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Georgian Ladies Parlor by Laura Carson!
Filed under Art Projects, Costume History/Fashion, Featured Artwork, Laura Carson, Shadowbox/Room Box
A SALE announcement before I hand over this newsletter to Bella: the Dresden sale that started on Thursday ends TOMORROW NIGHT, Monday, May 16th (2016).
ALL 38 of the Metallic Dresden trims are on sale! AND that sale includes 3 beautiful trims that have just come back in stock:
Fringed Gold Dresden Curtains (at far right), Gold Dresden Altar Set and Small Gold Dresden Shrines or Arched Windows!
Design Team Member Laura Carson has created a stunning, Georgian Ladies Parlor that is filled with beautiful women and furnishings.
“Standing on the side of the Georgian house is a lovely lady from the Outdoor Fashions of the 1780s Collage Sheet. Inside the house is a ladies parlor filled with beautiful furniture and décor. Three women from the Indoor Fashions of the 1780s Collage Sheet are enjoying the parlor; perhaps they are sisters.
The star of the room is a handsome secretary and it happens to be the inspiration for the entire project! (See the wide photo below, and a photo of the secretary with the doors open down in the Giveaway.) The secretary is full of books, a trinket box, a candlestick to write by, and more. When Leslie at Alpha Stamps asked me if I would like to design a Secretary Collage Sheet to work with my project, I said of course and got busy creating. Deciding on how best to showcase it, one thing led to another and I decided to create a Georgian style facade using a Deep Open Front Room Box kit and a parlor room to show off the secretary.
Of course the ornate fireplace isn’t too shabby either! Would you believe that the top and bottom are Blank Altoids Tins? (See the left side of the wide photo below.) Ah the magic of Altoids tins. One of the women is sitting on an elegant velvet settee, and notice the elaborate decorative top of the curtain? It is cast from the Baroque 3 – Medallion & Filigree Silicone Mold and Creative Paperclay. So simple!
To go with this project are a series of new Collage Sheets and Digital Image Sets that are all listed out on my Supply List. As usual I have a detailed tutorial (and many more pictures!) that explains how I made the house and all of the pieces in the parlor. Even if you don’t want to tackle a project this large, you might find individual elements like the secretary or something of interest. ”
For the detailed tutorial and more pictures of the Georgian Ladies Parlor, please visit Laura’s blog, Artfully Musing.
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A note from Leslie regarding the new Indoor and Outdoor Fashion Collage Sheets:
“I am bemused by these illustrations. The style of skirt seems a transition from the excesses of pannier skirts to… well, they did not know how soon corsets and petticoats would be making a (brief) exit entirely from fashionable ladies’ closets (in the early 19th century).
And in some of these skirts, it seems they had all this extra fabric that used to be over side hoops that they just didn’t know what to do with… so they just pulled in back into a huge wad in the back (too early for a true bustle style). And then there are the giant mob-cap hats over grey-powdered hair. And the fantasy that a well dress lady would be out harvesting grapes (or fishing!) in one of these heavy gowns.
Anyway… I love the deep colors in these illustrations. And the different poses should give you good options for using them in a collage.“
Highlights from Laura’s Artwork View the full Supply List (& more in the Giveaway below) | |||
Hooray for the A Lady’s Secretary Giveaway!
I decided to focus on just the secretary itself (as there are so many pretty things in Laura’s artwork… if I didn’t contain myself to one small section I’d lose my mind)! So here are items I chose (and a repeat of Laura’s full supply list for links to these and to everything she used):
– Chipboard Secretary 1:12 Scale (new)
– Gold Candlestick Holder w Handle (new)
– Miniature Square Metal Box with Lid (new)
– Secretary 1:12 Scale Collage Sheet Set (new)
– Portraiture Collage Sheet
– Little Library Collage Sheet
– Miniature Vase Set
– Set of Miniature Books
– Tiny Black Hinge Set (that Laura painted gold)
And not shown in that big grid at right: a set of the lovely Window Pediment – Deerfield
And the new collage sheets with the costumed ladies:
– Indoor Fashions of the 1780s Collage Sheet
– Outdoor Fashions of the 1780s Collage Sheet
– Georgian Fashion Collage Sheet!
