged scarves by making a patchwork of the good bits
of different ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Any offcuts that might possibly be left
after all that make great linings for purses and make-up bags.</span></div>
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are available at her Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AtelierBricolage</span></div>
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<br />Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-70653455800740580282014-07-31T04:24:00.000-07:002014-08-01T14:34:02.725-07:00The beginnings of my vintage life<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibnkboq8iuhEUM9tyPewgxiAbxXUFVb1pOU78ZQ_qmQ7Wy9fBAewVRPgRw-JeEWmZpWxOndm5gRwsmyoQneKfSZ7CTZ8ieXubfR2zGSy9qvUdCw2utNiVfUPLRhKWAOnOBOGeRATf-DO9-/s1600/1907368_10152961318498084_967787283422874910_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibnkboq8iuhEUM9tyPewgxiAbxXUFVb1pOU78ZQ_qmQ7Wy9fBAewVRPgRw-JeEWmZpWxOndm5gRwsmyoQneKfSZ7CTZ8ieXubfR2zGSy9qvUdCw2utNiVfUPLRhKWAOnOBOGeRATf-DO9-/s1600/1907368_10152961318498084_967787283422874910_n.jpg" height="320" width="185" /></a><br />
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I remember a particular beauty with big orange roses all over it. Years and years later, I finally got a similar one, and I've just sold it on eBay. I never wear it, but it's such a difficult thing to finally let go of. Goodbye, lovely frock, I feel genuinely sad.<br />
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At the time I did buy: old leather hatboxes to use as bags, men's pyjama trousers which I wore as trousers with the flies sewn up and the hems rolled, men's pinstripe suit jackets with the back cinched in with a row of carefully-aligned kilt pins, defunct watches which I took apart and re-made as brooches (how very steampunk – I was ahead of my time!) and those kids' plimsoles (we always called them "sandshoes") with the elasticated inserts on the front.<br />
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I've always loved a pattern mix but it was this dress that inspired me, a few years ago now, to start dressmaking using a mix-and-clash of printed textiles.</div>
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This was the outcome of my first textile mash-up and still remains one of my favourites of my children's dresses. There was very little of that grey leaf-print 1950s' fabric I used for the border as it was once a curtain that someone had used as a dust sheet for decorating and most of it was covered in white paint. </div>
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I have sewn and made things all my life.
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Having used up most of my stock of
just-about-big-enough pieces of fabric, I allowed myself to start buying fabric
again. I have a real fondness for the large scale prints of mid-century
furnishing fabrics and if I can find a curtain (I never cut up a pair) with
enough usable fabric left after the sun damage to the edges and any paint has
been cut off (old curtains were often used as dust sheets for decorating), this
can make an adult-sized dress.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHA3l5bHjj-1uehQx6Y7ha5jIHLeh3FCZEVsaJOtNh993m8RSz9LLJpKiyG0u9oo4Ct2E2D0XzpRVQ2wGiiOEPHFnCCWIScmb794BqtF5vcl-pYl8V9o3db03JkHdIYYG19QrKCAC8MXn/s1600/WinterTrees.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHA3l5bHjj-1uehQx6Y7ha5jIHLeh3FCZEVsaJOtNh993m8RSz9LLJpKiyG0u9oo4Ct2E2D0XzpRVQ2wGiiOEPHFnCCWIScmb794BqtF5vcl-pYl8V9o3db03JkHdIYYG19QrKCAC8MXn/s1600/WinterTrees.JPG" height="320" width="136" /></a><span lang="EN-US">For this dress,
I particularly enjoyed playing with the contrast of skeletal winter trees with
a sleeveless summer dress. But there was also the fact that there was so much
damaged fabric there was not enough left for the sleeves!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I started collecting vintage patterns
purely for the illustrations on the envelopes. I used to display these in
frames, but luckily I saved all the pattern pieces. Alongside the practical
considerations of salvaging usable pieces of reclaimed fabric, there are also
things to consider about using vintage patterns. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Firstly there’s the sizing issue.
