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For The Love of Old Books: Painting The Roses Red
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010. Painting The Roses Red. Painting the roses red. I do love painting, but I also love creating cards. I was working on more Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. And thought they would make lovely cards. So, I found a very Alice backdrop of aqua cardstock. I added each print to seven different cards, each one fits perfectly in this red gift box. I tied a white grosgrain ribbon on top and added a Painting The Roses Red. Print to a tag on top. Painting The Roses Red Gift Box. For the ...
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For The Love of Old Books: Master Musicians
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Saturday, January 1, 2011. This treasure will surely be a classical music lovers dream gift. Master Musicians, a book for layers, singers and listeners was written by J. Cuthbert Hadden. This volume was published in 1911 by T. N. Foulis Edinburgh. I love when the papers in an old book have jagged edges, and there is a lovely heavy brown paper boasting photographs of each of the fourteen illustrations of the great composers. A tissue page is protecting each bookplate. PREFACE by J. Cuthbert Hadden. Fabric...
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For The Love of Old Books: The Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010. The Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson. When I went to visit the Concord Museum, They had a replica of Emerson's Study. 8220;The Concord Museum and the Emerson Family have enjoyed a long relationship; Ralph Waldo Emerson. Attended the first meeting that led to the creation of the Concord Antiquarian Society ( now the Concord Museum).”. I stood there looking into all the details of the study and thinking about all the great people that Emerson had entertained in his study. The book was...
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For The Love of Old Books: LIttle Women Bookplates
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Sunday, March 28, 2010. I just love creating things about Little Women. I designed some bookplates using my digital paintbox and an Antique print by Jessie Willcox Smith dated 1923. In each package are 20 bookplates printed on fine art paper using archival inks. The enclosure envelope is a lovely powder blue, I added a white grosgrain ribbon and a MY ROBIN stamp to wrap it. Makes a pretty gift. Oh, but I just couldn't stop there. Which I found in Thoreauly Antiques in Concord, Massachusetts. For the love...
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For The Love of Old Books: Little Women, 1934
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Sunday, January 2, 2011. Little Women, 1934. Anyone who loves Little Women adores the original movie which starred Katherine Hepburn as Jo. She won her first Oscar for that part. This movie was released by. Radio during the depths of the depression. “The film opened on November 16, 1933 at Radio City Music Hall, where it broke attendance records and earned over $100,000 during the first week of release.”. George Cukor directed this film and here is the wonderful cast:. Joan Bennett as Amy. For the love o...
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For The Love of Old Books: Anna and The King of Siam
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Friday, January 7, 2011. Anna and The King of Siam. Anna and The King of Siam, published in 1944 by the John Day Company. Illustrated by Margaret Ayer. Whenever I find a treasure in an old and rare book shop or a favorite Antique store, I can't wait to learn about the history of the book. It was like that when I found this beautiful edition of The King of Siam by Margaret Mortenson Landon. Photographs of the family. Seeing Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner dance across the screen. To the music SHALL WE DANCE.
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For The Love of Old Books: Can you believe this?
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Sunday, September 5, 2010. Can you believe this? An you believe this? I had so many people wanting this edition that I have been searching high and low to find another one. I did, I found another one just like the one most recently sold. Only the front cover is in even cleaner and in better condition than the first one I found. Veryone knows how much I adore everything that Louisa May Alcott has written. I have come across many different versions of Little Women,. Is wonderful. I met Harriet at a boo...
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For The Love of Old Books: October 2010
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010. There was a story in the moon. For the love of old books, I love my copy of the Journals of Louisa May Alcott. One of the prints inside this amazing book is a print of Orchard House dated 1838. I took the image and hid her in the hot air balloon,. And of course I put one in the moon. There was a story in the moon, and the forest waited patiently for the play to begin. This fabric design has a melody of coordinates in my c. For The Love of Old Books. Tuesday, October 5, 2010.
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For The Love of Old Books: January 2011
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Friday, January 7, 2011. Anna and The King of Siam. Anna and The King of Siam, published in 1944 by the John Day Company. Illustrated by Margaret Ayer. Whenever I find a treasure in an old and rare book shop or a favorite Antique store, I can't wait to learn about the history of the book. It was like that when I found this beautiful edition of The King of Siam by Margaret Mortenson Landon. Photographs of the family. Seeing Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner dance across the screen. To the music SHALL WE DANCE.