To enter the A Lady’s Secretary Giveaway drawing all you have to do is leave a comment BELOW on this blog post TODAY or TOMORROW (the deadline is 11:59 pm PST, MONDAY NIGHT, May 16, 2016).
AND to enter the drawing, please tell me: How will you decorate your secretary? What will you put inside it? And/or what room or scene will you put the secretary into?
Don’t forget to leave your (hello! correct) email address, too, so I can contact the winner; your email address does not need to be made public. Note: I’m offering free shipping, too, but only within the USA. International shipping will still apply.
Please be patient! Spammers try to post crap here a lot so comments are moderated. So if you don’t see your post in the comments section, be patient and check back in a few hours before re-posting it, please!
After midnight, I’ll randomly pick the winner (via Random.org). So make sure to check back to see who won! And check your mailbox on Thursday morning for the next Giveaway and Newsletter!
And…. who won Thursday’s Was Lewis Carroll a Secret Crafter? Giveaway? That would be Traci! Congratulations! Check your email for more info.
Love this period of history and the parlor she created!
Love this! I would definitely use this secretary filled with spooky books(and some cobwebs!) in my half scale Haunted House I’m planning!! Your details and minis are fantastic!
I just love the possibilities with this secretary! I most likely would use some of the
fancy German borders and some oriental pieces I have to do it in a chinoiserie style. I’d fill it with assorted Asian curios, dragons, cats and other animals, as well as urns and vases.I think it would be an outstanding pioece to add to my Asian curio shop, or even free standing under a dome!
I’m more into primitives, so I would distress the cabinet and put vintage country in it
Lovely images and ideas, as always.
I’ve made some books that need a home…this secretary would be their perfect home.
Please let me win this magical giveaway! I would decorate the Secretary Desk the same as Laura did. This would end up in my dollhouse (yes, I have a large dollhouse even though I am a senior) as a special feature. I would have the ladies standing around in all their glory.
I LOVE this just the way it is!
This Georgian ladies’ parlor is magnificent!
Love the secretary. I’d make an Edgar Allen Poe desk with spooky things and a raven.
I’d mist definitely make a Georgian ladies’parlour with these wonderful accessories.
A desk for a mini study, (over) filled with books, etc. for family tree research!
Wow, Love the parlour, such inspiration.
Have to make this into a spooktacular potion cabinet in my haunted dollhouse. And it would go in the spell room of course.
I have an idea of a Beatrix Potter -author and illustrtrator- secretary with plummy ink pens and watercolor pallets. Perhaps the secretary would sit in the middle of Farmer McGregors garden! Thank you again for the chance to win 😊
oh my gosh, this is amazing!
I would fill it with books, books, and more books! love the ideas people have left so far. so clever! 🙂
I do confess there would be a tea cup sitting on it though. 😉
i would create a witch’s desk with lots of little spell books and potions!
Be still my beating heart!! It is racing like the lead car in a Nascar race just thinking of these amazing goodies headed my way!
My Fairy Village has been needing an office and the Secretary would be a great piece to get that office started! I would use the steamer chest that I have and the Secretary to give the Fairies a place to work on the books and inventory! I imagine they will also spend many hours writing to the other Fairies who are far away and maybe even plan a Fairy get away to reunite with them! Fairy Dust being sprinkled over my head for luck! Thanks for the chance to help the Fairies get their affairs in order! macaskillbarbara@yahoo.com
Love the secretary-would make a nice apothecary cabinet. Laura is amazing she is so talented love all her creations. >^..^<
I love this!! The desk and fireplace are beautiful!! Not sure I would change much if anything at all??
Oh my gosh!!! I love this room! Being an avid rare book collector, I’ve been working on drafting a formal library design so these items would go perfectly in the design. Thank you for the opportunity to win this set of items.
