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Showing posts with label majolica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label majolica. Show all posts

Friday, 24 February 2012

Tropical Cottage Accessories Galore!!!!!

Posted on 15:11 by Unknown

 

Today we will have a visual orgy of tchatchkes!
For those of you not living on the east coast...
Tchatchkes
(pronounced "chotch' skies")
are nothing more, nor less, than knick knacks!!!


Sooooooooooooo.....
In the informative photo above.....
There be lots of them.


As you guys know, if you've been following my blog.....
I am going on and on and on and on.....
about my living room in Florida.
Hence....
The picture above.
(Hence!!!!! I am soooo erudite!!!)



This is my bird lamp!!!
I knocked it over and broke it. I was really really bummed. So I reglued it. But it's never been the same. 
Soooooo I spent two years looking on ebay and found another one for backup. Now I can still be clumsy!!!!!
However.....I still haven't put out the unbroken one. I'm saving it for when I knock this one over again.
Not to point out the obvious, butttt.....
I've been collecting bird stuff for this house.
Bird lamps, 
bird figurines,
 bird prints,
 bird paintings,
 bird brains 
(no, wait....that can't be right!!).
Most of these objet d'art (I am soooo sophisticated!!)
I acquired through my special curator....
AKA: ebay.




My majolica parrot head!!!!
When I first got it, I wasn't really paying too much attention to detail, and I set the cover on backwards, so the feather stuck out in front. It looked like a duck. My friends made fun of me. I hate them all.


Having no pride I'll share with you how it looked.....






OH BOY!!!!
Another parrot. This big guy is made by Royal Copley.
according to Kovels

Royal Copley china was made by the Spaulding China Company of Sebring, Ohio, from 1939 to 1960. The figural planters and the small figurines, especially those with Art Deco designs, are of great collector interest. The planters and figurines are famous for picturing human and animal faces. 

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah.....

I've noticed that I seem to be attracted to pottery from around the 1940's. 
Don't know why, I just am!!!!

I also seem to be attracted to pottery of the 1930's, 1920's. 1910's, turn of the century, and so, on and so on, and so on.......


How cool is this guy!!????
This is a piece of Chalkware.

Chalkware
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chalkware was figurines either made of sculpted gypsum or cast
 from plaster moulds and painted with watercolors;[1] most typically
 those made in one of two periods: the first beginning in the late
18th century and ending by the beginning of the 20th century, the second
 being during the Great Depression. Those made during the first
period were more typically serious art; those during the second
period were more typically somewhat jocular. Early chalkware
 was often hollow and can be difficult to find unblemished.
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah.....
Does this guy seem jocular to you???????



                                     This is a piece of majolica.                                        
                           The pattern is a Water Lily.

I need to end here, 'cuz blogger is acting up
And typing off the page. It is driving me
                                            NUTS!!!!!
                  I'll finish this on Sunday
                          (or Saturday, though probably not)

Betsy



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Thursday, 23 February 2012

The Continuing Saga of my Tropical Cottage

Posted on 16:48 by Unknown

First off....
Check out my new look. 
My blog has a new do!!!!


So, lets continue with my Florida living room!!!

I read in this room....

I watch TV in this room....
I nap in this room.....
I gab on the phone in this room....
I entertain my friends and family in this room.....
I EVEN DRAFT MY DESIGNS IN THIS ROOM!!!


My friend Lissette (Chloe's mother) is Cuban. 
She came over here when she was 10.
Her cultural background is the opposite of mine.

We sometimes don't agree on the FABULOUSNESS 
of some of my stuff!!!
For example.........
MY PEACOCK CHAIR (shown above).
Hey, I got it on ebay, so it's gots to be good.
I LOVE IT!!!!!
It's my design throne.
I am a princess.
I create gold and diamonds at that drafting board.
EVERYBODY KNOWS.....
You gots to have a throne for your drafting chair!!!!!!


Most folks would have a game table behind their sofa....
But NOT ME!!!!!
If I'm going to play any $%& games, they'll be on the @#$ computer!!!!!
(I've developed a little problem with WORDS WITH FRIENDS. Oy.)

MY SOFA IS THE BEST SOFA IN THE UNIVERSE FOR NAPS!!!!!
(unless a hot flash wakes me up. @#$ hot flashes!!!)

This is my TV chair!!!!!


It's where I watch TV!!!
When I have company, and they want to watch TV, 
this is not the chair they watch in!!!!!
NO NO NO!!!!
The seat and back cushion are down and feather filled.
The feathers work through the fabric and poke me in the @$$.
We all have to suffer for our art. 
Down looks nicer than foam and Dacron.

I WILL NEVER DO ANOTHER DOWN/FEATHER
SEAT AGAIN!!!!!!!

This is the table next to my TV chair.
It is full of my crap.
As my friend Kris would say.....
It is craptastic!!!!



I didn't start writing this till late, since I had to spend so much time watermarking  editing my photos.
I will be posting about the rest of the junk in this room tomorrow.
See you guys tomorrow!!!!

Photobucket

                                                                            




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