You never know what you're going to see when you go walking. Today, I passed a house in my neighborhood and saw a pile of legs! I HAD to...

When I go walking, I like to collect interesting dried bits-seed heads, pine cones, twiggy pod things. Then, they get displayed around the h...

It's almost Valentine's Day! I have for you today, "The Fireside Book of Love Songs" with pictures by my favorite illustra...

Owls! I have a number of owl items and here are a few. The Kleenex box on the left was designed by Cori Dantini. You can visit her blog he...

My cards come from all sorts of inspirations but the following designs were inspired by mid-century fabrics. I created my leaf card (on...

One of my favorite contemporary artists is British print maker Angie Lewin. Her artwork has so many layers that create new shapes and patter...

It may be winter outside, but it's always spring when I wear one of my vintage flower pins. These enamel pins date from the 1960's a...

I won this very lovely silkscreened calendar tea towel from the very talented Galia Bernstein of Dancing Kangaroo . You can purchase them fr...

The colors of this Christmas book are not very traditional, but fit Southern California where today it's 75 degrees and sunny. The book ...

These charming illustrations are from a holiday book (published in 1999 by Mijade Publications, also in French) by Belgian artist Muriel de ...

Here are a few vintage Christmas cards from my collection. They date from the 1920's to about the 1960's.

I was at my local junk/thrift/antique shop which has about 4000 books (in no particular order) on shelving that is so close together that it...

For ages, I had been searching for the wonderful children's book "Thomas", written by Mary Harris and illustrated by Cliff Rob...