vintage song sheets graphics - flowers and cottages

Hello!

Today I will just be sharing pictures with you of vintage song sheet covers.
I think I slept on my hand wrong, and my wrist is hurting.
I use my wrist/hand when typing.
So, less typing today!

c.1911

I have chosen pretty scenes with flowers and cottages mostly.
I hope you enjoy them.

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You may be wondering - so here are some vintage pictures. What can I do with them? Check out my past blogs for things like decoupage and budget crafts. You will find some ideas there.

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If you 'copy' and 'save picture as', there may be many things you can do with programs already on your computer to manipulate colors, cropping,etc. I am NOT a computer savvy person, so I let my beloved husband set those things up for me. He then patiently shows me the basics, and I go from there! I always make a copy of the picture first, and work on the copy. That way if I make BIG mistakes, I haven't lost my original.

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Perhaps you have been wondering what the "c.date" means?

That is the date that this song, with this cover, was published.

Some songs may have been written previously, or the music had been published, but with a different cover. That means that sometimes you will have a song (music and song writer) that may have different publishing dates, or the same cover, only the picture added is of different current and popular singers of the day.

These next song sheet covers are of the same song, published in the same year.

Each is different!

c.1917

and here are two more, same singers, only different pictures of her!

You can print or in your editing program cut out just the photos. You have some wonderful vintage people then to use in your altered art, etc.!

Just think, you could find an entire photo album of your long lost 'relatives'!

:0)

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And just a reminder - you can find these song sheet covers at the Indiana Library of Music. The address is on the right of my blog, up at the top, under my favorites. They must have thousands of original copies. They have many that do not have the graphics, just the music. Some of the graphics/song sheets are still copyrighted, so you can look at them but you can't copy or paste them.

Have fun!

c.1902

After giving my hand a rest today, I should be back and running (typing that is) tomorrow!

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Random Ramblings with Vintage Song Sheet Art

Hi!

c.1905

Yep, I'm definitely having a rambling sort of day.

I realized that when I looked at the clock and realized I had been sitting here and hadn't really done much of anything.

For an hour.

Edited a few pictures.

Found a web site that has "Peace" in many different languages,

and realized that every time I was typing p-e-a-c-e,

I instead was typing

p-e-a-s-e.

Warning light! Warning light! Warning light!

Then realized that the site had down for 'peace' in

"Perce - 'eyewi nez

ummmm....,

I'm pretty sure that is supposed to be

"Nez Perce - 'eyewi"

I may be wrong on this, but I sure don't think so.

So.....

c.1907

Today I will be sharing some charming vintage songsheet covers.

These are from the Indiana School of Music.

You can find the website to the right.

They have mucho song sheets!

c.1909

Since apparently my brain and my fingers are having problems

communicating today, I'll try to keep the ramblings to a minimum!

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I am trying to stick to a loose theme of love

infatuation

and the plus and minus aspects of that.

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I hope you have enjoyed my little story,

told in vintage song sheet covers and songs.

Time to go do laundry,

let the dog out,

let the dog in,

pick up the living room,

oh

and I'm in to the new Michael Jeck's book

"The Bishop Must Die",

and it's getting really interesting.

let the dog out,

let the dog in,

I need to mount some scherensnitte I've been doing,

and frame some of my Collage Art Dolls,

and I need to list some of them on my etsy shop -

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

and then there's the e-mails I've been ignoring for a few days -

let the dog out,

let the dog in.

I need to call Shelly back, and see how Marge is.

I need to call Dani about the super play she directed last weekend,

and that I'll be coming back and bringing a friend.

Glenda just called, so we're fine for a few days.

Who am I forgetting?

let the dog out,

let the dog in.

Cathy, Irene and Adele of course.

sigh.

think I'll go eat a doughnut.....

c.1916

:0)

inkspired

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

dominoes@myinkspired.com

Is it time for Cherry Blossoms?

Greetings!

I have loved the cherry blossom tree and flowers for quite a long time (we're talking about almost dinosaur ages here).



I have penciled them, watercoloured them, painted them, punched them, rubber stamped them, scherensnitte cut them.....pretty much any way I can be involved in cherry blossoms!

from inkednation blog

 

I'm not really "up to date" when the official Cherry Blossom Festival is in Washington, D.C. Some day I will make a trip there, just to see the blossoms!
Well, okay, and the Smithsonian museums, and the memorials....
Day dreams for now.

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams.

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

tread softly,

because you tread on my dreams."

- W.B. Yeats

That is one of my all time favorite quotes.

Here are some more beautiful costumes for Liana's paper dolls.
Have you checked out her blog yet? She makes almost a costume a day!
Verrrrrry creative.....

Grace, from yesterday's post, will also fit these costumes, as will today's Ivy fit into yesterday's costumes.
The spring green tunic with cherry blossoms is styled in the Vietnamese custom.

http://www.jimsmeltzgallery.etsy/

Here are some terrific vintage song sheet covers. These are from Indiana's Music Libraries. Check out their site listed to the right of my blog.

c. 1917

I truly love these vintage graphics. I have spent many (too many...) hours at the Indiana Music site. They are a wonderful slice of history.

courtesy of the Vintage Workshop - check out their web store!



According to some of the info on the internet, Chinese cherry blossoms and Japanese cherry blossoms are both revered, but have different meanings for each culture:

Chinese cherry blossoms are a symbol of power, feminine beauty or female dominance. This usually applies to great power and the symbolization of love.

Japanese cherry blossoms are established on or around strong spiritual beliefs. The nature of life is very short lived and it is considered very sensible to not get too close or connected to anything because it will end eventually. (Cherry blossoms bloom for one day only.) It is also a perceived emblem of feminine design. In ancient Japanese culture the warriors carried these symbols by the heart as in the Bushido code of honor and loyalty.

"Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers,

but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."

  ~Ikkyu Sojun

Dolls of the World (DOW) Barbie, 2nd edition Japanese, 1995

c. 1904

 

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- LadyBird Johnson

 

c.1914

"Spring hath put a spirit of youth in everything."

- William Shakespeare

Here is  very nice and simple cherry blossom craft, courtesy of

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/

Branch Out:

Cherry blossoms bloom only briefly, but these tissue paper versions can last all spring. Layer a sheet of dark pink paper atop light pink paper. Snip out a five-petal flower that's 2 to 4 inches in circumference. Once cut, reposition the dark pink daisy so the petals won't align with the light pink ones. Twist the center bottom of the flower, wrap with a 3-inch length of floral wire, and hot-glue onto a bare branch. Repeat, varying sizes of flowers so blossoms look realistic.

I hope you have enjoyed my focus on cherry blossoms today.

I would love to see your photos or handiwork with cherry blossoms!

dominoes@myinkspired.com

 

Have a beautiful day.

 

"Look deep into Nature,

and then you will understand everything better."

- Albert Einstein

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