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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust

@velvetnmoon.bsky.social

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Merchant of curious goods. Collector of old books & ancient dusty things. Doggy mama. Progressive Victorian. Passionate about the past but woke A F.

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 10d

#Mood youtu.be/hyJtGlvVzDQ?...

Chill Halloween Music & Calming Ambience | Calm Songs, Spooky & Instrumental Playlist

YouTube video by Holiday Sweater

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 1d

Awwww!

Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 1d

Cool.

Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social · 1d

Paintings of Stonehenge by Victorian women are rare, and these details are tantalising: could this be Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1818-1897) and her daughter Lady Ermyntrude Russell (1856-1927)? Such precious women's artwork needs to be in the Wiltshire Museum collection.

Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 1d

Come home safe everyone!

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Latina Immigrant🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @jasmine29.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings🚫👑

Joy🦋💙 @joyceschlessin1.bsky.social · 2d

You might want to block these too. The Drump admin has entered the sky. I blocked them all. Did not subscribe but the list is accurate.

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing!

Latina Immigrant🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @jasmine29.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings🚫👑

Joy🦋💙 @joyceschlessin1.bsky.social · 2d

You might want to block these too. The Drump admin has entered the sky. I blocked them all. Did not subscribe but the list is accurate.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 3d

It's #DictionaryDay, so, naturally, I'll tout my own Victorian death dictionary, with its list of topics, so brilliantly illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social. Available worldwide, so your local bookstore or library can easily order it.

Cover of A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, by Chris Woodyard and Landis Blair. Blue-grey background with weeping Victorian mourners flanking a skull-topped tomb with a willow behind it.

List of topics in A is for Arsenic by Chris Woodyard

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 6d

Sign idea.

Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 8d

In search of matching salt and pepper shakers.

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 8d

Or Vice, at the very least. 🙄

Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 8d

Perhaps. I have a thing for Carmen Miranda stuff. Always on lookout 👀 . Especially for Bugs Bunny in drag.

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 8d

I found a sweet little Carmen Miranda baby doll at the flea market. What a cutie pie!

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 9d

Same. Animation and music!

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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social · 9d

Did you know?

In the Victorian era, mummers carried on the ancient English tradition of performing short plays and songs in disguise.

Clad in ragged ribbons, and paper costumes to conceal their identities, they were both festive and mysterious.

#Victorian #history

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Loreena McKennitt - The Mummers' Dance

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 10d

#Mood youtu.be/hyJtGlvVzDQ?...

Chill Halloween Music & Calming Ambience | Calm Songs, Spooky & Instrumental Playlist

YouTube video by Holiday Sweater

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 12d

Day 7 of #31DaysOfGraves - Angel

Angels come in so many different shapes and sizes in Scottish graveyards, we've opted for this Victorian Gothic form, sitting in the shadow of Glasgow Cathedral, forever gently dropping stone flower petals onto the graves of the Smith family below...

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 16d

That’s it!!!

Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 18d

HTH is that a gaffe?

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Solarman @solarman55.bsky.social · 18d

Now, more than ever, we need you NPR. Ramp up reporting actions, not just what people say.

In other words, pleas redouble your efforts to report full, comprehensive truth. No more both-sides caca. No more mealymouth sentences to gentle-down the brutality of the truth.

TRUTH IS UNDER ASSAULT.

NPR @npr.org · 18d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 21d

I don’t doubt you. As a Catholic myself, I feel that any religion can have extremists. However, Evangelicals take the prize in this country for having the most that are Cuckoo for Coca Puffs. They’re fargin scary.

Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 21d

Catholics too. They’re like warring tribes. Unless they can use one another.

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 23d

If you’re not opposed to preowned, try your luck stalking sites like Poshmark and Ebay.

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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 26d

Please read our amazing RA @helenvmurray.bsky.social's evocative blog post on the @victorianhand.bsky.social website, which conjures the tactile, time-spanning qualities of G F Watts' affecting hand casts. As she points out, they were a big influence on the conception of the whole project.

The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · 26d

Time feels tangible in these casts...
Over on the Victorian Hand project blog, our Research Associate @helenvmurray.bsky.social reflects on her trip to Watts Gallery to research their extensive collection of plaster cast hands..
www.thevictorianhand.uk/blog-touchin...

A plaster cast of the hands of GF Watts, one folded over the other.

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 26d

My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉

Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!

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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 26d

I continue to dream.

Old Houses Under $50K and Beyond @oldhouses.bsky.social · 26d

c.1894 #NorthCarilna #QueenAnneVictorian $185K.
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Wanderlust & Pixie Dust @velvetnmoon.bsky.social · 26d

Oh my!

Jean and 🐈‍⬛ Emmaline and 🌈🐈Oliver🌈 @jeanchimera.bsky.social · 26d

I absolutely *adore* these sorts of things. From medieval through Victorian, chatelaines, sewing kits, travel cosmetic and toiletry kits. They're all just so cool!

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26d

The Lady's Companion, a series of small kits containing things a Victorian woman would have carried in the mid-19th century: sewing kit, notions, small notebook, scent bottle, corkscrews, and ear picks. Currently on display at the Tatter Library in Brooklyn

IG tatterbluelibrary