258 years ago today Marie Antoinette was born

Was she a diva? Was she spoiled? Was she naive or just ignorant of regular people's lives? Was she French at the end? Was she in love with someone other than her husband? Was she a good mother?

We are not sure of any of those answers but what we are sure of is that she still captures our imagination and she is still talked about, written about and reinvented even today.

I love all these current reinventions of her and of her "look".

Happy Birthday and rest in peace Marie Antoinette.

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Monogram of Marie Antoinette and her birthday

Happy Birthday Marie Antoinette

My new bed linens from Number 411 in Savannah

November 2,1755 is the birthday of Marie Antoinette rather than focus on her sad fate today I would rather look at something fun and beautiful about her life.

Marie Antoinette had such a pretty monogram I had to "borrow" it for myself. I have so many things with this monogram but oddly enough I had not done the most common or traditional thing-- add it to my bed linens! Monograms, I understand, were a way of marking who owned what linen and silver and other items. They were a practical thing that became artwork. In  the case of royality like Marie Antoinette she really had fun with her monogram, it is on the stairway in the Petit Trianon,

On books in her library

    Her headboard

 and on pieces of her furniture, on flower pots at the Petit Hameau

on a key

                                                        Gift tags from Paper Nosh

Ornament from Paper Nosh

You can order her monogram on gift tags and ornaments from Paulette at Paper Nosh to have a touch of the monogram in your life!

I have several other ideas for using the monogram and will share those soon.

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