The horse is indeed written in shorthand! It reads 'art in shorthand' in the bottom left. At the top it might read 'The old horse'. The horse itself is written in what might be a combination of both pitman and gregg, it's really difficult to decipher either way. And I think the music reads to never be flat (Bb), sometimes be sharp, and always be natural but I'm not that good at reading music.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

This is incredible Sue! Thank you so much for your help with this!

@sophiewinkler7549

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I was about to say the same thing about the music

@emiwillowscozycorner

2 жыл бұрын

Yup! You're 100% correct on the music ☺️

I'm so interested to know the journey this sketchbook took. How it passed from one owner to the next over the decades instead if being tossed away. You have a piece of history and it's so interesting. I wanna know the people who owned it!

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

From what we can gather, it belonged to someone who lived in the north of England and then moved to the Isle of Wight and this is kinda of a good luck book from when they moved!

Hey! I'm not fully done watching but this seems like a "Poesiealbum", I only know the German word. My mum still had them. You give them to each of your friends and every one of your friends puts a little entry so you have memories of those people! It's very lovely. Also often the people who made the entry picked the page, parents and grandparents often just wrote in the back. Edit: Also there was pre-written poetry of sayings you could use to put in them if you didn't have any ideas yourself.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

I love the idea of this! I wish it was more of a thing in the UK too, they make such cute little memory books!

@themadowl9224

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoodleDate I mean it works with every small empty notebook, and I'm sure even when not knowing the concept people would be honored to do a little entry! You could start the trend again! The difficulty is more in keeping up with it, I tried to start a few myself as a child but then kept forgetting about them 😅 This person did an amazing job at continously giving it to people close to them over the years.

@orbelix

2 жыл бұрын

My parents had notebooks like that! :D

@melanie9216

2 жыл бұрын

I am Dutch and I have mine. Not sure how old you are, but it was quite a thing in the 80s. Also family members were in there, who now have passed. It is really lovely.

@NelaDunato

2 жыл бұрын

I had one in elementary school (early 90s Croatia) too, we called it a "remembrance book" (spomenar). They didn't look like albums though, we mostly used small locking diaries with lined pages, not ideal to draw on lol. It was a girl thing, and I'm not sure if we even asked boys to write anything in our books. Yep the rhymes were usually not original, they were passed down.

Oh, I was surprised you didn’t know about this. When I was in school, almost everyone had a notebook like this and I’m not that old :)). I think it was very very common in past but it was still a big thing here in Czech Republic not long ago. It was called “památníček”, which means something like “memory book” in czech. You would give this to your friends, family or people you wanted to remember and they would write or draw there something for you. It was often something they wanted you to remember about them or some nice wish for your future life. The idea was that when you get older you could look back and think about people you’ve met and that may not be in your life anymore. It didn’t really matter if it was when you were leaving or not and people would often have the same “památníček” for many years, that’s why it has inconsistent dates. I have one from high school and I come back to it from time to time, it’s really nice.

@igotitfromagnes8852

2 жыл бұрын

We have something like that here in Poland as well We call it the same: "pamiętniczek" ^^ I still have mine somewere.

@LunaBianca1805

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing here in Germany, I probably got mine for 1st Communion in 1999 - maybe that is a bit more of a mainland Europe thing 🤔?

The music one says: "B(e) flat never B(e) sharp sometimes B(e) natural always" My big question is, were any of the paintings done with a genuine Reeves brush?! Also, I'd love to see you guys do art inspired by the poems ^_^

@Fallen-vi4eb

2 жыл бұрын

was coming to the comments to see if anyone beat me to this (and you did lol)

“A jonquil in a bowl”. A jonquil is a flower. It’s a member of the narcissus family with daffodils. Technically, I think a jonquil is a type of daffodil. Jonquils usually have a stronger scent than daffodils, and I believe they have multiple blooms per stem while (IIRC) daffodils have only one. There’s also differences in the leaves, stems, and colors.

In 1920s America, it was common to have a guestbook in your home, where your guests would sign and leave a message. Maybe this is a guest book that they added art to?

I had a poetry album when I was younger. I passed it around in school to classmates or teachers. This book got used like this too apperently. I would like to see you draw the Loch Katrine. Landscapes are not often shown on this channel, so it could be a challenge.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

That's such a wonderful idea!!

