thrifted book haul & other finds

 

hello dolls, dears, & teddy bears ♡

i was able to get quite a lot of wonderful thrift finds 

throughout the past couple weeks and wanted to share what 

i had collected ྀི꒰っ´༥`ς꒱

first, i actually had my first book haul of the year!

it's been years that i've been able to get soso many books 

around the same time, but these are ones i've desired 

for a pretty long while now.. 

Inkworld Trilogy

the Inkworld Trilogy was amongst the very top of my 

favourite books back between late elementry and through middle school

these books influenced me so much as a child, and i 

reallyreally wanted to get them years ago but the cost was too 

much for my parents who couldn't justify spending extra money 

on a book series which i already read by borrowing from the library 

which i understood, as heartbreaking as it was.. 

but, recently after recieving money from my mom as a gift i chose to finally 

find and order myself used copies of the series because 

i literally had a dream about the story and knew- 

its time. i need to finally fulfill the wish of 12 year old me 

and also reread this series! 

though, admittedly, i am just a little worried about how my perception 

of the story will change now that i am an adult.. 

but, that's a part of growing up isn't it?

꒰ ៸៸ ◞ ˕ ◟ ៸៸ ꒱

Dracula

remember how in my last post i brought up about rereading Dracula 

through Dracula Daily last year? well.... 

i decided it was about time I get the actual novel for my collection too

considering it's one of my favourite pieces of gothic literature

i've actually been searching for a used copy for the past 3 years honestly, 

but just now found one with a cover that i actually liked.. 

gifts from grandma

these next "thrifted finds" actually were given to me free from my 

grandma who had recieved them from a neighbor friend of hers who 

was moving out ꒰ྀི ๑ ´ ˘ ` ू ꒱ྀི

the pretty lady in white is a candle holder (i think), 

and am really eager to have something like her in my collection~ 

next is the Victorian Flowers & Fairies Photo Album which is 

really beautiful, i just have to figure out what pictures to 

include on the inside..

then there is the Kodacolor Puzzle that features an antique bisque doll 

which i can't wait to put together

it's been a very long time i did puzzles, i never did one this size before..

my thriftstore finds

finally, here are my lucky finds from the thriftstore i brought back 

with me this time- how cute are these figurines? ꒰ྀི ฅ́˘ฅ̀ ྀི꒱

if youre hoping to find them for your own collection the one to 

the left is:

TEDDY ANGELS

"LOVE GIVES OUR HEARTS WINGS."
Honey

1994 United Designs 

and the one to the right is:

YESTERDAY'S CHILD

THE DOLLSTONE COLLECTION

"Live Innocently, God is Here." - Linnaeus

The Celebration Series, No. 7
1998 THE BOYDS COLLECTION

there was also a pretty praying porcelain doll i 

was so close to bringing with me too but, 

ultimately left her behind because she was unable 

to support herself and i don't have any more doll stands 

around;;

(plus i really want to save my money for a game anyways)

well, before this ends up incredibly long, 

will cut it here before i ramble about various other things-

i'll save my updates on my schneekugel der rosen outline progress 

for the next one

thank you for visiting~

goodnight my dears and do take care,

♡𝒷𝒶𝒷𝓎𝒹𝓸𝓁𝓁𝓮♡

valentine's day

 

hello dolls, dears, & teddy bears ♡

happy (belated) valentine's day ꒰ྀི ๑ ´ ˘ ` ू ꒱ྀི

once again since i was recovering by a sudden case of 

feeling unwell again, this got unfortunately delayed as i focused on 

recovering again. but am starting to feel better so hopefully will 

be well enough to continue updating more frequently again ♡
i guess ill just have to see how things go..

before i began feeling ill again i made this cute valentine's scrapbook 

spread in my sketchbook using a couple of the vintage valentines 

i recieved from my grandma~
i think it turned out really cute..

"to you my beloved friend, with our hearts bound as one, 
even when were far apart, were still so near each other"

and on the topic of vintage valentines, here is all of the 

vintage cards i picked out that origianlly belonged to my grandma 

i am eager to use more of them in my scrapbooking and other crafts

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looking through my grandma's old valentines day box really 

makes me want to make me customise my own one sometime, 

just to store cute trinkets in~ 

but i don't think i have space for that..

︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶⠀୨♡୧⠀︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶

continuing with the valentines day theme, 

although i already shared these on instragram wanted to 

finish showing off the precious candygrams i made on goatlings ♡

these were made for users fr0gpatr0l and Susie!

i realised that while working on these candygrams that they ended 

up way more like my traditional paint sketches compared to 

the current examples i was working on for commissions, 

so i actually will be redoing my sketch painting 

commissions examples sometime now that i 

improved my digital method.. ꒰ྀི ៸៸៸៸ ก꒱ྀི

but i dont feel too motivated to draw right now feeling unwell..

︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶⠀୨♡୧⠀︶︶︶ ⊹ ︶︶︶

finally, to end off this valentine's day post-

it's something not valentine's day related actually ꒰ྀིㅇㅁㅇ꒱ྀི

but am too eager about it to wait until another post

as its rather it's an exciting little announcement~

the outline process for my passion project 

"schneekugel der rosen" has  finally started!

although for awhile now i've had bits of pieces of lore 

scattered into various places over the past few years, 

it is now finally all coming together into one journal for the 

first time in a very long time- manymany years...

꒰ ៸៸ ◞ ˕ ◟ ៸៸ ꒱

i think, the last time this project had reached this stage 

was back in 2017 based on script binders i found in my closet 

while doing the extensive cleaning

and its certainly changed a lot since then- since at that 

time i still wanted it to be a graphic novel

but now, "schneekugel der rosen" is going to be an 

illustrated book project ♡

are you familiar with 

"The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady?"

it's a publication of Edith Holden's 1906 diary observing the countryside

and i decided, that is similar in how wish for this project to be..

something like an art book, but with personal written 

accounts from the characters within the setting that elaborates 

on the world and events around them as they occur,

Dracula (as i was rereading through Dracula Daily last year) made me realise 

how much i love that way of developing a plot.. 

while i work on this outline, 

i don't expect to get too much illustrations made during this time 

as i am deeply in a writing mood at the moment. 

but i am certainly working on a couple wips am eager to 

share once the motivation returns to continue them ꒰ྀི ๑ ´ ˘ ` ू ꒱ྀི

until then, this is getting a little long and the time 

is now getting late, 

thank you for visiting~
goodnight my dears and take care,

♡𝒷𝒶𝒷𝓎𝒹𝓸𝓁𝓁𝓮♡