Cozy and Charming Children's Books late 1800's Late Victorian

Oh I love these!!  They also feel like fall because of the warm brown and golden colors.Fall is in the air here. I am guessing these are pre 1900. What charming books for some lucky child to have. They all right click for a larger version.

Hope your day is as warm and cozy just like the pictures!

Love as always, Louise

This title keeps playing over in my mind.

I have seen this one on present day greeting cards.

The prettiest cherubs and flower sprays Perfect for black and white French inspired designs

Hi everyone! Welcome to you all.

If my blog were a garden it would be over grown and needing water. This seems to be a pattern.  A flurry of pictures and posts and then... So after a week It is time to get back to blogging.  I also have to confess that I am an image hoarder! My computer keeps telling me the virtual memory is low and that some request will be slow. Sound familiar? My brain and body has the same thing going on! Whether it makes more room or not it seems logical to me that deleting files and folders will make room for new ones. That is what I have been doing  today. Kinda like cleaning out your closet by trying everything on before you toss it out. The fact that there are already plenty of images doesnt disuade me from looking for just a few more. And I found the best stuff! Antique children's books from an online library. There are almost 8,000 books to look thru.

One of the things I liked and thought you might too are from chapter endings and title pages little do-dads, thing-a-ma- jigs, fluerishes or what every you might call them.  I can just see them in your scrapbooks and crafts,altered art,invitations etc. . There are even two labels. Black and white and so French. Two of the cherubs have a pair of wedding rings.Hope you find them as lovely as I do.

Your comments have been incredible and very welcomed. Thank you for the comments regarding Sherry. It will be so nice to pass them on to her and the board. Hope we get her back somehow.

The number of followers continues to grow and there have been over 100,000 page views!! WOW!

Thank you so much for your positive support. I love you gals!!

A passion flower vine and hummingbirds!

Wedding cards or invitations?

1920's Dancing children Christmas Santa & angels, frames and label all for your clip art projects and for free

These adorable dancing children could be used on invitations  and cards. The first is a favorite Just to cute and so 1920's. Santa and the angels are old gift tags or from cards.

A photograph of my grandparents 1930'-40's living room decorated for Christmas. Papa would take a photograph and make Christmas cards .

A lovely late Victorian or early Edwardian woman.I think she looks honest and grounded. Unknown identity.

This label was wrapped around an antique calling card engraving. The top is the original color.

The back of a cabinet photograph. I'm making progress on cleaning up and removing unwanted elements. All for fun and just for all of you.

Originally the boarder of a 1910 promotion certificate.

So simple, perfect for gift tags and cards.

Fancy book cover from a tiny tiny address book.

Hope you can use these for your creations. Thank you for coming back for a visit. Depending how my evening goes I will post more images for everyone. Enjoy,Louise