MUST share the pain...

Lookit what Bonham's is putting up for auction...

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=15337

Only some of the most amazing costume pieces worn in films for decades.

Before I forget....again...

I have an odd request.

Yes, I know...even for me.

I'm going to be making (with the help of friends) the fronts of our wedding invitations. The idea is to do a tissue paper collage with pressed violets and ivy leaves, and grape hyacinth, too.

Since there will be 250 invitations, I'm gonna need a lot of pressed violets, tiny ivy leaves and grape hyacinth, and while I'll have a good number in our own yard I know that's still not going to be enough.

So, if a bunch of my friends, especially around Tulsa or KC or Springfield, whom I'm going to be seeing in the couple of months could pick them and press them between a layer of tissue paper and then inside a book for a couple of weeks, that would really, really help me a lot.

I'm looking for mainly the ordinary, humble little purple violet...bunches of them. They're my favorite flower. Next to iris, of course. But iris wouldn't fit on the front of a 5 x 7" wedding invitation.

Ok, please? Help? Thanks...