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When picking one painting up that I got from ebay another one was stored next to it. Inquiring and showing my interest in it with the seller she was just giving me the other for free!!!!
What I love is the thick strokes and I chose this bit since it somehow reminds me of a human ear.
My daughter gave me this pack of coloured pencils to carry around more easily, they slip into a neat little folding case 😀
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Multicolour this week.
"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick." – Audrey Hepburn
There is something special, stylish and seductive about lipstick. It promotes beauty, elegance and luxury with the simple twist of a baton and a swipe of application. Even the advertisements for lipstick are glamourous!
The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday” on the 15th of January is “lipstick”, so this is my idea for an advertisement for lipstick using a gold Art Deco baton from the 1930s which once contained a tube of red lipstick and a tube of Coral Colours ‘Raisin’ and MAC ‘Paramour’ lipstick.
Lipstick is a cosmetic that applies protection, texture and mostly colour to the lips. Based on cosmetic cases found at archaeological sites dating back five thousand years, it is thought that Ancient Sumerians were the first to wear lipstick. These ancient cosmetics were made by mixing crushed gemstones with oils and waxes. Ancient Egyptians also wore red lipstick as an indicator of social status. Although the name originally applied to the baton (stick) of material, within a tubular container, usually around ten milimeters in diameter and fifty milometers in length, the term now generally relates to the material itself, regardless of method of application.
20210602_1649_7D2-70 Frosty Leaves
For 9th January 'Lookig Close... On Friday' challenge the subject is 'Frosty Leaves'. Mid summer here, so had to search for an applicable photo that I had not uploaded to Flickr before.
#16590
Campari (Italian: [kamˈpaːri]) is an Italian alcoholic liqueur, considered an apéritif (20.5%, 21%, 24%, 25%, or 28.5% ABV, depending on the country where it is sold), obtained from the infusion of herbs and fruit (including chinotto and cascarilla) in alcohol and water. It is a type of bitters, characterised by its dark pink colour.
#Bottles#
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Thema:“Bottles“ FLASCHEN.
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I sharpen a pencil like this for italic writing – but not often these days.
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Pencil points this week.
Auf Wasser schwimmen. Schwimmreifen #FLAMINGO#
Bei Freunden im Pool.
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Für“Looking close…on Friday!“ am 26.08.2022.
Thema:“Floating on / Water“ ( Auf Wasser schwimmen)
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The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Zipper this week. The pull tag broke so I replaced it with a small keyring.
(I wonder why they call zips "zippers" in the US?)
I'm not a girly girl, or woman I should say :), so no bows in my house, just on some of my bra's.
This one has such a nice colour and lace, love that.
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This is one for the group, Looking close….on Fridays! With today’s theme being ‘Soles’.
Inspired by that classic Hollywood film, The Odd Couple with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
It's nice to have clothes with one's name sewn inside – this is the trade name of clothes sold by the ASDA supermarket chain. It is named after the clothes designer George Davies.
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Clothing labels this week.
“The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.” – Grace Kelly.
My maternal Grandmother may not have been a queen, but in many respects, she was very much like Queen Elizabeth II. Only six years older than the Queen and being a young woman in the 1930s and 1940s, she felt all her adult life that she could never been seen in public without wearing her pearl necklace, a double strand of graduating cultured pearls with a platinum, diamond and pearl clasp given to her by her parents when she was twenty-one, and her cultured pearl clip earrings which she was given to her by her parents when she was eighteen.
The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday” for the 22nd of January “earrings”. I was originally going to submit a photo of some other family heirloom earrings in my possession, a pair of Regency ebony and ivory cameos I lovingly called Flora and Fauna when I was a child, but then I considered that I submitted them for the theme of “earrings” for the “Smile on Saturday” group last year. Instead, I have chosen these pearl earrings and necklace which remind me more of my maternal Grandmother than any other possessions of hers I own. These pieces of family jewellery have survived the Blitz and have travelled all around the world to places like Paris, Madrid, Aden and Cairo: they have signs of wear and age, but my what stories they could tell! These pearl earrings always make me smile and think of my maternal Grandmother, and the Queen. I hope that you like them too.
This container featuring a classical bass relief of a girl dancing with a basket and bouquet of flowers, is a tobacco jar. Made by Wedgwood in the 1920s, it is made in the classic Jasperware blue Wedgwood are perhaps most famous for. This jar features three of the ten “flower girls” that featured on many pieces manufactured by the Etruria pottery. You might think it rather odd that a very masculine object (smoking pipe tobacco being a predominantly male pastime in the 1920s) should feature such a feminine design, however it was not unusual for items used by men to feature beautiful women.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 3rd of December is “blue on white background”. As soon as I read it, I immediately thought of my Wedgwood collection. I have many pieces in Jasperware Blue and Portland Blue. I even have a few pieces that feature both together. However, on a white background, I felt the Jasperware Blue was a more striking choice. I hope you think so too, and that this image makes you smile.
Wedgwood is a fine china, porcelain, and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 by the English potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and was first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. It was rapidly successful and was soon one of the largest manufacturers of Staffordshire pottery. Jasperware has been made continuously by the firm since 1775, and also much imitated. After buying a number of other Staffordshire ceramics companies, in 1987 Wedgwood merged with Waterford Crystal to create Waterford Wedgwood plc, an Ireland-based luxury brands group. After a 2009 purchase by KPS Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, the group became known as WWRD Holdings Limited, an initialism for "Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton". This was acquired in July 2015 by Fiskars, a Finnish consumer goods company.
This beautiful butterfly insisted on landing on a hydrangea that is long past its best...so it's more fauna than flora!
The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday” Friday 8th of January is “calendar”, so I decided that before I wrote on my beloved Alphonse Mucha wall calendar that I buy every year, I would photograph a corner of it. The Alphonse Mucha image you see in the corner closest to us is a detail of “Têtes Byzantines – Blonde” (1897) which appears in my calendar on the month of September: my birthday month.
I wish all my Flickr friends and followers a brighter and happier New Year than the one we have left behind.
Alfons Maria Mucha (1860 – 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt.