A beautiful vintage picture from a recent garage sale book purchase! Don't you just love the beautiful RUBY RED footstool and pillow!
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And a lovely award from my dear friend Janine. Thank you so much for thinking of me, Janine. I'm honored to accept this thoughtful award gift!
My childhood memories are built around my Grandmother & the library & books!!
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Marilyn
I love that picture..beautiful..it feels so special..love the red footstool too..gorgeous! A wonderful post!
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Ruby Banana Blossom
Ih how I enjoyed reading my books as a child - I still do. What a lovely photo :)
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What a lovely jumble sale-find! If it be mine, I'd be tempted to dot the red footstool with white thread, if you know WHAT I MEAN! (Do give last words a click!)
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely lovely picture! I love to read--I can hardly put a book down once I've started it. I've been known to finish a thick book in less than a day. I recently finished an entire series of four BIG thick books in three.
ReplyDeletelol I really like this illustration! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Oh yes they make the picture more beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
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A beautiful picture and a lucky find!
ReplyDeleteA lovely illustration Coralie, it was meant to be yours to love and appreciate.
ReplyDeleteI went and found you a few good quotes on childhood, I hope you like them. Hope Betsy Belle is doing wonderful for you also.
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ~Elizabeth Lawrence
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons. ~Author Unknown
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. ~Katherine Anne Porter
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~Graham Greene
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. ~Sam Ewing
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard
I'd give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.
~Lewis Carroll, "Solitude"
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. ~Ellen Glasgow
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. ~Malcolm de Chazal