Crinoline Lady Find… Hand Painted Fire Screen

Found this firescreen in a charity shop in Norwich today… Tracey is totally smitten.. Tags: crinoline+lady, vintage, fire+screen

Free Snood Pattern To Crochet From Original Vintage 1940s Pattern

We have had quite a few requests for a nice and easy to follow Snood pattern..  This free crochet pattern is from our collection and dates from the mid 1940’s… Its available to download here Free Snood Crochet Pattern Tags: Free+Snood+Pattern, How+to+wear+a+snood, what+is+a+snood, snood+crochet+pattern, vintage+snood

At home with ‘The Girls’

The name for our site Faded Splendour was inspired by our fondness for these two French beauties.  They sit on their own little chair on our second floor landing….in all their Faded Splendour.    Tags: vintage+french+boudoir+dolls, dolls, antique+dolls, boudoir+dolls

Blogger 3 Column Templates

I have received quite a few request about how to make a Blogger three column template.  I can’t really understand why a template isn’t supplied as standard in the Blogger main menu but there are however many free three column templates available to download.. One of the best sites for this is here they have over 370…

Paper Sculpture a Lesson in Folding & Lighting

These images were requested by somebody special.  The book was first published in 1946. The sculptures are  pretty amazing when you think most of them are larger than life size. CDB hope you enjoy…. shop windows coming soon…. Start at the first and it will slideshow ( I hope) Cxx

Mondays Vintage Finds, 1920′s Bags, Limoges Brooch & Bond Girl Swimming Costume

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