Apparently, trying to buy the “house of your dreams” in this economic climate can lead to actual nightmares, and that is the subject of the article this illustration accompanied in the Home section of the NY Times. For me, subject matter does not get any better than this, so I really tried to have fun with it. The final montage was created by combining a photograph of the “sleeping” model with a table top set I created, along with some images from my archives for the background. Below are the rough sketches I originally presented. ART DIRECTOR: KEN McFARLIN CLIENT: NEW YORK TIMES

Like many things in life—wine, cheese, a particularly cozy sweater—your design skills only get better with age. Whether you’ve relocated and redecorated more times than you can count or rely on your favorite websites, magazines, and Instagram accounts to keep you inspired for the moment you can truly carve out a space of your own, you’re bound to discover new tricks, ideas, and brands as you grow up and hone in on your aesthetic.

This is the beginning of something new. Beauty has been the most requested content for this site since it's inception, but I've never felt able to create content of a quality you would expect, and I didn't want to let you down. Finally having moved into my new house I think I'm ready to take on this category. I can't wait to share all my beauty secrets with you. This is the first full beauty editorial I have created. I worked with an amazing team and I hope you will think it was worth the wait. Do head over to the main Beauty page to see all the kinds of content I will be covering, please be patient with me while I fill up all the themes.

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You don't have to go with Missy Claire. She can't make you go with her. Kitty, a house slave, has always obeyed Missy Claire and followed orders. But when word arrives that the Yankees are coming, Kitty is faced with a decision. Will she continue serving Missy Claire and her household? Or will she listen to Grady and embrace this chance for freedom? Even wise Delia says Kitty has to decide for herself--that nobody except the Lord can tell her which way to go. Kitty has always lived in a world where authority is not questioned. She never has learned to make up her own mind any more than she has learned to read or write. But now Kitty has a daunting choice: How does she want her story to end? In her bestselling tradition, Lynn Austin brings the Civil War years to life in the Refiner's Fire trilogy. | Author: Lynn Austin | Publisher: Bethany House Publishers | Publication Date: Mar 18, 2014 | Number of Pages: 454 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 0764211927 | ISBN-13: 9780764211928

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Treasures from THE LITERATURE COLLECTION at The Willing Mind. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 18 x 24, to work with an 18 x 14 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. Edgar Allen Poe, Ultima Thule Edgar Allen Poe, engraved on wood in 1880 by Timothy Cole, based on the 'Ultima Thule' Daguerreotype of Poe by Masury and Hartshorn, Rhode Island, 1848. I can tell you about Poe until I'm blue in the face, but the bottom line is Poe is a delightful read, a real moment in our history and the crucible for a whole genre of literature. Your local library has at least one copy of his stories so dammit, borrow it and have some fun. Scary fun! My personal Poe twist is an odd one. Philadelphia was to be the scene for a Bicentennial celebration equal to the massive 1876 Centennial in Fairmount Park. Problem was, various political factions wanted the biggest piece of pie in its conception and realization of this fabulous money pit to be. As time roared forward and no progress was being made, the Federal Government said "Fine. You knuckleheads can't get it together, so here are just a few buckets of dough to spread around and fix up a few things, so we don't look like poop to the rest of the world." I believe that was pretty close to the actual wording. So a pavilion was built for the Liberty Bell (love the bell!) and Ben Franklin's house was rethought and his museum was built, and all sorts of small and medium projects did actually happen, just no giganticus wolrd's fair sort of thing, which we deserved but didn't get. One of the small projects was fixing up the Edgar Allen Poe House. The restoration contractor did a fairly good job, but far from a magnificent one. Seems that Richard Gimbel, son of the founder of Gimbel's department store, was swept up in the Poe collecting mania of the Post Poe era, and had the wherewithal to indulge his collecting passions. Gimbel spent like le petite roi, but quietly, and amassed an unabashedly amazing collection of Poe material, wrapping it all up by buying the boarding house where Poe lived for a time just off of Spring Garden Street. This is the house that was granted a little of the Bicentennial monies being tossed about, though the collection itself is now house in the Rare Book Department at the Philadelphia Free Library, known officially as the Colonel Richard A. Gimbel Collection of Edgar Allan Poe Materials. My father was an architect with Vincent Kling's 1950s mega firm, left that for private practice in the countryside in the 60s, eventually returning to the city for a job as senior architect for The City in the 70s. He found out when the grounds of the Poe House were about to be partially covered with a thick concrete slab and suggested we go and dig up the privy. Its location had shown up on a site survey, but in the tradition of contractors digging in historic sites on deadlines, the decision was quickly and quietly made to slab it and move on rather than risk a delay. Gee, thanks visionary builders!. Anyway, not grasping all the nuances of all that, the dig made sense to me! So me and my parents and half of my myriad siblings went with tools aplenty on a Sunday when no one was paying attention and got to work. Let's just say... we're good at other things. The slab was poured on Monday. When they had the official opening just for the officials, the contractor sought to distract the gathered mucky mucks who otherwise might have been critical of his adequate restoration with what was, to this day, the most lusciously laid out spread of delicacies I've ever seen. Who would notice that some baseboards met in a haphazard way in the corners when there we a pair of massive silverplate tourines of bubbling creamed crab at either end of 20 feet of decadent munchie splendor? I remember strolling in wearing weathered bib overalls, an A shirt, a red bandana over very long hair and wire rim aviators, all of probably 18 years. The well dressed crowd was making small talk while hovering around that table like kids playing musical chairs. No one wanted to be gauche enough to be the first to pick anything off that still life, but nobody was making eye contact with each other while chatting. All eyes were lining up where their harpoons would land first. It was a glorious tension. Since I was not dressed for the role of disinterested city leader, I strolled up to the table, wrenched off a hunk of some truly hearty bread and dipped it right into the best jersey blue crab you've ever tasted. The crowd, who had all forgone lunch and arrived famished, descended like piranhas in a National Geographic special. Oh, the arm flailing madness! The tearing horror! The lust and gluttony! Poe, you were there... you were there... SHIPPING All prints are shipped in a sturdy mailing tube for $8, which covers postage, tube and S & H. BUYING MORE THAN ONE PRINT? Add a second print or any number thereafter of this or any other prints in our catalog and shipping is still just $8, total!!! International shipping is available and reasonable. Please contact us for details. A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS. Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps. The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands. That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here. See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!” There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration. There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story. Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road. I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle! So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images. This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.

