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little-cat-press · 5 months

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Sometime when my older siblings were little, my dad discovered that they found stories about his childhood more entertaining if he told them as "One time my friend Frederick..." instead of "One time when I was a kid...", and thus Frederick Stories were born.

I loved hearing Frederick Stories growing up, and so did all of my siblings. At some point, Dad decided to write (some of) them down, and a year or two ago I asked him for the file.

And now, currently in the mail to arrive late for Christmas, is a hand-bound copy of his book.

Two copies, actually, because I'm also sending one to his parents. He mentioned in the introduction that when he had first written these stories down, he had given them a copy for Christmas, and I thought they would like to have another, probably more nicely bound, one.

There's a third copy for me, but it took me long enough to finish these two before Christmas, and my copy isn't finished yet. Mostly, but not quite.

It is bound in a nice brown cloth I have, and titled with gold paint, because I thought it would lend it a sort of Old Book vibe that I thought would go well with the title.

Hence also the gothic font for the title.

I also did a few experiments with ways of turning cloth into bookcloth, which is why the two books are a bit different in color. The one on the right in the above picture is the original cloth color.

The edges are gilded with the same gold paint as the title is done in, which also helps with the Old Fancy Book vibe I wanted.

Almost all of the stories opened with "One day, Frederick..." or "One time, Frederick...", and I picked a nice ornamental font for the dropcaps there.

#little cat press #bookbinding #size: half letter #bound by me #a gift #author: my dad #gifted to my dad #gifted to my grandma #gifted to my grandpa

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averaillisa · 1 year

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zhongli’s birthday wallet d(^w^)b

#i just love how hu tao canonically gave him a wallet 🥺#my bro mentioned that it was an extremely dad gift to give and he's right ashgkehfdlfej #he also suggested the possibility of it being her grandpa's old wallet and now I'm 🥺#genshin impact #genshin impact zhongli #genshin zhongli #zhongli #genshin impact hu tao #hu tao #genshin hu tao #happy 2023 btw!! first post of the year haha #my art #chibi #wangsheng duo #wangsheng father daughter

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ohfallingdisco · 1 year

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my friends with depression: keep your birthday cards. i am begging you. i have mine in a drawer and when i start to feel especially worthless, i read through them and there’s my lost grandpa saying i love you, my favorite aunt’s funny cards, my parents actually writing heartfelt things, and doodles from friends from all throughout my life, usually with something innocent like “you’re cool, like your style.”

keep your birthday cards.

#love you guys<3 #yeah it’s been a hard night but all it is is i got a gift tonight from my grandpa who passed so i’ll get over it lol #depression help #depression advice #self care #mental health

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monabee-draws · 1 year

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20 years is a long time (to be in love)

Agressively makes more Stardew art for the holidays because it brings me joy---

#stardew valley #sebastian stardew valley #sdv #sebastian sdv #sebastian x farmer #myart #my farmer is three years older than Sebby #they met maaany winters ago when grandpa invited Michellene and her fam to the farm #and Sebastian drew her name for the secret gift exchange

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juicyspacesecrets · 1 year

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Happy Holidays and A Happy New Year!

...ya’ll know the deal (#｀-_ゝ-)

Bonus:

misplaced baby

#star wars rebels #ahsoka tano #alexsandr kallus #cassian andor #ghost crew #stated this day of and was like haha not gonna finish and then I didn't #self-fulfilling prophecy lmao holding my head in my hands #jacen syndulla my bebe my broccoli head boy my little freak of nature #gift cards are acceptable gifts to me!#granted kallus would be ok with anything doubt that man ever got anything beyond obligation lol #everybody going around introducing rex as 'the baby'#pointing at the grandpa and going thats the baby while literal baby jacen is right there #squad that fails together stays together #its not YOUR food poisoning its OUR food poisoning #dysfunctional family get together that no doubt adds to long list of reasons why you are Like That #fist fight between the baby grandpa and the guy you thought was your uncle but is actually just Some Guy #hope the pics aint too small 😬

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thebigolbee · 1 year

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Little gift for @super-shishkebab of her OC Purslane, feat. Marlow in his jammies for some reason 💜

Purslane is such a cutie rapscallion I just love her whole scene

#fallout #fallout new vegas #fnv #fallout oc #courier six #fallout ghoul #purslane #dick marlow #my art #gift art #love how she stole vulpes's hat out of disrespect #vulpes haters unite #she's so powerful for that #sometimes a grandpa who wears a crop top is also kind of a boomer sometimes #he can't help it

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ftm-radio · 9 months

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Hello! Here are some fun facts about me!

