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A little fairy-tale break for us all: here are three works by Warwick Goble from “The Fairy Book” of 1913. From left: The Iron Stove, Tom Thumb, & Beauty & the Beast. His art is always enchantingly beautiful ❤️📚💫
I love Beatrix Potter & the magical worlds she created. Here are scenes from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903). The squirrels’ autumnal industriousness is inspiring me, lol. Plus, I love the tiny doors she often did ☺️🍂
A cozy campfire by Molly Brett to wish you all a lovely evening. Have a great night, everyone ☺️❤️
I should be writing. Am I? No. I’m sipping coffee & googling hilarious medieval cats. I don’t know what was happening in the depiction of medieval cats in illuminated manuscripts, but I love it! 😂 #Caturday
❤️ When Jane tells off Mrs. Reed:
“…you treated me with miserable cruelty…Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult... It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped-for liberty…”
—Jane Eyre
#BookWormSat
I’m also wishing you all a Happy Fairy Friday with Margaret Tarrant’s (1888-1959) deft & delicate fairy works. She started off by painting Christmas cards, & then, over time, her enchanting, artistic worlds unfolded 💜
#FaerieFriday
Here is some of Warwick Goble’s Edwardian, beautiful, fairy-tale art for your day. I love his style & chosen details —&, as a redhead, I love that he gives Cinderella red hair 😉📚💫
The literary fairy tale, Beauty & the Beast, has captivated us since the 18thc. Here are some fun, vintage covers of the beloved tale for your day ☺️📚#FairyTaleTuesday
When CS Lewis read the words, “Balder the beautiful/Is dead, is dead”
as a boy his world changed.
“I knew nothing about Balder; but instantly I was uplifted into huge regions of northern sky” [wanting to return].
He loved books & Norse myths ever after. ❤️📚
#FairyTaleTuesday
And here are some final, haunting scenes from Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949). Poor Ichabod Crane —the Headless Horsemen won the day, but Washington Irving’s ghost story of that ancient, Dutch community endures 😱🖤#halloween2021