Miss Havisham II

I've been working on another Miss Havisham fairy...She's the perfect character to create when I want to work with beautiful antique tattered lace...

A disintegratingly, fragile silk bow here...

and tarnished charms there. 

She has a tiny metal tiara in her hair and discoloured sequins embellishing her sleeves.

A crumpled lace veil hangs down her back.

After creating her, I was going to box her up in the usual way, but then remembered a faded velvet Victorian picture frame I had in my workroom. 

It would have once been a rich olive green, but now has an old gold look about it, with most of the velvet pile rubbed smooth. 

Also, I was recently given some lovely scrapbooking papers from my friend Belinda - This lace printed paper (entitled 'Granny's Lace'!) was perfect for the background. 

Thanks Bee! x

To finish, I gave her a tiny French mirror, which would have been part of an elaborate antique Globe De Marie many years ago (Oh' how appropriate! :))

And the once beautiful butterflies are pinned into position like antique specimens...

frozen in time like the tragic Miss Havisham. 

I also singed the hem of her dress to represent her sad demise (as in a previous artwork.)

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I have one more version of Miss H to work on soon, after buying some wonderful old lace pieces that came from the attic of a French Château, I've been inspired to use them before they are lost forever...some so fragile, they wouldn't survive another laundering...

Enjoy your weekend,

Niki x