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Adapted from François Boucher’s La Toilette de Vénus of 1751. Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]
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You’re the Cream in My Coffee
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Syncopated Lady © Sarah Vernon
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Undiscovered Country © Sarah Vernon
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A Côté de la Mer © Sarah Vernon
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Thanksgiving Hideaway © Sarah Vernon
The Cuckoo’s Note © Sarah Vernon
Walking the Dogs © Sarah Vernon
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Bon Voyage © Sarah Vernon
Venice Observed G Sarah Vernon at Crated
Remembrance of Times Past © Sarah Vernon
Patchwork © Sarah Vernon
Parrot with Plums
Goose and Frog’s Easter Journey © Sarah Vernon
Remembrance of Times Past © First Night Design
Nous sommes arrivés © Sarah Vernon
Once Upon a Time © Sarah Vernon
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A Bountiful Thanksgiving © Sarah Vernon
![Bird on the Beam © Sarah Vernon [Crated]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/e254blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Bird on the Beam © Sarah Vernon [Crated]")
Bird on the Beam © Sarah Vernon [Crated]
To see a fine lady upon a white horse © First Night Design
When Worlds Collide
The Fruit Look © Sarah Vernon at Crated
Femme Fatale in Sepia Serving Trays © Sarah Vernon
Woman in Black © Sarah Vernon
Anyone for Tea?
Romance in Stone by Sarah Vernon ©
Through a Glass Darkly
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid! © Sarah Vernon
Made for Walking Framed Prints © Sarah Vernon at Fine Art America
![Artful Pumpkins © Sarah Vernon [Redbubble]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/hl008blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Artful Pumpkins © Sarah Vernon [Redbubble]")
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Christmas Emporium © Sarah Vernon
Fagin’s Den © Sarah Vernon – Buy prints, cards & home decor
Gravestone Hell © Sarah Vernon
Bringing in the Harvest © Sarah Vernon – Buy a print at Crated!
The Crane © Sarah Vernon
Tallulah Bankhead 1902–1968 © First Night Vintage
Homecoming Pirate Framed Print from Fine Art America © Sarah Vernon
Oriental Glimpse © Sarah Vernon
Extreme Vogue © Sarah Vernon
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com] Photograph by “Nicolai Bernsten”:DJ;KGH; at “Unsplash”:http://unsplash.com Textures “2LO Confetti 17 and 2LO Distressed 12 from”:http://2lilowls.com](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/e289blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "The Boat House")
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Parrot with Plums
Today’s Special © Sarah Vernon
Made for Waling © Sarah Vernon Scarves @ Redbubble
Petite Rose Confection © Sarah Vernon at Crated
Remember the Fallen © Sarah Vernon at Redbubble
Pink Salmon © Sarah Vernon [Crated]
Parrot Fashion © Sarah Vernon – Buy from Crated
At the Water’s Edge Framed Print at Fine Art America © Sarah Vernon
Margate Translated © Sarah Vernon
Shadow Deer © Sarah Vernon Greeting Cards
Buy The Louise Brooks Tattoo Take 2 © Sarah Vernon from Redbubble
’Such Serviceable Flowers’ © Sarah Vernon
The Merry Widow Greeting Card by FirstNightDesign
The Clara Bow Tattoo © First Night Design
Buy The Cows Came Home Framed Print © Sarah Vernon at Crated
Waiting for the Dawn framed prints © Sarah Vernon at Redbubble
Silhouette Sunset © Sarah Vernon
Birdcage Blossom Postcards © Sarah Vernon
Dark Angels © Sarah Vernon
The Chinese Vase © Sarah Vernon
#covermakeover Week 1 STORM BOY by Colin Thiele
Abandoned Hideaway © Sarah Vernon at Fine Art America
![Butterfly Cascade © Sarah Vernon [Crated]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/e250blog1.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Butterfly Cascade © Sarah Vernon [Crated]")
Butterfly Cascade © Sarah Vernon [Crated]
The Swan Also Rises © First Night Design
Venetian Harbour, Chania © Sarah Vernon
Blue Bird of Happiness © First Night Design
The Louise Brooks Tattoo © First Night Design
Looking for Fossils © Sarah Vernon
Garlic is for Heroes © First Night Design
![Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea: “Biodiversity Library”:http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45490916 Texture: “Kerstin Frank”:https://www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/9181048645/in/photostream/ Flowers: “Rijksmuseum”:https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/my/collections/150967--sarah-vernon/mijn-eerste-verzameling/objecten#/SK-A-3899,0 Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/e309blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "‘Happiness is a Butterfly’")
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#photorehabcovermakeover Week 8 This Desert Life © Sarah Vernon
Garlic is for Heroes
Birds of the Jungle © Sarah Vernon
Clowns of the Sea © Sarah Vernon at Crated
Petite Rose Confection Laptop Sleeve © Sarah Vernon
Sea Breeze © Sarah Vernon
Female nude draped in a blue veil, autochrome by Robert Demachy
Day at the Exhibition Serving Trays © Sarah Vernon
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/e221blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Bring up the Curtain")
Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]
The Criterion Theatre 1890s © Sarah Vernon
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Gabrielle d’Estrees and one of her sisters [unknown]
#photorehabcovermakeover Week 3 Moon © Sarah Vernon
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com] Green-painted fence https://unsplash.com/photos/FxeeNx_yMpw Lake Annecy by Mindy Sommers Celestial Eruption by eberhard grossgasteiger on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/NvesrDbsrL4](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/v057fb.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Valentine Blush")
Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com] Green-painted fence https://unsplash.com/photos/FxeeNx_yMpw Lake Annecy by Mindy Sommers Celestial Eruption by eberhard grossgasteiger on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/NvesrDbsrL4
Indoor Garden with Bird © Sarah Vernon
Through a Glass Darkly © Sarah Vernon
Day at the Exhibition
The Lady Ponders © Sarah Vernon
Pier into the Depths © Sarah Vernon
‘Like a Lapwing’ © Sarah Vernon
The Lady Ponders
Nijinsky dans La Peri – Ballets Russes Tote Bag from Fine Art America © Sarah Vernon
Viola Translated © Sarah Vernon
Black Stallion © Sarah Vernon
Capricorn Abstract
![Photo Unsplash Texture - 2LO Haunting 14 & 2LO Haunting 23 - “2 Lil’ Owls”:http://2lilowls.com. Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/e285blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Night Landings © Sarah Vernon")
Photo Unsplash Texture – 2LO Haunting 14 & 2LO Haunting 23 – “2 Lil’ Owls”:http://2lilowls.com. Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]
A Private Place in the Mediterranean © Sarah Vernon
Draw Back the Curtain Duvet Covers at Redbubble © Sarah Vernon
The Green, Green Grass of Home © Sarah Vernon
Glass Ceiling © First Night Design
Walk Two Moons © First Night Design
The Gloria Swanson Tattoo
Vampire Dancing © Sarah Vernon
The Windmill © Sarah Vernon
Swallow with Flowers
![The Boat House Tote Bag © Sarah Vernon [Fine Art England]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/totebagfae.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "totebagfae")
The Boat House Tote Bag © Sarah Vernon [Fine Art England]
#photorehabcovermakeover Week 6 What Dreams May Come Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]
Christmas Still Life by Eloise Harriet Stannard
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The Albatross Did Follow © First Night Design
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/ma077blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (")
Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]
Framed print from Fine Art America
Two Delicate Screens © Sarah Vernon
Homecoming Pirate Laptop Skin from Redbubble © Sarah Vernon
![Yacht: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zakhark/572331622/in/faves-83665426@N05/ Texture: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/19581317079/in/faves-83665426@N05/ Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/e303blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Sailing to the Moon")
Yacht: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zakhark/572331622/in/faves-83665426@N05/ Texture: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/19581317079/in/faves-83665426@N05/ Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/photorehabcovermakeoveraugust.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "#photorehabcovermakeoverAugust")
Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]
Sailing into Harbour © First Night Design
Save the Elephant © First Night Design
Bound for Santiago Tote Bag © Sarah Vernon
The Haunting © Sarah Vernon
Une Valentine parisienne © Sarah Vernon Framed Print at Crated
The Lady in the Big Hat
Valley Rose Serving Tray © Sarah Vernon
Diomedea © Sarah Vernon
Constantinople
Cosmic Collision © Sarah Vernon @ Crated
Whirring Pheasant Springs © Sarah Vernon
Ruddy Duck © Sarah Vernon
Georgian Stripe Duck Egg © Sarah Vernon at Fine Art America
Spring Passion Drawstring Bag © Sarah Vernon
A Night at the Palace © First Night Design
Striking a Theatrical Attitude © Sarah Vernon
The Dancer and the Pierrot © Sarah Vernon
Love Letters © First Night Design
The Gloria Swanson Tattoo
Taking Tea with Clara Butt
Pink Chiffon Tote Bag at Fine Art America © Sarah Vernon
Travelling with the Buzzard
The Cynical Halloween Raven © Sarah Vernon
A Stroll Along the Seafront © Sarah Vernon at Crated
La Poire #1 © Sarah Vernon
Buy Turning Windmill Tile © Sarah Vernon at Zazzle
Buy Clown in the Mirror © First Night Design on prints & posters
Pre-Raphaelite Beauty Mugs © Sarah Vernon
![Venetian Rose Water © Sarah Vernon [Crated]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/e257blog1.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Venetian Rose Water © Sarah Vernon [Crated]")
Venetian Rose Water © Sarah Vernon [Crated]
#covermakeover Week 1 STORM BOY by Colin Thiele
Garlic is for Heroes
Buy Greeting Cards
The Playbills Postcards
The Greta Garbo Tattoo © First Night Design
![Romance in Stone [framed] © Sarah Vernon](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/romanceinstoneframed.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "romanceinstoneframed")
Romance in Stone [framed] © Sarah Vernon
The Lynx Has Landed © Sarah Vernon
#photorehabcovermakeover Week 13 Golden Valley Silver Flowers
#photorehabcovermakeover Week 17 On Golden Pond
The Glass Cloche @ First Night Design
Waiting to Travel © Sarah Vernon
Spring Passion Mug © Sarah Vernon
Tangle Mountain
Vins Spiritueux, Nectar of the Gods Cushion © Sarah Vernon
Buy Searching the Sands © Sarah Vernon at Crated
And Don’t Forget the Garlic! © Sarah Vernon
![Photograph from the ex-Mrs FND Photograph from Unsplash Texture 2LO Ancient times 2 Clock created for Behind Time Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/e353blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Beating the Blues")
Photograph from the ex-Mrs FND Photograph from Unsplash Texture 2LO Ancient times 2 Clock created for Behind Time Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]
The Magic Lighthouse © Sarah Vernon
![Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com] Vintage Henry Irving and Ellen Terry as Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing from The Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97514042/ The background is a blend of the interior of The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851 from an old encyclopaedia — the venue was originally built in Hyde Park and the exhibition was organised by Prince Albert and Henry Cole — and textures from “2 Lil’ Owls”:http://2lilowls.com. http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/g/great-exhibition/](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/e284blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Beatrice and Benedick")
Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com] Vintage Henry Irving and Ellen Terry as Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing from The Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97514042/ The background is a blend of the interior of The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851 from an old encyclopaedia — the venue was originally built in Hyde Park and the exhibition was organised by Prince Albert and Henry Cole — and textures from “2 Lil’ Owls”:http://2lilowls.com. http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/g/great-exhibition/
Bound for Santiago © Sarah Vernon
Under Full Sail II © First Night Design
Casanova’s Waterway © Sarah Vernon
La Poire #1
Déjeuner de Luxe © Sarah Vernon – Crated
Seagull Sonata © First Night Design
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06/02/2016 at 12:54
Martha Reynolds
Oh, how I love this!
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06/02/2016 at 12:55
First Night Design
It’s delectable, isn’t it!
