Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

Here are some of Antique and Vintage office supplies and hardware This was my grandfathers from the early 1900's in its original case.  These were your standard pencil case that was made of wood  I had a similar one in grade 1-4 when they started making plastic ones that were lighter to carry.  It stored your pencil, eraser, and nibs if you were using a fountain pen.  There was a time when all the mail that came into an office was stamped the date received and then it was sent to the appropriate dept for their review and then stamped again when it was received there and possibly another stamp when the paper was concluded. So most company admin people had these carousels on their desks for the various stamps required in the dept.  Displayed in the above picture is stamps with felt pads on the bottom which are used for scrapbooking with distressed inks and oxides Every Dept. had a sharpener till the motorized ones started replacing the manual ones.  This...

These printer drawers come in various sizes depending on the size of the cabinet that the letters were originally stored in which were used by printers for printing presses.  Most cabinets are wood and there are also metal.   The drawers can used to display collections of anything you can think of that would fit into the small sections. I use mine to display school photos, jewelry, marbles and buttons. My grandchildren spend hours arranging the buttons and marbles by color and or size.   I also use them to take pictures of the vintage items that I sell on sites such as Poshmark and Facebook.  Here are just some examples which you can use them for: Source: Etsy.com

This is the print that Elaine liked and was laminated on canvas with the matt gel I made some of my own templates for the printing with puffy paint  this is one of my linoleum carvings that I did years ago  yup I got suckered in with Gelli printing. I went for at least 2 weeks of printing when we had some family issues and I was forced to stop. There are topics all over you tube and so far Carolyn Dube and Jane Davies are my favorite. Jane Davies relaxes me and I could listen to her tutorials without the music forever. She makes everything seem so effortless. I like Carolyn because she has no fear and paints anything. So I bought 2 gelli plates, which are not cheap. The first one I had money left on my December birthday gift card from our local art supply shop, Omer DeSerres. I had to try it, and luckily it was on special and I only had to pay the taxes. It was a 6x6" which is small but I cured my fix for a couple of days when I went on our local Varage Sa...