Welcome to my listings on Etsy! I’m yet another refugee from the other site, you know, the one I can’t mention by name because I’m too afraid of getting a “cease and desist” letter from their legal department. Yes, THAT website. I do NOT make obscene profit on shipping & handling. If I overcharge it is only for the sake of convenience in listing; you only pay the actual shipping and any balance is refunded to you. That said, I’ve been selling a long time and I pride myself on being the most honest seller on the web. I bend over backwards to provide excellent photos, short but concise descriptions and measurements when there is no manufacturer’s size/spec tag. Having said that, I will not provide additional measurements or photos because in my many years of selling I learned that people almost never purchase the item! Sorry, but I have to do what is in my best interest and that means saving time, MY time. If there is a maker’s flaw, rip, tear, stain, bald spot or otherwise damage worth showing, then I’ll show it in the photos and/or mention it in the Item Title or Item Description. Cat fur included at no extra charge. That means that I have two cats in my house and I let them sleep on any damned thing that they want to, including my merchandise even as I photograph it for listing. I do not smoke and neither do my cats. Shipping from 86314 in The Free State of Arizona, USA I use the US Postal Service and will insure anything over $50 value. I am NOT responsible for the item once it leaves my house, especially when it lands in a foreign country! For my valued foreign customers: NO, I will not lower the value of an item on the customs form. YES, I am fully aware of the outrageous taxes that you pay in customs duties, especially in Europe. You voted for Leftist/socialist governments and their high taxes; deal with it. ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Book is in used, good to very good condition. No markings that I can find.

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Welcome to my listings on Etsy! I’m yet another refugee from the other site, you know, the one I can’t mention by name because I’m too afraid of getting a “cease and desist” letter from their legal department. Yes, THAT website. I do NOT make obscene profit on shipping & handling. If I overcharge it is only for the sake of convenience in listing; you only pay the actual shipping and any balance is refunded to you. That said, I’ve been selling a long time and I pride myself on being the most honest seller on the web. I bend over backwards to provide excellent photos, short but concise descriptions and measurements when there is no manufacturer’s size/spec tag. Having said that, I will not provide additional measurements or photos because in my many years of selling I learned that people almost never purchase the item! Sorry, but I have to do what is in my best interest and that means saving time, MY time. If there is a maker’s flaw, rip, tear, stain, bald spot or otherwise damage worth showing, then I’ll show it in the photos and/or mention it in the Item Title or Item Description. Cat fur included at no extra charge. That means that I have two cats in my house and I let them sleep on any damned thing that they want to, including my merchandise even as I photograph it for listing. I do not smoke and neither do my cats. ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Bag is in used, very good to excellent condition. Previously belonged to a teenage girl, like fer shur.....

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