Hello!
I'm a collector of paper ephemera, including children's illustrated books, sheet music, postcards, magazines, Alice in Wonderland, Halloween, and I could continue forever. I collect images where ever I can find them and have gathered thousands of vintage images and utilize them in a jewelry craft business, selling at juried craft events where many of the images I posted here have been made into pins etc. I wanted to share my love of illustration with jewelry, but also with others here that hold similar interests.
Here are my new and hopefully improved guidelines for images on my stream.
I try to give a source for the various illustrations etc on my stream. Sometimes, it's simply not possible for me to remember specifics about an illustration I found years ago and made into jewelry, etc. So, this is what you should now see under the image
1. From our collection.
This means--from my husband and I's hardcopy collection of illustrations--books, cards, sheet music, etc etc
2. From my image collection--images I found either in books or from friends collections or around the internet, etc.
3. A website's URL--sometimes I find great things and want to share the wonderful pieces. YOU are responsible to find out if in the public domain.
4. A specific book or person etc that I remember I received the illustration from. I will explain in full, if I have the info.
5. If I have nothing written--it means I've either not had time to post it, or I just don't know where the hell it arrived in my collection.
These new guidelines are not retroactive--meaning, the first 9,000 or so images haven't been catogorized in this method.
MY own personal collection--Yes, I do add images I find here from flickr to my personal collection. I DO NOT ever ever put them on my own stream. If someone thinks I have done so, it would be completely inadvertent and I'd remove it immediately. Most likely, we both like the same kinds of things, and we have some of the same images. I DO NOT make collage pages or CDs from anyone's images here or anywhere, including my own stuff, because I don't want too, and because using others' work for collages is unethical.
I will not tolerate wholesale downloading of my stream to use for A CD FOR SALE, OR A COLLAGE PAGE FOR SALE. I work very hard on cleaning up these images for everyone to see and perhaps use in their artwork, but not for someone else to come along and profit from it. Selling individual art using the images is one thing--just taking stuff and turning into a money machine for ones self is another. If I should catch someone doing this, as I have in the past, I can be a rather, how shall I put it--nasty pursuer of justice.
A note on contacts--I believe that flickr is a sharing place--meaning, if you see my stuff, you should have stuff for me to see--something, anything, at the very least. If an individual doesn't have something up, I usually ban them.
Now that an entire book has been written--I wish everyone to please enjoy all the eye candy on my stream, I intend to try to keep bringing more of it--for as long as I can!
finsbry
Diane
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Groups (50)
- Inside a book.. 215 photos, 133 members
- Scuppers Song : Little Golden Books 249 photos, 60 members
- SANTA CLAUS! 3270 photos, 1143 members
- PULP 424 photos, 107 members
- Dog Art 3067 photos, 396 members
- Transport of Delight 638 photos, 44 members
- Christmas Ephemera--Vintage 719 photos, 76 members
- Antique Christmas: 1830-1945 1333 photos, 284 members
- Vintage Book Illustration 776 photos, 106 members
- Illustrations: Old and New 443 photos, 39 members
- Pretty Books 366 photos, 132 members
- Miniatures general 6073 photos, 391 members
- Small Worlds 4444 photos, 455 members
- Handcrafted Miniatures 4350 photos, 308 members
- Miniature Worlds 1937 photos, 176 members
- doll's house 1849 photos, 144 members
- Scaled Down 10322 photos, 506 members
- VINTAGE MOTEL SIGNS ONLY! 16597 photos, 3216 members
- collection and collectors 5081 photos, 133 members
- Doll House Miniature 3677 photos, 344 members
- Skulletons - Skulls and Skeletons 1971 photos, 493 members
- Share Your Wedding Pictures! 1670 photos, 257 members
- Wedding Photogs 509 photos, 73 members
- Books About and For Holidays 218 photos, 75 members
- love your covers 1623 photos, 182 members
- trees around the world 1103 photos, 592 members
- christmas balls and stuff 1136 photos, 439 members
- if journals could talk 515 photos, 396 members
- Vintage wedding cake toppers 39 photos, 44 members
- LEAVE YOUR MARK 852 photos, 487 members
- Vintage Half Dolls and Boudior Dolls 21 photos, 41 members
- A Blue Christmas 1568 photos, 618 members
- Vintage Modernism 257 photos, 124 members
- OUR HALLOWEEN GROUP 2484 photos, 168 members
- Halloween for Adults 1664 photos, 172 members
- What I'm Reading Currently... 1303 photos, 314 members
- I bring my camera everywhere. 34018 photos, 1287 members
- Empty Rooms that Tell a Story 983 photos, 243 members
- HaLLoWeeN WoNDerful, 2009 Favorites 3452 photos, 723 members
- Backyard Wonders 255 photos, 69 members
- Hocus Pocus 2130 photos, 241 members
- 1:12 Scale Dollhouse Miniatures 3296 photos, 231 members
- Dollhouses & creative doll homes 506 photos, 224 members
- Dollhouses / Dollhouse Settings 4426 photos, 935 members
- Fantasy Dollhouses & Miniatures 301 photos, 49 members
- Lovely 70s Girls 270 photos, 123 members
- Crime & Mystery Book Covers 1506 photos, 69 members
- Spooky Halloween Dollhouse Miniatures 310 photos, 91 members
- Fashion Past - Vintage Best & Worst of Hollywood and the World 2148 photos, 452 members
- Wigwam Village Motels (Frank Redford Design) 479 photos, 65 members
Testimonials (3)
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rackratchet says:
"finsbry is an amateur in the original and best sense, presenting ephemera and lo-brow art with the respect due to the craftsmen who made it. In the torrent of uploads to Flickr this is an evolving cabinet of curiosities and delights. Thank you."
23rd March, 2009
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Lulu at Home says:
"It's such a privilege for us all to have finsbry on flickr sharing her wonderful and vast collection! But the best thing of all is connecting with her joyous enthusiasm for the art! It's absolutely infectious! She has a perfect eye for the finest in illustration and the generosity to take the time to let us enjoy it with her. Thanks so much finsbry!!"
15th March, 2009
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the wreath witch says:
"finsbry has a wonderful eye for art and awesome vintage Illustration and the best part is she shares it with us. Her jewelry is fabulous, it all takes me back to a time in my childhood went there were fairies in my dreams and magic in my heart, and movie stars were truly stars. thank you for sharing your love of books with us."
11th March, 2009











