To begin with I had a greenish page, a bit on the limey side, but as I changed my mind on what the story was to be I had to change it with some blues. Out came Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Inks and between them I got a kind of ocean colour.
Now the rule for this page is that we use Dylusion products, we can use others but today I broke the rules and put bodies on them which are certainly not Dylusion ones. To make up for it I stamped a border using one of Dyan's stamps - of course the heads are from her collection.
"Lottie and Eleanor are two girls about town. Always hanging around with the 'In Crowd' they can be seen at all the best parties, in the best tea shops and the most favoured of department stores. So far they have not joined in with 'The Hunt' that some of their acquaintances take part in but that is purely because neither girl sees it as anything other than a "cruel sport". Cocktails are the thing they enjoy most of all, coupled with their desire to dance and visit the Theatre. In fact they had been practising the Shimmy and the Black Bottom only that morning before setting off to the beach.
Lottie really wanted to impress Archie, a local landowner's son, and so she had bought herself a lovely yellow and black swimming costume especially for Tuesday as that was the definite day Archie went down to the water. She had also bought herself a black satin fascinator which she wore at a jaunty angle on her neatly coiffured hair.
The two of them hung around outside the beach hut they had hired waiting for Archie and his friends to arrive, time was going on and both girls had things they wanted to do. Eleanor was getting particularly agitated about the time and what other things were happening that day. Lottie, on the other hand, wanted to see Archie, or, more to the point, for Archie to see her in her new bathers. 'So much to do, so little desire to do it' was all she could say as she tried to persuade Eleanor to stay just a little while longer."
I wonder if Archie did come down, and if he did, did he notice Lottie in her black and yellow outfit. Perhaps that is something we will never know.
As I said at the beginning I tried to replicate an ocean colour, I drew a beach hut very much in the background and made a border with one of Dyan's stamps choosing the circles to represent the wheels on the bathing huts that they used to take down to the water's edge in those days. The words, once again, were typed as there was little room for any fancy lettering.
So because we are set in the 20's I am entering this into Art Journal Journey where Wendy has her Vintage theme running for the month.
