In May I posted about turning my bedroom into my private art gallery. Before touches of Christmas begin to go up, I thought I would show other pieces of art that I've added, begging you, pretty please, to remember that "Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation."
The vintage "Dutch" pictures above and below stole my heart this summer on my one trip out to our local antique mall.
They seemed to go so well with my old mirror and washstand that serves as my bed table.
I've delighted in bringing in warm cozy colors of our beautiful autumn.
And burning another Milkhouse Candle is something I look forward to each evening.
Brown Butter Pumpkin smells good enough to eat as it lights the photograph of my dear Aunt Etta. No, this is not a sponsored post. I just love their candles that are pure beeswax and natural soy wax with no artificial dyes and no lead in the wicks.
It was so difficult not to get a reflection in the glass of another "art" find, so I just gave up on trying.
The Hermitage is the home of President Andrew Jackson and I drove carloads of children to visit it every year as room mother to my four children. It was a special place to me, especially Rachel's Garden where I would go alone and sit on a bench to take in the beauty. When I found this embroidered picture of it, it had to come home with me.
I didn't want to go to the expense to frame my other French pictures and decided to use bulldog clips to make an arrangement of them on one wall.
I added a small photograph of Notre Dame that I bought years ago, simply for the beauty of it. On the back is written, "Choir, Notre Dame de Paris, October 1951." With it were other pictures from around Europe taken by an American military family.
Below is my favorite art wall of all, art by our granddaughter! Notice the dappled dachshund with the blue eye she drew just for me.
Art is many things to me. It is an obviously married wood knob on my old washstand...
It is the vintage blanket I found on Etsy that I tried (and failed) to drape stylishly across my bed...
It is even a shopping bag that is cute enough to hang on my old floor lamp.
And of course the best art of all are these two darling dachshunds on my old Karastan rug in Rue de Provence's Summer Trellis pattern.
BreeBree...
And James Mason, himself...
I behold them as living art!
