If you read my blog regularly, you can probably guess my thoughts this Bank Holiday!
“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.” ― Henry James
“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas Crete anymore.” ― L. Frank Baum
“In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.” — Daniel L. Reardon
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
(Little Gidding) ― T.S. Eliot
“Sometimes losing everything is the only way to begin.” (The Firebrand Legacy)
― T.K. Kiser
Available at the following galleries:
Redbubble
Crated
Zazzle UK
Zazzle US
Fine Art America
Fine Art England
Saatchi Art
Take care and keep laughing!
![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")
![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")
![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]")
![Gabrielle d'Estrees and one of her sisters [unknown]](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ma015frame.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "ma015frame")
![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")
![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")
![Romance in Stone [framed] © Sarah Vernon](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/romanceinstoneframed.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "romanceinstoneframed")
![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]")
![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]")
![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]")
![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]](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 (")
![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")
![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’")
![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] Advert from The Graphics Fairy](https://firstnightdesign.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/e286blog.jpg?w=159&h=159&crop=1 "Vintage Pettit’s Eye Salve")
![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")
![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")
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May 30, 2016 at 11:48
ksbeth
happy long weekend –
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May 30, 2016 at 12:43
First Night Design
You too!
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May 30, 2016 at 11:50
beetleypete
I like the Kiser quote, Sarah. Onward, and upward!
Best wishes, Pete. x
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May 30, 2016 at 12:44
First Night Design
Onwards and upwards indeed. Had a bad ‘missing Pisch’ day yesterday. Happy Bank Holiday!
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May 30, 2016 at 13:18
beetleypete
That’s going to happen, unfortunately. Welcome back to Bank Holiday weather. x
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May 30, 2016 at 16:20
First Night Design
The strange thing is that I don’t mind the British rain anymore!
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May 30, 2016 at 18:28
olganm
I’m in Spain no bank holiday here. Enjoy it whatever the weather
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May 30, 2016 at 19:10
First Night Design
I am, I am! Spent lots of money on shoes and bags in the sales! Hope you’re having fun with your mama. x
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May 30, 2016 at 18:51
Mary Smith
The weather in the south of Scotland has been perfect this weekend – can’t believe it. Wall to wall sunshine for three days.
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May 30, 2016 at 19:11
First Night Design
I’m flying up immediately, Mary!
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May 30, 2016 at 19:16
Mary Smith
Do! But be quick. I think it’s supposed to be sunny tomorrow then – probably back to rain.
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May 31, 2016 at 11:58
Jean Reinhardt
Hope you had a lovely bank holiday, Sarah. Ours is this weekend, in Ireland, but our daughter and her husband and the grandchildren came to visit us from Derry as the kids were off school up there. The weather was glorious and it’s still sunny – the rain must be saving itself for the Irish bank holiday, lol.
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May 31, 2016 at 12:38
First Night Design
The rain is here in Berkshire and it’s miserable! Happy Bank Holiday, however many times you celebrate. 🙂
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May 31, 2016 at 14:23
sydspix
This turned out beautifully!
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May 31, 2016 at 14:33
First Night Design
Thanks so much!
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May 31, 2016 at 23:21
Silver Screenings
You are the Font Queen. The colours and fonts make this piece look “expensive”… if that makes sense?
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June 1, 2016 at 11:25
First Night Design
I do know what you mean, Ruth, and I’m immensely flattered. Thanks!
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