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When did you last receive of bouquet of flowers from an admirer? Recently, I hope. But did you take a really close look at the kinds of flowers that came? Perhaps not. A century ago - back in Victorian and Edwardian times - the gift of flowers was loaded with hidden meaning. They had a language all of their own. At the tail end of the nineteen century and into the early twentieth century people really did ‘say it with flowers’, and the wrong choice of species could land you in serious…

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Here are some adorable prints! Fairy prints from before or in the 1930s . Who wouldn't love these?? I hope you like them as much as I do!

Step into the enchanting world of Cicely Mary Barker, an early 20th-century artist whose art is inspired by nature, botany, and a little bit of magic.

The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies Cicely Mary Barker ~ Blackie and Son, 1926 I received this guest post from Ireland a while back,...

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Flower Fairies - Cicely Mary Barker - 1925

Lliira (pronounced: /ˈlɪərɑː/ LEER-ah[7] listen) was a chaotic good lesser deity of joy (and for a time an exarch of Sune)[7][17] in the Faerûnian pantheon. Everchanging and always lively, she was the embodiment of happiness and freedom,[2] inspiring poets, musicians, and all who reveled in the wonder of a free, cheerful life. The Joybringer was the archetypal ingénue dancer, showing by example that few things should draw one away from the Elysian Rigadoon, a philosophy that prioritized…