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A Carpet of Purple Flowers

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Velvet Pumpkins Tutorial

http://thelemonista.blogspot.co.ukMade with real silk velvet and real dried pumpkin stems.Supplies: 
Silk Velvet Fabric (a fat quarter of fabric will make around one large pumpkin, or two medium pumpkins, or 4ish small pumpkins or several tiny pumpkins).
Dried gourd stems (from pumpkins, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, etc...)
Dried navy beans
Polyfill (pillow stuffing)
Needle and strong thread
Hot glue gun
Instructions HERE
How to preserve (dry) pumpkin stems for crafts. HERE Love and light,Trac...

Jenny Hart - Embroidery

 Jenny Hart ~ http://www.jennyhart.net




Jenny Hart was born in 1972 in Iowa City and raised in rural Illinois. She is best known for her artwork in hand embroidery and her design companySublime Stitching. Hart’s work has been published in numerous books and magazines including Vogue, Nylon, Spin, The Face, Juxtapoz, The New York Times Magazine and others. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, Paris, London and New York. 
Hart is also an award-winning author of seven titles on emb...

Artist - Jeanie Tomanek

http://www.jeanietomanek.com






Artist Jeanie Tomanek draws upon themes that first developed in her poetry; exploring various feminine archetypes from myths, folk-tales, fairy tales and her own experiences. The natural world as she experienced it growing up on a farm in the Genessee Valley region of New York also strongly influences her work. Trees, flowers, birds and snow are symbols for emotional states or story elements. Dogs sometimes accompany the pale bald “Everywoman” protagonist on her jo...

Storybook

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Awake in Purple Dreams - Book Two (A Carpet of Purple Flowers) - Prologue excerpts from the first draft

Storybook Inspirational Visual designed using Polyvore Digital Collage
Prologue ~ Book two introductory section(First Draft)
Karian stood allowing the bitter wind to bite into his skin. His eyes watered from the chilling harshness wailing against his body, which had now turned partially numb. The vacant space in which he stood, barren and cold, had remained uninhabitable since the ancients returned from Earth. It was known as Nede then, the garden of splendour, where their world's pole joi...

Château de Verteuil, Charente ~ myth & history

The Château de Verteuil is a historical building in Charente, France. It dates back to 1080 as the property of the Lord of La Rochefoucauld and has since been extensively rebuilt, although 12th-century walls remain. The château has always been in the property of the La Rochefoucauld family.

The castle is in a strategic position, dominating the village of Verteuil-sur-Charente and the Charente valley. In the past it controlled the road from Limoges to La Rochelle, on the route between the...

Unicorn Tapestries ~ The Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn (French: La Dame à la licorne) is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries woven in Flanders from wool and silk, from designs ("cartoons") drawn in Paris around 1500. The set, on display in the Musée national du Moyen Âge (former Musée de Cluny) in Paris, is often considered one of the greatest works of art of the Middle Ages in Europe.
Five of the tapestries are commonly interpreted as depicting the five senses – taste, hearing, sight, smell, and touch. Th...

Unicorn Tapestries - Stirling Castle

The Stirling Tapestries The Unicorn Defends ItselfThe Hunt of the Unicorn, or the Unicorn Tapestries, is a series of seven tapestries dating from between 1495 and 1505, now in The Cloisters in New York, probably woven in Brussels or Liège. The tapestries show a group of noblemen and hunters in pursuit of a unicorn. The Hunt for the Unicorn was a common theme in late medieval and renaissance works of art and literature. The tapestries were woven in wool, metallic threads, and silk. The vibrant...

Enna

The Butterfly Bridge Reminds me of a book character, Enna. Art Source link HERERead more HERE Polyvore/Picmonkey Art by Jasmoon ButterflyThis was actually the first story that ran around inside my mind for nearly two years before, 'A Carpet of Purple Flowers'.Since then, a trilogy has spiralled from the original book idea. 'The butterfly bridge' is to be the fourth book in the series. A standalone edition - pre-history. Polyvore/Picmonkey Art by Jasmoon Butterfly Love and light,Tra...