From the Archives
Dusty treasures from my personal collection of magazines & ephemera
From the Archives: Art & Industry
I couldn’t find much information about Art & Industry, but I can tell you it was a British commercial art magazine that was in circulation pre-WW2, at least until the 1950s. I own twenty-one issues spanning from 1937 through to 1941. With the onset of war… Read the full story…
From the Archives: 1970
Here are some of the gorgeous illustrations from my favourite book when I was three: Nurseryland Annual 1970. I loved poetry when I was a young’un, & loved this book in particular because of the beautiful pictures. Google hasn’t been very enlightening… Read the full story…
BOO!
Did I scare you? Heehee! I decided to write a big bumper blog post in honour of Halloween this year, packed full of spooky, spine-tingling fun. I’m actually a wee bit scared as I sit here writing this, because my sister Cass just Skyped me this Jezebel article… Read the full story…
How to Make Giant Christmas Balls
Is it too early to make Christmas Balls? That’s the question on everyone’s lips, isn’t it? Look at this glorious creation – a Giant Christmas Ball from a book I picked up from a secondhand book fair a few months ago, Fun With Wool by Michael Joseph… Read the full story…
From the Archives: Mirror Writing
I thought you might like to see this fabulous example of mirror writing on a postcard I have from 1908. People used to find ingenious ways to make their correspondence difficult for the postman to take a peek at, including writing backwards… Read the full story…
From the Archives: September 1956
From the comic strip Romeo Brown, Overseas Daily Mirror & Sunday Pictorial, September 26, 1956 Read the full story…
My Vintage Postcard Collection #1
I have a big collection of Victorian & Edwardian postcards, mainly collected in the ’80s when they were cheap & plentiful. They’re so pretty! I keep them in vintage postcard albums & nice boxes & take them out of the cupboard every so often… Read the full story…