~Sorry

 

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I should have told you all before!
I am very sick, so I sleep a lot..
and therefore not so often on my blog,
these days!!!
hope to be back soon ;o)

~Vintage Books..

De Schoone Slaapster in het Bosch
Mother Goose Fairy Tale.
by J.G. van Caspel  (Dutch)
(02-05 1870--06-02 1928)

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Garden Bower

by Caspar David Friedrich.
German Romantic Painter, (1774-1840)

Thumbelina” from The Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales

Peter Pan illustrated by Marjorie Torrey (1957)

The Silver Wood by Ruth Sanderson

Just get me my golden ball
by Joanna Pasek
READ STORY HERE!!!

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND,
DON”T FORGET TO READ A BIT ;o)

Artist unknown to me

   by Bernhard Oberdieck (German, 1949-)

Talking to the Moon
Trying to get to You
In hopes you're on
the other side
Talking to me too
Or am I a fool
who sits alone
Talking to the moon

Lyrics Bruno Mars- Talking to the Moon

~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….

I’ve got an Award
Thank you, thank you very much
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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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VISIT THE WEBSITE
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SOURCE

FOLLOW YOUR
DREAMS!

HAVE A
WHIMSICAL
SUNDAY!

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An earth-star fungus (Geastrum fornicatum):
four fruiting bodies.
Watercolour by R. Baker, 1895. 
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The prince fungus (Agaricus augustus).
Watercolour by R. Baker, 1898
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by Arthur Rackham

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“Original Harrison Fisher illustrated print
from a 1912 issue of The Ladies Home Journal.”

Harrison Fisher was American illustrator (1877-1934).

illustration by
(Marie) Rie Cramer (1887-1977)

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by Beatrix Potter
READ MORE HERE!
and than for english text
scroll down a bit.

by Alice Tait
CLICK HERE TO VISIT HER WEBSITE

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The very first moment I beheld him,
My heart was irrevocably gone.
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byJane Austen
Art by Johanna Harmon

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‘More than once she had been known
to have a teaparty…’
from A Little Princess (1905)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
illustrator Ethel Franklin Betts (1878-1956)

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by Angusine Macgregor

Early 20th Century

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Illustrated by Charles Robinson

 

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Little Red Riding Hood,
illustration by Carl Offterdinger,
end of 19th Cent.
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"Grandmother, what big arms you have!"
"All the better to hug you with, my dear."

"Grandmother, what big legs you have!"
"All the better to run with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big ears you have!" |
"All the better to hear with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big eyes you have!"
"All the better to see with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!"
"All the better to eat you up with."

READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE