Happy Anniversary, Shari!
Megan Follows is a more perfect Anne Shirley than Jeremy Brett was a Sherlock Holmes. Which says someting. Cuz, really, RDJ's Sherlock Holmes only has the boxing scenes over Jeremy Brett.
Hearts Windsparrow. She's only right, you know.
I just finished unpacking the rest of my jewelry from the move. What I've been wearing has been reposing between wearings in a saucer and a canape tray on my dresser. The silver pieces I've started keeping in small plastic ziplok bags between wearings, as it cuts down on tarnish and therefore polishing time, and also keeps chains from tangling together. I have some tiny bags made of beads, with bead fringe and each of those gets its own little ziplok, as do the handpainted silk bags. A couple of pairs of earrings, or earrings and the necklace they're worn with, go together in a baggie.
And all the bags are sorted by type, and are loaded into four sets of small drawers, pretty paper-covered cardboard, two drawers per unit, units stacked on my built-in bookcase. Accessible, pre-sorted, decorative. And they don't advertise "Jewelry!". I do miss my hanging necklace rack. Maybe I'll put that up for all the pendant-on-cord necklaces I still need to sort.
ETA: You can buy tarnish-resistant paper at some jewelry or craft stores. I snip stamp-sized pieces, then cut those in half and tuck one into each bag with the silver jewelry. I rarely have to polish any of my jewelry any more. Just FYI.
If any Anne of Green Gables fans haven't seen this appraisal from Antiques Roadshow, I recommend taking a look. To summarize, a woman and her daughter got hooked on the book via the PBS miniseries and she picked the book up for her daughter when she found it at a flea market, where she spent no more than $5 for it. Turns out it's a first edition and worth $12,000 to $18,000, possibly more!
Happy Birthday, askye!
Happy Anniversary, Shari!
she picked the book up for her daughter when she found it at a flea market, where she spent no more than $5 for it. Turns out it's a first edition and worth $12,000 to $18,000, possibly more!
I live in hope that someday I will find a first edition of
Something Wicked This Way Comes
at a thrift store. It's my impossible dream.
I have a 2nd edition of GWTW that I love and pet often. Not worth nearly as much, but I still loves it.
My happiest book find was at a friends-of-the-library sale where I found the collection of C.L. Moore's short stories that I had been looking for since college. I literally squealed when I saw it sitting on the hardcover table (got a few strange looks from others nearby for that noise). It's not a valuable book at all, but I treasure it.
I have a 2nd edition of GWTW
Me too!
My grandmother owns an antiquarian bookstore, and so I get a lot of 2nd & 3rd editions as birthday & Christmas presents. Not 1st editions because those are actually valuable. But still nice old books.
Happy Birthday, askye!
Happy Anniversary, Shari!
There is a bird outside singing its little heart out. I can't tell if it is a birthday or anniversary song. Maybe both.
DUDE! I just went to the Friends of the Library bookstore last night for the first time. I R DUM. Why've I never gone int here before?? AMAZING.
I've got only a few old books, two from my mom that I really don't care about but keep because they were gifts, and two 2nd-edition MacGuffey Readers that I bought at an Ohio antique store because of their prominence in the Little House books.
We don't have a full-time library store, but they offer sales a few times a year at all the local libraries. At the one where I got my big find several years ago, I didn't get over there until Saturday afternoon, long after all the good stuff had been picked over, so I wasn't expecting to find anything. To get that long-wished-for item was such a thrill!
