Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Under Glass

Great A, little a,
Bouncing B;
The cat’s in the cupboard,
And she can’t see.

I thought I would feature these nursery book pages that are hanging around the store.

The book came in with a moldy cover but fortunately the pages were still okay. Phew! I rescued them and have some posted around the store as well as two pages framed. What is interesting about the frames is that they are reversible! What?! Yes, each page features a rhyme on each side so how could one side be covered up? If you get tired of one side just flip the frame to the other side and admire the other rhyme for a while.

Here is an example of the front of the frame:

And here is the back of the frame which is also under glass:

How clever, huh? Framing was done by Nancy of Artemis Framing, who also is the Marble Works gardener. The pages are sold separately or if interested, Nancy can mount and frame for you. Nancy is so talented!

Stop in and check them out.

A Full Year! Come Celebrate! 50% Sale!

Can you believe it? It has been a year. A full year in the Historic Marble Works. A year of windows, nooks, reorganization, change of staff (addition of a grandson, Greyson), new neighbors (can’t get any better than Costello’s Market!) and so much more.

To celebrate I decided to hold a week long celebration of a 50% sale. I want to do this in appreciation to everyone who’s been in to support the move and to meet new people. So stop in! Everything is on sale: lamps, bookends, other misc. stuff and of course, books! The sale runs through Saturday, September 22, 2012.

New Sign!

 

Look!

How cool is this? Ryan and Nancy from the Marble Works Partnership are hanging the new store’s sign. Doug Lazarus, brought it in yesterday and Ryan got right on it this morning. This was a long year in the making. Doug never gave up on me. The old signs were taken down and as soon as the weather clears up I’ll paint where the other signs were with chalkboard paint for book quotes. The easel will be used for the Open sign. Easier for me to remember to put that out. Yea, I wasn’t so good about flipping over the Open/Closed sign. So annoying! I’ll post a formal photo as soon as Doug comes by. Can’t wait to show it off with the artist!