Pair of Tiny Handmade Booklets Packed with Marvelous Ink and Watercolor Drawings contemplative with its pale pink roses

with its pale pink roses looking a bit like puffs of popcorn amid this graceful and profuse sprawl of green leaves and thorns and buds

and the scalloped green velvet top

dates remains in good shape and completely useable should one want to put it to work again

This has a bit of the feel of a girl's first attempt at making a quilt

I am not certain the origins of this beauty

Pair of Tiny Handmade Booklets Packed with Marvelous Ink and Watercolor Drawings contemplative with its pale pink rosesAmong my very favorite finds EVER these are, for me, pure and total joy, every page a delight, and many laugh out loud funny. Both are the work of a young Bella Park (what a name!), late ish 19th century I believe. These are tiny, about 2" x 2", which makes them feel all the more miraculous. The first (left in first photo) features marvelous black and purple ink drawings throughout described on the inside of the cover as "mostly fancy dances," and