with lots of lace, fabric collages, napkins, fold out flaps and ledges to tuck emphemera behind :) It'll be looking for a home shortly when I've got the time to figure out how to set up an etsy shop.
After Kensal Green cemetery it was just a short tube journey to alight at West Brompton to go to Brompton Road cemetery. The atmosphere was just so different. Still an overcast, dull, damp day but the cemetery was still a peaceful, inviting space.
I have never seen so many squirrels, racing about, playing and coming up to us, looking for food. Next time I'll take some peanuts although they already looked well fed.
Loved these lions heads on the memorial to the Chelsea pensioners.
This sweet little angel is suffering a bit of subsidence, leaning over.
This tomb for Frederick Leyland, was designed by Edward Burne-Jones, one of my favourite pre-raphelite artists.
If any gardeners out there can shed light on what sort of tree this is I would be grateful as it is just magnificent with it's fruit, a natural christmas decoration. I'd love one in my garden.
I just love this door, with it's scroll work and the patina of time.
Have a peaceful Sunday and don't forget, if you'd like to enter my giveaway there is still time, just go to this link.
I had a really interesting day visiting a couple of London cemeteries yesterday, the first one being Kensal Green Cemetery.
This was my first visit and I wasn't disappointed by the wealth of angel statues and ornate gothic mausalea, which I just adore,
but the amount of neglect, vandalism and litter really saddened me. The above must once have been a fabulous angel in a very unusual pose but she was such a sorry sight.
This cemetery is hailed as one of the big seven around London and whilst I can see that efforts are being made to perserve and maintain this large site it looks like a lot more work is to be done.
This is the grave of Emile Blondin, the man who walked over the Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
The overall atmosphere, with it's litter, lack of respect and regard for the dead, left me feeling very uneasy walking around the site. I would go as far as to say I didn't feel safe. It was a dull, misty, damp day and my friend and I wondered if that was contributing to our general feeling of disquiet so we decided to visit Brompton Road Cemetery, where we enjoyed a great visit back in July, to see if it was the season and the weather affecting our mood. I'll post about that tomorrow but in short, no it was not the weather so I'm not sure if I'll return to Kensal Green, maybe in a few years, maybe never.....
Hello all, I promised a little giveaway and here it is (better late than never). This giveaway is for one of my 3 latest ATCs - Tudor Diva, Prize Onion and Geisha Teatime.
On the creative table at the moment I have a 'larger than my average' journal, tentatively titled 'Oriental Garden' as I had no plan when I began it and this theme is emerging and I'm enjoying every minute.
