I love your fans! My H and D got this one for me in Madrid when they went for world youth day.
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My cat art. The shelf collection started with the lower right corner cat from Riverwalk San Antonio. That was before we even had a cat. Then I found the lovely tan cat next to it at Phipps Conservatory Pittsburgh. And so my collection began - an excuse for souvenir shopping over the years. I found the shelf itself at HomeGoods iirc, meant to be inset but I just hang it. A few of the cats came from my mom, including the can opener which had been in our family since I was young.
Forgot to add this little tile with the Chicago skyline.
And just for fun, picked up more cat art along the way. The Monet cat has 3D although hard to see in the photo.
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OK, I’ll play. I have this hanging in my kitchen. I collect travel magnets. The ones in this panel are international, but I have five other panels with intl and US magnets. Well-traveled friends get them for me, and my family and I contribute as well. I’m so excited to have all seven continents represented.
The frame itself used to be around a mirror that I found in my grandfather’s barn, which we cleaned it out after he died. The five other frames are ones dh and the kids made for me.
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We have zillions of travel magnets; the majority are in a couple of bags in a cupboard. The newest and most significant stay on the refrigerator. At some point in our history every magnet had the honor of being on the fridge.
I love magnets! We used to have our frig covered. Then we remodeled and H said he didn’t want any on the new one, so they went into a shoebox. Now I’ve taken most of the best ones and covered my filing cabinets, adding more over time. They make me smile at work, along with my postcard wall. And since then H has been slowly adding to our new frig (now 10 years old)
I love the frame! So special!
Here is some garage art! 
It is a Soviet era sign typically posted to warn folks to stay away from high voltage lines, transformers etc. How it ended up in the US is a mystery. Our antiques-loving friends found it at a local swap meet and gave it to my husband when they got excited that we bought our first EV! My husband wanted to attach it to the car but thankfully changed his mind, so the sign is now posted above the garage subpanel. 
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After we moved, we had a living room wall much bigger than the open wall space in our old house. Nothing we owned seemed right, individually or as a group. So I got to go hunting for something new at art fairs. At a big juried art fair along the waterfront, we saw a glass triptych that we liked. But it wasn’t quite big enough, and the colors weren’t quite right. The artist told us how to measure off the space we wanted to fill. We sent that info, plus photos of our living room furniture and rug. And he created a new piece for us. And installed it when it was done.
I love it because it looks different depending on the season as the sun changes angles. There’s gold in the top parts and silver in the bottom. It gleams and reflects and bounces light and creates subtle shadows beside it.
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You might find this amusing. I put a chair rail in my kitchen and use it to display postcards and small paintings. That torn up postcard? We found it in the wall of the old kitchen when we were doing the renovation. It’s from someone’s vacation in St. Petersburg, Florida, probably from the 1920s as our house was originally built in 1924.
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Street artist in Peru for $5 about 25 years ago, in our living room. It is the color palate for the rest of the area.
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Local artist in Belgium in a small shop this past year. I instagrammed the artist that it was hung in our home. It’s on a book case of cookbooks.
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I’ll be moving into my NEW OFFICE over the next few days. I made this postercard posterboard. Previous, they were randomly stuck up on my cubicle walls - and this is only about 3/4 of what I have here. I’ll probably make another. The board used to be our EEOC workers rights poster, but it was so covered and heavy, it fell down. (The posters are now tacked directly to the wall, lol) The bottom is still missing. But I thought I’d use it anyway, and will likely just stand it on an easel at least to start.
And also here are my magnet covered filing cabinets. I do think the cabinets are older than me.
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These are the most recent souvenir magnets added to our collection. My criteria is unique to that location (not generic “Australia”, for example) and not just a photograph, which I take myself.
We probably have hundreds packed away.
My brother had this drawing done of our beloved Portuguese water dog after she passed away. It hangs above her favorite chair.
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I made this using shells collected from Sanibel beaches. There was a cafe on the island where the tabletops were glassed over arrangements of fossilized shells. I thought, I can do that.
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Those are lovely shells & a very nice art piece.
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Most of our wall art is art our family created or arts and crafts from our travels. This first one is literally priceless.
This one is our sun room/den and the wall art was created by my oldest daughter. The walking sticks made by me.
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Family room is family photos and a miniature Navajo rug with our last name weaved in that was given to us by our coworkers when we left Albuquerque. The rug was made by the mother of our secretary.
Close up of walking sticks.
Here’s my dog trying to get a treat by putting her feet on the scale. She learned to do that for agility activities where they lose points if the don’t touch their feet at the end of the teeter totter. Behind her is handmade furniture from the Zuni Tribe’s furniture factory. The curio cabinets hold knickknacks from travel and pottery from the southwest. You can’t see the gallery wall above her of art from our travels to Kenya, China, Bali, and Costa Rica.
I also have some nice folk art from China in our entryway, but I don’t have any photos on my phone of them.
I’d like to have a big colorful abstract painting to replace the family photos in the family room.
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I want to know more about your walking stick collection!
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