I probably shouldn’t be posting these on this here blog but I’m not really one to censor myself, plus these are just too great not to share with the world. I found these illustrations inside of a vintage Greek encyclopedia. I believe they’re illustrating first aid techniques, but I’m just curious as to why they’re in their man panties? Or maybe it’s not first aid at all…

I just came across an old list of “favorite baby names” that I’d written a few years ago. Thought it would be fun to list them here! Some of them are a little scary and I don’t know what I was thinking. Some of them are still my favorites.

GIRLS:
Evelyn
Eloise
Harper
Carson
Elise
Ferris
Gwyneth
Pearl
Hollis
Hunter
Lola
Lyle
Merris
Olivia
Rue
Charlotte
Spencer

BOYS:
Nolan
Palmer
Reed
Chase
Everett
Miles
Noah
River
Sawyer
Tate
Ben
Carson

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I’m pretty much obsessed with collections, especially weird ones. And just for kicks, here are some fun ones I found online. You really must see these:

Sometimes Flower does things that are so out-of-control cute that can’t stand it and I have to make her stop. Every morning she paws at her eyes, like only the cutest animals do, and it’s so ridiculously adorable that I literally distract her and move her paws away from her face because I can’t handle it. One day I’ll capture it on video. Meanwhile, here’s Flower as a baby seal:

Sometimes I get really lucky, and I was definitely channeling some luck when I scored 4 lbs of these vintage plastic flowers. They are so much fun to go through and sort, I really can’t even describe it. I haven’t had so much fun in a very long time. (I’m easily entertained, I guess.) Even my sister has come over the past few days to join me at the table to sort them in categories and dig around the bulk of them for “rare” flowers (or “species” as she called them) and little unexpected treasures. I get so much joy out of treasure-hunting, so needless to say this 4lb bag of plastic flowers has made me a very very happy girl.

(p.s. I realize I need a life.)

I just had to post about this bird illustration, which I discovered inside the cover of a little vintage birding book that I recently bought. I’m so in love with it. It should be wallpaper.

My friend Mary just emailed me an article about a little screech owl that was recently discovered and rescued from the cockpit of a USS jet, but the best part of the story is the owl is probably the cutest creature ever made. I want to cuddle with it!
Naughty little owl, playing around in cockpits! eeeee!

You can read the actual article here.

Perhaps my weirdest obsession. My sister was like “Yeah, I don’t get it.” But I’m so in love with anything and everything Air Mail, especially all these fun labels that I recently acquired. Almost all of them are different in some way…different colorways, layouts, textures, fonts, sizes, languages, etc. Has anything else been re-designed so many times? Right now I have all of them (about 400 or so) sitting in a box, but I really want to do something with them, but I’m kind of scared to. For the time being, I just like to sit and admire them. Seriously, I sit and look at each one; sometimes I lay them all out and arrange them for the fun of it. Just to see them all together in all their glory. I also do this with my extensive postage stamp collection. I just like to dig through them and pick out different sizes, shapes and colors, grouping them in collections for no reason at all. Is this weird? I have a real love for collections and maybe my “playing” with these things is just a part of that? Anybody else like Air Mail labels??