A Cast-Off Library

Although Inky is not a serious reader, she loves to pick up books and examine them. She loves old images in antique books. The things people believed in the past seem so sincerely decorative now! Inky would be the first to admit that she doesn’t know much. She never went very far in school, but

Treasure Palace

It’s exciting to enter a dark place from the outside, stopping for a moment to let your eyes get accustomed to low light. Shapes that have no special meaning can morph into useful objects and beautiful treasures. A brass lamp that needs a little polish may look sad and abandoned but to knowing eye, (and

Left Behind

Even in her youth, Inky was a fan of old cast-offs: great valuables and they’re all free! She likes to browse for good stuff that doesn’t cost anything. And she loves to introduce her friends to the pleasures of “re-purposing” or “up-cycling”, discovering new uses for other people’s castaways.