Watercolour paint box

 I've not been painting  with watercolours for years taken by the the porcelain art first and by embroidery after. But this was my "first love" and one can never forget it so...I decide to re organize all my supplies in a nice way so brush, colours and palette stays all together.
What better than a fabric covered cardboard box ?
Now I only need to find the time and a bit of inspiration.

Soon my new embroidery project  start in "Elizabethan style".....

  

                             

This and that..

Not a lot made in the last days, I'm spending most of my free time researching about historical stitches and materials used, having lost a lot of time reading and testing uncorrect istructions referred to detached buttonhole/ trellis needlelace that were given for historical reproduction but where in reality modern versions of those stitches and not the original ones.

As possible will post about this with a little polemic....

By now, here is the Tudor rose mounted i the lid box, the Parrot progress and my new,larger, stitching tools case.

Also an idea for a thread waxer made with a real mother of pearl shell container; I did it when I could not achieve a autentic vintage one, have you seen those lovely ivory carved or mother of pearls one ?? love them, but unlucky in auctions, so this works fine too and is unexpensive.

The shell is one used for making bijoux bought in a little market, just fuse the beeswax in, clean a little and is done !

Il set è completo - The complete set

Ora il set è completo, con l'aggiunta di un doppio portablocco per gli appunti di ricamo, un piccolo sacchetto per fare da contrappeso al telaio e una pochette...

Now the set is complete, I've added a double notebook cover, a little heavy cushion for the frame and a pochette...

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Tutti insieme !!

All togheter !!

Ancora una scatola...- Another box...

Mi piacciono troppo le scatole in stoffa, ecco l'ultima !

I tessuti sono di Moda, Yuletide blessing.

I really like boxes with fabric, here is the last !

Fabrics are from Moda, Yuletide blessing.

Non ci stava tutto così ho aggiunto un cassetto e un needlecase....

Was not big enough so I have added a drawer and a needlecase...

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Era un pò piccolino, così ne ho fatto un'altro.....decisamente meglio !

Was a little small so I did another one....much better!

Una scatola per...A box for...

L'ho realizzata per contenere le essenze che utilizzo a casa per dipingere la porcellana, non credevo di tribolare tanto, ci ho impiegato due giorni ! Ma sono soddisfatta del risultato...
Tessuti Northern solitude di Moda.

I have made it to keep the essences that I use at home when I paint on porcelain, I didn't think to have so much trouble, worked on it for 2 days! But I'm really glad of the result..

Fabrics Northern solitude from Moda.

Un cesto per la lana....a basket box for wool threads

Avevo bisogno di sistemare le lane per il Crewel e così ho rinnovato una vecchia scatola di vimini.

I need something to arrange the Crewel wools, so I have restored an old basket box.

Cestino portalavoro

Mi sono divertita a "ristrutturare" questo cestino da lavoro con un'idea tratta da libro di S. Castellano, non male per essere il primo lavoro...

E il piccolo vuotatasche, sempre dallo stesso libro.

Quando si prende il via...