Flickr femme fatales
I’ve started a new Flickr group: Mid-century Modern Red Geraniums. If you watch 50s illustrations closely, you will see that pots of red geraniums were all over the place – as in this image on marcoa84’s photostream. Can you see ‘em? Look close. A new harmless obsession, hurray! Send me your finds!
Vintage head vases are oh so wonderful to collect. To display them most effectively, group them all together as Arrtx has done.
This is one of two paint by number nudes available at the etsy shop of Blue Sky Day. So much for pbn puppies and lollipops.
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My grandpa loved to work on paint-by-numbers, back in the 60s. If he had done something like this one, my grandma would’ve had a fit. He stuck to dogs and horses. I’m pretty sure a cousin still has a few of those paintings.
We have a PBN collection (small collection, 5 pc.) in the hallway. Poynesian and asian themes. Two of the country-scene-with-windmill high on the opposite wall above the doors to the laundry alcove that we couln’t say ‘no’ to.
Growing up we had a large-size PBN commercial ship, very deco-like, that my Great-Grandmother had done. Never have been able to figure out what became of it. Wish I had it, of course!
The biggest appeal to us with the PBNs is that someone actually DID them…just ordinary people like any of us. Laura’s a sucker for nioce old quilts of the lap-blanket size for similar reasons. Sad that someone put love and work into the things and eventually they wound up at a flea market. She has(kid you not) a wall-mounted display rack of the things in our bedroom.
I suppose that for she and I there is a feeling that these things we collect, they were part of someone’s family. These things surrounded someone growing up, these things were loved and collected by someone…and they died, and no one wanted these things, and here we are to trasure them ourselves and make them part of Laura’s kids’ family history (mine are already pretty well grown). No doubt someday they’ll see a green oval Pyrex casserole with the two-handled chrome trivet in a museum or antique store and be like “HEY! I grew up with one of those! David used to make this godawful tater-tot casserole…”
Just like we do.
Cheap, plain, plastic junk…no one cares.
Nice things, things with style, things that have been kept and loved…
These are the things people kept around through decades because they saw the value in them, felt them to be somehow special.
Those of us who collect these things are the keepers of dying sensibilities, of dying aesthetics…and we pass them along by sharing them with others…which is why I think sites like this one are so very cool.
Dave
atomic bowler, you hit the nail on the head…I have the same sentiment, here’s my post from retro renovation’s first birthday: http://retrorenovation.com/2008/10/26/today-is-the-1st-birthday-of-retrorenovationcom/
thank you for sharing your and Laura’s sentiments – you are in good company.