Alison's Attic and Bookshelf

While living overseas, I exhibited my paintings in Los Angeles, New York, and Taipei at the Chinese Cultural Centers in the US, the National Museum of History in Taipei, and the American Club in China.

Before moving overseas, I collected 30's 40's 50's kitsch, deco, and "stuff." Overseas, I collected a variety of items, jewelry, netsuke, ceramics, scrolls, and furniture.

Now I'm collecting space, which means ebay bidders are set for buying items that were old when I bought them 15-25 years ago and which have been in my possession since. Most of the things I put up for sale I'm happy to keep if they don't sell, in which case, I've won the right to keep them, fair and square.

I've also been selling off books I collected for classroom and/or classroom reference use -- some I have multiple copies of.

In of Fall 2002, I entered into Frida-mania. I have some older Frida-related items from when I first began studying her work, adjunct to my Spanish studies, and some newer items I've gotten to read and pass on. I sold all of my linoleum cuts of Frida and have just recently figured out how I can number an extra run of Artist's Proofs to list on eBay -- see my eBay guide to what the word "edition" means here. I had printed and numbered the first twelve of the edition of the larger Frida linocut print on a different paper than I had intended and so reprinted them so that all 25 of the edition would be on the same paper. Those initial twelve, with 1-12/25 on them needed renumbering and that took considerable thought as to which approach to take, since the ethics and consistency of print editions is of a primary importance to me as an artist trained in printmaking. They will be numbered and sold as a second, indicated by the Roman Number II, Artist's Proof series, 1/12 through 12/12 and priced accordingly (and reasonably: I like people to buy my art).

Even more recently, Spring 2003 to the present, I have jumped feet first into doll-mania, repainting and redressing dolls, so I have a lot of items out of sets that I bought for the dolls or specific things within the sets that I am making available to people here. I'm especially interested in My Scene dolls and in the future will have some repaints up for sale. In the meantime, I've been fabricating wonderful 1940's style fur chubs for them: the Adrian look -- some of which you may see for sale here for using in dressing your own OOAK dolls before you see them on fully costumed OOAK repaints. Smart money says, snatch up those furs now, as they'll cost more in an ensemble! I'm selling them at rock-bottom prices to recoup some of my investment costs of the last few months.