The Dreaded Spinning Beach Ball of Death

It's what you see on Mac OSX when an application isn't responding: a whirling little rainbow ball, so cheerful. When you see it spinning for Finder, it's chilling.

Today I had to force repeated hard starts before I discovered that the problem isn't the computer but the external hard drive. Whew. I mean, eeek! The external hard drive where I keep bajillions of images stored with only limited backup because I ran out of space? Now I'm frantically skimming the internet to see if I should buy even bigger storage or just store online. Not that online servers don't fail...

Is there a patron saint of digital storage who can protect my precious cache? Maybe these pretty cherubs will watch over things. They are a detail from an old lithograph that was embellished with German scrap.

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For Lovers of Stained Glass

Among the most popular images I offer in my shop are those of stained glass. The royalty-free photos I prefer to use are richer and more detailed than drawn designs, but art is beautiful too. These images (approx. 1.5" each) come from an old catalog of glass designs.

Also very popular are my Sacred Heart images in a wide selection of sizes and shapes. I'm always on the lookout for more, and like to alter some of the black and white images I find to offer you exclusive designs you won't anywhere else. I'm working on an intriguing sheet of mystical heart illustrations scanned from very old books. It'll be awhile before it's done - I try a lot of different effects before I'm satisfied, and have been known to change sheets even after they've been listed awhile - but the original images are very unusual so it should turn out really cool. :)

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Jools

Ever have one of those days when you just want to look at something pretty and then go to bed? This may help: French trinkets from the 17th century. Nighty night.

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Astounding

In the steampink world of the future, men will dress like little girls in matching shorts and mary janes, and keep it green by growing their pets in lily ponds. That's the promise of this pulp magazine cover, one of several that didn't make it onto my latest collage sheet of fantastic!, amazing!, startling! sci-fi illustrations which you can find in my shop right about.........now.

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Everybody's in Showbiz

This smokin' babe is Bebe Daniels, star of stage and screen whose best-known role (at least to me) is as the leading lady who breaks her ankle in the 1933 movie 42nd Street, thus paving the way for the success of her understudy, played by Ruby Keeler. This illustration of Miss Daniels dates from even earlier in her career - 1920.

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