One of the resources I have for vintage papers and illustrations for my work is the local recycle center.
I also find useful things to use in my children's art classes there.
Today I was in search of some old map books - so quickly becoming a thing of the past what with google map technology and gps gadgets. My father was a civil engineer who refused to go without his wood slide rule as the computer age crept into his industry. I wonder what he would think of the technology available now.
As I walk through the shelves and walls of discarded items at the recycle center I often wonder whose garages and attics these items came from. I get a bit sad sometimes, wondering if someone's grandchildren found these boxes of discarded wires, rusting tools, bobbins of thread and bolts of old cloth and thought, "this is so Grand Dad/Mom to save this junk...what will I do with it to honor them somehow?"
And then someone like me comes along and thinks, "Ah! just the thing!"
My favorite find today was something I will not use in my art or classes...it is a copy of the book my mother used to read to me as a child that I had forgotten about: Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. My kids are just a little too old for me to read to them so I may just have to read it to myself and relive my childhood for a little while.
I still have a copy of this book. There were a couple other Little Pepper books and we have those as well I believe. I loved them growing up!
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