Fetes, Fleas and Flowers

We set out Friday afternoon to do a fossick in the local flea/junk shop and I spied this old book sitting on a table on the way out. It wasn't ther when I came through and had been just unloaded from a container from Denmark(!!) for $10 . It's in terrible shape, covers are separated from the bbok,spine cover missing, some pages are missing BUT it is GORGEOUS

It's solid brown leather with a metal rim. The front and back are  in maching tooled gold

Beautiful steel engraved illustrations with tissue paper covering pages

Faded gilt pages

It was published in about 1880, Mr VL thinks I'm crazy but I just couldn't leave it there could I?

We ventured off early Saturday morning to a church fete and I found a pair of very old linen pillowcases, beatifully handmade with fillet edging for the princely total of $2...athough they are yellow with age and have already been soaked and are drying in the Sunday morning sunshine on a dewy lawn
To add to my now 50 pairs of antique white pillocase collection!

On the way home at the fuit and veg market I treated myself to

a bunch peonies...my favourite

Mr VL spent Saturday afternoon clipping the topiary and box hedging. I use 2 of the potted box trees for Christmas

Before

After

My cute Sascha decided to destroy the catmint arrangement I had picked....WHO ME??

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