INVITATIONS ALWAYS 20% OFF • • • • • Gift Calendars •• has gifts for... Dadpeople Mompeople Kidpeople Grandpeople and just about every people on your list! • ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR W • • Personalized invitations, paper goods, bridal registry, stationary, wedding party gifts 810-539-7705 32644 Franklin Rd. • Franklin In the little yellow house! • This toy engages her curiosity... day after day. Purchase a BRIO® MEC starter kit at TOY WONDERS and you could win a MEC Play Table! Purchase starter kit by Dec. 21, 1995. Drawing 12/22/95. It's a new toy every day. hether you like to mark your days by fishing, thinking deep thoughts, wan- dering in the garden or learning new sports facts, there's bound to be a calendar that fits your needs. Workman Publishing in New York has hundreds of calendars for 1996, (many of which cost un- der $10), that make the perfect gift for a friend or family mem- ber — or yourself, of course. The Mary Engelbreit Real Life calendar is a new collection of original works by the Missouri artist whose charming, colorful designs of everyday moments feature such phrases as "Life is just a chair of bowlies," and "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it!" Also available are the Mary Engel- breit 1996 Desk Diary and Mary Engelbreit: A Year of Birthdays, Anniversaries and Special Days. Little girls and big girls and everyone in between will enjoy the Teddy Bear Calendar, pic- turing the winners of the 1995 Teddy Bear Calendar Contest in- dulging in their favorite hobbies: fishing, playing chess and sitting around the campfire. On the cov- er: Bialosky Bear, garbed in kha- ki attire and searching for butterflies in the tropical forest. If you're still contemplating what you can possibly buy for your favorite male, consider such treasures as 365 Golf Holes (even the greatest golf aficiona- do is likely to get an education; do you know what exclusive club WORKMAN PORLISMNO once charged 10 polar bear teeth to join?), 365 Cars (with sporty coupes to luxury vehicles, racing machines to classic convertibles), 365 Days of Fly Fishing, 365 Sports Facts AYear or Green- peace: Stepping Lightly on the Earth, with magnificent photos of the humpback whale, polar bears and other scenes from nature. Or, for men who still can't come up with anything more original than a box of chocolates, try one of these for your sweet- heart: The Medieval Woman: An Illuminated Calendar, The Collectible Teapot and Tea, Cynthia Hart's Victori- ana Calendar, or Cloth and Comfort: The Quilt Calendar. Also available are The 1996 Book Lover's Page A Day Calendar, horoscope, jokes, brain puzzlers, cats and dogs cal- endars. - - U-M Sponsors Trips To Europe BRIO MEC is appropriate for children 3 years and up. BRIO MEC START safely introduces children 2 and up to construction play. ©1995 BRIO* Corporation 1 14 TOY WONDERS • 14 Mile & Haggerty • Newberry Square • 810-624-4930 T he University of Michigan Museum of Art Interna- tional travel program will sponsor three tours to Eu- rope in the spring of 1996. Each tour will be accompanied by cu- ratorial staff from the museum and will provide an educational itinerary with an emphasis on art, architecture and culture in each country. "The Presence of the Past: Etruria, Florence and Rome" is a collaborative venture between the Kelsey Museum ofArchaeol- ogy and the Museum ofArt. The MUSEUMS page 56