Where do you find affordable art? One piece we love in our home is this hand-pressed seaweed print from Cornwall, England, where my aunt lives.

Two friends — Melanie Molesworth and Julia Bird — make their artwork by foraging for seaweed on beaches or in shallow water after a storm. “We love it when they’re faded and a bit sea-bashed sometimes,” Julia told Toast. “Some of the beautiful pale pink colors are very faded as they’ve been drifting about in the sea. That can make them so beautiful.”

Most of my family makes art and our house is filled with my husband’s photographs, my Dad’s photographs that he printed in his darkroom, my sister’s botanical art, my brother-in-law’s bird art and my abstracts and landscapes. It makes for a very personal collection of art and I love every piece that we have on our walls.

Once we leave school and enter the workforce, curiosity gets even less encouragement. That’s a shame, because while many institutions suffer from too much rigor, just about all of them would benefit from more curiosity.