I am...

quite pale

permanently tired-looking with shadowy circles under my eyes

naturally very protective of and reluctant to part with my blood (nurses HATE him)

sensitive to bright light

unfortunately rather hairless

liable to use unnecessarily formal/stilted language at the drop of a hat

fairly nocturnal

a hermit

currently obsessed with victorian aesthetics (for writing purposes, but still)

literally allergic to sunlight, I think???

and I have to say, it is horribly cruel of the universe to make me so vampire-coded when it is my god-given, transgender right to be a goddamn werewolf.

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machiavellli · 5 months

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Happy Christmas Eve everyone!!🎄🫶✨

#have a wonderful day #literally ran everywhere today for doing 2882 cards and 27727 chocolates to gift 😭#im tired of this grandpa #(jk)#christmas #my blog stuff #💗🫶✨

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ectonurites · 8 months

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i wish i was joking but GENUINELY one of the easiest ways to get me to cry is. get me thinking about Stephanie Brown too hard

#grandpa max is god? i go to church now #throwback to that one year i cried three times in one day on my birthday all because of steph-related reasons #(one of them was happy crying from a steph-related gift. the other two were 'thought about how she was treated by DC too hard' cries)

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blended-ice · 1 year

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Headcanon that when viktuuri get married yurio gifts them a basket that says “Congrats on your marriage. well’nt wishes”. The basket is filled with fruit and a wine bottle that’s been broken, the edges of it jagged and stabby. Viktor tries to eat the fruit and discovers that they’re all fake and made out of styrofoam. It’s one of the few, and one of the worst gifts they’ve ever received from yurio.

#initially nikolai prepared an actual gift basket filled with real fruit and a wine bottle for yurio to give them #(for those unaware—nikolai is the name of yurio’s grandpa)#but yurio gave all that good stuff to otabek #found a broken bottle on the side of the road #and shoplifted the styrofoam fruit #nikolai finds out like3 weeks later and has yurio give them an actual gift basket while watching him the entire time #btw u guys dw—yurio shoplifted from a big ole corporate owned chain and not a small independent business #ok I’m done talking about my stupid hc now #yuri on ice #yoi #katsuki yuuri #viktor nikiforov #viktuuri #yuri plisetsky #podium family #sort of

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hollyhomburg · 10 months

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I have such an intolerance to being rude, like I accidentally do one thing and I feel like SHIT for the whole night like this is why I like to stay home and never do things 🫠

#I went out to dinner for my grandpas birthday #and aparently my mom and aunt where gonna split it #but I was sitting between her and my uncle and I didn’t realize #and they ended up paying for it cuz my mom didn’t warn me that I was supposed to use a gift card we had for the place #and then I also forgot to thank them! cuz I was worried about getting my aunt into the car and making sure #I was the one to drive them home because they where all drunk #anyways I’m gonna be extra thankful tomorrow cuz I’ll see them but I just feel like I was extra super ungrateful 🫠💀#I wanna d word over this #this is why I don’t drink cuz I get so scattered and ditzy and unpleasant

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bogkeep · 5 months

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[disdainfully gives the uncle i don't like a small jar of pickled herring as a present] swedish delicacy. take it

#at least it's easy to find gifts for czech relatives and family friends. you just give them some fish stuff #AD A FISH DISLIKER I DON'T UNDERSTAND BUT I WILL TRUST THE TESTIMONIES #i got a Fancier jar of pickled herring for my grandpa

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sneez · 2 years

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