I have curated a copyright-free collection of wonderful vintage Christmas images to download and use as you want. Whether that is for decorations, crafts or even to make your own Christmas cards. Celebrating Christmas is a relatively modern phenomenon. It’s only since the late 19th century that Christmas became a[Read more]
I’ve already made an advent calendar with an old dictionary, so why not make dictionary Christmas decoupage baubles to match. As most people use on-line dictionaries these days, old out of date dictionaries are very easy to pick up cheaply in thrift stores. It’s quite ironic that I upcycled a[Read more]
Penguins have a special place in my heart, they bring back fun memories of my children when they were younger. That is why I’ve curated a collection of wonderful scientific penguin illustrations. When my middle son was about 9 years old he was obsessed with penguins. He knew everything there[Read more]
Poppies as a symbol With remembrance day next month, I thought I would add to my collection of vintage flower illustrations with these free pictures of poppies to download. The poppy sellers are out in full force at the moment raising money for veterans. Poppies become a symbol of remembrance[Read more]
At the bottom of my street, there is a junk shop. It is full of items from house clearances and piles of stuff from other people’s lives. From their unwanted furniture to the content of their kitchens. In this junk, often there are piles of old picture frames. These old[Read more]
Birds and fish must be some of the most colourful creatures on the planet. As the daughter of a well-known ornithologist, growing up my home was full of bird books and beautiful naturalist prints on the wall. I wanted to create my own colourful gallery wall of natural history prints[Read more]
I have curated a collection of lovely old maps of Canada. They are all copyright free for you to download, print and use as you want. Even though I’ve visited Canada five times, I have not seen that much of it. The country is vast, it is the second biggest[Read more]
In this post, I show you how to make a paper advent calendar with an old dictionary. I have also used many of the wonderful images that have been featured on Pictureboxblue over the year. Every year I love to make all my boys a different homemade advent calendar, normally[Read more]