Mrs. Starling’s Curio Cabinet

If my headstone isn’t a stack of books, I don’t want it. 📍Sacramento City Cemetery

Vintage letterpress printer’s blocks. Theme? Spooky. ebay.com/usr/mrsstarling

I’m addicted to interesting bookends. 🏠📚🏠

I did my first night market yesterday and I’m so pleased with the experience! 🥰

120 year old handwriting hits different.

You can formally present the weekend to yourself with this if you need a little treat. (You’re welcome.)

SLEEP! Sleep!
Sleep, my dearie, sleep, and dream!
Roaming where roses are rife,
To sweeten the tear-fed stream
That waters the tree of life;
Take thou my song for a boat,
And sail on my voice for a sea;
There let it wander and float
Where thou desirest to be.
-Mary Robinson

My window is open and I can hear the birds singing like they have no idea what year it is. I might join them. www.ebay.com/itm/30614747...

Today I share with you a little poetic interlude from a book I recently found. It gets bonus points for mentioning starlings.

I’m traveling through vintage books and daydreams lately. www.ebay.com/itm/30621088...

The energy I currently bring to the table: www.ebay.com/itm/30620787...

This one is special. 🌸🌼 www.ebay.com/itm/30620883...

Shut up and look at the gorgeous book! Look at it!!! www.ebay.com/itm/30620754...

A variety of antique dolls and doll heads

You can sit with us

I’m particularly fond of seeing into artists’ sketchbooks. As Degas said, "Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality." www.ebay.com/itm/30619773...

A daydream of spring. 🌸

Have you saved the date to come see me at Columbia City Night Market on April 19th?

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This mother and daughter are looking for a new stable. They enjoy apples, oats, and scritches under the chin. www.ebay.com/itm/30607124...

“Before she has her floor swept
Or her dishes done,
Any day you'll find her
A-sunning in the sun!”
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Heidi illustrated book cover Johanna Spyri

To Mary Elizabeth, From Daddy & Mother 1927 In memory of her happy hours with Heidi at school

The inscriptions in vintage books are my favorite surprise to find. This one is particularly sweet. www.ebay.com/itm/30618538...

This copy of The Red Pony is a first illustrated edition from 1945! Wesley Dennis’ watercolors are so stunning. www.ebay.com/itm/30618699...

This inscription about the “yucky” illustrations made me giggle. www.ebay.com/itm/30618539...

This 1970’s book of Seattle photography is so fun. Look at the fashion! And the Kingdome! www.ebay.com/itm/30618700...

The staircase is to die for!

Object 011: Post office box door. The owner of this box at the time the door was retired was participating in a rather passionate correspondence with a faraway gentleman. If you hold the object for long enough, you too will begin to feel a bit hot and bothered.

Object 010: A set of fine china used to serve a small girl her favorite ice cream. The elderly couple, whose favorite was the girl, gave her the dishes upon the occasion of her wedding.
Made by Elite Works in Limoges, France.

Nothing better than being inside when it’s snowing outside in Seattle!

More book secrets:

I love the little secrets that antique books hold.

When you get the chance to see a band you loved 20 years ago in concert again, you do it.

She looks very warm