Growing Old Disgracefully

I can't believe its July already! Where does the time go?
Only three weeks before the end of school term (how I wish I was still there)!

I haven't done very much crafting at all recently, mainly due to the hot weather. I've been using my evenings to sit in the garden and read instead.

I have signed up for another monthly altered tag swap on UKS though and am waiting for the delivery of the June tags with excited anticipation - they should be here any day now.
June's theme was "A Midsummer Nights Dream" and July's theme is "Growing Old Disgracefully" as its our host, Netty's, 50th birthday.

I had some trouble with this - I knew what I wanted to achieve but wasnt sure how to go about it. I have used this poem about growing old as a baseline to my designs:

Purple
When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit.

Great isnt it? This is who I want to be when I'm an old lady - which will be likely as I think demetia runs in the family doesnt it?



I have used stamps, ribbons, embossing and distree inks to put these together and am quite pleased with the cheeky, frilly knickers that you can see when you lift the skirt. I hope the ladies receiving these tags like them.