the little seamstress 🪡📚
@littleseamstress.bsky.social
Rach's ramshackle curiosity shop of books, sewing & whimsy 🖤 #DickensClub host w/ spouse @SketchesByBoze 🖤 pen name: Sydney Wren 🖤 rep: Maura Phelan of Green Light Literary 🖤 "Brighten it, brighten it, brighten it!" ~Dickens to his fellow publisher 🎩🖤
irises in the morning light
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
irises in the morning light
my reward for posting my essay on THE ODYSSEY for our Substack: reading one of my favorite authors, Peter Ackroyd! From a gift yesterday 🖤
May 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
my reward for posting my essay on THE ODYSSEY for our Substack: reading one of my favorite authors, Peter Ackroyd! From a gift yesterday 🖤
#ShakespeareSunday with @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social and @danarail.substack.com 🎭 a Renaissance Recorder concert, and for tonight: rewatching Branagh's Henry V 😍🎭
April 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#ShakespeareSunday with @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social and @danarail.substack.com 🎭 a Renaissance Recorder concert, and for tonight: rewatching Branagh's Henry V 😍🎭
Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!! 🥳🎉 And Happy #WorldBookDay!
April 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!! 🥳🎉 And Happy #WorldBookDay!
reading Picnic with @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social 🖤 Simone Weil, but also Tom Shippey's Author of the Century & Tolkien's letters for #TolkienReadingDay 🌲💚
March 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
reading Picnic with @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social 🖤 Simone Weil, but also Tom Shippey's Author of the Century & Tolkien's letters for #TolkienReadingDay 🌲💚
home sick 🤒 but happy to sleepily spend the day with mighty Hektor & grey-eyed Athêna, figuring out my current note-taking method... 💛
March 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
home sick 🤒 but happy to sleepily spend the day with mighty Hektor & grey-eyed Athêna, figuring out my current note-taking method... 💛
on to Books 7-12 of THE ILIAD as part of my "St John's College Great Books Challenge" I started over on Substack last week...and our cat Poirot is helping with commentary 🤣
March 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
on to Books 7-12 of THE ILIAD as part of my "St John's College Great Books Challenge" I started over on Substack last week...and our cat Poirot is helping with commentary 🤣
I've always loved & been fascinated by Simone Weil, so it was a treat to find this at the library yesterday. 🖤📚 (I've been rereading THE ILIAD as part of the St John's College Great Books challenge I started over on Substack.)
March 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I've always loved & been fascinated by Simone Weil, so it was a treat to find this at the library yesterday. 🖤📚 (I've been rereading THE ILIAD as part of the St John's College Great Books challenge I started over on Substack.)
reading buddy 🖤🐈⬛🐾
March 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
reading buddy 🖤🐈⬛🐾
good morning! little beauties from the garden 🌸
March 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
good morning! little beauties from the garden 🌸
I'm just loving the Robert Fitzgerald translation of The Iliad, and also Dan Stevens's perfect reading of it on audio!!! 😍🥰
March 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I'm just loving the Robert Fitzgerald translation of The Iliad, and also Dan Stevens's perfect reading of it on audio!!! 😍🥰
book mail day! 😍
March 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
book mail day! 😍
happy March 🌸
March 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
happy March 🌸
he is also the Book Gremlin, devouring books everywhere! little teeth marks in random pages. forget dog-eared corners...the cat version is far worse 😆🐈⬛
February 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
he is also the Book Gremlin, devouring books everywhere! little teeth marks in random pages. forget dog-eared corners...the cat version is far worse 😆🐈⬛
outside my sewing room this morning 💙❄️❄️❄️
February 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
outside my sewing room this morning 💙❄️❄️❄️
the shelter kitten we adopted a week ago has settled in so well! he's become our resident Book Cat & Opera Cat 🐈⬛🖤🖤 and we are pretty sure he prefers Mozart to Massenet
February 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
the shelter kitten we adopted a week ago has settled in so well! he's become our resident Book Cat & Opera Cat 🐈⬛🖤🖤 and we are pretty sure he prefers Mozart to Massenet
awww your girls are so beautiful!!! 💗 Thank you so much for the kind words, and we've been having so much fun playing with our new reading buddy this morning ...I know Boze just posted these, but in case you missed, here he is 🖤🖤🖤
January 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
awww your girls are so beautiful!!! 💗 Thank you so much for the kind words, and we've been having so much fun playing with our new reading buddy this morning ...I know Boze just posted these, but in case you missed, here he is 🖤🖤🖤
my old car was no longer roadworthy, so we now have a safer one, with a friendly spirit watching over it 🖤
January 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
my old car was no longer roadworthy, so we now have a safer one, with a friendly spirit watching over it 🖤
oh, happy mail day! glorious 1,363 pages of Parisian underworld, a mystery that inspired Les Misérables & The Count of Monte Cristo, originally published in a Parisian newspaper in 150 parts 😍📚
January 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
oh, happy mail day! glorious 1,363 pages of Parisian underworld, a mystery that inspired Les Misérables & The Count of Monte Cristo, originally published in a Parisian newspaper in 150 parts 😍📚
last night I watched a film of the 2015 stage production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale with Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench (@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social & @danarail.bsky.social) 🖤❄️✨ & it was so magical and moving! There is nothing better than Shakespeare done beautifully
January 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
last night I watched a film of the 2015 stage production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale with Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench (@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social & @danarail.bsky.social) 🖤❄️✨ & it was so magical and moving! There is nothing better than Shakespeare done beautifully
another year of proud membership 😍🎩🖤
January 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
another year of proud membership 😍🎩🖤
...and kept interrupting my husband over the next 2 hrs with fascinating wikipedia tidbits about Sir Kenelm Digby's stranger-than-fiction, eventful life. Ordered a full-length bio & devoured it.
January 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
...and kept interrupting my husband over the next 2 hrs with fascinating wikipedia tidbits about Sir Kenelm Digby's stranger-than-fiction, eventful life. Ordered a full-length bio & devoured it.
is there anything better than reading a volume of Dickens's letters, & a biography of Melville, on a rainy day by the Sea? 😍🌊⚓
(Newport, Oregon)
(Newport, Oregon)
December 27, 2024 at 5:22 PM
is there anything better than reading a volume of Dickens's letters, & a biography of Melville, on a rainy day by the Sea? 😍🌊⚓
(Newport, Oregon)
(Newport, Oregon)