24.5” x 26.5” x 2”
Even as adults we still play games to get what we want. Weather in relationships, our careers, or daily life issues, when we reach a stalemate and a resolution has not been reached. We rely on a combination of games as ploys to win the game. Among my large collection of vintage games, I chose those which best represent the tactical behavior of mind games.
Made with original game boxes, vintage game, spinner, chess pieces with bisque doll heads, and crown. Framed under glass in 3 inch deep hand milled pine frame.
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13”x 21” x 1.5”
Framed under glass in 2.5” deep hand milled pine frame.
A simple play on words can change everything.
Made with antique Willis’s Cigarettes Wild Flowers cards, old fabric, sewn in bottle with seeds, needles and thread topped with flowers.
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Framed under glass in hand milled 2.5”deep pine frame.
In our ever-growing family trees, there are always a few standouts who inspire us to fill their big shoes. There is even a mirror in the center of the flash to see your reflection filling their shoes!
Made with vintage wooden shoes, rulers, Mid century tower camera with bisque doll arms, vintage flash unit with mirror, tin leaves, family tree chart, original vintage photos.
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15” x 29” x 2”
Framed under glass in 2.5” deep hand milled pine frame.
It’s all too easy to go off track and lose your train of thought these days. As the wheel of thought in the caboose demonstrates we all have a lot on our minds; global concerns, Separating the good decisions from the bad, finances, work, relationships, And finding our true passions in life, just to name a few. Keeping our train of thought on track takes focus as the microscope shows peers both into the conductor’s (aka you and me) brain and outward towards the path ahead.
Made with original pages from the book “The Wonderful Locomotive” by Cornelia Meigs published in 1936. The little man tending to the gears made of clock parts is a vintage Mr. Ready Kilowatt which was an electric company mascot. This piece also features train tracks and an old wooden engine with a tin caboose which carries the thought wheel made from an old game spinner and a selection of vintage objects, watch face and spinner. The conductor is an antique bisque doll head who wears an old tin top as a hat and peers through an old microscope. The engine stacks are made with parts of the microscope
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13” x 25”
Framed under glass in 2.5” hand milled pine frame
Your mother always warned you not to run with scissors. This is what can happen if you do.
Made with vintage paper dolls, antique porcelain dolls, scissors, bisque doll parts.
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Framed under glass in hand milled pine frame.
Made with pages from the vintage book The Book of Wildflowers, flowers, glass viles, pewter chalices, scissors, string, antique blue Bromo-Seltzer bottle.
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Framed in hand milled 3.75” deep pine framed sealed under plexiglass.
Made with vintage Strat-O-Flyer kite, Mid century honeycomb rocket ship with tin space cowboy Astro gun handle, Tom Mix cigar label, string, gems from vintage jewelry, which glitter like stars, when any light source reflects on them. Hand, painted acrylic, background of the cosmos.
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Framed in hand, milled pine frame and sealed under glass.
The equivalent of the red eye flight. These domestic birds found an innovative methods to like their way through the darkness by securing flashlight bulbs with thread like hats on their heads.
Made with vintage, bird, figurines, flashlight, clock, coffee, 10, hand blender, spoon, vintage blocks, books, spools of thread and needle, hand-painted, acrylic background.
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Framed and hand milled pine frame sealed under glass.
You either have it or you don’t
Made with Vintage, animal, figurines, vintage British brand, labels, old Spell-It card, game, vintage magnet, iron toy wheels.
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Framed in hand milled pine frame under glass.
The origin of horse play.
Made with original game board, piano keys, vintage tin monkey, scooter and noisemakers used as wheels, wooden horse with vintage game pieces balancing on head, gold frame moulding.
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Framed under glass in 2 inch deep hand milled pine frame.
Passing the time while healing the soul.
"Made with original pastel drawings, Band-Aid box, pastels, wooden rowboat and oars, old star maps, clock.
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Framed under glass in 2 inch deep hand milled pine frame
A true collector is always devising new ways to reach the unreachable. In this case, a ladder was used to collect the planets and stars from space, and vibrant clouds during sunset, then secured the specimens in glass vials. A telescope to locate these treasures and tweezers to carefully extract them is a must to include in every collector’s box of gear.
