Enjoying a momentary respite here: the taxes are done, the seeds have been started, and (most) of the financial paperwork I wanted to wrap u...

You know me, I love a good fixer-upper, and I couldn’t resist this one when I found him on eBay for less than a price of a new Traditional a...

It’s cold, snowing, and the Seasonal Affective Disorder is hitting me hard right now, guys. Plus I got wrangled into making a Christmassy ce...

While everyone else was plotzing about the Space Bears or Star Wars spin-offs yesterday I was having a grand old time with a big box lot of...

The primary components of cellulose acetate, the stuff that (most) Breyer models are made of, are cellulose and acetic acid. The vinegary “N...

Back in June of last year, I said this in passing about the possibility of completing my Bell-bottomed Shire collection: (The Chalky Sorre...

I can’t think of anything interesting to say today. So I’ll clear some random pictures off the hard drive. After the recent dusting and reor...

Still trying to process this…. Yep, I bought two carousel horses, including the screamy guy I kind of fell in love with. His legs ...

Here’s that model in question I referred to earlier in the week: he’s a nice, minty, later variation of the #47 Traditional Man o’ War. ...

The first big box lot is in the house and it was…challenging. Everything was dirty, one horse was partially filled with sand (!) and many of...

I got lucky on eBay last week a scored a good - and cheap! - body box lot. When I mean good, I mean it included (a) better than average Clas...

Honestly, I have no idea if I got one of the Mother Lode models listed on the Breyer web site tonight. Like everyone else I spent 10 minutes...

Slowly grinding out those words on the novel: I’m just about caught up to where I need to be, finally. No major breakthroughs, though I thin...

The flea market was uncharacteristically depressing. The weather was nice, if a bit cold, but a big chunk of the dealers didn’t bother to sh...

Well, the stuff I had wasn’t working so great on the rash, so I had to take a trip to Urgent Care yesterday to get something stronger - a sh...

How sad is this - I spent a good hour the other day cleaning up a body box horse . I had a couple dozen other/better horses to work on, but ...

Well, that was an odd Sunday. I thought it was going to be a washout - literally, and figuratively. To make a long story short, I ended up b...

I was flipping through the channels on the TV machine last night, looking for something to keep me company as I labored on my quilting proje...

Totally skipped out on the Summer Love Web Special - in fact, I made it a point to go outside and play with the dog when the official time f...

Would you believe I found another MasterCrafters Clock? This one is the "Swinging Playmates:" I’ve wanted to start a collection of...