For 1600 years, artists have been folding paper and cutting out beautiful images to decorate and charm. For fifty years, the author (“Grandma Day”) has been combining this ancient art with another one—storytelling—to enchant... Read More

Delightful Designs: When Boston’s Museum of Fine Art (MFA) announced that it was planning to mount an exhibit featuring cars (March 6 to July 3, 2005), the Brahmins of the New England art community were alarmed. Then a month before the... Read More

Visual media, from comics to anime, interactive video games, and movies, are all ways of telling stories. The process of storytelling is similar, in many aspects, from one medium to another. Here the author, with thirty years’... Read More

A quilt made by Grandma, a child’s artwork, Great-Grandmothers handkerchiefs—these are the things that bring an extra touch of warmth to the home and heart. Handmade items like these seem to carry a piece of the creator within them,... Read More

Choosing colors can be one of the most enjoyable aspects of quilting, but also one of the most frustrating when the match-ups just don’t seem to work together. Most quilters rely on their instincts to put a palette together, but... Read More

Whether a lavish wreath is decorating a door for the holidays, or a simple bouquet is used as the centerpiece for a gathering of friends, flowers nearly always evoke emotion in those who see and smell them. With wreaths, there’s a... Read More

Gianni Versace, Oleg Cassini, and Vera Wang may have found fame and fortune in their careers as fashion designers, but chances are they worked long hours, year after year, to achieve success. Fashion design is a highly competitive field... Read More

In 1816 a patent was granted for the kaleidoscope, and within twenty years the toy became so popular that its colorful, random patterns inspired designs for home decorations from stained glass to dishes. Perhaps it inspired America’s... Read More