I’ve recently set myself the task of revamping all of our public domain discs by adding new pictures and making the discs a bit prettier.  I think progress will be slow as we now have 65 or so public domain titles but it will be worth it in the end! Cats & Dogs is the first[…]read more

Craft supplies and parcels have filled my time lately and I’ve been sadly parted with the beautiful images of the past that I so love – until now anyway! In the last few weeks I’ve managed again to go digging in old books where I’m always delighted to find gorgeous, usable images that take me[…]read more

I’ve escaped from the norm with my latest Titanic public domain DVD – rather than book illustrations I’ve been immersed in photos, postcards, cigarette cards and a great deal of history to put together this Titanic collection. This is a Titanic cigarette card (reduced size to that on the DVD).  I had to buy the[…]read more

I was recently attending an art history class where we covered different artists or styles of art every week.  Although I loved the education, almost invariably the paintings left me cold. Sounds odd eh, but then one of the other lovely ladies on the course questioned me as to what kind of art I liked.[…]read more

I love getting immersed in new public domain discs and this World War I disc has been no exception. It’s been a regret of mine that I never studied O-level (as was back then!) history as I know it’s then that I would have learnt about the world wars, something I’ve longed to know more about. Getting[…]read more

This is an image that features on our Art Nouveau DVD.  This is by Paul Berthon who lived from 1872-1909.  No age, is it? I love this image, beautiful – I think the style of the lady is just gorgeous, very ‘of the age’ but she also has a touch of medieval about her which[…]read more

The late 19th and early 20th century saw a great deal of anthropomorphised animals in children’s literature, Louis Wain’s cats perhaps being the most famous but, for a while at least, flowers and even vegetables became the subject of such treatment.  Cicely Mary Barker is a well-known name today for her Flower Fairies although these[…]read more

I’m not particularly a bird-lover (although I rather like owls) but I am a picture-lover and really love good artwork.  Talking of owls I always think Will-i-am looks like a cute owl when he’s on The Voice – it’s the way he turns his head one way, then the other and those big eyes…  But[…]read more

I’ve just started reading a book about marketing and although I’ve only read a chapter or two, I can see that the author uses emails and comments from his clients to illustrate points back to his market – which reminded me of something…. When I first released our Art Nouveau public domain image DVD, a[…]read more