From the Couch

This is how I amuse myself when the day gets quiet. Be forewarned: that often includes whimsy, hedgehogs and other animals, cookery, children's books, pining after frivolous objects, pop culture and puns.
December 5
letmypeopleshow: The Envelope Please:  Edward Gorey, master of the mischievously macabre, shared a decades-long friendship and correspondence with Peter Neumeyer, a writer and professor whose childrens’ books he illustrated. Luckily for us they communicated via snail mail. Gorey’s fantastical envelopes, along with sketches, illustrations, and manuscripts, are reproduced in Floating Worlds, via Pomegranate Books.   ©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, courtesy Pomegranate (pomegranate.com)

letmypeopleshow:

The Envelope Please: 

Edward Gorey, master of the mischievously macabre, shared a decades-long friendship and correspondence with Peter Neumeyer, a writer and professor whose childrens’ books he illustrated. Luckily for us they communicated via snail mail. Gorey’s fantastical envelopes, along with sketches, illustrations, and manuscripts, are reproduced in Floating Worlds, via Pomegranate Books. 

 ©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, courtesy Pomegranate (pomegranate.com)

(via childrensbooks)