Where she was going was here.........

"It's all in the Balance...."

and the thirst begins.....

Paris, France  1820

......she slipped out of the small theater door.......finding her way through the dark winding streets, quiet now in the hours before dawn.  The risk was huge but he promised that he would protect her.  If only she could make it to the ship and to safety in time.... she must be there, he said, before the first rays of the morning sun.   The night was still and the air heavy.

She felt her heart beating wildly as she began running into his arms.

Hands around her throat....intense red rimmed eyes bearing down on her....and then the pain.

Realization fills her eyes and escapes from Evealyn's throat.....

"I am...we are... forever now".....and the thirst begins.

Purple silk velvet and tangerine pearls....

Her gown is looking dark blue here, but it's really a rich royal purple silk velvet.  The embellishments are fresh water pearls in a wonderful tangerine color with added beads in fushia.

I added fine silk black netting around the edges of her skirt.

Tomorrow I will add............

An underlying power......

I created my palette today....randomly pulling out antique lace, silk velvet, beadwork and chenille tassels from  my piles of treasure.   I almost always use only antique fabric and trim. There is a quality to these pieces that is undeniable.... and besides, I love the energy....the imagined story that is embedded within each piece.

I am surprised at the colors that came together.  I thought she would be in golds...or blacks...or

even whites.  Never did I imagine her in reds, maroons and purple.  

Perhaps she was a dancer from the Moulin Rouge...or maybe a Spanish Princess in the 1800s.  

I am waiting patiently for her to whisper her story in my ear.

I have created a mosaic of irridescent glass, in shades of red and maroons, containing a slight flash of gold, on the underneath side of her gown.  I like that this flash of light and color is hidden, when she is seated.  It is her secret power.  It is from this hidden source that her thirst comes.  Her vampire thirst.

More Crowning Glories.....