
At first I wasn't going to buy it (because it was a little expensive), but then I knew if I left it behind I'd think about it ...
Become obsessed with wanting it (thinking of all the possibilities for it), go back to purchase it, and it would be gone.
I decided to cut out all that longing and obsessing and driving around, and I just bought the thing ... a vintage-looking-sort-of-Victorian-ish theatre/lantern (the lady I purchased it from called it a lantern but when I first spotted it I immediately thought it looked like a toy theatre - or at the very least a really cool case in which to display treasures).

I set it on my work table in the studio (along with the two papier mache turkeys I still need to paint) and got busy going through my old books looking for vintage graphics I could use to make it into toy theatre. In a 1870s Godey Lady's Book I have I found a perfect Thanksgiving scene to use. Now ... I'm busy, busy, working on cutting up the scene & reworking it to fit inside the theatre. And I think I'll be getting out my watercolors to add some color and depth to the scene so it looks a little more theatrical once I get it in place in my "toy theatre."
Oh ... the possibilites with this thing ... I need to find some old images of Santa to switch to in December!

And ... I scanned the vintage turkey image from the Godey Lady's Book to share with you. Maybe you'd like to use it to make something for Thanksgiving. Just click on the image to enlarge it and then save it to your computer and get creative!
If you make something with it, be sure to let me know what you created, I'd love to see it!
































