Every few months I go through a new phase. All it really takes is a little inspiration, and you just never know when its going to hit. An old boyfriend once told me, "Diane, your like a Victorian woman, this isn't your century." I never forgot those words, and this was from someone I didn't even think knew me that well. I had asked myself, what kind of image was I putting out? I was wearing BCBG pants that night and a coach bag I bought at a consignment shop. Did I really look like an Victorian woman in sparkly sandals and a sequin neckline top? Oh yes, of course, I forgot, I was wearing a pin I inherited from my grandmother and a purse from 1982.
But the truth was, I was like a Victorian woman. Back in the early 90's before Godey fashion plates were even popular, I was in anticipation waiting for the next Dover Publications mail order to come in the mail. This was the days before Pinterest (yes, now you know I'm ancient) and it was like finding an old friend again, to see that other people liked them too. I thought I was the only one. Even back in the 90's I was buying books from Dover and making my own stationary, cutting out the pictures and making decoupage boxes. Decoupage was never a stranger though, back in the 70's I would go to work with my father, just so I could tag along on the construction sites and collect pieces of wood his men left laying around from framing the houses. I would take them home, cut pics out of magazines and shellac them in the rain.
And as funny as it was, so many years later I was doing the same thing.
Do people ever change?
BUT TODAY...
I love searching for images I never seen before that are free to use.
They are out there, you just got to find them, and when you do, it's thrilling..that is if your an artist like me. The trouble is, you see the same free images over and over. I think everyone wants one that has never been seen before, and you think, Oh no one has used that one in anything, I have seen, that's always thrilling when it happens. But to be safe, whats the best option?
You know what is? Taking your own pictures. That's right..and when they are yours-they are yours and no one else's! And you can do anything you want with them.
So for you, I am giving away some of my own pictures I took this summer at my close by beach town. It is a town full of pretty manors that still have a ring to the past in them. Besides flowers and having tea at midnight, I love houses of character and charm.
Free to use images:
Put these in your favorite editing program, and you can do anything you want with them, from turning them black and white, or daguerreotype type, or using them in a mixed media project, shrinking them miniature to adhere to an old bottle with lace and ribbon.
But whatever you do..be creative and most of all, have fun!
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