Skeleton Hand and Arm Free Vintage Image From Leaping Frog Designs

Happy Friday!!

Vintage Fern Frond Free Digital Image From Leaping Frog Designs

 

I love ferns

in fact in our side

yard I am in the process

of making a shade garden

and filling it with ferns.

Here is a beautiful little

snip from my collection.

Vintage Hot Air Balloon Free Vintage Image From Leaping Frog Designs

Another fantastic vintage image for

you today. From The Home Student

1887

 

Enjoy!!

Little Bat Free Vintage Image From Leaping Frog Designs

A little bat for your projects

Enjoy!!

 

Vintage Root Image Roots Free Digital Images From Leaping Frog Designs

This comes from an amazing

antique book published in

1187 called The Child's Book Of Nature

 

 

Art Deco Bride Free PNG Image From Leaping Frog Designs

Beautiful Frothy Bride

from The MENTOR

magazine

 

 

June

 1930

I have turned her into

a PNG for you

and in a couple

of different colors

 

 



Robert Lewis Stevenson Poem Free Image With Frame The Eillison Reader Free Friday Images

Another pretty image from

The Ellison Reader

Enjoy!!

Flying Birds Free Background Sheets Swallows Bluebirds Robins Starlings Blue Jay

I collect old books

There....I said it..I am a book addict.

(But you all know that don't you...lol)

One of my favorite genre of books to collect

are the old readers that were used in

school. This one is an Ellison Reader

They have such beautiful illustrations

and the sweetest stories.

This Ellison Fourth Reader has birds

on the front and back book pages

and is full of fairy and nature stories

I hope you enjoy these two pages today

They are pretty large

The original book is 5x7

 

Antique TinType Photograph Anderson Family Boy Dressed As A Girl Name Unknown

Here is one of the

amazing photo's in the

albums I just picked up

I think this is a boy

dressed in girls clothes

This was done often

My own family had

pictures of my dad

dressed this way

I have no idea why

it was done

(a good excuse to learn

some history)

So I am off to

find out why.

I did nothing to

this image to clean it up.

I left it as it was taken

I believe him to be

in the Anderson family

since this was loose in

the larger album.

 

 

Antique Photo Album Treasures The Anderson Family

Wow we sure have had a patch

of rain and snow and rain again

this last two weeks here in Oregon

It gave me a bad case of cabin fever

and the blues at the same time.

So when errand day came around

this last week I was like a horse let out

of the barn..

Off at a full gallop...

I had several bags of things to donate

(see how I slip a visit into Saint Vinnie's in

there?) And a visit inside was a must.

Right inside the door are the cases

of neat vintage books, craft supplies

and anything else they think

may catch the collectors eye.

Right away the two antique photo

albums they had caught my attention.

I asked to look at the case and was delighted to

find that they both still had their photo's

The price was pretty steep...but my heart said

Do It!!

So I did...

I brought the first album home on Tuesday

full of cabinet cards and history. I was in awe.

Over night I was restless.. It felt wrong not to

have the two albums together.  They are family

after all...I rolled it around in my head all night.

Yes..No...Yes...No... Yes won

The next day (yesterday) I did my chores

waited..And when I could not stand it anymore

I went to see if the second album was still there.

Guess what, It was.

I am going to scan many of them and post them

here on my blog to share with you all.

They are beautiful and fascinating.

I wish I knew this family's history, their story

Maybe as I scan the photo's some

will be revealed.

Have a wonderful Thursday!!

If you are on the East coast.. Stay safe!!