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1800

Old Victorian era cabinet photographs make my heart skip, chubby little children posing angelicly with giant paper moons, mustached men all dressed up in their woolies getting ready for the long hard winter and plump schoolmarm bosoms bursting with buttons, tatted collars & lace pinned up with a lovely cameo. My family doesn’t have very many old photos, so I adopt these left behind instant relatives every chance I get. Sometimes I thinkContinue reading “1800”

It began with a pen

It wasn’t even one of my pens, it was a pen I had bought my husband at a local art shop. I didn’t realize what this was going to turn into at the time. The pen, an Alibi from London. The problem, it ran out of ink. I searched online & in every office supplyContinue reading “It began with a pen”

bubble tea & a back issue of cotton time

I have some serious devotion to Japanese craft books (they have such a woody slightly sweet smell), while I tend to favor the crochet book variety, I do so love the hefty general craft magazines. Around 100 pages of beautiful design & aesthetics, incorporating some of my most favorite pleasurable pastimes, sewing, quilting, embroidery andContinue reading “bubble tea & a back issue of cotton time”