Recharge your creative battery by reading these dozen articles about pretty and interesting things.

• Travel watercolors.
• More American Ancients.
• What is your story?
• Here’s a cute Valentine project for children or adults—allow a few days to make it.
• Symbolism in Raphael’s painting.
• I never knew Ken Burns collects quilts.
• These photographs of snowflakes look like jewels.
• Remarkable 16th century map of the world. (Unicorns located in northern Siberia.)
• I didn’t know this about Rodin’s The Thinker.
• Pretty Valentine quilts. Some of these are small and simple; you might still have enough time to make one…
• A technology story with a happy ending.
• Medieval clock still works today.