A freebie vintage photo and a little book in the making

 A quick hello from behind my worktable.

My table is filled with beautiful fabrics and laces, paint, threads, book papers

and a little flower from our garden.

We still have some flowers left because of the mild autumn weather.

I'm pressing some of them for use in my work later on.

Which I intended to do this spring and summer

but I haven't done so!

At the moment I'm busy with the pages of a little book in the making.

I paint some of the laces and fabrics and there's also a bit of painting inside the book.

There are also some vintage photos inside, which I edited in photoshop.

Like the one below.
Which is NOT a freebie by the way.
(Hence the name of my blog included in the picture.)
May be it will become one later on, but I wish to use the image myself first.
Thank you!

UPDATE: you can find this and two other freebie photos HERE.
Make sure to scroll down to the bottom of that blog post to get to the freebies!

(But there is another freebie below too, so make sure to read on.)

I will use some of the beautiful blue roses fabric that you see in the photos.

Anyway, you'll see when it's finished.

But that might take a while, because good news is

that out of the blue a sweet lady asked me to make a custom book for her.

(Being not this one by the way.)

Which means she's my very first customer!

I'm thrilled and honoured!

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FREEBIE


Okay, on to the freebie then!

I'd like to share with you another one of the French antique postcards.

The girl you saw in my previous post.

Isn't she a pretty girl?

Free for you to use in your arts and crafts.

Right-click to open in new window so the photo will be enlarged.

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Last but not least

a shout out for Marie of

Lost Bird Studio

who's celebrating her 5th blogoversary

with gorgeous giveaways.

Be sure to check out her beautiful and inspiring blog

if you didn't already.

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So in the end it wasn't a quick hello after all.

I am a rather silent introvert person most of the time.
Well, in real life anyway.
But when I do open my mouth, beware!
Seek refuge!

You'll have to forgive me on that.

Wishing you a happy day!

xx Wen