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The name's Grace. I'm the 26 year old version of a 26 year old designer with an intense range of interests and the attention span of a raccoon. Though IDK what the attention span of a raccoon is even like, so that might not even be a good analogy. I work at a radio station and I drink too much coffee.

I post a lot about Tom Hiddleston & Loki, Supernatural, Food, knitting, Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, & kitties (including my Untitled Cat) and my daily life. As well as anything else that interests me (which is a lot omg).

The only person I ever amuse is myself.
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Random Book-related rambles

I just found this tutorial to make clutches from old books. And I was like “Oh, man, I still have those books in the basement, they might make nice clutch purses.”

What’s “those books”? Well a few years ago I bid on a silent auction and won a full set of Elbert Hubbard’s Little Journeys at a book sale. I only bid because I went to high school in East Aurora, the home of the Roycroft movement. I paid $10 for a set of 14 books, leather bound, printed around the 1920s.

Some are in fairly good condition overall. Others the covers are a bit worn. Some the spines are so bad you can’t open it without the pages falling out. I even worked on restoring one copy, which came out well. My goal was to restore all them but I stopped.

This prompted some internet searching.
And this guy here is selling the same exact set in good condition for $500 on eBay.

Christ. I should really pack those books up and go get them appraised sometime. Right now they’re just sitting in one of my many boxes of books in the basement.

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