Poppy's Vanity


Saturday, wonderful weather, Spring, lovely weekend plans, new watercolors to try (I've bought purple and gold(!) yesterday, since I currently absolutely adore the work of Gustav Klimt), fantastic and huge books about ornaments and Art Nouveau from the library to read. Ahhh, life can be so good.

Hopefully your weekend plans are lovely too. What have you planned?

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