"Make new friends but keep the old" was a poem I learned in American Girl Scouts! Not sure if that's the origin though. Also, mirth is joy, particularly expressed through laughter. Myrrh was the gift to Jesus.

When I was a tiny kid, these kind of books were popular to have especially among teenagers, I think. You would lend it to the person you like and they would write a little poem, maybe make a drawing and dedication. Sometimes you would ask a friend, sometimes a cousin or sibling to decorate a page, it was not exclusively school thingy.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

We really appreciate the info and would love to learn as much about this as we can :D

@tarabooartarmy3654

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they were still slightly popular in the 80s when I was a kid. Sometimes they called them an autograph album. I had one that I got from a yard sale that a few people had written in already. I wish I still had it. I remember one of the poems someone had written was, “Little Johnny loved to drink, but he will drink no more. For what he thought was H20 was H2S04.” Quite morbid. LOL

19:10 - I think that said "his BOOTS were full of feet", which makes that much more sense lmao

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

Okay THAT... makes a lot more sense HAHA

Love how Adam is always so exited for really old things! It is interesting to see a book like that from so long ago... I suspect it is some kind of maybe guestbook or something. really cute and hoho Adam had to read.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

Im a big boi who reads

For the music notes it says B flat never B sharp sometimes B neutral always

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

That's actually really cute!

Btw... A kiss of the sun for pardon A cry of a bird for mirth You're nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth My aunt has a sign with this poem on it in her garden. 💜

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

OMG THATS SO SWEET What a cute coincidence as well omg

I keep seeing old art stuff on Etsy in antique shops, I always think of Adamo.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

HAHA With Adamo i think this too! He loves old stuff!

I got a blank sketchbook one year and used it as a yearbook and had everyone sign it with a drawing. That’s what this reminds me of.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

We're thinking maybe something like that too O:

This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Like an artsy yearbook for the friends you make throughout your lifetime. Thank you guys for sharing!!

I think the 3D artwork you weren’t sure what medium it was, is actually pressed flowers. I used to presses flowers a lot when I was little and they would turn out similar to that and often they would stain the pages like that. Very cool book and I’m glad you read out the entries, it was fun to listen to.

@kiriphyll4284

2 жыл бұрын

Unless you have a VERY fleshy or woody plant pressed plants are incredibly flat. Sauce: I work at a herbarium (with a quarter million pressed plants) I agree with Andy and think it's oil paint. It can be applied very thickly and could leach oils over time. Sauce: I like to oil paint as a hobby!

My grandparents were born in the 1920’s and my mother was born in the 1950’s so this doodle date video made me think of them.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

Aww that's very sweet!

🥺 what a beautiful gift to give your sweetie. Well done, Steph 💜 I wanna continue this trend of passing a sketchbook around and having friends put a drawing or a poem on a page

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

RIGHT?? It's such a cute idea!

@bajbaj88

2 жыл бұрын

We should, I want in=D this is awesome

It seems like something my mum used. We call it a Poesiealbum in Germany, so literally a poetry album. You give it to your friends and they write poems or other sentiments in form of short verses in it and my mums friends also used stickers, fotos, drawings and stuff to decorate the page. It’s really cool, I tried to fill one too but I didn’t have enough friends 😕

You got a friendship book, they were popular in back in the day, they are usually full of poems, wishes or congratilatons sometimes sketches/art.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

It's sad to think someone would want to sell it, but we will take good care of it

Wow that was so interesting and reminded me of when I was a kid in primary school (90ies in Switzerland). We used to have so called "poetry albums" which you would give to all your friends to draw or write in it, very similar to this! There were many standard poems that people used, most of them were more on the silly side though. "Lebe lustig, lebe froh, wie die Maus im Haferstroh"... 😆 but they were only used by children as far as I remember.

@bluerbsi2341

2 жыл бұрын

... also the bird is a european kingfisher, on of the prettiest european birds!

