Salvaging the Tailor of Gloucester

[asakiyume]

A few months back I found a sad thing: a copy of Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester frozen open in the ice on the road, and all mangled. I managed to pry the book free from the ice--minus its cover--but it was in bad shape.


But clever wakanomori realized that some of the pictures could be saved:



And when I saw that, I realized--these could be turned into cards. And so---







(There are others, but I'm only sharing the ones that I've already sent to people--no spoilers ^_^)

Comments

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice. :)

I like the photograph of the frozen book.

And think on, you freed it!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

At the time, I wished I'd been able to save the cover too--I briefly had images of going back with hot water to melt the ice so I could get the cover…. but that was a bridge too far.