Standardised dress sizes have changed dramatically over the years, so whatever
dress size it says on the pattern, ignore it and go by the bust size instead
(luckily, this is always included). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Secondly there’s the fit: bear in mind
that period clothes were designed to be worn over the underwear of the time –
pointy bras, corseted waists, girdled stomachs. What this also means is that
the bust and waist are generally high and the bust darts may need to be
adjusted unless you’re going to go the whole nine yards with a conical bra!
This high bustline can also mean high and narrow armholes, depending upon the
cut of the garment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The waist-hip ratio
is often more extreme than nowadays (smaller, corseted or girdled waists) – if
a waistband is part of the garment then it may well be a good idea to check and
adjust the pattern.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Finally, these patterns tend to have
more complicated diagrams and verbose instructions than modern ones. It’s not
only patterns – the instructions for my sewing machine (a “Diplomat“ from 1963)
have illustrations with so much intricate detail of the engraving on the deluxe
model that there is no way of seeing the complicated route the thread is
supposed to take. So make some time to read the instructions before you start,
with a clear head – especially if you tend to sew at night when the kids are in
bed, as I do.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I am finding that as my friends’ parents
get older, boxes of fabric from hoarding mothers and grandmothers are coming my
way. One of my friends has given me several large boxes of clothes her mother
never got around to mending and garments she cut out and never made. In one box
alone there were five red and white gingham school dresses to fit a girl of
approximately 7 years old – and my friend is now 50!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">The huge advantage of using deadstock
(old but unused) fabric over salvaged fabric is that it will almost always have
been stored away from the light, so there is no fading or wastage. Lots of
these fabrics are of much better quality than you would easily find nowadays,
particularly the linens and wools. The downside is that, if you make to order,
you can’t always have exactly what you’re looking for – you have to wait until
the right thing comes along and some colours are not as common as they are
nowadays. However, if you like the typical colours of a particular period, dyes
are different now and the shades are quite unlike the ones in modern fabrics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s not only the patterns and fabric
I’m giving a new lease of life to – as well as using my Diplomat when I
secretly have a modern sewing machine stored under the bed, never having taken
it out of its box – I also use vintage threads, zips and buttons. I often see free-standing
wooden sewing boxes at fleamarkets and boot fairs. Nine times out of ten these
are still full of threads, notions and equipment. I started buying bagfuls of
this stuff when I was making the children’s dresses and getting through a very
large amount of bias binding and I’m still working my way though all the
threads, hooks and eyes and zips. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My real weakness is buttons: I have jar
after jar of sorted, colour-coded vintage buttons and have to try and stop
myself buying more whenever I see them. Recently I bought a very large tin with
an enamelled design of a Chinese dragon and when I got it home found that it
was full to the brim with sets of beautiful buttons already sorted and bundled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">These two dresses were made from
patterns I’ve been thinking about using for some time. Seven carrier bags of
fabric arrived from somebody’s mother’s hoard a couple of weeks ago, so I had
plenty of fabric to choose from! This wool jersey was
great for an early 1960s column dress, but the fabric was too bulky for the bow
that trims the “empire band” across the bust in the pattern. I was very lucky
to find a deadstock bolt of this leaf print crisp linen in a junk shop – I just
have to remember not to sit on the chair (salvaged, naturally!) I upholstered
with the same fabric when I wear it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-51278871358342016712014-02-12T02:35:00.000-08:002014-02-12T02:36:04.648-08:00From A to B and Back Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-28607044725485956362014-02-07T04:30:00.000-08:002014-02-07T04:30:30.562-08:00Hard at work!…If you can call it work!<br />
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<br />Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-31073891113345370672014-02-05T08:05:00.001-08:002014-02-05T08:05:10.774-08:00Birds, stage-by-stageHere is the stage-by-stage process of my new bird print – from original line drawing to a selection of prints, finished and laid out to dry!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Selection of finished prints on various wallpaper backgrounds, laid out to dry.</td></tr>
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<br />Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-23595715212258707402014-02-04T10:48:00.003-08:002014-02-04T10:50:07.598-08:00Staffordshire ChinaGreat article on Staffordshire China and its enduring appeal for British artists through the generations.<br />
