This Week's Inspirational - part 2

From 'The Arabian Nights - Stories retold by Amabel Williams-Ellis' (1957). The illustrations are by Pauline Diana Baynes. (click to make bigger).

Guess how old I is

Birthdayface had a party last week:

Here are some of the collages we made at the party (there are some that were too big to scan, I will try to post them later). You can also see collages from the 26 yr birthday party in 2011 here.

Oh boy oh boy! What nice friends have I.

My friend Lauqua kindly lent me some of her beautiful calligraphy to display here as I was so taken by it:

She was inspired by the calligraphy that she found in this beautiful little gem of a book - a French children's book about deep-sea diving written and illustrated in the '60s, when Cousteau-mania was in full swing.