Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm In a dusty corner of Paris, Grace works in an antique repair shop. She fixes the tiny baubles on chandeliers, the cracking of gilt frames and the prongs of antique jewelry. But Grace is not just a woman having a youthful adventure. But behind her small tools and magnifying glass,…
The Case of the Missing Mother – Cabinet Card
Thanks to QuelleBooks, I’m obsessed with finding these “Missing Mother” portraits. According to the fascinating and unnerving post on Retronaut, “This was a practice where the mother, often disguised or hiding, often under a spread, holds her baby tightly for the photographer to insure a sharply focused image.” Some are more subtle than others and it’s…
REVIEW: THE SCRAPBOOK OF FRANKIE PRATT by Caroline Preston
I adore this book. It’s a completely individual way to tell a story. It’s a novel masquerading as a scrapbook — or perhaps it’s the other way around. Author Caroline Preston says of taking on this project, “I spent an unhealthy portion of my childhood rooting around in the boiling-or-freezing attic of my parent’s house…
Antique store. Savannah. March 6, 2010.
Ephemera from Illinois
If you follow any of my other blogs, you probably already know that I visit my relatives in (very) rural Illinois just about every year. One of my favorite things to do there is sift thorough the random bits of paper in antique stores, or even in one of my grandparent’s houses. No one throws…