I've had a lot of friends visit our house and they all say the same thing...it's like taking a tour of a museum...so much to look at. And no matter how many times they've been here they always see something they missed before.
Now, I totally get that our house is NOT for EVERYBODY!
But it is "US"...so, I thought I'd give you the 25 cent tour...
and a bunch of you wanted to know about this wall.
Most of the angel collection was handmade by the artist who owned a rubber stamp company many many many years ago (at least 20) called ANT Transfer..anyone remember Ann? Long out of business, sorrowfully. Ann was way ahead of her time.
Who doesn't know the fantastic artist Teesha Moore? Well Teesha made this and I bought it ions ago at a rubber stamp show. It is amazing in person...it's a piece of pottery, and stamped....and breakable !
The wonderful, dear Pamela Huntington made this just for me...I LOVE it...
This is another piece by Pam Huntington. I love her style.
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A company called Primitive Twig made this little dolly from antique parts
and he's also made a few other crazy items we have in this house !
Like the dolly below
The abacus I found in a shop in the Minneapolis airport years ago and said "Do You Ship" and so they did.
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Primative Twig made the dolly below as well. All from antique parts.
The twig mirror was found in a shop in New Hope, Pennsylvania and falls right in with my love of all things natural and dried.
The monkeys are candles that smell wonderful (altho I'd never burn them) and I found them when I was shopping with super shopper friend (& craft writer extraordinaire) Suzanne McNeill on a shopping spree in Texas one year. She took me to great places!
I buy the Buddah heads whenever I find an interesting one.
In keeping with my love of natural things I have a lot of things with rocks on them....
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The living room and family room is all part of one open great room and has a divider
The round red wooden blocks came from an Anthropologie store about 5 years ago. There are a bunch of assorted items from trips we've taken, all kind of working together.
I brought the hats back from South Africa about 8 years ago.
I love terrriums and air plants
and the other side of the room divider looks like this
I did the 'art' that is on the walls, this one has both beeswax and UTEE (not mixed together as they are not compatible !)
but I really love my pottery bowl that I bought at a Renaissance Fair in New Mexico a zillion years ago. It is rubber stamped with the Beatles song "There are Places I Remember"...can you see it? I'll bet Lin can find her piece too!!!
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OKAY......You can tell I'm a collector, huh?
If you've been following Nathalie Kalbachs Creative Jumpstart you'll see the wall hanging I made as part of my "Project Using Household Items".
The Frida I found in Barcelona, brought back and framed here.
The large basket (to the right) I brought back from South Africa. The mask from Utah and some of the other pieces, handmade by various artists at juried art shows.
I made the collage to the right in Andrea DeMengs class at Art-Is-You and the green piece (to the left) is one I made using UTEE..all the "Suze" items came from various friends !
WE CAN DO MORE TOMORROW....
I'm up for it...You?
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