A few weeks ago I took my monthly trip to the local flea market, where I went on a vintage-wallpaper-buying spree. I also found some beautiful old maps, shelf-edging paper and wall borders. I was so ...

As I have confessed here before, I am not very crafty. But I am an artist whose first true love is mixed media. Every summer for a number of years, I have attended an “art intensive,” traveling to the ...