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Great Love Cuff Bracelet from Signals

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What a beautiful reminder:
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
~Mother Teresa~ (via Barbara Curtis)

Updated May 25, 2007

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Postcards as Art has hundreds of vintage postcard images from landmarks and small towns all over the world. Think of giving someone a framed print of a pack of notecards with an image of his or her home town. Also available are magnets and tiles.

Updated May 16, 2007

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The Lives of Shadows: An Illustrated Novel by Barbara Hodgson

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I slavishly love illustrated novels, the scrap-bookish type with letters to pull out of envelopes, photographs, and in this case, pressed flowers. I also slavishly love magical realism. This book appears to be both.

Booklist calls it "a mysterious, mesmerizing tale about a young British man who, in 1914, ventures on a latter-day version of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Grand Tour and finds the Middle East so fascinating that he is compelled, almost at the expense of free will, to buy a certain house in Damascus, Syria. The novel's conceit is that in the "present" day--which is 1945--this man, of course now much older, is forced to prove his ownership rights of the house that has come to be not only his shelter and sanctuary but also his lifeblood. His way of documenting ownership is to set down, in notebooks, details of his long association with the house he loves above all things. The sheer physical beauty of Hodgson's novel--so delicious is it to simply study the abundant and authentic illustrations--is buoyed by the beautifully sculpted prose. Grounded in real place and time and even architectural detail, the novel nevertheless soars as a dreamy, even ghostly, evocation of lost worlds and people--as an exquisite excursion back into history, borne on the author's keen imagination and creativity."

Oh my. I must read this book.

Updated Jan 25, 2007

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Personalized, Weighted Bookmark

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How can you read at the breakfast table without something to hold the book open. A nice holder like this makes it look like a legitimate thing to do.

Updated Jan 23, 2007

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14" Round Patterned Paper Lanterns

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Paper lanterns are one of the world's great bargains. So much light and beauty and joy for so little. If you don't have a spot in your home, throw a garden party at night and hang them from the trees. Magic!

Updated Jan 23, 2007