A Riddling Post

Hello! This is a post with pictures! Hooray for all those who've been wanting more pictures on our blog!;) Anyhow, I thought I'd take pictures of the progress on my riddle book. But first here's the part in Emma that inspired me to make this:

".....And the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.

In this age of literature, such collections on a very grand scale are not uncommon. Miss Nash, head-teacher at Mrs. Goddard's, had written out at least three-hundred; and Harriet, who had taken the first hint of it from her, hoped, with Miss Woodhouse's help, to get a great many more. Emma assisted with her invention, memory and taste; and as Harriet wrote a very pretty hand, it was likely to be an arrangement of the first order, in form as well as quantity.

Mr. Woodhouse was almost as much interested in the business as the girls, and tried very often to recollect something worth their putting in. "So many clever riddles as there used to be when he was young- he wondered he could not remember them! but he hoped he should in time." And it always ended in "Kitty, a fair but frozen maid."

So there you have it! Alright, when I would sit down to add to my riddle book the first thing I did was to take a full 8 1/2" x 11 " sheet of textured paper and cut it so it was a square:

Then I figured out which riddles I wanted to use on the page:

Next came the fun part: Designing the page! :) I had a lot of different styles and themes, and I liked to incorporate little old-fashioned clips from the Victorian Trading Post magazine, sometimes.

Then I would finish pasting on the pieces and write down the riddles!

I thought this looked a little plain(especially on the corners) so I did a little more with it..

And "Voila!" A finished page of my book!

Sorry that these pictures aren't the best!

Here are pictures of the other pages:

So there you have it!! I hope ya'll enjoyed this post!Oh, by the way, so far I have about 35-40 riddles in there, and I'm still going!! But I'm sure I won't get half as many as Harriet!:)

-Sarah