Chrysanthemums

It's kind of early for mums, but I'm pretty late with my posts.

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It's June

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Rats

"Rats!" is my favorite clean curseword. My favorite dirty curseword is - well, who can pick just one. But "Rats!" is what I said when I realized I won't be able to do much photoshopping for a while. New stuff will still be coming along, but at a trickle instead of a flood. Till production picks up, enjoy these 100-year-old illustrations for the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Lotsa rats.

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Ping!

Been making a lot of PNGs lately for a couple of sheets I'm working on. This very Victorian design got the PNG treatment today. I've got a bunch of them and may do a collection for the shop, but was so pleased with how this one turned out that I'm posting it here. Its outside dimensions are roughly 5" x 7" with an opening a little over 3" x 5.5", if I remember right; but since it's a PNG you can put an image behind it and it'll show through the lacy pattern, an effect I love.

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Dawn of a New Day

Well that didn't take long. RCN cocked things up worse than ever  - a whole week with only a few hours total connection time. They left me no choice. Here's to the start of what I hope will be a bright future with a new provider.

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The ABCs of RCN

My internet provider is RCN.  As their longtime customer I've enjoyed about seven years of fairly reliable service, and a couple of months of pure suck from hell. I won't go into details - the hours of tech phone support, the days spent waiting for tech appointments, the cumulative weeks of downtime....the conflicting explanations I've received that boil down to "we can't figure it out"...

The important thing is, I'm online now. And if I lose my connection again anytime soon, I have a new provider all lined up.

Deep breath.

To celebrate my return, here's a nice old farmland alphabet for English children published in the 1860s. I'm posting them pretty large so you can trim away the accompanying verses and still have good-sized images, or leave them intact for cards, banners, fabric design or any kind of crafting you like. There's a separate illustration for each letter except J and U, which weren't included for some reason, and a couple of nice pictures of children reading.

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Groovy Baby

If you've visited my Etsy shop, you may have seen the digital collections of antique marbled papers that I first listed last year. Since then I've found some papers that are so unique that I'm amazed they were created in the 1870s. Their undulating patterns and electric colors remind me of the psychedelic 1960s. Here are just a few examples of the beautiful papers that I'll be using in soon-to-be-listed sheets.

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