Garth Williams' Wonderful Drawings

These three images are from one of my favorite books from my childhood. I think the pictures are adorable. The author and illustrator of the book was the American illustrator Garth Williams who died in 1996. Originally the book "Baby Animals" was published in 1952. My Danish paperback edition was printed in 1974.

Two More by Marcel Marlier

Going through my old scans I found these two by Marcel Marlier that I hadn't posted earlier. Enjoy :)

Great Vintage Ads From 1915

These two ads I found in one of my antique Danish magazines. They are wonderfully detailed and I couldn't resist scanning them at 1600 DPI and then scaling the DPI to 300 to enlarge the pictures. Then I retouched them a little bit to remove some blotches they had gained over the past +100 years, and finally I removed the background, so they really came to their right. It worked out nicely I think. They are for sale as digital images at my Etsy shop. The woman is 31,547" tall at 300dpi and the girl is 14,023" tall.

Scraps from my childhood

As a girl I collected scraps - a lot of scraps. My sister and I would trade with each other like trading cards. We were very particular about which we wanted to trade and which we wanted to hold on to. I had a great fondness for the old scraps while my sister really liked the fairy tale scraps. To us it didn't really matter what shape they were in if the image was something we liked. We would also play with them as if they were dolls. Or glue them on objects as decoration.

Today I use them primarily for making collages that I frame and hang on my walls. I especially like the ones I made for my daugther's room.

In order not to destroy the scraps I scan and print them. That way I can use them over and over again without doing harm to the original scrap.

On my Etsy Shop I will be putting some of the scrap scans up for sale as digital images (scanned at 400dpi). And some I will sell off completely - the physical scrap itself - if they hold no sentimental value for me.

The boy and girl scraps are German reprints from ca. 1978. I think that the original drawings were done in the 1880s. The fairy tale scraps are scanned originals from the 1940s.

Embroidered Pillows

I really like the embroidered pillows that were made in the 1950s-1980s in Denmark. I have several that my grandmother and great-grandmother made many - many - years ago. I have a 1920s couch that they fit right into. However, I discovered that I also like the vintage pillows in my modern furniture as contrast. And in my rocking chair.

The great thing about these vintage pillows is that they come with a lot of different patterns and colors, so there is always somewhere that they will fit into my home decor :)

I have made an Etsy shop - AllRetroScandinavia - where I sell some of the vintage pillows that I find in antique shops here in Denmark. (To keep the shipping fee from skyrocketing I only send the covers.)

From an Old School Book About Insects

Found these lovely pictures in an old book I bought at a library sale. They are drawn by Arnold W. Ryan about whom I can only tell that he illustrated educational books about plants and insects in the 1950s and 1960s.

Marcel Marlier - So Sweet You Can Smell the Candy Floss

These pictures are from a book by the Belgian artist Marcel Marlier who died in 2011. "Martine at the Fair" was printed in 1958 and it contains wonderful pastel colored images with a lot of 1950s design elements such as tail fins on the cars and the rounded shapes of airplanes and scooters.