The Victorian Scrapbook…
A couple of posts ago I mentioned the old Victorian scrapbook gifted to me by my great aunt when I was eight years old. There is a little bit of history behind the book. My parents moved whilst I was away at university (a long while ago) and all my books were placed in boxes and apparently moved with the housing contents.
When mum and dad unpacked everything there was a box of books missing… some of my favourite fiction titles and of course, the scrapbook. I was devastated. Since then, I married and my husband and I moved ten times over our married life from city to city. We’ve lived in our curent house for 20 years. Imagine the surprise when two weeks ago and out of nowhere, I found the scrapbook… just there with other books that I have read and flipped through dozens of times in the last however-long.
I thinks its spooky… it just turned up… but how glad I am that it did. See for yourself.
That is a little spooky, but also so nice for you.:-)
It is funny how many ways you can scrap. When I see your victorian scrapbook, I think: “hey thats a “glansbilledebog” (scraps in danish) – a book with this shiny pictures in. In Denmark we only use the word scrapbook for a book with real pictures an memories in. In english it apparently got several meanings 🙂
If you like to see my scrapbook, then look here on my scrapbooking blog:
http://alfiedesign.blogspot.com/
Alfie, the book has about fifty pages and truly is a social history of the times. I love it.
Your house fairy got bored with it? It’s gorgeus, Prue!
Ha! Either that or my sight has been even worse than I thought and its been there all the time!
Prue, That is so beautiful. Lovely.
Maybe your aunt borrowed it to show to her friends in heaven.
I like to think that.
🙂
Hello Barbara. It’s an odd story, isn’t it. But I was dusting in my husband’s office and picked up a pile of books that I had placed there 18 months before (and which I have dusted weekly since then) and there it was… which goes to prove that books have a secret life life that we just don’t know about.
But your theory’s a nice one too.