The Status of the Peacocks

The good news about the peacock collection is that since my dresser can fit in the bedroom here the peacock mirror hangs in its proper place.

On the right side of dresser is the glass vase from my younger daughter that kind of looks like a mermaid tail and a peacock tail at the same time (perfect!), a little pouch with a beaded peacock from friend Jen, and a decorative plate from my parents.

On the left side there are two peacock frames. One from my younger daughter with a picture of my father looking like he did during my childhood and one I just bought at Target with a picture of my mother from the same time period.

The frame my mother’s picture had been in had broken and I was on the lookout for a new one. When I first saw this one I really wasn’t sure about it I visited it at Target three or four times before I bought it but now I think it’s perfect.

Some other peacocks appear on the other side of the bedroom. Another peacock plate – this one from my older daughter sits on my husband’s bedside table.

One of the peacock screens hangs above mine.

The perfume bottle from Austin sits above the bed again.

Some of the other peacocks are in the work room/guest room along with irises and some of the mermaids.

Some actual peacock feathers fill in an awkward space as the cross stiched iris picture is hanging on a nail that was already there. To the right you can see the pipe cleaner peacock we bought at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and a peacock paperweight from my sister.

I made these two “batik” prints many years ago by drawing with crayons on hot tinfoil and then lifting the image with tissue paper.

These two framed pictures are sitting on top of the children’s books bookshelf for now. The papercut on the left is from friend Jean. Our older daughter traced the tattoo that is another allusion to the similarity of the mermaid and peacock tails.

The bad news about the peacock collection is that the peacock fans have not found a space. Sometimes I think I may hang them in and among the clothes in the walk in closet and sometimes I think that is ridiculous and that I should let them go.