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Few illustrious tourist attractions in Ohio rank higher than the Reverend Paul Johnson’s Pencil Sharpener Museum located in the middle of the State. The reverend’s wife donated it after he …

A plump grotesque porcelain figure in the Asian style, the head nods, hands bob up and down, tongue lolls in the smiling mouth. We call this a nodding magot, a …

EF, who receives my monthly “Stuff-Whisperer” newsletter, read that I visiting my brother in Malaga, Southern Spain the first two weeks of September. Because I experienced Andalusian culture recently she …

The world of realistic visual arts recently gained a new interactive, immersive seasonal experience. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail takes place until November 30 at New York’s …

You know what you look like every morning because you look in a bathroom mirror. But until the 15th century no European owned a glass mirror. If you wanted to …

Let me tell you a story about facing survival with patches of fabric. A member of the Coastal Quilters Guild of Santa Barbara and Goleta brought a quilt back to …

JE owns a beautiful wrought iron Spanish Colonial Revival Torchiere floor lamp hand wrought from the 1920s-30s. This lamp came on the market when electricity for lighting the home was …

KT doesn’t know it, but she owns a 1930s ladies evening bag in the tradition of 17th century Viennese petit point. This style of needlework originated with the early French …

I cannot underrate the importance of art to the Olympics. TM’s poster of a coveted, historic, iconic image from the 1984 Olympics proves my point. David Hockney (born 1937) created …

I’m thrifting the fleas in Malaga Spain as you read this. My brother owns a house there, and all siblings are invited. I plan to buy at Cartijo de Torres, …