just an old-fashioned girl

Hello and welcome. I'm glad you dropped by. If you´re looking for something a little nostalgic of bygone eras with a timeless elegance and a little modern twist – in other words, something slightly “retro” – then you should feel right at home here in my shabby chic room. Month by month, there will always be something new to see so I hope you´ll enjoy your stay and come back again soon.

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FROM TIME TO TIME
Dad In Ireland
Example of use of the freebie QP
Mary And Lucas
Brian, A Scottish Soldier

DOGGY TREATS
Digging Dora
 Dora´s Knitting
Dora´s Family
Remembering Flora
Taffeta
Dora´s Good Girl
Vita - Example of use of the freebie QP
Dora´s Aerobics - Example of use of the freebie QP
NATURE NOTES
They´re At It Again!
Lucas And Neville
The Final Hour
Time To Play
Dora Gets The Bird..or vice versa

NOSTALGIC SCRAPBOOK
 When in doubt...recolour!
Photo restoration
Practice makes perfect
From the sublime...

VINTAGE WHIMSY
 A Victorian Tea Party
Distracting The Baby
Tante Anna

SUMMER PAST
Angel´s Trumpet
 Lerwick Cousin
Peggy (recoloured)
A Perfect Match
 A Summer Past
A Young Bedouin Woman

GARDEN TREASURES
Spring Emerging
A Year Of Fairies

ALL THAT GLITTERS
Margaret M Mackintosh

 Peonies And Lavender

Lucas circa 1918

Bill And Lucas

Fantasy Room

Great Aunt Anna

SIMPLY SERENE
The Monkey´s Cup Plant

Amanda

John And Agnes Inglis

Sedum

SWEETNESS AND LIGHT
Amanda´s Wedding

Luss 1928
Example of use of the freebie QP

Lucas 1930

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
 Cross stitch carol singers

Carolling cats Christmas card

GOLDEN MEMORIES
Christiane
Example of use of the freebie QP

ROCKY HORROR SHOW PAGES

PRETTY SHABBY
Caught In The Act

Perennial Poppy
QP designed by Cass

My Dad 

Old Cookery Book

The Roberts Children
Example of use of the freebie QP

Paisley Doodles

NOUVEAU SUMMER
Mucha´s Summer

Oh My Ears And Whiskers

Lucas 1919

Lucas 1932

Dubious Christmas Greeting


Bavarian Grotto

JEWELLED SEA
Example of use of the QP

Beach Cabins

Reflections

Tracks

Golden Evening

The One That Got Away

Puppy Daydream

All Our Yesterdays

A Perfect Morning

Atlantic Puffins

Cross Stitch Mermaid

Seascape With Gulls

TIME BEGAN IN A GARDEN
Bleeding Hearts
Dreaming Of Spring

Going Cuckoo

In The Doghouse

Whoopi Plant

Decorative Dora

Example of use of the QP
Ferns And Hops

Tea Potting Shed

Examples of use of the freebie QP
Potting Shed Gallery

View From The Potting Shed

HEART OF GOLD
2 examples of use of the freebie QP 
Charming

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

Picture Perfect
Snapdragons In August
SHABBY CHIC ROOMS PART 3
A Room For My Aunt

A Victorian Child
Example of use of one of the QPs in the kit

Cross Stitch Room
Example of use of one of the QPs in the kit

Dora´s Room

MEN ONLY!
Example of use of the freebie QP

Roses For Grandma
Example of use of one of the QPs in the kit

Grandpa´s Bus
This page uses a mixture of backgrounds and elements from all 3 kits.
FLIGHT OF FANCY
Example of use of the freebie QP

Inspired By Frost

Marigolds
 

Describing Dora

SHABBY CHIC ROOMS PART 2
Example of use of the freebie QP
My Floral Room

3 pages created using QPs from the kit


NOEL NOUVEAU
Lady with fan

Cold Christmas

Art nouveau lady

Cross stitch cats

Dora´s wish list

Page created using the freebie QP
SHABBY CHIC ROOMS PART 1
A room for my dad.

Blue tongue Dora?
Some toys Dora can´t bear to part with. She even takes them to Dreamland. 

A room with a view of the House For An Art Lover in Glasgow.
Page created using the freebie QP

VINTAGE PATINA
 VINTAGE PATINA


   Page created using the freebie QP


Close up of the cluster   




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19 comments:

  1. What an awesome collection of LOs. How exciting to see all your LOs with Noel Nouveau...can't decide on a favorite...love them all!

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  2. Magical results with the Flight of Fancy QP.

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  3. Hi Helen, just saw the beautiful Summer Past kit on the home page, gorgeous. But, I think my favorite will be the one you are working on now, love the soft colours and Natures Diary sound great.

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  4. Hi Helen, loved the story about the dopg and cat, cute photos.

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  5. So many pretty lay-outs. Trying to decide which one would be my favorite. Think I got it narrowed down to Inspired by frost, describing Dora, MariGolds and the Noel Nouveau pages.... Did that qp come with the kit? Don't remember seeing it.... but than, my old computer ate a bunch of stuff before it finally quit altogether LOL.

    Thanks for sharing!

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  6. Pauli, which QP do you mean? If you´ve lost any of my kits, please let me know and I´ll arrange for you to download them again.

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  7. I love Off with their heads, unique and so funny. Love it, I will be smiling about those roses all day.

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  8. What an awesome collection of LOs using Time Began In A Garden. I remember most, but not the Tea Potting Shed. On closer inspection I can't imagine having seen it and not remembering it. The longer I looked at it the more features I discovered. The cross-stitched teapot is wonderful and so is the photo background with your special effect added.

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  9. Wonderful pages using Time Began in A Garden, my favourite is Dreaming of spring. Gorgeous

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  10. Love the Jewelled sea kit and have used it many times, I love the bathing ladies, great pages Helen

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  11. Oh wow...how fun is your "Tracks" LO! Like the large framed tracks with the wonderful background and writing on the sand. Golden Evening get more gorgeous each time I look at it...beautiful LO! Puppy Daydreams is too cute...like the swirl Dora is creating out in the ocean. I love cross stitch and these two of the little girl on the beach are adorable and I love that frame! The mermaid one is amazing...love the double frame look using the beaded border. Both seascape photos are wonderful and I love the Atlantic Puffins...surely there's a story to go with them...LOL! Wonderful kit...can't wait to use it!

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  12. Love your reflections, stunning and the bright beach houses are cute. We have lots of beach houses around certain areas of the Victorian coastline. And they are extremely expensive to buy.

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  13. Mucha´s Summer is so elegant...love the photo spaced behind the poppy border. What and awesome photo featured in Lucas 1919...love how you framed it. Then there's Lucas 1932...she' beautiful all grown up, too! Very unique framing for this one.

    The title font of the Christmas Greeting greeting matches the look in the eyes of the unhappy subjects. Brought a smile to my face...LOL!

    The Bavarian Grotto photo and LO are both wonderful and so peaceful. Love the dept brought out through the framing!

    Lots of variety in your LOs with this wonderful kit. Off to do another ballerina LO!

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  14. Great Nouveau Summer pages, Helen.

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  15. Awesome LOs with Pretty Scrappy...back next week for more comments!

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  16. Great Horror Show LOs...definitely a touch of horror. Hard to realize Halloween is just around the corner. Thinking my Halloween LOs might be a little tamer...LOL!

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  17. Wonderful Rocky Horror pics. Love that show

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  18. Great page for Christiane, the gold frame is perfect for her smiling photo.

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