The silver star mirror in the first picture was on back order and the silver bureau was supposed to come. So of course the mirror came and the bureau is on back order. Furnishing from the Internet can be an adventure
The second is my first picture with my parents. I was adopted so I was four months old. The mantel is made out of both bamboos as are the “decorative shelves”
These are examples of Oaxacan pottery. I have had them since I turned sixteen and lived in Oaxaca for the summeer. The woman on the right is an example of Oaxacan “Black” pottery. The process was “invented” by Dona Rosa Each summer her husband would come, impregnate her, and take much of the pottery to Mexico City to sell. His other family lived in Mexico City. In the 60′s Dona Rosa had no idea that her work was in folk museums throughout the world and she was famous to devotees of pottery. The person who did the center woman also did my collection of tiny animals that comprise a Mariachi band. I will take them out when I find a place for them.
Scotland has perfect sand for making glass. The three large paper weights have “worlds” in them. Behind them is a plaster silver leafed angel my best friend made for me
Oaxacan black pottery. They have bells them in them. My mother “borrowed” them to use as placecards for dinner parties. I love silver trays and they’re on a serving table that goes with my dining room table.
I have read that you should never buy dining room tables or couches over the Internet. I did both. The couch is the most comfortable I have ever owned and the dining room table has wood that almost exactly matches the downstairs bamboo floor. The chairs are incredibly comfortably. I love having furniture and hate shopping for them. “Things” I would only buy in person, usually.
Almost all my art (not up yet) has a personal connection in that I or my father knew (or in my case still knows) the artist. I want some of my sister’s fantasy illustrations and my mother’s paintings copied from great Impressionists.
These are from the great Upper West Side glass and pottery shop Aventura. I go through hoops not to pass the store as I could buy everything in it.
I feel so strange putting my house and its furnishings on the Internet. For many reasons I photographed everything in it and have more pictures to put in
