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I keep forgetting to do the My Place and Yours theme! This week’s is My Collection, set by Fox’s Lane.

I have collections of a few little things: pens, pencils, doilies but nothing big. They’re all useful things too. The biggest collection I have is buttons… just random buttons. Pearl buttons, shirt buttons, spare buttons, leather buttons… none of them are especially pretty, they all found their way to me in rather boring ways too. It’s just really handy to have a lot of buttons, you never know when you can use one.

Do you like my heavily abused work table?! I always spill my ink.

I am really super duper stupid busy right now with freelance, commissions, wedding planning etc. I thought I’d be nice and post some vintage ephemera for you all to enjoy!

My mum has an awesome collection of all the cards she has ever been given. From her birth til now – including her 21st birthday cards and wedding and engagement cards. She got them all out for me yesterday and I snapped some pictures with my phone camera. I grew up being influenced by illustrations like these!!! I just wanted to be able to share these pretty cards with everyone, because I’ve always loved them.

This is one of the most special things in there. It’s a card, hand screen printed, by one of mum and dad’s friends Sieg.

He also made this mulberry paper himself! It was used to wrap their engagement present. I nearly wet my pants when I saw it yesterday, it’s in such nice condition!

Unfortunately, mum has stuck all these cards in the scrap book, which means they aren’t in mint condition, which is sad

If you want to see more, head on over to the set on flickr.