Made with original pastels, glass vials, telescope, tweezers, old wooden box, glass marbles, vintage blackboard.
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Framed under Glass and 2 inch deep hand milled pine frame.
Made with antique Kodak bellows camera, wooden glass negative plate holders, vintage swan and hummingbird illustrations, Colored pencils spooled with original Kodak film, Original owners manual for Kodak camera, specimen, jars, containing feathers, tubes of paint, pastels and pencils.
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Framed under Glass and 2 inch deep hand milled pine frame.
When wanderlust is your compass.
Made with deconstructed briefcase with hardware, diagrams from midcentury aviation book, original old stamps and handwritten postcards, maps from old geography books, hand painted airplane, Anagrams, and clock hand
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Framed under glass in 2 inch deep hand milled pine frame.
Life isn’t always a cakewalk. But it makes the surprisingly easy accomplishments, all the more sweet.
Made with old cake recipes from the Joy of Cooking cookbook, Knife and fork, a page from the antique children’s book Tin Tan Tales, bisque doll parts, brass candle holder with candle, cake.
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Framed under glass in a 2 inch deep hand, milled pine frame.
Made with found leaves, vintage, bird and botany prints, vintage drawer pulls, brass door knocker, nests and eggs.
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Framed under glass and hand milled 2 inch deep pine frame.
It’s important to surround yourself with a posse that keeps you grounded as you gallop through life.
Made with vintage wooden horse, rulers, piano, keys, old, children’s blocks, original acrylic of blue sky, and a rope to shimmy down off your high horse.
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Framed under glass in hand milled 2” deep pine frame.
All drama, whether real or imagined, deserves a stage.
Made with piano keys, vintage frames, old clock face in brass casing, blocks, vintage, cow and sheep, bisque doll parts, chair, jewelry, doll eyes, wooden balls, original acrylic painting of galaxy in background.
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Made with old flute case, maps, original vintage postcards and postage, old ink pens, pencil.
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No one will ever forget the memories of home; the good, the bad, the happy, the sad, along with all those juicy family secrets.
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Made with used tubes of oil paint, paint brushes with birch tree twig, drift wood and shell handles, old paint brush with hand painted globe on brush hanging by a nail on original acrylic painting of space, vintage metal paper binder, vintage world map.
There’s no finer artist than Mother Nature.
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Made with sheet music, doll parts, assorted parts from violin, flute, trumpet, piano, clarinet, tambourine, and guitar.
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Made with found twigs and leaves, mushrooms and acorns, vintage bisque doll parts, ladder, cuckoo clock part, vintage animal figurines, star map, brass keyhole with eye peering out, original pastel drawing.
Sometimes getting lost is the best way to be found.
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Made with wooden rabbit, top hat, book pages, alarm clock, playing cards,mirror, bisque doll parts, vintage illustrations, keys, tea cups, spoon, dollhouse furniture, candelabra, bottle, and numerous miniatures.
We all find ourselves falling down the rabbit hole from time to time. Try to make the best of it like Alice did.
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Life: Spin the wheel. You never know what you’re going to get.
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Made with vintage architecture prints, antique lithographs, vintage animals, chair, midcentury dollhouse doll, old game parts and marbles, tea pot, parasol.
We all have one spectacular act that can be performed only once in our lives, hopefully with an audience. I think this pony outdid himself.
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Exclamation mark made with antique book cover, original class notes from 1920s, old postcards and illustrations, antique deer and sheep, glass inkwells, pocket watch, shell, twig, vintage book, ink pen and ink pen nibs.
I have a vast collection of old journals written during the early part of the 20th century when living life seemed to always come with an exclamation point. Back then the simple act of visiting a friend, strolling the beach or just taking an afternoon walk came with an appreciation and excitement we don’t associate with the mundane these days. It’s probably why so many old journal entries ended with a big ‘ol fat ink exclamation point instead of a period. I pay homage to this by affixing old ink pen nibs to the end of the shell and twig dipped in the ink wells, and using them as thorns, flower buds, deer antlers, sheep legs and the stem of a grape. Maybe Covid has taught us to use an exclamation mark on the mundane.
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