I love Etsy and can spend hours pooting around on the site, looking at handmade soaps and jewelry and wall hangings and clothes, and daydreaming about spending thousands of dollars. Unfortunately, I don't happen to have thousands of dollars to spare, so I've never actually bought anything.
Until I saw this store! This artist hand paints lovely little portraits onto actual pages from vintage books. Having a bit of a book fetish, I thought this was the coolest thing ever. And her prices, for originals or prints, are very reasonable.
So when I saw the sweet couple dancing in front of the Eiffel tower, I had to do it. I bought a print (which is actually enlarged and is bigger than the original book page painting), and a set of note cards.
The artist is in England, and I was a little afraid of the possibility of the prints/cards getting bent in transit, but she packaged everything so well that the artwork reached my eager hands in perfect shape. And she even sent me a bonus note card as a gift, which was so nice of her.
Here's the Eiffel tower print, in a plain black 11x14 frame (I hung it by my bedside table):
The notecards were such good quality, I decided to frame one of those, too, and I put it on my dresser:
I'm sure this is obvious, but I do want to make it clear that she didn't compensate me or anything for this blog entry, I just wanted to share her stuff because I was so impressed with it.
And I'm so not kidding when I say I am really, really, really tempted to buy this, a giant octopus wall decal. Neat!
