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Victorian Reading Journal

I was scrolling through Bookthreads recently, and it inspired me to create a reading journal in Victorian / Dark Academia style. I've designed the cover already, and I'm still working on the interior. Excited to hear your thoughts! 😊🌹

By the way, if you are on threads, here's my profile: @LillyMcFarlaneBooks

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Victorian Animals Coloring Book

Whimsical Whiskerwood Town Awaits Your Creative Touch!

50 Cute Images With Anthropomorphic Animals for Relaxation and Stress Relief.

👉Step into Whiskerwood—Color Your Copy Now!👈

Welcome to the adorable town of Whiskerwood! This is a town filled with fun animals, enjoying their calm days in Victorian style. They sew, dine, play music, you name it. It’s up to you to add some color to their lives. With these cute creatures, you will have hours of joyful coloring! The book is designed for the best coloring experience: high-quality paper can handle your pencils, markers, and other materials. It doesn’t matter whether you are an experienced colorist or a beginner, this book is for everyone.

🦊 50 Unique Grayscale Illustrations: Each intricate design features adorable animals in Victorian attire, creating stunning contrast when colored.

🎨 Perfect for All Skill Levels: Whether you’re a beginner or advanced, these designs are both fun and rewarding to color.

🖊 Premium Paper Quality: Thick, high-quality pages can handle pencils, markers, and more, while dark back pages prevent bleeding and tracing.

📖 A Story Behind Every Page: Immerse yourself in the world of Whiskerwood as each back page reveals a charming story about the animal you’re coloring.

✨ Extra Goodies: Includes coloring tips and test pages to practice your techniques before diving in.

👉Get Whiskerwood's Victorian Charm in Your Hands!👈

Something I'm currently working on 😊

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Art Nouveau Coloring Book for Adults (vol 2):

with 50 Notes About Famous Art Nouveau Artists, Architects, and Jewelers

Create beautiful artwork and discover new visual styles with this new series of 4 coloring books. Each one follows a specific style and offers 50 beautiful images that you can color however you like.

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The Art Nouveau Vol.2 is the second coloring book in the series. In it, you will find 50 Art Nouveau pictures with floral elements and gorgeous portraits. Thanks to many details, these pictures will be entertaining and relaxing to color.

For beginners, the book offers helpful tips and color test pages while fans of coloring will appreciate the art.

Coloring is a relaxing activity, known to ease anxiety, improve sleep, and calm your brain. Spend cozy evenings coloring and creating artwork with the help of this book!

You can color using pencils, markers, or any other materials. Premium quality paper will help you achieve impressive results. All you need is to bring your creativity.

But this book doesn’t just help you relax. From this issue, you will learn a little about 50 famous Art Nouveau artists. There’s a new name on every page.

The Art Nouveau Vol.2 coloring book is a great gift for yourself or your friends and family. And if you love this issue, make sure to check out the first book!

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Art Nouveau Coloring Book with 50 interesting facts about the style

Create beautiful artwork and discover new visual styles with this new series of coloring books. Each one follows a specific style of Alphonse Mucha and offers 50 beautiful images that you can color however you like.

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Art Nouveau Vol.1 is the first book in the series. It is a collection of images designed in one of the most ornate styles. With many details and stunning floral elements, this book will be equally entertaining and relaxing to color. For beginners, there are helpful tips and seasoned fans of coloring will appreciate the quality of designs and color test page.

Coloring is a relaxing activity, known to ease anxiety. It’s known to improve sleep and calm your brain. You can spend time coloring after a long day while watching a movie or listening to your favorite podcasts. Not only that, but coloring helps to polish your own art skills. Color with pencils, markers, or other materials and create gorgeous pictures. Premium quality paper will help you achieve impressive results.

This book doesn’t just help you relax, the author made sure to include interesting facts about the Art Nouveau style. You can learn something new with every page.

The Art Nouveau Vol.1 coloring book is a perfect gift for friends and family.

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Victorians believed that arsenic in cosmetics can enhance the pale and delicate look that was fashionable in that period.

The Victorian era valued white skin as a sign of wealth and status: women of the upper class wanted to look even paler, as if they never had to work under the sun.

“It was all about how to make your skin more translucent,”

explains Alexis Karl, an expert on Victorian cosmetics and a perfume maker.

Makeup in the 1800s had two main trends: “natural” and “painted.” The “natural” look aimed to emulate the “English Rose”; a virtuous and lovely woman, but Karl points out “it was understood that there was a lot of artifice going on.” The “painted” look was more daring; these women did not conceal their use of makeup or their desire to be beautiful.

A woman queries the durability of cosmetics at a pharmacy. (Photo: Wellcome Images, London)

Harper’s Bazaar had been publishing a column “The Ugly Girl Papers: Or, Hints for the Toilet.” It was written by a Mrs. S.D. Powers, a beauty expert of the time, and became so popular that it was re-published in 1874 as an anthology. The “Ugly Girl Papers” has the tone of a wise aunt with endless advice on how to solve your beauty woes.

An 1898 advertisement for Dr. Campbell’s Safe Arsenic Complexion Wafers

To get this near-death look, women would squeeze a few drops citrus juice or perfume into their eyes, or reach for some belladonna drops, which lasted longer, but also caused blindness. Pale skin was encouraged with veils, gloves and parasols, but could also be bought: Sears & Roebuck sold a popular product called Dr. Rose’s Arsenic Complexion Wafers, which were just that–little white chalk wafers filled with arsenic for delicate nibbling. They were specifically advertised as “perfectly harmless.”

Arsenic, a natural metalloid found in the earth’s crust, is an extremely toxic compound that can be tolerated for a time when eaten in small amounts (and has occasionally been used in medicine). Long-term exposure, however, is extremely unpleasant: nervous system and kidney damage, hair loss, conjunctivitis and growths called arsenical keratoses plague the body along with, yes, vitiligo, which causes pigment loss in the skin. Arsenic, which became addictive as a person’s tolerance built, was used in as many forms as possible.

Lola Montez, a Victorian actress and traveling beauty writer, wrote in her book The Arts of Beauty about how women in Bohemia (now a part of the Czech Republic) regularly bathed in arsenic springs, “which gave their skins a transparent whiteness.” She also warned of the price: “once they habituate themselves to the practice, they are obliged to keep it up the rest of their days, or death would speedily follow.”

Though beauty-related deaths were not always reported as arsenic poisoning, it wasn’t that Victorian women didn’t know arsenic was toxic or addictive. It was not uncommon for it to be used as a poison by murderesses of the era, and by the late 1800s arsenic was known to be a dangerous ingredient when used in dyes and wallpaper. The use of arsenic in small quantities for skin lightening was considered so effective that it continued for decades.

Every time I read about this, I keep wondering, how do we stil exist? :D

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Christmas decorations at Stourhead 🎄

lilly-mcfarlane

Wow! This looks so cozy and beautiful! 😍

beggars-opera

My favorite inadvertently creepy photography convention from Victorian times actually is the "hidden mother" photograph. As we know, taking pictures of wiggly babies is hard, especially if their mothers aren't holding them. But for some reason people keep insisting on having baby photos taken with only the babies.

The Victorian solution to this...was to just throw a blanket over the mother and pretend she wasn't there.