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Marie (and Niccolo) forever

April 3, 2009 – 11:51 am

If I had more time and lived in the US, I’d join this swap. As it is, i am barely managing to keep up with the swaps I have signed up with, the zine, my secret friend packages (a lovely initiative by Modwest Stampers—you send a suprise parcel to someone and receive one back). So [...]

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Party like it’s 1785

April 1, 2009 – 2:58 pm

I’m fascinated by the way Marie Antoinette has taken the art world by storm. After all, there is no doubt that she was a disastrous queen. A deep-set xenofobia and the French Revolution may have helped paint her worse than she really was, but there is no doubt that Marie Antoinette—brought up in the safe [...]

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My first ever paper doll

February 11, 2009 – 1:31 pm

Well, since I was a child that is. I was leafing through an old Stamper’s Sampler issue which was full of paper dolls and decided to make one of my own. I copied the picture (from of an Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun portrait of Marie-Antoinette), scanned it to make plenty of copies, and collaged it. It was [...]

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