Deep August sunsets. 🌇 Night breeze. 🌃 Your Grandparent's basement. 🏠 That song you loved when you were 17 and forgot about for a while. 🎧 Walking the long way home. 🚶 Nursing a HALLS lozenge when you're not actually ill. 😵 Trusting a path in the woods. 🌳 Late night call-in radio. 📻 An item someone daydreamed and gapped out while staring at during a phone call with a telemarketer. ☎️ Uncertain lights in the sky. 🌌 Having a productive realisation about something. 🤔 Your best friends cousins house you only got to see inside of once while changing out of a swimsuit, but they had the coolest rec-room. 👙 The innocence of early adolescence. 🛹 Watching a plant thrive. 🌻 A cat taking an instant liking to you. 🐈

I began collecting wall décor while redecorating after a big move. I filled 4 of my studio walls, then I filled the rest of the walls in the apartment. Then I filled some closets. Now I'm merchandising some of these items for sale via this webstore. I have a few other ventures mapped I'd like to use proceeds from the sale of wall decor to fund, using Time Passages as a carrier and we'll see if I can make it to that point. 🤞

The name of the shop is inspired by the fantastic Al Stewart song of the same name, off an album that also carries the name. The non-product photography throughout the website and menus is all 35mm film I shot between Guelph, Toronto and Arizona. The photo of me as a child was taken by one of my parents, but I'm not sure which.

That's a great question and the answer is a mixture of things.

Firstly, the easiest thing to do is check other online sources. Etsy and eBay are obvious ones. Completed listings on Facebook marketplace are useful. Chairish.com and other vintage sellers sometimes come up when I'm deep searching the item or original print or pattern it might be based on. This gives me a general idea of "what these go for" but like with anything, it varies greatly and much like collectible sneakers, vintage tee shirts or rare vinyl, the general rule of thumb is the item is worth what people are willing to pay.

Secondly, I consider the condition of the item. Everything on the website is lived in. It's occupied somebody's wall for some time and then possibly their basement or garage. It might be a piece that featured prominently above their "chesterfield" set or maybe it was gifted and immediately shoved in a box. Regardless, like us humans, all things carry dust and I adjust pricing based on how obvious that dust is. Dust doesn't make you a bad or lesser person, it just means you've experienced life.

Thirdly, I take into consideration my choice to offer free shipping on all of the décor items. This means I've worked in the possible loss I could take shipping a large, oversized item to British Columbia or somewhere in the southern United States. Compiling data on shipping is something I find interesting and in the shipping info below you'll see how I went a bit more in-depth into that.

And lastly, like any collector, I consider how much I want to let the item go. The idea of making a web shop to move some of these pieces didn't become serious for a few years into picking up pieces, so everything was originally bought with the intent to hang it on my own wall. I simply have way more wall décor than I have wall right now and that, paired with the three points above factor in to the prices you see on this website.

Sure, I was trying to think of the best way to do this and I think aside from the moods, medium/format categories work, but there's a bit of a catch.

Needlepoint is obviously all décor done in Needlepoint. Most are made from a pre purchased pattern, but done by hand over several hours of fine stichin'.

Decoupage art is primarily going to a print someone collected, or a photograph they took, mounted on wood using a glue like Mod Podge. I believe this was a service you could get done to your favorite poster or image that faded in popularity in the later 1980s.

Crewel is similar to other hand-embroidered pieces but uses specifically wool.

Hand-Crafted is where it gets sticky. Any of the above categories could also be considered hand made, as well as any of the below save for most of the prints. I've left a section for "Hand-Crafted" to include embroidery that is non-needlepoint or crewel, as well as wood cuttings, paint-by-numbers, shell arrangements and generally anything else that was made by a human being and not mass-produced by a machine.

Original Art is exactly as it sounds and are all one of a kind, painted by a real artist with hands and a brush.

and finally, Prints are anything that's been mass produced or reproduced. Doesn't have to be a photograph to be included in this section.

