Book and brooch news!

I had my meeting with our Editor in Chief this morning and it looks like the book is going ahead! I have put in the formal submission and am working furiously to fine tune everything. The source notes are complete and she likes the cover art, so even if we fiddle around with the title a bit, she likes it! I'm so very, very excited!

I've also been enjoying progress photos of the new brooch that my friends at Keystone Forge are making and  it is at the actual casting point now and they're also doing such a brilliant job! I can't wait to share those pictures as well, but am waiting for them to share them first. Meanwhile here's a little peek. This is before they put the little lines on the petals!

Antique china find!

I found this sweet antique chine in an old second hand shop whilst road tripping to Newcastle Medieval Festival and hadn't thought to share it as it isn't a full set and really, I only bought them to use as photography props for book ads for Mother's Day and that kind of thing, but I was very very excited to see that a new DW friend actually loves collecting old china, and I thought they might like to see these! There's no maker's mark at all, only the numbers 53 on each piece, which I first thought was a lot number, but it's under the glaze. No idea where it's from but it looks old-ish.

I have an antique book collection and also a few vintage kitchen things just because they're cool, but due to limited space, I don't have that much. I do pick up fun things in op shops sometimes, but they're usually to be repurposed into medieval things.

These would have been part of a much bigger set, and all that remains are three cups (only one has flowers still on the inside, but you won't see inside if I have tea in them), two saucers, a round butter plate and the square cake plate. They really are pretty sweet and perfect for pink, girly props with berries in a cup, or celebration cake or something!