Lisa Skolnik

It may not be possible to buy the best for less all the time, but with a little persistence and planning, anyone can have a beautifully furnished, well-stocked home that...

Hyde Park to South Haven, Mich., is the perfect two-hour trek for a family with a few small fry. But the patients of a Hyde Park plastic surgeon who had...

She`s not sweet 16, and she`s not solving mysteries, but she is the real Nancy Drew. Maybe not the one you remember as a kid but definitely authentic and by...

Just like its ambiguous and romantic name, Folie Douce is a store with a quixotic story-and just the right mix of merchandise to make the moniker a perfect fit. Translated...

The needle, which is a common demoninator for a panoply of pursuits, is the focus of a sweeping sourcebook of supplies for designers or just plain do- it-yourselfers. Its author...

Are you too shy to say what you mean? Or just a little too reserved to let loose? Let your figure do the talking with a simple statement from the...

They can be magnificent-or mundane. They can also be carefully carved, beautifully blown, meticulously molded or primitively produced out of an astonishing array of materials. But as Naomi Rubin of...

Bottlecaps are being turned into such alluring little trinkets. Artists the nation over are transforming them into all sorts of enticing items. There are sculptures and assorted accessories, but the...

Since it so simply blends the best aspects of function and fancy, the button may be the oldest utilitarian art object around. And though buttons are mass- produced by the...

From the time they were first traded in the New World, beads were a tenuous common denominator for two often contrary cultures. But Lynne Dusenberry Crow, a white woman who...