All the prettiness
I’ve been so busy since January with coordinating the HSF and sewing for the HSF and The Project and life in general that I’ve missed so many catch-up posts. In that time I’ve gone op-shopping and gone antique shopping and gone everything shopping at Art Deco weekend and celebrated a birthday and accumulated this enormous pile of fabulous goodies I thought you might enjoy a peek at: Right in front is a bit of literary temptation – an early 20th century edition of Emma (old Jane Austen books are surprisingly hard to find at op-shops), a lovely O Douglas, a beautiful Art Nouveau collection of Tennyson (I like Tennyson for being such a soap opera of a poet), an early 20th century edition of Jane Eyre (just as rare as Austen’s), and a first edition Chronicles of Avonlea – be still my heart! They are all sitting on a gem of a patchwork quilt full of 1930s & 40s prints. I’ve shared some highlights of it on Facebook, and will do a whole blog post …