Wasn't it a tradition to have an album for giving your friends to write little things in, especially poetry? Love the video, it is wonderful that we can enjoy something from so long ago to learn that people actually hadn"t changed a lot. Warms my heart to think of how they felt drawing the gnome with his butt exposed by a deer 😂

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

This is the first time we've seen something like this, it was such a heartwarming experience to share with you guys

@otto8444

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoodleDate my grandmother has one! It was quite popular in places like France and Switzerland (where she's from) I think, and it's really nice to see another one! In hers are pictures, poetry, letters, drawings, and pieces of embroidery from her friends and family dating all the way back to the 60s

I'm currently doing a Doodle Date Marathon and was watching the video where you guys were making the bathroom until I got the notification! I ran straight here! That sketchbook looks so cool 😍

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

Aww! Thank you so much Goldie you sweetheart!

the music one is a pun, that says "never be flat, sometimes be sharp, always be natural!" ❤️❤️

Can you imagine if the people who created for this book all got together occasionally and began with "Hi art friends" . That would be amazing

I think the page with the music staffs mean "Never Flat, Sometimes Sharp, Always Natural" I think that's pretty sweet 🥰✨

Awwww! I adore this book. My grandparents have something like this. To every birthday/wedding milestone they got similar things from cards to poems and little drawings. My mom had something like it as a „friendship“ book, where her friends would write in them for her. Something similar was big, when I was a child, where you had a book where friends could write about them, you and your friendship. It really gives me these vibes. Love the art pieces in this book. Such a treasure.

The different levels of cursive is so interesting since it came from a time when the writing style was more common. Some of them are so elegant it's almost illegible. But then you have some that look like a type font, super clean but readable. And then some that look like the writer probably only used cursive for their signatures 😆

English teacher coming to help! I can decipher most people's handwritings lol 5:26 - It says, "A thrush's song, a baby's smile, a jonquil in a bowl...". A 'jonquil' is a type of flower, apparently. 5:40 - "All the small things were the big things for they brought us nearer God". You completely misread the end there, Adam, haha! But I don't blame you.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

LOL English never was my best subject so i appreciate having a teachers eyes look at this HAHA Thank you so much for your help Andy, it sounds MUCH better now :D

i love looking through old journals and sketchbooks! i enjoyed this video a lot... i also loved looking thru all the comments for ppl who had deciphered the poems; i could read most of the cursive but i was thrown off a couple times, especially during the "try it" poem.

It would be cool to create characters based on how one thinks the artists/poets looked like when they wrote in the album!

I instantly recognised that as shorthand! I used to get my grandmother to teach me - her memory isn't very good anymore so I couldn't have asked her, but its good to see other people here have the answer ^^ Definitely brings back memories of my childhood haha

Gasp, adam's first sketchbook! So excited!! :P

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

You should draw more Sems!

@avanguline

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoodleDate I will, but I'm far too busy having a life atm. So much to do, so little time uwu

Oh such a beautiful album. I remember having in elementary school, an album where everyone in my class and teachers drew or write in. That’s a real fist to keep !

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

I wish i thought to ask people to draw in mine! It's honestly such a cute idea!

this is so cool! and it’s so endearing how it’s all over the place and not necessarily in chronological order. It seems like it was loved by a lot of people :)

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree!

Yay! The best part of my Sunday morning - a Doodle Date video! I love you guys!!!

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

Really enjoyed looking through the album with you. I had one similar back in the late 70’s where I asked my friends/family or any interesting people I met to write in. Some just signed their name but others wrote poetry, jokes or drew pictures. Sadly I don’t know where the book is now, probably lost in one of my many house moves. This brought back some happy memories for me though so thank you.

The night was dark and dreary/The air was full of sleet/The old man looked down and found/His boots were full of feet!

I like how we learned that adam is a time traveler or immortal and he found his old sketchbook lol

The page with the music notes reads as “B flat never, B sharp sometimes, B natural always”

20:26 - "Try It/ Just being happy/ is a fine thing to do/ Looking on the bright side,/ Rather than the blue/ Sad or sunny morning [?]/ Is largely in the choosing/ And just being happy is because [?] work and time" - This was a tough one. Not entirely sure of those two words there.

This reminds me of my poetry album I had when I was small. I gave it to people to write poetry or a cute message in and to decorate the pages for me. It’s a thing lots of people used to do where I live.

Literally was JUST wondering when the next video would be! Thank youu!

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

We hope you enjoy this one Alexandria, there's some really gorgeous stuff in here!

12:14 - Sorry if I'm flooding the comments, but I love old stuff too, so I need to comment, haha! That is SO cool! If it's paint, maybe it's oil paint? Because of the "stain" around it? Maybe the paper wasn't made for oily substances or something. Really cool!

that was the coolest thing ever! history is interesting to me but i especially love these little glimpses into everyday people's lives back then. also yess a video where you redraw some of the art in this book would be really neat :D

In America we have Year Books in High School with pictures and activities for the school year, we get our friends and teachers to sign them. This reminds me of something similar.

