Gibson Girl Decorations

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the debut of my violet scones featuring the Gibson Girls. I hope you enjoy ♥

Gibson Girl Decorations 

 Go to a website like Wikipedia that has a little collection of Gibson Girl faces or Google search "Gibson Girl". Pick out your favourite faces and save them in word document. Shrink them down to the size you prefer, mine were about the size of a quarter. Print and cut them out and glue them to a toothpick. For a polished look as you are cutting out the face layer a second piece of paper underneath and cut through both. Cover the second, plain piece of paper with glue and stick to the back, concealing the toothpick. 

*This post was updated on April 5th. 

Ok, so when I first published this post it was about violet scones, not the Gibson Girls. But truth be told, the scones I had planned in my mind required either growing my own violets or finding some unsprayed ones and in my impatience I created a recipe that was nice, but it didn't leave me wanting more. So ultimately it didn't pass my own test! I had fun though dreaming about how I would display my scones if I had my own bakery and I wanted to instil something old, but beautiful, which is why I chose the Gibson Girls. If you've never heard of them, they were created by Charles Dana Gibson in the late 19th century to emulate the ideal beauty of the time inspired by real women like Evelyn Nesbit - gorgeous women who's pompadour hair seemed to fall in all the right places. These drawings like some other art of this time period is now in the public domain because it is so old the copyright has been lifted. I think the Gibson Girls would look lovely  on top of pastel coloured cupcakes as well, but here you can enjoy them on the faint memory of violet scones.