Dance with Me?

An elaborately engraved antique dance card, or note holder. Much prettier than a sticky note, wouldn't you say?

 The still functioning pencil slides out and the top springs open. 

Now married to vintage glass pearls and old paste stones...

 

Dance with Me?

at Age Before Beauty.

Hints of Autumn

The burning bush is beginning to smolder.

The fields are aglow with ochre soybeans.

Cardigans have come out of the closet.

And strawberries have been replaced with butternut squash.

Night falls earlier.

Nudging out summer.

Hints of Autumn...

New jewelry coming soon to Age Before Beauty.

I Simply Remember My Favorite Things...

... and then I don't feel so bad.

An antique mourning photograph with its background water-colored red, long, long ago.

One of my favorite things.

A delicate purse charm with little garnets...

Fancy, ornate buttons...

Favorites, favorites.

These are a few of my favorite things.

Age Before Beauty