Vintage Treasures

Today was mostly spend at an Antiques Fair in Edinburgh and if I tell you that I only left when I could no longer walk around carrying my treasures you will guess that I had quite a good day.

.In a rash moment I decided that I needed to sign up for a Vintage Gluebook online class! The only supplies we need are paper (i.e. vintage ephemera), scissors and glue! The house is already brimming over with paper, both modern and vintage, but of course I felt an urgent need to add to my vintage paper collection, and the Fair came up trumps.

I acquired several children's books (some to good to cut in so I will scan those images), an Household Encyclopedia in 2 volumes (no date but I'm estimating the thirties, and John is already reading the instructions about how to make a chicken house. so he's happy too!), a vintage French encyclopedia as well as a school book in French (seen in detail above) about how to count. Again I can't bring myself to cut into that either so scanning and printing will be the order of the day.

In passing I also picked up some luscious vintage lace, because I'm hosting a Vintage Lace ATC Swap on the ATCsforAll site. Not that I'm suffering from a shortage of lace either, but these were too beautiful to leave unbought! A bunch of antique (or at least very old and rusty) keys also found its way into my bag. While walking back to the car I had to stop several times to re-distribute the weight of all these books for carrying purposes but it was definitely well worth all that effort.