Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian friends! May your taste buds tingle for all your favorite dishes to celebrate. Thanks, Kia for bringing us a beloved author and her heritage as inspiration this week. I would love to visit all the special places that inspired Lucy Maud Montgomery.
I had to check out the Anne of Green Gables Museum first thing...and it didn't take long to discover Anne's Enchanted Bookcase. *love*. You'll have to scroll down the page, it is the third picture from left. Sorry.
My card is a Pinwheel Fold (TLC864). So fun, so easy, so much territory to 'decorate', give it a swirl! I am inviting you into the library with my view. A cozy reading chair (Katzelkraft), the library stacks wall (Club Scrap), and the beautiful hands (gift from Polly). I stamped a segment of the library wall onto the next page so I could place the hands holding the book "Thrown upon her own resources...or what girls can do". Behind the left hand is a lovely Victorian floral wallpaper print that was embossed with a leaf pattern.
This is going to a dear young woman, so smart, so focused, the sky's the limit on her future...I think she'll be inspired. And I might just have to introduce her to Anne of Green Gables...you're never to old.
Thanks for stopping by my library. What was your favorite girlhood book?
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Registered: March 13, 2011 Location: Langley, B.C. Canada Posts: 26914
Sat, Oct 09, 2021 @ 4:18 PM
I did not read any of Anne till I was much older. Love her books now! I remembering reading Pippi Longstocking and books by Beverly Cleary growing up. Such an interesting fold card and that book cover and title is perfect for Polly's hands!
Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 45197
Sat, Oct 09, 2021 @ 4:26 PM
Fantastic pinwheel fold....all your wonderful book related images fit so well on these "walls". The chair looks so inviting and the wall of books..how could a "girl" not love that! The hands go perfectly here....I guess you were saving them for something special and you succeeded with this card. LOVE the title of the book..how apropos! I loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as a child...
Registered: June 29, 2004 Location: Sugar Land. Texas Posts: 74547
Sat, Oct 09, 2021 @ 5:54 PM
I so love it when you create something in the gallery for us, Susan. Your inspirations always enlighten me, and lifts me to higher grounds with my thoughts from where I might have ended up to that point. Thank you for just sharing the real essence of who you are!!
Like Polly, my 5th grade teacher read a chapter or so every Friday after lunch from the Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. Being read to from greatly written stories at any age is such a gift for our minds to process and enjoy. Now I am a huge fan of Francine Rivers novels.
------------------------------ LizThe joy of the LORD is my strength.Right Brain Madness --My blogProud member of the redDivasKSS certified multi-step stamperFan Club member since 2004
Registered: September 7, 2006 Location: Northern Nevada Posts: 32863
Sat, Oct 09, 2021 @ 6:42 PM
Such an interesting and artistic card! I love all the wonderful details!
When I was 9 I got a library card. I think I read all the fairy tale books they had. I didn't read Anne of Green Gables I'm afraid. Maybe I can get it for my Kindle.
------------------------------ Happy Stamping! CarrollAnn
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Registered: August 30, 2006 Location: Saugus, Massachusetts Posts: 61079
Sun, Oct 10, 2021 @ 3:21 PM
what a wonderful inspired make Susan! love the pinwheel design and your great (as always) images!
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