On Some Vintage Chime Ladies

I was rescuing my vintage chime lady from my toad plant, originally placed behind its box to protect it from the wind, this weekend in order to avoid it becoming entrapped like the mini flamingo (pink thing on the left) and I decided to get out her blue friend who normally lives in a box.  

These two are probably among the most unique of my chimes/chime making supplies (my grandma worked for a company that sold them, so she had a few boxes worth). Looking through a drawer where I keep some of them, though, it's a pretty odd collection.   

The green pitcher on the right has a blue full sized usable counterpart, so the company wasn't limited to just chimes.

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On a Sugar Bowl: A Photo Post

Last weekend I bought this former sugar bowl, which is missing its handles and one of its four feet. I'll probably use it as a place to ensconce escaped bobby pins (once I clean the wax out that is, since the last person either used it as a candle holder or something accidentally melted in it).

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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carousel Book": A Book Review

Wrapping up my month of Alice with what I think might be my shortest ever book review!

Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Carousel Book

Publisher: Macmillian Children’s Books

Genre: Children’s fiction

About the book…

An artful 3-D adaption of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

What I think… 

This is one of the more visually interesting Alice books I have in my collection.

Divided into six sections when you open it and tie the covers back, it does a nice job of capturing the pretty much the whole story with just a few sentences per page. 

The artwork, based on John Tenniel’s original illustrations, is beautifully colored and looks great the way they layered it. I especially love how dreamlike the layering makes each section look, which is, of course, very much in keeping with the book!

Quality wise, the binding is quite sturdy, which made me very happy, since it's more fun to look at when it's completely opened rather than flipping through.

To sum it all up… 

A wonderful addition to any Alice fan’s collection! ♥

On a Charming Bracelet

I figured since the last three weeks have had Alice topics I might as well keep going and let it be this month's theme. 

A good while back while looking for something else, I came across this Disney Alice in Wonderland charm bracelet on Etsy. Normally I don't wear a lot of bracelets that have things that dangle or that are chunky because it can make it difficult for me to type or do a number of other things for that matter, but I decided to get it because how often do you find a vintage charm bracelet for one of your favorite Disney movies?

 
Mine is missing the Alice and the dormouse charms (you can see the complete set on the Vintage Disney Alice in Wonderland blog here), which I passively look for on occasion. It turns out this is one of the harder Disney charm sets to track down (unlike the Jungle book bracelet, which seems to pop up everywhere), but who knows maybe someday I'll stumble across them accidentally! 

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