Today, let’s have a lit­tle fun for Time Travel Tues­day. Per­son­ally, I am still stuck on look­ing at the Indian Court paint­ings I shared recently. For Christ­mas, I was given a few cook­books. Mod­ern ones, of course. But, it got me think­ing about vin­tage cook­books. Styles of books may change, but a good recipe remains ...

For this edi­tion of Thursday’s Round Up, I wanted to share a few videos that I enjoy. They vary from music video to ani­ma­tion to stop motion, and are all pretty mesmerizing. Blu’s video, Big Bang Big Boom is the story of of evo­lu­tion and its con­se­quences. The logis­tics and plan­ning to make this short ...

For the record, I don’t use sketch­books effec­tively as I should. Mine tend to be filled with scrib­bles, non sequiturs, and aren’t very exper­i­men­tal. The best sketch­books help artists to refine their style, and make it a safe place to “mess up” and try new things. For this Thursday’s round up, I’ve included some sketch­books ...

Hav­ing a weak­ness for most things fash­ion­able, I’ve recently devel­oped a strong affin­ity for shoes. Amongst my time ded­i­cated to online win­dow shop­ping, I’ve come across both fash­ion­able and no-so-fashionable, but then there are shoes that are just cool. Artists shoes add a unique flair to an often banal sil­hou­ette. Betsy Wal­ton has designed a ...

If you aren’t famil­iar with my blog or tweets, then you might not real­ize how much I enjoy toys. Here’s a snip­pet of some of my collection: My main obses­sion is with vinyl toys, more specif­i­cally with design­ers and illus­tra­tors that turn their 2D draw­ings into 3D objects (more com­monly referred to as “art toys”). ...

Each week, I fret a lit­tle bit about find­ing enough things for a Thurs­day Round Up. This week, how­ever, I had an abun­dance in choices and had a lot of fun researching! Nest­ing dolls, or more com­monly known as Matryoshka dolls are tra­di­tion­ally a wooden doll with five dif­fer­ent fig­ures. There is a large fig­ure ...

Per­haps I still have my Mon­day view­ing of the Dark Crys­tal on the brain, but the whole movie I sat in awe of the pup­petry and the detail­ing of all the char­ac­ters and sets. For­ever a fan of toys, I’ve always been fond of fin­ger pup­pets. For this edi­tion of Thurs­day Round Up, I present ...

For the Round Up this week, I’ve selected a hand­ful of hand-painted plates. The value of a nice plate or plat­ter is not some­thing that goes over­looked, and I’ve recently become acquainted with quite a few vin­tage hand-painted plates. I love them for the care and quirk­i­ness they bring. With this Thursday’s selec­tions, a mod­ern ...

No stranger to the ink, I’ve always been inter­ested in tat­toos and the vari­a­tions across this broad spec­trum of art. I often find it dis­ap­point­ing to see generic tat­toos when in real­ity, tat­toos can be so intri­cate, cre­ative and beau­ti­ful. They don’t have to sub­scribe to Sailor Jerry type of tat­toos. For this Thursday’s Round ...

For this Thursday’s Round Up, I want to share with you some wall decals. They have always been some­thing I’ve wanted to own, but for one rea­son or another have never bought. I love how they look on walls, and in my dream apart­ment I have them plas­tered across my plum-colored walls. Through my research, ...