Showing posts with label Decoupage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Decoupage. Show all posts
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
New .. Old Ads
I continue to find bits and pieces of historical sidesaddle information and save them. When I have a handful and feel like it is enough to make for a nice post, I do exactly what I am doing here.. share them with you. If you watch E-bay, you know as I do, that the same items seem to always be available. But every once in a while a unique item pops up. Enjoy the new, yet old ads using a riding aside image
Ohh - look how cute. This one is for Baking Powder.
This beauty is a cigar label. This would be a great subject for a decoupage project.
This one is for chewing tobacco...
..and here is a sidesaddle ad for .. you guessed it, a sidesaddle!
This ad is made in the form of a stamp... but not a postage stamp.
This one is for writing papers. The art is done by Henry Hutt, one of the artists I did a post on last year.
..and this one is for cigarettes. (yuck!)
Ohh - look how cute. This one is for Baking Powder.
This beauty is a cigar label. This would be a great subject for a decoupage project.
This one is for chewing tobacco...
..and here is a sidesaddle ad for .. you guessed it, a sidesaddle!
This ad is made in the form of a stamp... but not a postage stamp.
This one is for writing papers. The art is done by Henry Hutt, one of the artists I did a post on last year.
..and this one is for cigarettes. (yuck!)
Thursday, December 15, 2011
More Christmas Goodness!
This is not a post about my faith.. although I will say that it is because of my faith that I celebrate Christmas and the birth of Christ! This is a post about the season of Christmas...so go and grab a cup of something wonderful, sit down for a minute and enjoy!
Have you ever thought that even though we have 'more' things to give and get these days for Christmas.. it really does not 'feel' more like Christmas time? Does that make sense? Let me describe it in another way. When I think about times that have ushered in the Christmas Spirit and warmed my heart, it is always events when I slowed down.. did something special with someone I love. I slowed down and took the time to put details into something I was making. I slowed down to enjoy all of the decorations I had worked so hard to put up.
I used to try and follow many many different blogs. I don't do that anymore. Instead, I have chosen more than a few that I felt I have a connection with. There are my sidesaddle riding girls, whom I have to keep up with just to see what fun they are up to.
There are some interior decorators who seem to know my style. I get inspiration from them. Last, but certainly not least, there are those women who although I have never met, I feel that we have forged a friendship. That only happens if you are willing to open yourself up and let others get to know you.
I try very hard to be open and honest in my blogs. this one is specific to something I love. I have said it before and I will continue to say it.. I am not a sidesaddle expert... I just LOVE it. Love doing it, learning more about it and sharing it!
So with that, I just wanted to take a minute and say thank you. I am glad you enjoy my blog. I am super glad there are other ladies out there who are as smitten with sidesaddle riding and history as I am, and I just love it when you stop to leave a comment or take the time to send me an e-mail. I have learned so much from you all.
I promise to work hard for as long as I can to continue to bring you new and interesting sidesaddle news, history and just plain fun trivia. I pray more and more ladies join the fun we are having, both in the sidesaddle and in front of the computer. I know I have enjoyed this journey. I hope it goes on for years and years to come!
Remember, relax.. take time to take in the beautiful winter sights, sounds, smells and dole out lots of love to those you cherish!
So to all, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Seasons Greetings!! I so cherish each and every one of you!
Have you ever thought that even though we have 'more' things to give and get these days for Christmas.. it really does not 'feel' more like Christmas time? Does that make sense? Let me describe it in another way. When I think about times that have ushered in the Christmas Spirit and warmed my heart, it is always events when I slowed down.. did something special with someone I love. I slowed down and took the time to put details into something I was making. I slowed down to enjoy all of the decorations I had worked so hard to put up.
I used to try and follow many many different blogs. I don't do that anymore. Instead, I have chosen more than a few that I felt I have a connection with. There are my sidesaddle riding girls, whom I have to keep up with just to see what fun they are up to.