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05/02/2016 at 19:39
beetleypete
It is an unusual idea indeed, and works very well. Trouble is, if we all start doing it, it will soon become passe, and sold as a kit by Homebase!
Best wishes, Pete. x
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05/02/2016 at 21:55
First Night Design
I know, I know. Shhh!
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05/02/2016 at 07:03
Mary
Awesome idea!
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05/02/2016 at 13:22
First Night Design
Knew you’d like it! And, of course, you’d be brilliant at painting the spine effect.
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05/02/2016 at 16:27
Mary
Love it Sarah. Here is to a new trend, an outside library (of sorts, lol) as an entertaining area!
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04/02/2016 at 19:12
Joanne
How brilliant – now to make this photo a reality… hmmmm! 😉
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04/02/2016 at 19:25
First Night Design
Photograph some of your books, print them out, wrap round and then outdoor varnish? My ideas never quite work, though, although when my fingers were better I used to do hard-working coasters with ceramic tiles this way!
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04/02/2016 at 19:29
Joanne
Well, I’m open to suggestions and there’s nothing to lose, lol – watch out summer! 🙂
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05/02/2016 at 13:21
First Night Design
You’re bound to find a method looking on Pinterest. In fact, I think that’s where Gigi found the idea originally.
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05/02/2016 at 21:35
Joanne
This can be daughter’s Spring Break “mission” since Pinterest is her “go-to” for EVERYTHING, lol! 😉
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05/02/2016 at 21:55
First Night Design
Perfect!
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04/02/2016 at 17:37
Barb Drummond
Great test for drunks at an outdoor party!
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04/02/2016 at 18:30
First Night Design
I like your way of thinking, Barb!
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04/02/2016 at 18:40
Barb Drummond
Thinking or drinking?
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04/02/2016 at 18:46
First Night Design
Take a guess!
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04/02/2016 at 18:47
Barb Drummond
Both!
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04/02/2016 at 17:24
bonjourberlin
Great idea:)
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04/02/2016 at 18:29
First Night Design
Certainly is!
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04/02/2016 at 16:40
Judith Barrow
A great idea – now to persuade hubby to let me use some of the old bricks he’s been hanging on to… just in case they become useful. Well, I think this is ‘useful’!! Jx. PS: Hope you’re okay
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04/02/2016 at 18:29
First Night Design
Very useful. He must be persuaded by any means possible!
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04/02/2016 at 16:38
Faraday's Candle
It is fantastic!
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04/02/2016 at 18:28
First Night Design
Yup!
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04/02/2016 at 13:00
Mary Smith
What a fantastic idea. I have a set of three steps in my garden where this would look perfect. I can find the bricks but I’d need someone to paint them as I’m totally useless at this kind of thing.
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04/02/2016 at 13:20
First Night Design
Do it, do it! And when you’ve found that someone, post photos of the result.
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04/02/2016 at 14:04
Mary Smith
Will do.
How did the op go? Are you home?
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04/02/2016 at 18:28
First Night Design
All will be revealed in tomorrow’s post!
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04/02/2016 at 12:45
janetweightreed10
I love this….a wonderful idea. Another way to enjoy the creative process…:) Hoping all is well and sending love Janet. xxx
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04/02/2016 at 13:19
First Night Design
Absolutely. Makes me feel joyful and I’m going to copy the idea. xxx
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05/02/2016 at 10:29
janetweightreed10
I don’t have a garden of my own in London – however I could paint the steps outside leading to my flat….now that would be a joyful thing for me and the other residents:) xxx
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05/02/2016 at 13:23
First Night Design
Perfect!
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04/02/2016 at 12:33
olganm
It looks fabulous! I’ve seen the steps in a staircase to look like book backs, but that’s a fab one.
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04/02/2016 at 13:18
First Night Design
Isn’t it just! There was a church in Fulham/Kensington that was being converted into flats, I think, and the developer had been very enterprising with the surrounding cover as it was painted as book spines and looked brilliant. No scaffolding in sight.
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