When my older daughter lived in Boston an artist who drew posters for bands and clubs gave her a selection and I got to choose one. I loved this take on Little Red Riding Hood.
Around this time I acquired a few other Little Red Riding Hood images and for awhile I thought I might frame them and hang them with the club poster. I eventually decided against a hanging collection. (I do have a collection of fairy tale books but that is the subject for another post!) Now thanks to Pinterest, I get to collect images of Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy tales on my Fairy Tale and Fantasy board.
If only the Pinterest board collections would stay there. When I started pinning I found many great fox images and created a board called Foxes and Hares. Now, of course, I’m seeing foxes everywhere, literally. This poster advertising the Tuesday Farmer’s Market is hanging all over town.
Does this mean I’ll acquire a real as well as a virtual collection of foxes?
My husband makes pancakes every Sunday and for many years my younger daughter would help. Her contribution was to make a pancake in the shape of a letter that signified something that was important to her that week like a D for dance or a C for competition. Now that she is all grown up and celebrating her own first Mother’s Day, all our pancakes are round. So it was a nice surprise today on Mother’s Day that my husband made me two M’s for Margery Mom.
Mmmmmmm!
Any surface in my home is likely to become a display area for one of my collections. Perhaps fittingly, the stereo speakers operate as display pedestals for my woven musical instrument collection. I bought the first two at an African drumming and dance performance many years ago. Now they are one of the things I enjoy searching for at shops while vacationing.
The speaker on the left hosts the first two purchases – the green one in the middle and the purple one in back to the right of it.
The speaker on the right features the more brightly colored ones. I suspect that some of these may be rattles rather than instruments.
Many years ago my sister gave me a patchwork pillow she had made. My response (after I said thank you, I hope), “Where is the other one?”
I really do like to have more than one of everything. A few years ago my daughter gave me a picture that features a blue guitar. Of course, when I saw a painting of a blue guitar at a crafts fair in Texas I had to buy it.
And I always knew that I wanted a small painting of Northampton to hang with the small painting of Chicago that I bought my husband a few years ago, so when I saw small paintings by Devin Koller featured in an article about the closing sale at the Northampton Center for the Arts I knew we had to check them out. We found the perfect one!
Back home and catching up on the magazines that arrived while I was in Chicago, I was struck by a quote from Erin Flett in Country Living. Erin believes that life and decorating, is “like weaving a tapestry. You don’t buy a bunch of stuff at once. Collect things you love, that are authentic to you, and your house becomes your story.”
That reminded me of the night I came home. I was sitting in my usual place on the couch looking around my living room, when I noticed that my husband was smiling affectionately at me. I realized that he had observed me appreciating my stuff – the tapestry of our lives.
My younger daughter loves the movie “Love Actually” and like more than one bride of her generation adopted the theme “All you need is love” for her wedding theme.
Subsequently, the phrase became a part of their decorating theme.
Amazingly, the MIL had made a beautiful calligraphy interpretation for the FIL back in the day which now hangs in the dining room.
So when I saw two cards featuring owls with the phrases “Owl you need is love” and “Love is owl you need” I knew they would be perfect for the expected baby’s room.
I am visiting my daughter and new granddaughter and I have been spending my downtime doing what Melissa Taylor (in her book Pinterest Savvy: How I Got 1 Million+ Followers) calls curating my Pinterest boards.
Pinterest for the uninitiated involves creating and naming “boards” and “pinning” pictures (often with links to the net) to them. The curator can upload new pictures or “repin” pictures others have pinned.
Choosing the appropriate board for pinning and repinning can be more challenging than you would think. For example, where does a basket full of polka dotted felt hearts with a button
ornaments go? Felt Projects, Hearts and Stars, Polka Dots and Stripes, Button Up, Collections, or Christmas?
Some pinners dodge this curating challenge and pin to multiple boards which is pretty annoying to those who “follow” them. I pick the one that seems most appropriate figuring that if I can’t find it on the most logical board I’ll just look on the next most logical – which when I think about it is the way I organize things in my real life as well as my virtual one.
Here is my granddaughter who is collecting owls – home from the hospital and wearing her owl hat.
Here is the link to Etsy shop where I bought the owl bag referred to in previous post.
