Windows for Elizabeth.

I was delighted to hear a short time ago, that my page for Elizabeth has just arrived.



The windows page was based on my photographs of this delightful little chapel on a bridge crossing the Great Ouse.



The picturesque town you can glimpse beside the waterfront is called St Ives. I can recommend an exploration of the area, since the town and it's small museum is well worth a visit. More photographs from my trip can be seen here.



It was great fun to interpret one of the glazed windows for Elizabeth. As you can see from the note I sent with the page, I used a number of techniques. The gessoed piece of canvas came from a damaged artists canvas I had taken to pieces. The frame will eventually be used for some screen printing experiments.........



I could not resist putting something behind the window frame.



So the window is hinged using beads, so that it can open to reveal............



Hence the title..............



The back is made using a piece of scrap silk and some mulberry paper.

Windows page moving.

A quick post with a teaser for Elizabeth, since I have just posted my July page for her. Her theme is Windows.

Sorry Elizabeth

I'm apologising in advance that my windows page for you will be late, Elizabeth. We were on holiday until 13th. June and I drew some draft ideas but then my husband developed acute appendicitis so was rushed to hospital last Saturday. We are 30 kms. from the town so most nights I stay with my friend there (in Greek hospitals the nurses just nurse, so any personal tasks for the patients must be done by friends and family. I've some wonderful friends here who are helping, but as we are retired from the UK, no family back-up so I'm in for most of the day). As I'd only just started with ideas I can't even take the embroidery in to do there, much as I'd love to. Hopefully he will be out by Monday and then I can start! Bear with me...................thanks