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Another era, when children dressed in their Sunday best, the girls with their ribbons & bows, and the boys looking so grown-up in their ties and sailor suits.
The Party - Cicely Mary Barker

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2019-05-07

The is the tree & is a symbol of the fire festival The cutting of hawthorn (May blossom) is sacred to the goddess Brighid, & signifies new life & fertility. Known as a faery tree, the hawthorn should never be harmed. Img: Cicely Barker

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2019-05-02

Cicely Mary Baker ( I love the name Cicely) (1895-1973) English Illustrator best known for ‘Flower Fairy books’. As a bookseller in the 1980’s I sold and was asked for her work every week . So I’m only just getting round to posting her here.

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2019-04-25

Lily of the Valley is one of the lilies of Originally linked to Ostara, the ancient Germanic goddess of spring, the flower symbolises the arrival of new light & life. Since C15th it has been adopted as a symbol of the Virgin Mary Img: Cicely Barker.

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2019-04-18

Flowers Fairy
© Cicely Mary Barker (English illustrator, 1895 - 1973)

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2019-04-08

The pear is linked to the Greek goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, who watches over wives & fidelity in marriage. It is an ancient fertility symbol, & there is a custom in many countries of planting a pear tree to celebrate the birth of a daughter. Img: Cicely Barker

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2019-04-04

Decided to tweak Cicely’s design a bit. Definitely happier with how her face/tentacles look now uwu

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2019-03-20

I’ll be asleep by noon!
Though bedtime comes so soon..

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2019-03-17

Narcissus Poeticus is the last daffodil to flower, well into March. It features in Greek legend, as Narcissus was turned into the white daffodil by Nemesis, & is also the flower that Persephone was gathering when she was abducted by Pluto.
Img: Cicely Barker

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2019-03-14

It is cold, wet and miserable in Croydon today. To brighten things up here is some Almond blossom from yesterday on a South Croydon street tree, along with the Almond Blossom Flower Fairy. The artist Cicely Mary Barker was born and lived in Croydon.

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2019-03-12

Vadideki Zambak

🎨 Cicely Mary Barker, 1927

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2019-03-12

The Daffodil Fairy
Cicely Mary Barker

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2019-03-01

The Blackthorn Fairy

The wind is cold, the seems long a-waking;
The woods are brown and bare;
Yet this is soon April will be making
All things most sweet and fair.

Cicely Mary Barker

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2019-03-01

Algo me pasa con el trabajo de Cicely Mary Barker que teniéndolo todo para gustarme, técnica, composición color, influencia prerrafaelita... hay algo en él que me dice... vade retro 😅 https://t.co/eSk6odhLzR

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2019-03-01

“Traveller, traveller, tramping by
To the seaport where the big ships lie..”
The Traveller’s Joy (of the Clematis family) is an English flower, & is so named as it was a welcome sight to travellers both setting out from & returning home.
Img & vs: Cicely Barker

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2019-02-28

The periwinkle is the “sorcerers’ violet” in France. Its 5 petals are linked to the pentacle & it can be used as a protective amulet. The vines embrace & are thus linked to fidelity. To Culpepper it was an aphrodisiac, being grown by Venus.
Img: Cicely Barker

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2019-02-21

“When I was at home I was in a better place.”
As You Like It, Act 2, Sc 4

The Traveller’s Joy Flower Fairy, by Cicely Barker, 1920s.
This English flower (of the Clematis family) is so named as it was a welcome sight to travellers both setting out & returning.

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2019-02-17