Close your eyes and spin the globe… … Drop a finger, then let’s go. Here to stir your wanderlust is a tiny spinnable globe. Sterling silver framework encasing a porcelain globe, with continent names in French, rests on a mystery cabochon gem. Perhaps this charming globe will inspire your next marvelous adventure. Perhaps, as you […]

Road trip 1960’s… The whole family piles into the station wagon.  “I call the way back!” Piles of pillows, toys, arms and legs squeezed between suitcases. Round after round of license plate games, the Mamas and the Papas on cassette (until the batteries run out) and dad’s interminable Shaggy Dog stories. (Shall I tell you […]

Christmas morning you ran downstairs to scope out the gifts. There it was, right size, right shape. Sure enough, your very own portable phonograph player! The little suitcase could be taken anywhere. Open the cover, put on a record and fantastic music, slightly scratchy but oh so lovely, wafted out. Slow dances alone in the […]

How very Little Women. Or perhaps Eight Cousins or It’s a Wonderful Life. Imagine ladies in long dresses, lacing their skates without displaying their ankles for all the world to see. Here is the skate, in ivory and gold, with its discreet, tall, gold-buttoned boot for dizzying whirls about the ice with a suitor. And […]

Have a few, enough for a rip-roaring game of teeny, tiny musical chairs. From the fertile imagination of Charles Rennie McIntosh, the Scottish designer who was famous for his clean, whimsical designs for everything from earrings to the Glasgow School of Art (now sadly gone, burnt to the ground not once but twice). Fortunately, these […]