There are some interior decorators who seem to know my style. I get inspiration from them. Last, but certainly not least, there are those women who although I have never met, I feel that we have forged a friendship. That only happens if you are willing to open yourself up and let others get to know you.
I try very hard to be open and honest in my blogs. this one is specific to something I love. I have said it before and I will continue to say it.. I am not a sidesaddle expert... I just LOVE it. Love doing it, learning more about it and sharing it!
So with that, I just wanted to take a minute and say thank you. I am glad you enjoy my blog. I am super glad there are other ladies out there who are as smitten with sidesaddle riding and history as I am, and I just love it when you stop to leave a comment or take the time to send me an e-mail. I have learned so much from you all.
I promise to work hard for as long as I can to continue to bring you new and interesting sidesaddle news, history and just plain fun trivia. I pray more and more ladies join the fun we are having, both in the sidesaddle and in front of the computer. I know I have enjoyed this journey. I hope it goes on for years and years to come!Remember, relax.. take time to take in the beautiful winter sights, sounds, smells and dole out lots of love to those you cherish!
So to all, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Seasons Greetings!! I so cherish each and every one of you!
Monday, November 14, 2011
Randolph Caldecott
Randolph Caldecott (22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honor. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were promptly and generously recognized by the Royal Academy. Caldecott greatly influenced illustration of children's books during the nineteenth century. Two books illustrated by him, priced at a shilling each, were published every Christmas for eight years.
Caldecott's output, however, ranged wider than this: he illustrated novels and accounts of foreign travel, made humorous drawings depicting hunting and fashionable life, drew cartoons and he made sketches of the Houses of Parliament inside and out, and exhibited sculptures and paintings in oil and watercolour in the Royal Academy and galleries.
Caldecott was born at 150 Bridge Street, Chester, where his father, John Caldecott, was a Chester accountant, twice married with 13 children. Caldecott was his third child by his first wife Mary Dinah (née Brookes). In 1848 the family moved to Challoner House, Crook Street and in 1860 to 23 Richmond Place at Boughton just outside Chester. He spent the last five years of his schooling at The King's School which, in those days, was in the cathedral precinct in the centre of the city. In his early childhood Caldecott drew and modelled, mostly animals, and he continued drawing for the rest of his life.
On leaving school at the age of fifteen, Caldecott went to work at the Whitchurch branch of the Whitchurch & Ellesmere Bank and took lodgings at Wirswall, a village near the town. In his spare time and when he was out visiting clients he was often to be seen walking and riding around the countryside; many of his later illustrations incorporate buildings and scenery of that part of Cheshire. His love of riding led him to take up hunting and his experiences in the hunting field and his love of animals bore fruit over the years in the masses of drawings and sketches of hunting scenes, many of them humorous. In the year that he left school, 1861, he first had a drawing published: it was a sketch of a disastrous fire at the Queens Railway Hotel in Chester and it appeared in the Illustrated London News together with his account of the blaze.
After six years at Whitchurch, Caldecott moved to the head office in Manchester of the Manchester & Salford Bank. He lodged variously in Aberdeen Street, Rusholme Grove and at Bowdon. He took the opportunity to study at night school at the Manchester School of Art and practised continually, with success in local papers and some London publications. It was a habit of his at this time, which he maintained all his life, to decorate his letters, papers and documents of all descriptions with marginal sketches to illustrate the content or provide amusement. A number of his letters have been reprinted with their illustrations in Yours Pictorially, a book edited by Michael Hutchings. In 1870, through a friend in London, the painter Thomas Armstrong, Randolph was put in touch with Henry Blackburn the editor of London Society, who published a number of his drawings in several issues of the monthly magazine.
Encouraged by this evidence of his ability to support himself by his art, Caldecott decided to quit his job and move to London; this he did in 1872 at the age of 26. Within two years he had become a successful magazine illustrator working on commission. His work included individual sketches, illustrations of other articles and a series of illustrations of a holiday which he and Henry Blackburn took in the Harz Mountains in Germany. The latter became the first of a number of such series.
