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I made some little fairies out of pressed flowers 🌷

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Flowers in Her Hair

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Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

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Okay I have to tell you more about this book, because I’m in love.

It’s an exact facsimile of a year’s worth of nature notes created by Edith Holden in 1906. It’s a beautiful collection of nature illustrations, handwritten notes, personal observations and some of her favourite poetry.

She was a school teacher and wrote the notes for her own pleasure and to share with her students at Solihull School for Girls. It was never intended for publication.

She later moved to London and left teaching for a career in illustration, and in 1911 she married a sculptor named Ernest Smith.

In 1920 she fell into the Thames whilst collecting flowers from the riverbank of Kew Gardens, and drowned.

Her nature notes were kept by Ernest and passed down to his family after his death. In 1977, Edith’s great niece, Rowena Stott, who had spent her childhood admiring the notes, published them under the title of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady.

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Every time I go into this shop I find the exact book I’ve just heard of/wishlisted. Second hand book shops are magical, there is no other rational explanation.

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Just some little embroideries I’m adding to a vintage nightdress I found.

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Flower Crowns

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Janice Issitt Life & Style

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Blackberry Wood Camping, Glamping and Treehouses

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The snail friends <3

Annie Stegg Gerard (@anniestegg)

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Over the Garden Wall

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Cicely Mary Baker - Flower Fairies of Winter