Hiiiii!!!! Love you guys I’m so excited tomorrow I get to see if I win the art competition at school as I got to the final 5 love your videos

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

GOOD LUCK! We're rooting for you Amelia! :D

@liesbethartlife

2 жыл бұрын

Sending lots of good luck your way !

@freerangeeggs6442

2 жыл бұрын

GOOD LUCK

@Erika.luna09

2 жыл бұрын

Good Luck Amelia

@ameliamangham4460

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoodleDate update: I won the overall prize of £50 and my artwork will be displayed in 4 different locations!!!

That's such a nice idea I think I might start doing something like that with my friends and other people in my life

*as they brought us nearer God, was the line. This is so neat. What a great gift. (I love how hard it is to read cursive when everything is online and typed...)

This a beautiful video. I'd get an older person to read it with you. Lots of the words that didn't make sence is because you have miss read the words. Such a lovelie gift.

@DoodleDate

10 ай бұрын

That's a great idea!

What an amazing find! Thank you for sharing this! I loved the details of the fish, bird, and whatever that 3-d flower was! Whoa! All of it was so good. Anyway, always love your videos and you guys. I can't wait for what you guys do next.

The impasto flowers are a treasure but very fragile. This book is a heirloom and you are very lucky!

Yay I like how you go through old art supplies, it’s amazing to see the history and how people have been drawing since the beginning of time. You both are so sweet and wholesome.

I can’t even explain the amount of joy this video gave me. You two are the absolute best 🥲

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

Aw shucks! Thank you so much Jamie!

When I was a kid in the 90s, we used to have such tiny poetry albums to give to our friends and classmates for them to write or draw something in it as a memory. I bet, this book was intented for the same purpose :3

Back in the olden days, they had an “autograph book” where people would share a little verse they’d memorized, then sign and date. It’s probably a graduation with lots of her friends from art class. The cool part is that so many people owned it over the decades.

Adam has such a good poetry cadence. I could listen to a whole album of it. Also a redraw of the funky characters around 7:30 would be fun.

I declare, that was so awesome! A few years ago, I tried having my fave work mates do a guest appearance in my sketchbooks. Didn't have much success with it but did get a folks to draw in one. I've amassed 50+ sketchbooks now and i have begun to wonder what will become of them when I'm gone from this mortal coil. Thanks for showing this!

I believe curds and whey is cottage cheese 👍🏻. I’ve always loved items and places that are old and have so much history behind them. Glad that people don’t throw them away

I love this, its so interesting. I rescued a bunch of my grandmothers stuff that my Aunt was going to throw out. I thought I was being weird, now I don’t! I used an old (unused) photo album as a sketchbook. There was a bunch of old post cards and greeting cards from the early to mid 1900’s. It’s interesting to see the old illustrations, especially the saucy and humorous ones. A lot of the post cards were from my Great great grandparents vacations. Some of the scenery on the post cards no longer excise! One was from a Great great Aunt of an accident in 1909, of a drill at the Fire Chief’s Convention in Detroit Michigan… it was a photo post card of a horse drawn fire engine, one of the poor horses fell. I use the post cards for inspiration and someday want to do a project based around them.

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

aaaa that's so sweet you kept a bunch of your grandmothers old things, it's definitely not weird! It's a unique insight into what her world was like ^__^ also I would love to see that project if you decide to make it

My mum has these types of albums from when she left school and various jobs in the 1950s. They used to sign each other’s albums as a keepsake

My grandmother has a similar book. she was born in 1929. Back then it was very common to have such an album. All their loved ones wrote or drew something in there as a keepsake.

On the music page it reads…. Be flat never, be sharp sometimes, be natural always :)

That was so fun!

This was amazing to watch!!!!

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

We're so glad you enjoyed it Emmalee!!

I'm going through some pretty bad depression right now and this video really helped cheer me up and think about life and kindness.

I think you got an ancient "Poesie"-Album. We used to exchange them between friends and everyone made an entry, so you have a memory of your friends. You can include drawings, poems and we used to also glue in little printed pictures, some were even glittery. Like a Poetry-album, but it is not only poetry. I had one too.

One of my elderly clients who I do caretaking for has an almost identical album… hers is like a yearbook where all her classmates wrote their well wishes before moving on to another school… the penmanship & handwriting of those middle school age kids put me to shame!!!

