I hope everyone had a lovely Labor Day weekend? We spent a lot of it boating, and I just had to show you this fashionable young guest, Katie, who came along today for her first boat ride.
Everyone brought great food for a pitch in picnic and the lake water temperature was perfect. I spent a lazy afternoon floating around and stuffing chocolate cake and pasta salad in my mouth.
Why does food taste so much better outdoors???
Before boating, I did manage to get some work in. I packed up goods that sold in Etsy and have them ready to mail, then painted a lot of white base coats on things I had lying around waiting to be spruced up.
This was a too shiny brass piece, isn’t the paint and umber glaze an improvement?
I also painted two of these buckets that I bought at Goodwill. They were plain galvanized tin, with the embossed hearts, I painted them white after priming them and adding a crackle spray coat.
After adding the hand painted roses, I glazed over the buckets with umber glaze. When it was wiped off, the crackled areas showed up pretty.
This isn’t a project I did today, but I found it today! It was packed away and I forgot I had it. This is a mirror that I sanded the back off of in a spot, and added some vintage rose paper to, so that it peeks through the hole. I added a wired ribbon and one of my vast collection of millinery flowers, and its done.
While I was painting roses on buckets, I decided to paint more wallpaper medallions.
The rest of the day involved cooking and cleaning, not nearly as much fun as creating or boating.
I did take some time to look through this book that I purchased at the flea market this week.
I bought it because the font was pretty, the words were French and the pages were old. I want to use it as wall paper on the wall behind my couch.
I thought I could frame the illustrations, and glue the text to the wall.
But after examining it, I think it just might be too nice to tear up. What do you think? The only date I could find in it is an inscription in the front that says
"Edward Breck With love to Papa Chele from Nell. Christmas 1928"
It is a soft cover book and the front is torn loose a bit.
The illustrations are on a tissue paper and are simply laying in the book, not glued down. They are wonderful, but I keep going back and forth about my original plan, I wonder if I should just salvage the lovely pictures and make use of the rest of the book, or is this book worth something? I paid $20 for it myself.
Does anyone know about old books and have any advice?
How sweet is baby Katie? She is soo precious!
So glad you enjoyed your day…
Priscilla
You just have such a wonderful,steady stream of great stuff, that is why I love visiting you! Wish I knew more about your book, I just think it is pretty! What a fun day!
Karla,
I had a feeling you were at the lake this weekend.
The picture of Katie put a joyous smile on my face. She is such a precious flower!
I love the way you painted that brass fixture white with the umber glaze. Seeing how you paint metallic things white, causes me to look at the potential of items at the thrift store, particularly some of the old marked up silver pieces. The mirror was a really cool idea.
I would love to paint roses the way that you do. Maybe you could photograph a little tutorial of the steps you use to create one.
I have no clue about the book. Maybe you should do some research before you decide what to do. The illustrations are quite beautiful. If you frame them be sure to use archival paper and glass.
You are so fortunate to be able to live near the water in the summer. I envy you that! Sounds like you had another wonderful day.
~elaine~
Karla – the book you have is the Dangerous Liaisons, in French. It was originally published in the 1700s but yours is from probably around the 1930s. Most good condition copies are selling online for around $40. Check out these links that show the exact same copy:
http://www.biblio.com/books/83442633.html
http://www.sugartreebooks.com/si/711769.html
You can also type this into Google: “Les Liaisons Dangereuses Editions Nilsson”
Enjoy it! I read the French version of the book in college for a French literature class – puts the American movie to shame as far as its raciness. LOL
Here is another link showing the book sells for $65 and was published in 1928, as your inscription would indicate.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=765955278&searchurl=isbn%3D0192829211%26nsa%3D1
Katie is a cutie! The projects you worked on look great! 🙂
Karla…
You have been tagged for the name game so please go to my blog and check it out. Thanks so much! Have a lovely day.
Priscilla
You have so many pretties… the prettiest of all is that sweet baby!
I love it when I find old books with personal inscriptoins on them. I think that is worth framing, alone! Enjoy your finds!
Katie is a cutie! I LOVE that heart bucket of your hp ROSES!! The mirror is so pretty, too. And you just can’t beat your Rose medallions on that anagalyptic wallpaper!
That book sure looks interesting. Why don’t you call the library & see if they can point you in the right direction to learn more about it. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if it were worth thousands!!!!!
Did you get my email with my address?
Glad you had a wonderful holiday weekend. We shopped for wedding!
Hugs,
Stephanie
Angelic Accents
Since from the comments, it sounds like the book isn’t a rarity, I would say to do anything with it that you want…and when you do, please post photos.
love the adorable, delicate paper wedding dress! perfect for us scrapbookers… lol
i want to order one for our cousin, Marlene, who is already buying items to scrapbook her son, Andy’s upcoming wedding. the colors are white & black with a splash of red… let me know the damage & where to mail it. this will be an extra special addition to the memories….
love all of the teapots, cups & saucers! i have my own collection of teapots. let me know if you have no takers on the water color of grandma smith’s teapot. it looks similar to one my m-i-l gave to me, that was HER mother’s. congrats on the upcoming article – we are all so proud of you. i will rush to the bookstore & then tell everyone there, that my ultra-imaginative & very talented cousin is in it!! blessings & fairy dust to you all.
Privet