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long long long overdue update!
Jul. 12th, 2007 10:29 pmwow, i didn't realise it was soooo long since my last post! nothing has been happening here at all on the costume front,unless you count doll's clothes for my gotz dolls, i was planning to take photos of all the clothes i have made up till now, but we were out all day today, and i have to get up really early tomorrow, so now it'll have to wait.
while we were out i took my watch to the jewellers to be mended. it's a gold lady's pocket watch we found in granny's boxes. he said it's swiss, 18K gold and from the 1870s to 1900s. it's so lovely, the case has flowers and vines all over it and the face is white enamel with black numbers and a tiny guilt pattern around the edge. i can't wait to use it next time i dress up!!! while we were there clare was looking in the cases and told them that one of their rings was upside down. he fished it out to show us and it turned out to be a mourning ring, gold with black enamel and tiny tiny pearls. the band says 'in memory of'. clare and i both tried it on, and were chatting to him about it, then he said there were 2! the smaller one fits clare's midle finger, and the larger one fits my little finger (her hands are sooo slim and ladylike, mine are just sausages!) he thought they had been bought for a pair of sisters, probably on the death of a parent. mummy persuaded us to buy them, and he was so happy they would be kept together that he gave us a discount. so now we both have mourning rings to remember our father by, and also to remember our grandmothers. they are from the 1870s and i will take photos tomorrow, i have to make a mourning bustle now, to go with the ring :) (also i have a mourning brooch or pendant, i can't remember which! from other granny, a family piece commemorating the death of an ancestor, so i really need a mourning dress now!!!)
i really have to try and be a bit more regular with my posts, but it's hard when you don't really have anything to show!
while we were out i took my watch to the jewellers to be mended. it's a gold lady's pocket watch we found in granny's boxes. he said it's swiss, 18K gold and from the 1870s to 1900s. it's so lovely, the case has flowers and vines all over it and the face is white enamel with black numbers and a tiny guilt pattern around the edge. i can't wait to use it next time i dress up!!! while we were there clare was looking in the cases and told them that one of their rings was upside down. he fished it out to show us and it turned out to be a mourning ring, gold with black enamel and tiny tiny pearls. the band says 'in memory of'. clare and i both tried it on, and were chatting to him about it, then he said there were 2! the smaller one fits clare's midle finger, and the larger one fits my little finger (her hands are sooo slim and ladylike, mine are just sausages!) he thought they had been bought for a pair of sisters, probably on the death of a parent. mummy persuaded us to buy them, and he was so happy they would be kept together that he gave us a discount. so now we both have mourning rings to remember our father by, and also to remember our grandmothers. they are from the 1870s and i will take photos tomorrow, i have to make a mourning bustle now, to go with the ring :) (also i have a mourning brooch or pendant, i can't remember which! from other granny, a family piece commemorating the death of an ancestor, so i really need a mourning dress now!!!)
i really have to try and be a bit more regular with my posts, but it's hard when you don't really have anything to show!