He remained in London for seven years, spending most of them in lodgings at 46 Great Russell Street just opposite the British Museum, in the heart of Bloomsbury. While there he met and made friends (as he did very readily) with many artistic and literary people, among them Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George du Maurier (who was a fellow contributor to Punch), John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton. His friendship with Frederic (later Lord) Leighton led to a commission to design peacock capitals for four columns in the Arab room at Leighton's rather exotic home, Leighton House in Kensington. (Walter Crane designed a tiled peacock frieze for the same room.)
In 1869 Caldecott exhibited a picture in the Royal Manchester Institute. He had a picture exhibited in the Royal Academy for the first time in 1876. He was also a watercolourist and was elected to the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painting in 1872.
In 1877 Edmund Evans, who was a leading colour printer using coloured woodblocks, lost the services of Walter Crane as his children's book illustrator and asked Caldecott to do illustrations for two books for Christmas. The results were The House that Jack Built and The Diverting History of John Gilpin, published in 1878. They were an immediate success; so much so that he produced two more each year until he died. The stories and rhymes were all of Caldecott's choosing and in some cases were written or added to by himself. In another milieu Caldecott followed The Harz Mountains with illustrations for two books by Washington Irving, three for Juliana Ewing, another of Henry Blackburn's, one for Captain Frederick Marryat and for other authors. Among well known admirers of his work were Gauguin and Van Gogh.
Randolph continued to travel, partly for the sake of his health, and to make drawings of the people and surroundings of the places he visited; these drawings were accompanied by humorous and witty captions and narrative.
In 1879 he moved to Wybornes, a house which he took (it is not known whether he bought or rented it) near Kemsing in Kent. It is there that he became engaged to Marian Brind, who lived at Chelsfield about seven miles away. They were married in 1880 and lived at Wybornes for the next two years. There were no children of the marriage. In the autumn of 1882 the Caldecotts left Kent and bought a house, Broomfield, at Frensham in Surrey; they also rented No 24 Holland Street, Kensington. By 1884, sales of Caldecott's Nursery Rhymes had reached 867,000 copies (of twelve books) and he was internationally famous.
However, his health was generally very poor and he suffered much from gastritis and a heart condition going back to an illness in his childhood. It was his health among other things which prompted his many winter trips to the Mediterranean and other warm climates. It was on such a tour in the United States of America in 1886 that he was taken ill again and succumbed. He and Marian had sailed to New York and travelled down the East Coast; they reached Florida in an unusually cold February; Randolph was taken ill and died at St. Augustine. He was not quite 40 years old. A headstone still marks his grave in the cemetery there.
Soon after his early death, his many friends contributed to a memorial to him which was designed by Sir Alfred Gilbert. It was placed in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Caldecott's output, however, ranged wider than this: he illustrated novels and accounts of foreign travel, made humorous drawings depicting hunting and fashionable life, drew cartoons and he made sketches of the Houses of Parliament inside and out, and exhibited sculptures and paintings in oil and watercolour in the Royal Academy and galleries.
Caldecott was born at 150 Bridge Street, Chester, where his father, John Caldecott, was a Chester accountant, twice married with 13 children. Caldecott was his third child by his first wife Mary Dinah (née Brookes). In 1848 the family moved to Challoner House, Crook Street and in 1860 to 23 Richmond Place at Boughton just outside Chester. He spent the last five years of his schooling at The King's School which, in those days, was in the cathedral precinct in the centre of the city. In his early childhood Caldecott drew and modelled, mostly animals, and he continued drawing for the rest of his life.
On leaving school at the age of fifteen, Caldecott went to work at the Whitchurch branch of the Whitchurch & Ellesmere Bank and took lodgings at Wirswall, a village near the town. In his spare time and when he was out visiting clients he was often to be seen walking and riding around the countryside; many of his later illustrations incorporate buildings and scenery of that part of Cheshire. His love of riding led him to take up hunting and his experiences in the hunting field and his love of animals bore fruit over the years in the masses of drawings and sketches of hunting scenes, many of them humorous. In the year that he left school, 1861, he first had a drawing published: it was a sketch of a disastrous fire at the Queens Railway Hotel in Chester and it appeared in the Illustrated London News together with his account of the blaze.
