1811-1829 Joshua P. Hammend, Montreal, Ledger Book Christo Henry Abrams I found these fabulous homemade

I found these fabulous homemade hummingbird lures at an antique shop in Maine

I'm always on the lookout for object that might inspire creativity

but also those tiny benches

The palette

who looks to me rather as if he is wearing aviator-style goggles

1811-1829 Joshua P. Hammend, Montreal, Ledger Book Christo Henry Abrams I found these fabulous homemadeI was sold on this old ledger before I even opened it; just a beautiful object in and of itself, with the well worn mark of James Brown, "Bookseller and Stationer, Facing the Seminary, Montreal" at the center of the front cover, and a sweet cloth mend on the binding. Then on the inside of the front cover is written the name of its owner, Joshua P. Hammond, 1811, with a few different notes as to his location at various years, including that he "left