Inspiring collection

It's been approx. 2 years since I started collecting books with 'dedica', or some kind of special inscription.

Here's the most recent example - and btw, thanks to Helder for bringing Paul Auster to my attention!!!

Creativity flourishes (but is the baby ok?)

Remember how I started spotting these creative signs about lost something, found something or 'i know you ...ing..bad person who stole my bike"?

Well, here's the most recent entry spotted near my house.

I only hope that the baby is okay!!!

Dead people's treasures, or marriage & death go hand in hand, but art lives forever!

Had a great antiques hunt last weeek (geeez, i have to stop!!! i have an official huge Antiques Fair this coming w/end!)

Will show more of what i got soon, but here's a wonderful find - a Family Register.

What i need now is 2 things: learn how to deal with nailing things onto the walls & deciding what goes where....

P.S. Found, not lost

...and this is the 'unusual' dog i mentioned in one of my yesterday's posts - i hope the owners will show up!
...how about if the dog ran away & doesn't want to be found?

The Top 10 Lost Technologies

Not in a nostalgic mood today (at all!), but this is my general life attitude.
Stumbled upon this:
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-lost-technologies.php

Men on women & women on men

Words, words, words.... but what fun last night with our dinner & after-dinner conversation. Cross-cultural comparisions, gender roles & childhood memories (stories of woes & hardships).
Who needs a shrink after all that?

Outsourcing my way

It's not even a global trend any more: it's simply the way we live & work. So i, too, outsource some tasks, like putting my writable wallpaper on the wall (shown here done by Daniel who works with modeling traffic flows in Paris) & assembling a fan (done by Isabel who just returned to the US after 6 months studying tropical architecture in Shanghai).

Hey, Chicago might not be the tropics, but when it's hot, you still need a fan!

And manually good friends from all over the world always come handy!

Thank you!!!!