The Baron told her that only art meant anything

Since the structure of the house is still giving me fits, I thought I'd display the art that is ready to be hung on the walls of the house---as soon as I build permanent walls. 

One of my Jack Kerouac pictures may have bitten the dust. I mounted it on a sheet of  that homemade scrapbooking paper and when the moisture of the glue hit the paper, it wrinkled up and couldn't be saved. 

When people ask me where I get my clothing or where I get antique/vintage items in my house I generally reply by saying "Everywhere." This comes across as sounding glib but it's true. I find items at thrift stores (although I haven't thrifted properly in years), estate sales, tag sales, eBay, gifts from people who clean out their basements (that's how I acquired several 60 yr. old Gucci purses) as well as alley rummaging. Before I get labeled as a hoarder, let me add that I constantly have a box actively used for items that need to be taken to the Salvation Army. Some may look at my house and see clutter. I see collections that make me happy and that I love showing people when they visit. Every item has a zone (Dia de los Muertos zone, incense collection zone, pink pottery zone, Mertens Kundst zone, antique henna boxes zone) which actually makes my collections LESS cluttered. 

That being said, my favorite bidding items on eBay are the lot auctions under the search parameter of  "antique ephemera lot." You can bid on literally pounds of paper items which include old postcards (my favorite), photographs, maps, brochures, autograph books, diaries (another favorite), old greeting cards, and antique playing cards (my favorites are the deco playing cards which I collect and frame together). 

In the first photo, there are two Edward Gorey sketches from one of my old day-by-day calendars from a few years back. The other three items will look good in the bathroom. I'm particularly proud of the Fedrazil bookmark which is really and ad for cold medicine. The other two items are playing cards. 

I mentioned the Kerouac photo and the Velvet Underground photo. The latter was snipped and saved from an issue of Star Hits magazine. Anybody who was into British Invasion/new wave-type bands in the '80s probably knows what Star Hits magazine was. 

The photo with the two girls is actually a photo I  found at a house that my ex husband and I rented. One of the girls in the photo was our landlord's mother. THe reason they're making believe they're drinking beer and smoking cigarettes is because they came from LDS backgrounds. 

 Items such as these antique photos are commonly found in paper ephemera lots. Since they're smallish, I figured they'd make nice dollhouse art. 

 The pink/purple graphic was packaged with some items my ex husband brought back from India for me. The navy floral item is a tag from a dress and the circular Steampunk-esque item is actually a playing card. 

These are just stinking cute. One of them is a New Yorker cartoon mounted to a piece of magnet. The dad is telling the little boy to go ask his search engine. The Busy Book was in a box of Cracker Jacks. The blue card and the tiny photo are from my baby book. The "love rock silly" drawing was something I found in my classroom and kept. The Bunny Foo Foo item was something I did when I was little and the orange item is actually something I was using to test pen color a few weeks before and noticed that it was like Rorschach test. The two items before are for a dollhouse office. Note the "Five Truths of Life." Isn't it the truth??

These are from the same Edward Gorey day-by-day calendars as the one above. These are from his "Neglected Murderesses" book. I'm not sure where they'll go but trust me, I'll find a place. 

I don't know where some of these items are from. The milk graphic is a playing card. The Gore Vidal quote is from a notepad. The other two items just seem to have appeared in my art supplies. I figured all of these would look great in a dollhouse kitchen.