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Last night I attended the opening of the Jan Svankmajer exhibition at the University of Brighton Gallery. </div>
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When I was an undergraduate, Svankmajer's surreal, stop-motion animated films were a big influence on my fellow students, along with the macabre folk art/surrealism of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter" target="_blank">Struwwelpeter</a>, but I had never seen Svankmajer's assemblages (mostly models for the films) or his beautiful etchings before. This exhibition really blew me away, there was far too much to take in one one visit so I will certainly be going back.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I have become increasingly interested in the idea of Surrealism beyond Dalí in recent years – in particular thorough reading biographies of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lee-Miller-Sides-Camera-Bloomsbury/dp/0747581193/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1381607520&sr=8-2&keywords=lee+miller" target="_blank">Lee Miller</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cocteau-Biography-Francis-Steegmuller/dp/0094671001/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381607599&sr=1-5&keywords=jean+cocteau+biography" target="_blank">Jean Cocteau</a> and visiting Edward James' collection of <a href="http://pallant.org.uk/collection/collection/collection/themes/surrealism-in-britain" target="_blank">Surrealist art at Pallant House</a>, Chichester – as well as </span><span style="text-align: left;">Svankmajer's own inspiration, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities" target="_blank">Cabinet of Curiosities</a> of Rudolf II, </span><span style="text-align: left;">so this was well-timed for me and full of inspiration. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">My phone photographs really don't do the exhibits justice, seen in the evening light, after coming in from the deluge, they were magical, inventive and a more than a little bit disturbing.</span><br />
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<br />Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-16809892199258635022013-10-10T14:14:00.001-07:002013-10-10T14:15:59.439-07:00Push Me Pull YouNew prints are now available on my Etsy shop:<a href="http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AtelierBricolage" target="_blank"> http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AtelierBricolage</a><br />
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<br />Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-13184962280875966562013-10-09T06:59:00.001-07:002013-10-09T06:59:54.785-07:00New prints ahoy!<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">I may have been quiet but I have not been idle. Tomorrow, I will be finishing off some Push Me Pull You prints and bringing home some reprints of my new Pageboy prints! </span><div>
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Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-76649276281412061952013-10-02T08:19:00.000-07:002013-10-02T08:19:04.451-07:00Marthe Armitage 'Back to the Drawing Board'<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Saw this fantastic woman on 'The Fabric Of Britain' last week. </span><br />
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Great selection of vintage specs at the flea market this morning! I almost bought yet another pair, but stepped away...</div>
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Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-5350316531059564912013-09-21T12:22:00.001-07:002013-09-21T12:22:50.485-07:00Satisfied customer<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">A happy customer emailed me a photo of my 'Fast & Louche' print in situ in his house. Shame the photo doesn't show any of the actual house for context but, all the same, I'm glad he's pleased.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/155649648/fast-louche-one-and-two-colour-screen" target="_blank">https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/155649648/fast-louche-one-and-two-colour-screen</a>Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-50717740146251734622013-09-18T08:59:00.001-07:002013-09-18T08:59:16.242-07:00Reclaim the Forgotten<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Reclaim the Forgotten</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Cherish the Neglected</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Treasure the Abandoned</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Encourage the Overlooked</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Adore the Unfashionable</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><br />Re-invent the Unwanted<br />Champion the Unloved<br />Value the Rejected<br /><br /><a href="http://museumofbritishfolklore.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>museumofbritishfolklore.com/</a></span>Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263035180338399191.post-90214880913582721862013-09-17T04:51:00.000-07:002013-09-17T04:51:36.772-07:00Work in progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Drawing in progress for new print in 'hair' series.<br />Carol Seatoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05515231968365164280noreply@blogger.com0