After six years at Whitchurch, Caldecott moved to the head office in Manchester of the Manchester & Salford Bank. He lodged variously in Aberdeen Street, Rusholme Grove and at Bowdon. He took the opportunity to study at night school at the Manchester School of Art and practised continually, with success in local papers and some London publications. It was a habit of his at this time, which he maintained all his life, to decorate his letters, papers and documents of all descriptions with marginal sketches to illustrate the content or provide amusement. A number of his letters have been reprinted with their illustrations in Yours Pictorially, a book edited by Michael Hutchings. In 1870, through a friend in London, the painter Thomas Armstrong, Randolph was put in touch with Henry Blackburn the editor of London Society, who published a number of his drawings in several issues of the monthly magazine.
Encouraged by this evidence of his ability to support himself by his art, Caldecott decided to quit his job and move to London; this he did in 1872 at the age of 26. Within two years he had become a successful magazine illustrator working on commission. His work included individual sketches, illustrations of other articles and a series of illustrations of a holiday which he and Henry Blackburn took in the Harz Mountains in Germany. The latter became the first of a number of such series.
He remained in London for seven years, spending most of them in lodgings at 46 Great Russell Street just opposite the British Museum, in the heart of Bloomsbury. While there he met and made friends (as he did very readily) with many artistic and literary people, among them Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George du Maurier (who was a fellow contributor to Punch), John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton. His friendship with Frederic (later Lord) Leighton led to a commission to design peacock capitals for four columns in the Arab room at Leighton's rather exotic home, Leighton House in Kensington. (Walter Crane designed a tiled peacock frieze for the same room.)
In 1869 Caldecott exhibited a picture in the Royal Manchester Institute. He had a picture exhibited in the Royal Academy for the first time in 1876. He was also a watercolourist and was elected to the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painting in 1872.
In 1877 Edmund Evans, who was a leading colour printer using coloured woodblocks, lost the services of Walter Crane as his children's book illustrator and asked Caldecott to do illustrations for two books for Christmas. The results were The House that Jack Built and The Diverting History of John Gilpin, published in 1878. They were an immediate success; so much so that he produced two more each year until he died. The stories and rhymes were all of Caldecott's choosing and in some cases were written or added to by himself. In another milieu Caldecott followed The Harz Mountains with illustrations for two books by Washington Irving, three for Juliana Ewing, another of Henry Blackburn's, one for Captain Frederick Marryat and for other authors. Among well known admirers of his work were Gauguin and Van Gogh.
Randolph continued to travel, partly for the sake of his health, and to make drawings of the people and surroundings of the places he visited; these drawings were accompanied by humorous and witty captions and narrative.
In 1879 he moved to Wybornes, a house which he took (it is not known whether he bought or rented it) near Kemsing in Kent. It is there that he became engaged to Marian Brind, who lived at Chelsfield about seven miles away. They were married in 1880 and lived at Wybornes for the next two years. There were no children of the marriage. In the autumn of 1882 the Caldecotts left Kent and bought a house, Broomfield, at Frensham in Surrey; they also rented No 24 Holland Street, Kensington. By 1884, sales of Caldecott's Nursery Rhymes had reached 867,000 copies (of twelve books) and he was internationally famous.
However, his health was generally very poor and he suffered much from gastritis and a heart condition going back to an illness in his childhood. It was his health among other things which prompted his many winter trips to the Mediterranean and other warm climates. It was on such a tour in the United States of America in 1886 that he was taken ill again and succumbed. He and Marian had sailed to New York and travelled down the East Coast; they reached Florida in an unusually cold February; Randolph was taken ill and died at St. Augustine. He was not quite 40 years old. A headstone still marks his grave in the cemetery there.
