HALLOWEEN COSTUME 2024--Marie Antoinette

MORGAN's 2024 HALLOWEEN Costume.................

                                 Marie Antoinette

                                                        French Rococo style.

All sewn with fabric from the sewing room, champagne and silver grey satin, with over 200 feet of lace trim..............

50 feet of pearl trim, fabric flowers, ribbons found online and in storage....some  were in boxes downstairs for over two years.........

                         "We had a beautiful dream....." - Marie Antoinette

..... ruffles, ruffles, ruffles......two days to make the actual ruffles  out of satin and lace. The pattern for this costume,  was  from Simplicity  purchased online, a few years ago.

"I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all......" -Marie Antonette

"There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.." -Marie Antonette

Comfortable and stylish, for any chore on the palace grounds.

The hat is  made from a cereal box, not usually readily available in Rococo times.  This one is glued with flowers, pearls, trims, feathers .....held on with a wide satin ribbon.

"It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not....." - Marie Antoinette

The train has a few snaps that can bustle up while working....fashionable, lightweight....suitable  for a walk in a garden...or feeding the birds.

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"I wish you good morning.....I shall never say goodbye..." 

                                                                            - Marie Antoinette

 Photographs 2024

GO FROM ME....

      "I am so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers..." - L.M.Montgomery

       FROM SUNSET to STAR RISE..( Christina Rossetti 1830-1894)

Go from me, summer friends and tarry not

I am no summer friend, but wintry cold...

A silly sheep, beknighted from the fold

A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot

Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot

Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold

Lest you with me will shiver on the wold

Athirst and hungering on a barren spot

For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge

Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the hedge

Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back

My heart goes sighing............

After Swallows flown.......

On some time's summer's returning track

*Christina Rossetti (1830-94) was one of the Victorian era’s greatest writers,  sister of  artist/ poet Dante Rossetti. 

Photographs 2024

 

FIRST SNOW 2024 Mt. Washington

"The first fall of snow is not just an event, it is a magical event...if this is not enchantment, where is it to be found?" - J.B. Priestley

"The first fall of snow is a magical event.....if this is not enchantment, where is it to be found?" -J.B.Priestley

"The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow..."

                                                                      -Robert Walser

                           "Blow, thou winter wind..." -Shakespeare

                           "The fire of the first frost....."- John Burroughs

"Your late dawns, and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you , nonetheless..." -Terri Guillemets

"With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven..." - P. Miller

"Snow falling endlessly in the middle of the night, will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.." -Novala Takemoto

“Thank goodness for the first snow. It was a reminder–no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen–things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.” 

                                     – Candace Bushnell

Photographs Mt Washington Range October 2024