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And here are some brilliant Irish toasts for all of you —today we’re all Irish ☘️🍻 #HappyStPatricksDay
Good morning, all. I just wanted to thank you for your very kind notes over the past few days. I’m feeling much better & I’m very moved. And it looks like I’ll be sending some thank you notes today — in Peter Rabbit fashion 🐰☺️❤️📮
Oh, to live in Brambly Hedge for a while…some cozy therapy for us all. I love this kitchen ❤️
(By Jill Barklem)
By the 19thc, Europe’s forests had been the site of richly dark tales & art. But they had also seen the real horrors of war. Following Romanticism, artists could, at last, be honest about it all & foreground the darkness itself. The thing with history is that it repeats…
Call me old fashioned, but an animal hero I often turn to is Aesop’s quiet Tortoise, who shakes off the Hare’s cocky bravado. Some of Aesop’s life may be apocryphal, but as a 7thc bce former Greek slave, he knew pain & struggle —often his underdogs won the day 🐢 #WyrdWednesday
Walter Crane’s Victorian Bluebeard was forbidding and terrifying. Yet it was also embroidered with neoclassicism, Morris’ influence, & the Arts & Crafts movement’s love of tapestries, old manuscripts, medievalism, &…peacocks -if you can spot them ☺️🦚🗝#FairyTaleTuesday
If I had to pick one fairy tale I loved as a child, it was Bluebeard. Brought to life by Charles Perrault in 1697, & illustrated below by Doré & Dalziel in the 19thc, the tale’s themes of forbidden secrets & the perils of curiosity were as old as Pandora 😱🗝#FairyTaleTuesday
A busy day for me today, as a student, but it’s lovely to settle in by a cozy fire in the world of Brambly Hedge. Have a cozy night, guys ☺️❤️✨
How I wish all people in harm’s way could fly away on this owl’s wing, but I know it’s just a wish (by Lucy Campbell). I hope you all stay cozy after this very hard week ❤️✨
#StandWithUkriane
I love the way the Victorians conceived of witch & bat-woman attire —the 19thc had such rich histories surrounding occult hobbyists 🖤🦇#FaustianFriday