The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
I saw this film once a few years back, and was totally entranced. Czech director Karel Zeman made the most wonderfully peculiar films, using a combination of live-action and animation techniques (you...
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On one of my recent foraging expeditions, I found this wonderful little creature. It's a vintage (early- to-mid 20th century, I'm thinking ) Moroccan leather wallet, very unassuming on the outside, but...
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Now,Voyager, sail thou forth
After much thinking and pondering and a bit of mumbling, the vintage passport wallet I showed you in my last post has been transformed into a journal that I am really quite in love with. I added a bit...
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Baseball Glove Journal
Whilst trolling through one of my favorite junktique stores, I found the remains of a vintage Carlton Fisk catcher's mitt in a dusty corner and knew it had to come home with me. After hours of...
View ArticleA Poem to Read Out Loud: The Red Wheelbarrow
The Red WheelbarrowBY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMSso much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens
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A Dickensian Moment
I've been very busy the last few weeks, sorting through my treasures and getting them ready to make into books. Ah, Gentle Readers, the hours and hours I have spent bent over a vintage leather glove or...
View ArticleCharlie Chaplin -- Table Ballet. From "The Gold Rush" (1925)
I can't dance that well with my actual feet. Sigh.
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Dreamers, Part One and Two
Did some browsing around the local antique stores a few days ago, and came away with some excellent antique cabinet photographs, and some other, smaller ones as well. I made two new journals with the...
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Moons and Moons
Around the time of the recent full moon, I got busy making some journals that have a moon theme. I named my shop Moon and Hare partly in honor of my great-grandfather, Quintilious V. Moon, who was a...
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Christmas Revelry
The snow had been gently falling outside my little bookbinding studio, and on wintery-white days like this, one of my favorite things to do is to curl up next to the fire with a hot buttered rum and...
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Anticipation
Here is my lovely old book press, in its temporary home in the living room:I've been waiting with great anticipation for the contents to finish being pressed. Inside are the covers for two new...
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Baseball Journal
While waiting for my book covers to dry in the press (see previous post), I finished my second baseball-themed journal / notebook. This one is called "Pop Fly":Its covers are made from a well-worn,...
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A Mystery Solved
I love to read a good mystery, curled up in a deep armchair with a box of restorative bon-bons nearby, and recently I managed to solve a small mystery myself. Nothing involving a murder, which is...
View ArticleA Poem to Read Out Loud: "A Birthday", by Christina Rossetti
A good poem for February, methinks:A BirthdayMy heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water'd shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;My heart is like a...
View ArticlePuttin' On The Ritz
Last night, I dreamed I was Louise Brooks. I was on stage, wearing a really excellent flapper dress, and dancing to Puttin' On The Ritz. Hmmm....I wonder what that means. Anyway, it was fun!Here is...
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A New Old Look
I've been pondering tea lately. Not the kind in a cup, but the kind one uses to give an antique look to paper and fabric. There is a definite allure to tea-staining, but I've always steered clear of it...
View ArticleThe New York Hat -- 1912 -- Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore,
For your viewing pleasure, here is The New York Hat, a fine short film directed in 1912 by D.W. Griffith. This is a story in which Mary Pickford's character is given a tres chic hat which excites a...
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Earth Day Musings
(Edna St. Vincent Millay)Ah, spring, lovely spring! The trees are a-blooming, and I just bought a pot of pansies, deep purple with little yellow centers. I put them just outside the front door so I...
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I acquired the fabulous remains of an old leather document case a while back. It was one of those moments where I turned a corner in the store, and there it was, beckoning me from the recesses of a...
View ArticleEdith Piaf -- La Vie En Rose, 1954
Ah, Edith Piaf.Did you notice the rapturous expressions on the faces of her listeners in the audience? Wish I could have been sitting alongside them.
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A Bit of Inspiration
Whilst I was doing my outing and abouting at some of the local antique stores and thrift shops, I added a few more things to my horde of book-building materials. The thrift shop owners must think I'm...
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Robert Frost Journal and Baseball Journal
I've been busy lately adding more things to my Etsy store. It takes some time to make each journal, so I have to start early to be ready for the Christmas season. Mostly, I've been making journals that...
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