knick knacks & ric rac

i found these guys at the thrift store yesterday. i love them! i wasn’t really planning on going, i was out doing some errands, i turned the corner and the thrift store was calling me. i was compelled to go in. they had been spray painted white but i took the paint off. this is the […]

were you entertained (or traumatized?) by this classic german book when you were a kid?  my favorites/most feared stories were pauline and the matches, (they changed her name to harriet in my copy). the last picture of the kitties crying around the pile of her ashes always brought a tear to my eye. and naughty […]

lately i’ve become enamored with this pixelated style of folky graphics. they’re supposed to look like a cross stitch sampler, but it reminds me of old fashioned computer graphics, or being bored in math class and coloring in the squares of graph paper with one of those big retractable ballpoint pens that had 5 or 6 colors in it. […]

i am so in love with these handmade veggie folk from gobbledygook creature decor! i had already purchased the carrot and potato a while ago, then i just saw the red onion on etsy yesterday and had to get it too. the veggie folk are handmade, from the sculpting and mold making to the casting and painting. the detail is incredible! […]

i went to the thrift store yesterday and they had a bunch of cute russian clay figurines called dymkovo toys. i had never seen this type of handicraft before. i bought these two, the brown bears are my favorite… then i thought about the other ones all night and had to go back this morning […]

i picked up a bunch of bags of glass globs at the 99cent store a while ago and decided to use them to spruce up some windows. i used them on the little windows on my front door (except for one square so i can peek out of it)… it sparkles at night from outside! so pretty! i […]

did you know little house on the prairie is my favorite tv show ever? and that i watch it every weekday morning as i drink my tea? the funny thing is i had never seen it until i moved to california about 10 years ago. it’s what inspired me grow my hair out so i could […]

here’s some of my favorite art hangin’ around the house… these two are by a girl named amy moi who was an art student in boston. she had a little show up at the middle east around 1994 and i fell in love with her stuff. these are screen prints featuring knick knacks and stuffed things she […]

summertime makes me want to go on road trips. i don’t have plans for any this summer (which is probably good or else you’d never see those dresses i’ve been promising!) i shouldn’t say i don’t have ANY planned. i want to go to solvang and eat a giant pancake, but i guess that’s really […]

digging up those flower pins got me thinking about other things i used to collect that i don’t really collect anymore. i collected travel tiles for a while, i was planning on making a table out of them, then i collected so many i thought it would be fun to do a kitchen counter or […]