Table a la Marie Antoinette and Rose Bertin

Lovely way to spend an afternoon at Versailles

Everything looks so pretty in the sunshine

An afternoon spent choosing dress designs, fabrics, ribbons

Lush dress designs remind Marie Antoinette of fluffy peonies

Join in on the fun with Rose and La Reine

Soft colors and glints of silver and gold

Opera glasses are a must for court ladies

Jewelry, a new fan, key to the jewel chest, little trinket boxes

An idea for a dress- very fashion forward of Marie Antoinette
Hat boxes hold trims and ribbons

Marie loved flowers especially roses here are peonies on her plate

French bon bons and roses ---so MA

Time slips by so quickly for Marie Antoinette and Rose Bertin

Little details- la Reine loved jewelry and pretty trinkets

Marie meets with Rose Bertin her dress
maker

My interpretation of a table that might have existed at Petit Trianon when Marie Antoinette met with her dressmaker Rose Bertin. We always think of roses and Marie Antoinette so how perfect to put the table outside among the pink roses.
I've gathered some fun things that remind me of MA and she would, bien sur, have sweets !

What a royal treat it must have been to have a talented fashion forward dressmaker at your disposal and she even came to the queen!

Not many fashion designers in our time would go to the client's home. I like to think it was the royal allure and the cache of visiting Versailles or Petit Trianon. I have read that Rose Bertin became quite weathy and arrogant due to her association with la Reine, Marie Antoinette. She also left the country and saved her own life during the Revolution.

Join Susan at BNOTP for more fun tablescapes for:

Tablescape Thursday

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Marie Antoinette tree and final day for give away

Sugar Cookie Designs

JoAnn's Holiday Frivolities

Michael's Crafts

Michael's Crafts

Paulette of Paper Nosh

Masks by Over the Top Studio.

Here is my newest tree. Do you think the Queen would be pleased? It was a fun project. The lovely tags are from Paper Nosh--La Pink Paperie and the monogram resin ornaments are another of Paulette's creations a step away from the original monogram idea. The tree has swans and pink ornaments, tiny silver glitter carriages, pearls and of course Marie Antoinette's head atop it all! Sugar Cookie head, pink glitter wreathsand beaded ornaments and pearls from Michael's, swan ornaments from JoAnn's Holiday Frivolities blog.Here is the link to her shop

http://www.etsy.com/shop/holidayfrivolities

I already have ideas to add a few more things next year! I made a few pink cones of paper and filled the with small pink ornaments. My small hand fan collection and a portrait of Marie Antoinette rest under the tree.

If you want to enter the contest to win the book I showed in yesterday's post please leave a comment below. I will draw a name on Dec 20th.

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More fans that I adore

I really think we should revive the folding fan sort of like Karl Lagerfeld did a few years ago. If you think about it a bit it is the "green" way to keep cool!

The fan above is another one from Viven (see yesterday's post) and so lovely. I just love all the fans in the Marie Antoinette movie and love this scene where they are so much a part of the action shall we say!

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Help me find the Marie Antoinette hand fan!

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Well, I am really inspired now after visiting her private apartments in Versailles (photos coming soon) and the little fantasy farm there too, by all things Marie Antoinette. I saw this image on Flicker and want to track down the person who made it. It is just such an excess of pinkness and Marie Antotnetteness and a hand fan too all the things I love!! I'd love to have one made and use it with my holiday tree.

I had several creative ideas in the last week or so and all revolve around her-- Marie Antoinette. I bet I think about her at least 2-3 times a day if not more often. All the time not just because of the trip. Or I think of the era and Madame de Pompadour too a lot. She is such an interesting character.

I won't tell you just yet what my creative ideas are--I'd rather start working on them and show you!

If anyone recognizes this image and knows the artist who made the fan please let me know via the comment section. Merci

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P.S. I found the artist-she is going to make me one! Thanks Cassandra! She is Stephanie of Stephanie's Cottage!! She has an Etsy shop and a blog. YEAH Go take a look.

Romance in the French countryside in the 1700's

We know so much about the life at court at Versailles. Including some of what the court women and men did for amusement. How they made the art of conversation exciting and sometimes laced with romance and innuendo. Women flirting behind their folding hand fans and dropping hankie's so men will pick them up.

When I think of that time frame I conjure images of richly attired women and men prancing around in the meadows and gardens teasing each other and playing silly games like hide and seek and blind man's bluff. My antique fan that I purchased many years ago in London is a scene of aristocrats playing blind man's bluff and the era it depicts is roughly 1780 or early 1800's. It is a French fan and signed > I treasure it not for value but for the beauty and the marvelous fact that I could own such a beautiful item from so long ago.

It seems in some ways a more innocent time although history has shown us it was not and that that the very lucky few enjoyed a richness of life and goods that most only dreamed about. But when I look at my old fan and see those handsome ladies and gentlemen playing --oh how I long ,for just a few minutes, to be in that era playing outside such a silly game. They were creating their own pink living back then to amuse themselves and block out grim reality of life .

My pink living is perhaps a touch of that but also just a celebration of pink, of happiness, of making everyday life more beautiful in any way I can.

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