Victorian Backgrounds Bring Romance To The Mind

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@HazySue (39265)
Gouverneur, New York
April 27, 2017 12:04pm CST
I was scrolling through Pixabay once again and came across this beautiful image of a piece of Victorian scrapbooking paper. I love the Victorian look when scrapbooking especially. It seems to reflect a more gracious, romantic time in our history. That must be why I was so much into the reach about tussie mussies and the language of flowers. It is an interesting subject. Did you know that every flower and color meant something? Anyway, this is just my musing about a time when I feel gentlemen were gentlemen and ladies were ladies. I try not to think about the infrequent taking of baths and the garbage throw at the edge of the roads to rot. It tend to take all the romantic notions away. Do you look at Victorian times as a romantic time or one of filth and smelliness?
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
27 Apr 17
Though you can't have one without the other, I tend to not think about the smell and filth of the time and think about those lovely Victorian homes and the romance of the era.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
28 Apr 17
@HazySue I wouldn't mind living in a true Victorian home. I love the turrets and multi-colors that go into them. I wrote a novel featuring a Victorian home and bought a resource book about them so I would get all the different aspects of it right. It's not published yet, but it will be one day.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
28 Apr 17
That's what I do. I love that period of time.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
29 Apr 17
@just4him the architecture is the best. I love the looks of the Victorian homes. I probably should look into buying a reference or resource book/
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@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
27 Apr 17
When I see paper like that, I'm reminded of The Bronte Sisters and the works of Dickens, and even Louisa May Alcott! Those are books I enjoy reading because they bring me back to that time and really make me feel that I'm living there and then!
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
29 Apr 17
I like those authors. I enjoy reading that type of book.
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@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
30 Apr 17
@HazySue Those books really take me away to a different place in time and it's nice to get lost there for a while!
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
30 Apr 17
@CRK109 it is. I can get lost in a book that is during a different time period.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
29 Apr 17
I think that I see it as a bit of both
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
29 Apr 17
Realistically that's what it is - a little of each.
@Kandae11 (57231)
27 Apr 17
It has its good and bad points, I don't know if it was before the Victorian era - but I simply hate the idea of leeches.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
28 Apr 17
Well, there is always good and bad in everything. I am not partial to leeches myself.