Material inspiration

Caught a fantastic estate sale today and walked away with several very cool pieces of inspiration. My favorite piece is a book titled "The House of Chan Cookbook" by Sou Chan (Doubleday, 1952). It's a wonderful little book of recipes for Chinese-American cuisine. The paper it's printed on will be perfect for decoupage and the recipes are spaced perfectly on the page to allow for interesting paste-ups on the wood pieces. I'm super excited.

Also found some wonderful turn-of-the-last-century maps from old Europe and Africa, a cool book of quotations and proverbs, some great old comic books, and several "Flower and Garden" magazines from the late 50s/early 60s. Really great ads in the old mags, beautiful colors on the old maps, and really fun artwork in the comic books. My exacto knife will be busy over the next few days!