Free desktop calendar wallpaper for February 2012 with vintage images and scrapbook inspired design in multiple screen resolutions. Continue reading Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: February 2012
Author: victoria
Welcome to Call Me Victorian! This site has my free vintage inspired printables, clip-art, images, and digital scrapbook ephemera. Are you truly a Victorian Lady at heart? Glimpse into a bygone era and add some Victorian style to your life.
Free Printable Vintage Valentines
Set of vintage Valentine’s printable digital collage sheet – download and print this freebie for your sweetheart on Valentine’s day to create your own cards.
Four vintage images are included in this set.
Valentine’s Day History
Just where St. Valentine fits into Valentine’s Day and why the day should be named in his honor is a little bit of a mystery – it is really Cupid’s day, and one could scarcely accuse the little love god of having ever been a bishop of the early Christian church.
The St Valentines were, for there were two of them, involved in the early church. One was a bishop of the church in Greece and cured the son of a rhetorician, Craton, of a serious illness. The second St Valentine, who was the main inspiration for the holiday, was one of the earliest of the Roman popes at the time of the Claudian persecutions in the third century. Continue reading Valentine’s Day History
Free Digital Scrapbooking Paper – Vintage Pocket Watch
Free digital scrapbooking paper featuring a vintage pocket watch in three different colors and styles. I made two grunge papers with distressed border edges and one clean and simple patterned paper using the watches. I love the look of old time pieces especially pocket watches. If you are into the steampunk style or are a Tim Holtz fan, but want a digital option, these papers should be perfect for you. Continue reading Free Digital Scrapbooking Paper – Vintage Pocket Watch
Free Victorian Clipart – Flower and Watch
In this free Victorian clipart post, the first image is a colorized version of a chrysanthemum flower, you can also download the original black and white line drawing too. Both as transparent PNG files. Continue reading Free Victorian Clipart – Flower and Watch
Vintage Truth
Truth is forever the same, but for imperfect men it changes from day to day
and century to century. Up until recently, men said: “The earth stands still
and the sun moves. We know, for we see and feel that the earth is still, and
we see the sun rolling through the sky above our heads.” Men were like
children in the train, believing that the trees are moving past the window.