Penny Farthing bicycle

The first time I referred to a "Penny Farthing" on my blog, I was surprised that many of my American friends didn't know what I was talking about - but then, not having our coins, how would they have known that this style of bicycle  was named after the old penny and farthing coins, one very big and one very small, that were in circulation in Britain when these bikes were first fashionable?

I've never tried riding one - they look awfully uncomfortable - but I do love images of them, so it was natural that I would use one for this week's challenge at Less is More, which is Vintage. It's quite hard for me to get my mind around vintage done in a CAS way - I tend to think of it as lots of layers of ribbon, lace, patterned paper and flowers or a masculine melange of cogs, gears and machinery, steampunk-style. Well, I still have my cogs and gears, but I've kept them to a simple-ish border, part obscured by the penny-farthing in order to leave as much "white" space as possible.