Paris, 2009

My head is still filled with the sights and sounds and delicious smells of Paris. Looking up at night to see the Eiffel Tower twinkling with lights, stumbling onto a street market with fresh produce, a zillion types of cheeses and pastries galore. The delicate scent of wisteria, the aroma of a strong cup of coffee. A paper doll taped to the glass of a shuttered store...

Pretty Belles Cut Out Dolls

Whitman, 1965. A very New York City kind of paper doll; the cover reminds me of going to Central Park on Sundays after church when I was a girl.

Happy Mother's Day

Not your average mother paper doll! There's something alluring and slightly dangerous about this mom by Tina Lee. Jack and Jill, April 1940. Maybe she knew she had to toughen up on the homefront as war drew near.

Art Nouveau

A sample from Dover Publications.

Josephine Baker, 1927

"Tumulte Noir-Josephine-1927" illustrations by Paul Colin and reproduced for a notecard. Original artwork in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

Artist Trading Card

I made this using a page from an old French dictionary that someone sent me in a zine swap, then I cut out the illustration from an old department store catalog.

Sarah Bernhardt mail art

A lovely newspaper image I copied for an envelope, and changed to sepia just to see how it looked.