Oh I LOVE this I would decorate it with all the items you show here on this page and would definitely put it in my studio so I can look at it all the time Thank you
This would look great in my ladies parlor! I would add book whick I have many, flower vase, desk set, knickkacks, whatever I can find in my stash!! 🙂
I’m working on a witches cottage right now, so my secretary would contain lots of potion bottles and old leather “magic” books. I also have a tiny bat that would love to live in a cubbyhole somewhere!
Love that bookcase! So many ways to use it.
I would make a witch’s secretary — perfect project for Halloween! 🙂
Happy creating,
Birgit
AGAIN Laura has outdone herself!! PERFECT! Absolutely adore this project!
Oh geez what a beautiful giveaway! I used to be a secretary, so yes I would love to create one! Namaste
I would love to make this a garden theme secretary.
I love this! I’m not sure what I would do, there are so many amazing ideas of ways to decorate and they’re all wonderful! This project looks to be so much fun
Laura does it again! Fantastic room!
I think I would do the secretary pretty much the same as Laura!
a magic cupboard would be in the works.
If I win this, I’ll save the completed project for my granddaughter to have when she’s older. What a beautiful project!
I would love to win the secretary. I would put it in the den and put my collection of tiny crystals and sharks teeth in it
I have never wanted to win a prize package so much in my life!! Just came from Laura’s site. Simply cannot process what I’m seeing. She has always been the Mack Mama of creating everyday scenes but this puts her in supernova category!!! I would print out Laura’s paper to cover the secretary (love you for that, Laura!) and I would create something very similar…except with an Outlander theme. I’d recreate Jareds Paris townhouse. AND I would make it a point to fill the secretary with books and a skull bead I bought from y’all awhile ago as a nod to Maitre Raymond. This is to die for!!
Love this secretary! I’d decorate it with Christmas minis as a nod to my Mom, who so loved decorating for the holidays!
I think for this I’d like to Steampunk it up and make it a Victorian mad scientist’s cupboard!
Laura Carson’s attention to detail is amazing. Love this give away. I would have a bird theme secretary. Oh spring!
Rachel Carson’s desk. I’d fill it with all sorts of things from nature to honor this wonderful environmentalist.
I have a dollhouse it would fit perfectly in!
books would have to go in this, along with maybe some little fairies or hidden creatures. Love this whole project, Laura!
If I was lucky enough to win this I’d make it into a display piece for some of my natural history specimens and curiosities. It could be that of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was a collector of minerals during the Georgian period 🙂
Neat project as always. I would need to think about this one but I am sure I could come up with something creative!
I love it! I would put books and letters and small treasures in mine. Wonderful give away!
Love it! I would make it into a seamstresses’ cupboard. Filled with Lace, ribbon, and fabrics spilling out of the drawers and shelves!
I like it just as Laura did it. Great project!
This is lovely. The scene is so charming. Having just finished
Reading the Stockholm Octavo, I think a Gustavian style
Desk with some fans would be excellent. There are so many
Good ideas listed already!
I think I would use it as a stand alone in my living room. There are several ideas in my head, maybe a Halloween desk or a mad scientist, or maybe just like yours.
I just love this desk. I would decorate with fairy minis and put in my sitting room.
I would make a Halloween piece with books and bottles found on your website!
I love miniatures and I love books so this is a great giveaway for me! I’d even include a
“hollowed out” fake book to hide tiny treasures in!
I’d probably paint it and then fill it with the other little bits that are part of the giveaway. I think placing it in a library would be a good idea.
I love this beautiful piece and would love to have one to decorate with tiny books and treasures of my own creation. Maybe with a Jules Verne theme?
How absolutely wonderful– well done Laura! If I get to win this lovely array, I think I’d like to go Georgian as well- I’ve specialized in that era as a musician for years!
I so see a MARIE Antoinette sitting at that chipboard desk writing out a love letter with a pink feather quill pen and perfume bottles everywhere!
I would decorate mine with all the goodies in the giveaway! Laura Carson’s work is so inspiring! Thanks for the chance to win!
This looks like it would make an awesome Ms Claus desk!
I would fill the secretary with my blown glass collection and beautiful books on at.