~Halloween Wishes!!!

MAY THE GOOD FAIRY,
WITCH OR FAY
GRANT
THE WISHES
YOU WISH THIS DAY!

  

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

MY KIND OF ROOM ;0)

~Happy Halloween!

Fabulous Young Witch Flying Standing Up in the Woods
--by Ida Rentoul Outwaithe

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite was born
Ida Sherbourne Rentoul
in Carlton Victoria 9 June 1888
– died Caulfield, Victoria 25 June 1960
She was an Australian illustrator of children's books.
Her work mostly depicted fairies.
Outhwaite worked predominantly with pen
and ink, and watercolour.

Outhwaite's first illustration was published by
The New Idea in 1904 when she was just 15 years of age.

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Clématis
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914).

by Hugh Thomson (Irish, 1860-1920)
~ From William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor,

Missouri-born illustrator
Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900–1931)
managed to complete just three books in her short life,
all of them commissioned by the
Penn Publishing Company:
Old French Fairy Tales (1920),
Tanglewood Tales (1921), and
Arabian Nights (1928).

~Sunday Quote

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    "Obsessed by a fairy tale,
we spend our lives searching for a magic door
and a lost kingdom of peace."

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by Eugene O'Neill
Art by Jesse Wilcox Smith

by George Soper (American 1870-1942)
~ From Tales From Shakespeare by Mary Lamb

by Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853-1919)
~ My Eldest Daughter, Suzanne with Milk and Book

By Becky Kelly

by Arthur Rackham (English, 1867-1939)
~ Frontispiece, A Dish of Apples by Eden

~An Award for My Blog….

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   A Red Rose as a big thank you ;o)

~John Anster Fitzgerald

John Anster Christian Fitzgerald (1819 – 1906)
He was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist.
He was nicknamed "Fairy Fitzgerald"  for his main genre.
READ MORE HERE.

~Sunday Quote!

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I’ve learned that good-byes will always hurts,
pictures will never replace having been there,
memories good and bad will bring tears,
And words never replace feelings!
~Unknown to me
Art by Winslow Pels

~Vintage Books..

“The Doll Who Came Alive” by Enys Tregarthen
(1944 edition)

Nellie Sloggett (29 December 1851,
Padstow, Cornwall, UK– 1923) was an author and folklorist
who wrote under the names Enys Tregarthen
and Nellie Cornwall.

After Tregarthen's death, the writer
Elizabeth Yates edited her extensive unpublished
materials for publication.

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady,
who has not pleasure in a good novel,
must be intolerably stupid.”
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

~Libico Maraja

 

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Libico Maraja (1912-1983)
was one of Italy's top post-War illustrators.
Born in Bellinzona, Svizzera, Maraja studied in
Lugano and began his career working for the Ala studios.
In 1940, he moved to Berlin, where he cooperated with
IMA Film, among others of the animated film 'La Rosa di Bagdad'.
After the war, he became wellknown for his book illustrations
for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', 'Pinocchio',
'Peter Pan', and many other classics.
Between 1946 and 1949, he had a brief appearance
in comics, when he made stories like 'La Quercia Maledetta'
('Dottor Faust') and 'Un mondo in un albero' with
Federico Pedrocchi for Topolino (Mondadori).
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