Inspiration on my desk

I love creating “desk-scapes” that represent important pieces of my history in my everyday as inspiration. My current desktop is below.

The tree stamp frame I bought in Paris on our honeymoon and the stamp itself I bought on ebay in the middle a hectic bout of wedding planning. It represents serenity and strength to me somehow. The clock my father gave me on my 13th birthday — it seemed so grown up and elegant (I still think that!). In front of the clock, the vintage brass frame that I picked up last year at my favorite thrift store in VT holds a scrap of a Bishop poem from the New Yorker that represents the best of love to me:
“Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn toghether,
in their sleep,
Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.

Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.”

I bought the gold frog at Swallow the first year I lived in NY and hadn’t figured out how to merge my work life and my creative life. The dish with clips was my great grandmother’s and the paperweight next to it was my grandmother’s. The tiny “stamps” box was given to me by my mother in-law after I blogged it here. And the tiny red chair I bought at an antiques store on the Cape last week.
I was inspired over vacation to finish a project that has been on the back burner for years: framing my favorite vintage bits in tiny frames. Here they are! I’m really pleased with how they came out. The top two are vintage 6 cent US postal stamps, the second two are vintage Wills cigarette cards from the 1930s from New Zealand and the last row is another vintage stamp and my personal favorite, two elephant chromos from the 1900s from the Paris flea market! They are all up for sale on Etsy so tell your friends and start your own desk-scape!