V for Virgo

I love September, and it's my birthday month too!

I thought it might be fun to find out what Virgo's are supposed to be like. I googled this:-

The Virgo motto could be "Perfect is almost good enough." On one hand, this trait makes you very employable, for you're not likely to do shabby work. On the other hand, you can be so finicky that you put limitations on your interactions and experiences before they happen. You'll be happier if you can learn to be selectively less critical, both of others and yourself.
Actually I agree with reference to my arts and crafts as I spend so much time trying to make something perfect that others have created a hundred and one things compared to my one. However I disagree about the not likely to do shabby work - I love SHABBY!! :)) And of course no one is perfect. But this image below always makes me smile:)))

Endless patience is required to reach perfection ...:)))

This part of the year seems to be filled with birthdays in this household and in fact I share my birthday month with 2 of my children and so we seem to have a dining room filled with the remnants of parties all the way up to December. This is the way our dining room chandelier looked last September and it stays like that all through autumn up to Christmas.

I must just say a BIG Congratulations to Holly of http://hollydoodledesigns.com/ on the launch of her revamped website. If you don't know her go take a look and if you already know of her you will know she has a knack of creating the most beautiful creations and presenting them in a way that can only be described as pure eye candy. She seems to include everything I like in beautiful creations with vintage millinery and costume jewellery literally oozing out from everywhere. This picture above was a bundle of vintage wallpaper but you wouldn't know it from all the ribbon and the sweet little bird and buttons. I LOVE it!!
Now you must all know Niki by now of http://nostalgiaatthestonehouse.blogspot.com/
She has the most gorgeous selection of dolls and in particular some really enchanting hatstands with little heads on. The ones I particularly like are 1920 hatstands with a flapper head made in Germany

This inspired me to look out for one on eBay, like the one below. Well I was shocked to see what high prices they go for - nearly £100.00

Well Niki makes some of hers and decorates them in completely unique way, like this one below. She encouraged me to have a go and I was completely surprised to receive this lovely little package from her.

Such a sweet hatstand and beautiful little french card. Thank you so much for it Niki.

Well suppose I better get to work then.