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

even though i had trouble reading it, the handwritting really is gorgeous!

@rocksandglassstore

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I inherited something similar from my nan. Was an end of school book...

A new DoodleDate YES GIVE ME LIFE

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS ONE TOO RACHEL!!

20:32 i saw adam struggle reading this one and it looks a lot like my mommoms handwriting so i believe i was able to decipher it successfully "Just being happy Is a fine thing to do Looking on the bright side Rather than the blue Sad or sunny morning Is largely in the choosing And just being happy Is brave work amd kind"

Such clever and creative people in this book!

oh wow thank you for sharing this sweet history

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!!

Tht is one of the coolest album ever its an awesome idea to do an album like tht as well

Drawing of one of the writings! You were so very good it reading the cursive, only a few words missed. Good job.

Omg to try & draw in the style of some of your fave illustrations from the book!? To see you imitate that early one with the pink pointy noses that made Steph all happy would be amazing.

Great video, and such a fantastic gift! Mirth means amusement or laughter :) xx

The music thing: be flat, never/ be sharp, sometimes/ be natural, always... That note is ti, or B. I loved it. And would love to see drawings from some of those poems!

Omg I had one similar in middle school in early 2000 in Romania.We called them "oracol" ,we would have pages with questions that friends and school colleagues would answer and then you would give that oracle one person at a time to personalized one Page how they wanted,and they would put secret messages in the corners and fold them. Brings back memories!

This was such a fun video! 14:40 with your grief to sup (to consume/eat) / when you drink lifes bitter tonic / smile across the cup.

This is so cool guys! Love the blast from the past theme. This video was so fascinating and I was right there with you trying figure out what this album was and the meaning of the poems. I love the mystery of it all. Really interesting video. 👌❤😮 I think the music one might be referring to signs on the notes. So it would say: Flat Never , Sharp Sometimes and Always Natural.

Such a beautiful gift. I collect old ephemera ( mostly old photography) and saving these precious relics and memories from the garbage dump is so Nobel

I was watching one of your videos when the notif popped up :D

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Cheshire!! We always really appreciate the support

This is so cool!!

Adam reading God as trod made me laugh 🤣

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

I really tried my best with that one LOL

This is an autograph book and they are friends family and other people who wrote or drew in the book. It’s quite cool 😊

I would love to see artistic interpretations of the poems!

nice little piece of history with a bit of a mystery 😀

Just being happy/Is a fine thing to do./And looking on the bright side/Rather than the blue./Sad or sunny musing/Is largely in the choosing/And just being happy/Is brave work and true.

Curds and whey is cottage cheese, but also refers to a kind of dessert

@avanguline

2 жыл бұрын

And mirth is amusement haha

I have an autograph book from my grandmother... Much smaller and fewer sketches than yours. But it had all sorts of little poems and signatures in it from her friends and acquaintances. And hers was all over the place for dates as well. From the 1920's through the 50's. They tended to have little poems like this memorized to write things like this... Like the precursor to leaving a meme on someone's facebook feed, basically... And the 3D flowers look like they might be embroidery... My great grandmother was an epic embroiderer. I still have some of her work.

I am sooo glad you guys are back here! Have watched all of your videos probably at least 3 times, and have been around for quite a while now. I appreciate you guys being back here even though this platform isn't as good with monetization as you deserve. I loove binging your content whilst drawing. Watching from Australia so (whilst I loved them) I found it hard to make it in time for your live streams. I think how genuine you two are really sets you apart from other creators and is something I really love about you guys. Keep up the great content 👏

also, this reminds me a lot of a yearbook, or some kind of journal that was passed down from a mother to her daughter? it's like a combination photo album and poetry book

Those poems were brilliant! Drawings and poems, what a great book.

In Germany we got - and kids still get - friendship books or poetry books, so friends can write or draw something for you in it or answer some pre-written questions ^^

the page where someone wrote upside down was really funny

@DoodleDate

2 жыл бұрын

trollin' in the 50s like a PRO

so steph! curds and whey are cottage cheese, at least here in the USA. :) I loved seeing this book, and i hope you two get to find more old stuff in the future. It's great fun!

Adam, that would be terrific! I'd watch if you made redraws and inspirations from both the writings and drawings.

Why sit down in gloom and darkness/With your grief to sup?/When you drink life's bitter tonic/Smile across the cup.