Then as now, "good" children are often rewarded with gifts -- although I'm afraid my kids wouldn't appreciate any of these...

Ballard Designs currently offers a pair of nice repro caged santos dolls on its website. Since originals are often prohibitively priced, th...

Forgive me the lame post title. Sometimes puns are all this girl's got. I've been doing my share of online perusing of late, lookin...

The Heart in Hand emblem has a rich symbolic heritage in the Northeast. Traditionally, it is said to emblemize charity, or selfless action ...

. . . and where she stops, nobody knows. Carnival art has become a popular form of collectible folk art of late, not the least for its brig...

I love these framed calligraphy pieces from Carlson and Stevenson with such fervor . It's a treat to see the multi-colored inks, and th...

I just finished restoring the mechanical bank that my grandfather made for me (MANY) years ago, when I was ten. My aim was to make it look...