18" x 25"
Hearts constructed with old paint tubes, pencils, pastels, crayons, and other art supplies, paint brush, wooden box, vintage book paper.
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How to Write the Perfect Love letter
17" x 20"
Collection of vintage letters including original letter written from solider to wife during WW2, pencils,
brass letter drop, vintage postage and letters with original postmarks.
Hanging by a Thread
24" x 30"
Hanger, vintage paper dolls, buttons, thread, watch faces, simplicity dress patterns.
The first time I ever heard my mother swear was in the early 70's while she was trying to make a dress using a Simplicity pattern. She was not successful.
The first time I ever heard my mother swear was in the early 70's while she was trying to make a dress using a Simplicity pattern. She was not successful.
Architecture of Home
24" x 30"
rulers, pencils, book, calipers, wooden birds and goblet, nest and egg, key, doll house chair, door, vintage home prints and designs.
American Serenade
24" x 30"
Violin, sheet music, etchings from vintage geography books, shells, bisque doll, vintage toys, jewelry, military medals, pocket watch faces, tin types, marbles, and assorted otherAmericana.
Songs You May Have Forgotten
15" x 17"Old sheet music, wooden train, elephant, shells, American flag, die cast soldier, string.
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
10" x 10"Vintage photographs, glasses and case, eye chart, flowers.
Feast of Knowledge
15" x 17"
Original handwritten cards from NY City Public Library card catalogue, vintage book covers, silverware and drinking glass wrapped in book cover leather and pages.
Keep Your Eye On The Birdie
15" x 17"Old Brownie camera and camera parts, film, film box, nest and egg, bird prints.
Sea Tales
24" x 30"
Book, telescope, shells, old maps and etchings, magnifying glass, jewelry, marbles, watch parts, messages in bottles, hooks, vintage charms and medallions, and many other assorted vintage objects.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
10" x 10"Vintage stock certificates, foreign money, old change purse, lock and key.
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Nature's Palette
20" x 26"Wooden box, flowers, fruit and bird's eggs fashioned into tubes of paint, bee's nest with colored pencils, shells, tin container, bellows camera lens, binoculars, old painting book, bundled paint brushes, pages from vintage wild flower book.
Forget Me Not
24" x 30"Original vintage letters, envelopes and postage stamps, postcards and Americana print; brass mail slot, eagle and wings; dance card pencil; sealing wax.
Road Men Shooting Gallery
30" x 40"
Old maps, string, Road Men wooden box, gun and holsters, Tom Mix wind-up toy, tin types, cigar box, bottle, vintage playing cards, sheriffs badge, wooden Indian and canoe, vintage cowboy and Indian figurines, tin boxes, toy rifle, stage coach and horses, pocket watch, tin bulls eye.
The romance of the cowboy just never gets old, at least to me it doesn't. I know there are many of you out there who feel the same. This piece took over three weeks to complete. I wanted to select the perfect items for the shooting gallery, and though I had quite a few items to choose from in my voluminous collection of stuff, off I went to the Woodbury flea market anyway for three consecutive Saturdays to find something just a little more ...perfect. Imagine how thrilled I was to find an original Tom Mix tin toy on the third Saturday. It was exactly what I was looking for to finish the piece even though I had no idea what I was looking for. Tom was in pretty rough shape but I was able to spruce him up with a little paint to bring him back to life.
Coincidentally, except for one of the swarthy looking bad guys, you'll notice that the bullet either misses or simply maims the targets. I'd like to think that most cowboys weren't out to kill anything unless they had to.
You can see by the expressions on the faces of the women and young girl riding the run away stagecoach that they aren't too worried about their plight. That's because Tom is lassoing them to safety.
You can see by the expressions on the faces of the women and young girl riding the run away stagecoach that they aren't too worried about their plight. That's because Tom is lassoing them to safety.
We should all be so lucky to have a cowboy come to our rescue from time to time in our life.
In my 24 years of making boxes this may be one of my most favorite pieces. And no, I don't say that about all my work.
Losing Your Marbles
10" x 10" Illustrations and colored plate from old Health book, marbles.
You're pretty much looking at a self-portrait. Perhaps you see yourself in this piece.
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