For this week's Teapot Tuesday, we're recalling Princess Diana. I did a search and found she wore a lot of hats (and wore them well), so I went with this vintage-looking hat stamp. She was also wearing pearls in some of the photos, so I added pearls.
My memories of her are more related to the wedding than her death. At the time of the wedding, I was working as a newspaper copyeditor, and most of the other copyeditors were older men, so they were happy to let me edit all the wedding articles. I got to spend a couple of work weeks writing headlines like "Brits in a Tizzy as Wedding Nears", which is so much more fun than "City Council Mulls Zoning Change".
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Wed, Sep 01, 2021 @ 11:50 AM
Interesting backstory, Sandy. And a great card - I like the sort of antique wallpaper look of the background. I loved wearing hats, but got out of it. Never anything as fancy and decorative as that one - lovely stamp!
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Wed, Sep 01, 2021 @ 2:58 PM
Oh goodness, I adore this image you used. That hat with it array of feathers and flowers is so very British looking. Absolutely a look I could see on princess Di
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Thu, Sep 02, 2021 @ 12:43 AM
Oh wow, what a terrific story, Sandy! Your card is as beautiful and as elegant as Princess Diana was, she certainly did wear hats well! I think because she married the same year as me and had 2 sons similar age I took a lot of notice of her and she certainly did fill pages of the newspaper. She had such a sad ending~
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Thu, Sep 02, 2021 @ 4:21 PM
Oh, so sweet! Seeing that image with blonde hair and wearing a fancy hat makes me think of Diana wearing hats so often.
Love the background paper you used!
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