Raised on a diet of broken biscuits

By day: academic library monkey. By night: person who makes things and reads when she should be studying.

I use this place as a trivial kind of commonplace book, to collect things which interest/edify/amuse or attract me, along with some journalish musings.
Posts tagged "painting"
historicalfashion:lucette: Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Fredrick Burton, 1864
Oh, swoon. The story behind the painting.

historicalfashion:lucetteMeeting on the Turret Stairs by Fredrick Burton, 1864

Oh, swoon. The story behind the painting.

The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires | Henry TONKS | The pearl necklace

Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress
Bids me wear them, warm then, until evening
When I’ll brush her hair. At six, I place them
Round her cool, white throat. All day I think of her…

from Warming her pearls - Carol Ann Duffy

Felt painting: Autumn tree (via abductos)