Soon after his early death, his many friends contributed to a memorial to him which was designed by Sir Alfred Gilbert. It was placed in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Any Crafters Out There?
.. or scrapbookers? I just missed that craze. My daughters were in high school when that started to become popular. When they were young I loved to scrapbook our adventures though. I used to cut out pictures from magazines or old greeting cards to decorate the pictures in my scrap books. Who knew?? I could have been a bazillionaire!
Anyway - lately, I have come across some adorable sidesaddle related crafting items, like this ink stamp..
..and these beautiful cutouts!!
I like to decoupage, although I have not done a project in quite a while..
..but these would make wonderful centerpieces for a decoupage picture or tray or...
..oh good grief.. now I want to do another project..
..as if I don't have enough going on in my life right now!
Anyway - lately, I have come across some adorable sidesaddle related crafting items, like this ink stamp..
..and these beautiful cutouts!!
I like to decoupage, although I have not done a project in quite a while..
..but these would make wonderful centerpieces for a decoupage picture or tray or...
..oh good grief.. now I want to do another project..
..as if I don't have enough going on in my life right now!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Post Cards From Afar..
The reason I am showing you these wonderful post cards is to tell you that Don and I are going to go on a vacation. We are leaving tomorrow, flying to Canada where we will board a ship and cruise up the inside passage in Alaska.
We will get off the ship in Alaska and board a train to Anchorage.
Once in Anchorage we will fly back to Texas.
We are so fortunate to have a family friend who is literally going to move into our home to care for our animals.... ALL 32 of them!!!
Please don't forget about me. I shall return with lots of new posts about the 27th of June. In fact, I am planning on showing for the first time again on the weekend of the 4th. It is an open show... perfect starting point before I start back into the more competitive breed shows!
(This is where you write a comment to tell me to have a good time and that you really will miss me!) snicker snicker...
We will get off the ship in Alaska and board a train to Anchorage.
Once in Anchorage we will fly back to Texas.
We are so fortunate to have a family friend who is literally going to move into our home to care for our animals.... ALL 32 of them!!!
Please don't forget about me. I shall return with lots of new posts about the 27th of June. In fact, I am planning on showing for the first time again on the weekend of the 4th. It is an open show... perfect starting point before I start back into the more competitive breed shows!
(This is where you write a comment to tell me to have a good time and that you really will miss me!) snicker snicker...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
For Your Viewing Pleasure!
I love pencil drawings. A talented artist can make a simple pencil drawing come to life with the same amount of depth as an oil painting.. so I wanted to show you these. Take time to enlarge them and enjoy the wonderful details!
This is a drawing of Rotten Row.
Could you imagine showing at Madison Square Garden?
Okay - so this one made me laugh. It was a comic that ran in the newspaper about a century ago. Wish I understood the story behind it, so if left to my imagination considering what was going on in the United States back then, I would imagine it has something to do with womens rights!.. What do you think?
This is a drawing of Rotten Row.
Could you imagine showing at Madison Square Garden?
Okay - so this one made me laugh. It was a comic that ran in the newspaper about a century ago. Wish I understood the story behind it, so if left to my imagination considering what was going on in the United States back then, I would imagine it has something to do with womens rights!.. What do you think?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Awweee! Cute Sidesaddle Gift Tags!
I found these beautiful gift tags on E-bay right before Christmas I believe. Aren't they just lovely? I love plaid too. When I see things like this though, my mind starts to wander and think of all the things that can be made with sidesaddle art!
If you have read my blog for any length of time, you know that I like decoupage. Here are a couple of things I made:
The wardrobe is bolted into the dressing room of my horse trailer! Hey - it needed a bit of up-classing!
If you have read my blog for any length of time, you know that I like decoupage. Here are a couple of things I made:
The wardrobe is bolted into the dressing room of my horse trailer! Hey - it needed a bit of up-classing!
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