syn·aes·the·sia – a subjective sensation that occurs in one sense modality when another modality is stimulated…. syn·aes·thet'ic – involving more than one sense
Dr Francesca Pierini (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Session 5.3: History and Romance This was an interesting (and at times quite amusing) session looking at a subset of English-language romance authors who set their stories Italy. Apparently there is a whole Thing where people with Italian ancestry seek their roots in Italy and the ‘fall in love […]
Jennifer Hallock Session 5.2: History and Romance Abstract: Over 80% of bestselling historical romance books published in the first half of 2018 were set in Britain, either during the 19th century or the mediaeval period. These two fabricated chronotopes are selectively accurate to history and narrowly focused on high ranks of the nobility – in […]
Dr Stephanie Russo (Macquarie University, Australia) Session 5.1: History and Romance Abstract: Georgette Heyer’s fame, both in her own time and in ours, is inextricably connected to her representation of Regency England. However before Heyer wrote about the Regency, she was writing about the eighteenth century, setting her first novels in both England and France… […]
Recently I was fortunate to attend some sessions the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (aka IASPR) Conference with the theme ‘Think Globally, Love Locally?’ held in Sydney. Due to a combination of illness and other commitments I was unable to attend all the sessions. I also apologise profusely to all those who […]
This is another one of my vintage digital photos, I call her Steampunk Fly Girl. I suspect she was actually dressed this way for riding in a motor car, but it looks a bit like a vintage flying helmet so I thought I would make her a pilot. And the wings were a finishing touch […]
I have a collection of vintage ephemera that is in digital format – and I have recently realised that I can use this in my collages instead of just using my own photos. So over the Easter weekend I have been busy making some new collages incorporating vintage elements, ‘stickers’ from the collage program, and […]
I made this card using the Prima Marketing collection Time Traveler’s Memories. It is a collection with beautiful creams, burgundy, sepia and black colours, and various vintage images. The base card is actually once piece – a gorgeous stripped and embellished bit of card – from the A4 pad, folded in half. Other elements have […]
It is always hard to create cards for male recipients for some reason. I like to do vintage style cards because the colours and designs can work. I love working with sepia and cream tones. Aged paper, stamped ship design, compass stamped as background image along with some crackle textures, layered onto striped paper, and […]
When I went to Europe for my brother’s wedding, I ended up taking a lot of photos of gorgeous streetlamps, varied types of cobblestones and flagstones, and interesting (and usually very old) doors and windows. I hadn’t done much with the photos until recently, when I started editing them and creating a few collages. This […]
Earlier this year I found myself back in hospital, and then off work for 2 months. I was in bed or draped aesthetically on the sofa for a lot of that time, and wasn’t able to do much (hence the lack of updates on my gym blog. Sorry about that). Anyway during this time, I […]
