Decorating with Collectibles
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- Jojo
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- Barbara Bell
- Carol Wallace
- Margot
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» Jojo - Eileens Obsolete Tool Wall
Now obviously, you don't seem to have a problem with dusting. I have all kinds of stuff all over the house and you have just given me more firepower. Thanks for justifying what I call "My Eyecandy".At our house we collect boardgames. The boards themselves go up on the walls, secured by velcro strips for easy removal when game time approaches. I mainly stick to boardgames with attractive boards, so that I can put them up without too much backwards gentrification happening.
I must say I was fascinated by the picture you included with this weeks article. I noticed it took a long time to load and assumed it was larger than it appears on your page there, so I fished around and opened it up in it's own window, and presto-chango take a Look at ALL That stuff!
You should start your own strange tool identification quiz Eileen. Half the things on that wall are so unique and probably completely obsolete in a modern domestic setting to say the least. Neat-O!
-- posted by Jojo
» Barbara Bell - Wow
Eileen, everything on that wall lives in my kitchen drawers, except the uppermost right object that has a black handle...I know the others, Jojo if you need help with ID's.As an antique dealer, you can imagine the collections I have. Trivets, tiles, plates, and paintings cover my walls, and every shelf (and there are lots of those) is covered with pottery, china, glass, silver, and little boxes. Tables have books, clocks, small framed prints, boxes, interesting ashtrays, silent butlers, vases of silk flowers.
I collect anything from Paris: old etchings, framed postcards, enameled house numbers, anything with a French connection. I have a collection of miniature Parisian buildings (like Dept. 56 village) that can be rearranged to create any street scene I can imagine.
Because I've run out of display space I set up more shelves in the basement for the leftovers, and in the attic are all my own watercolors and drawings that just don't have a place anywhere else!
Somebody come help me dust!
-- posted by Barbara Bell
» Carol Wallace - Help you dust?
And here I was going tooffer you my paperweight with little buildings of the Opera, Sacre Couer and the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe!-- posted by Carol Wallace
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