Great question. I've built a return policy out of what has been normalized over my history working in retail and mail-order. Here's a quick aside if you're curious why a small business can't compete with some of the leniency in returns and speedy shipping of giant retailers.

I'll provide store credit towards another item within 30 days if you receive the item and it does not work with your space, once the item is returned to the stockroom in original condition, at the expense of yourself, the buyer.

If you're in the Guelph area, or willing to be here to eliminate shipping costs, I will do my best to make that easier on you. Feel free to reach out if you have any concerns, I'm a reasonable person.

Since I am well under a yearly sales threshold and considered a small supplier, I don't have to charge you for it. So I won't.

I think it's really cool you'd like to gift someone their choice of art off this website. I can easily provide a digital gift card you can send via E-Mail, or for the price of a few stamps, I can also mail this person a paper store credit for the webstore. Your choice below.

(snail mail version coming soon)

📡📧 Electronic Delivery

🐌📮 Snail Mail

This is something I'm very interested in collaborating on. If you're a designer or producer and shooting a music video or short (or feature) or staging a room for a shoot and you see a piece that you think is perfect and ties the space together, please reach out. I'm happy to discuss rental/loan options and eager to explore a bit more of this world.

I enjoy attending them and Guelph has a strong scene (we are a bit spoiled) but I don't participate as a seller. This is something I'm interested in doing in the future when I have some more original product on the webstore but at the moment, I don't see a fit for the wall décor.

Due to the nature of these pieces, probably not! But I am super curious as to what people are interested in and what might just be my own (bad?) taste so let me know what you like and want more of as you see it pop up on the instagram. That's probably the best way. Or you could e-mail me. That's ok too!

E-mail me! I'm often a busy person out exploring but I've almost always got access to e-mails and I'm down for a chat if you've got a concern or want to reach out.

At the moment, no, unless I've done something wrong you should only be able to ship to Canada and the United States for the majority of the products. There are certain oversized pieces that I've noted ship to Canada only in the shipping restrictions field found below each item.

So I toyed with a few different options for setting up my shipping cost and I eventually came to the conclusion that it's much easier to just factor the shipping into the price and make all shipping on wall décor (small maker products will have a flat fee) FREE shipping to Canada and the USA.

My method for figuring out shipping costs has been tested over the past few years I worked for a company shipping home décor items of varying weight and size. At it's busiest times I was sending out over 100 packages a day so I gathered plenty of data and experience from that.

For my personal collection, I took every item and assigned it a tier, 1-5 based on dimensional size and weight, as well as how fragile the item was and how much packing material it would require.

I then took random items from each tier, packed them, reweighed and measured them and ran mock shipments to four different locations for every item across both Canada Post and UPS carriers.

I chose a location in the GTA, one in Northern Ontario, one in Interior BC and one in the Southwestern United States and across these samples, I was able to generate enough information to give me overall averages of shipment costs based on the tiers I assigned to each item.

I then took these average costs and added them to my asking price of the relevant tiered item, then lowered it by a few dollars.

I have my eye on some of the newer style group shipping options, especially to the United States that should further bring this cost down as they become more popular and we see them available in my city for use.

But for the time being, I believe bundling the shipping expense in with the asking price of the item, as not to add confusion is the most honest forward way of proceeding in a world where shipping costs just generally don't seem to make sense at all. I hope that clears it up!

All orders leave Guelph, Ontario via Canada Post unless otherwise noted, and ship within 3 business days, but I'll usually try to get things out sooner. Once available, I'll send you a tracking number so you can follow your order along it's journey. If you need your item shipped ASAP please reach out and we can discuss expedited options.

Yes, absolutely. If you want to join me and bypass the tangled system of freight and delivery notices that has become the norm together, I'm completely down for that.

If you live nearby or will be passing by Guelph, Ontario and want to pick up the item yourself, reach out via the comment form either before or after a purchase and I'll hold off on shipping.