An Arts and Crafts Garden Retreat
After seven days and six nights in a very comfortable but sterile Marriott hotel room, I was anxious to return home last week, even knowing that several days of rain had threatened to transform our budding flower gardens into a wild array of…
Checking Out the YMCA
This was not an Arts and Crafts week for me, as I had other distractions, and so I don’t have any Art and Crafts stories to relate.
But our local television station ran two short features relating to exercise workouts, something which has…
Making a Case For a Cross-Eyed Cat
In her kitchen my mother has a small sign that reads, “You say ‘crazy cat lady’ like there’s something wrong with that.”
I know, because I gave it to her.
In truth, she has just one indoor cat, plus two neighborhood cats she feeds…
A Rocky Love Affair
My love affair with rock walls certainly did not begin in the deep, loamy soil of the Illinois prairie, where it was hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and flat all year round.
And so it must have begun in 1986 with my personal discovery…
Family First
My latest little journey took me back home last week, to where my parents live in a small Illinois town. “Home” – regardless how long it has been since you lived there -- is always where you and your parents lived.
The occasion was…
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ArtsandCraftsCollector.com is a website dedicated to exploring the works, artisans, historical origins and the contemporary revival of the American Arts & Crafts Movement. The historic movement started as a response to the country’s Industrial Revolution and encouraged simple design paying tribute to the natural world over the intricate design of the Victorian era.