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Topic: Your Home is a Living Work of Art
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MysticMelody
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posted March 06, 2008 06:53 PM
 
Your home is filled with art that represents who you are... it changes as you grow, and some is a permanent part of who you are and who you will become. please post:
~pictures of art work on your walls ~written poetry from plaques, coffee cups, magnets on your refrigerators ~pictures of corners of beauty... (filled with plants perhaps) ~pictures of mystical alters of crystals and symbols and... ~pictures of outdoor spaces, gardens, porches etc ~close up picture of your book shelf anything
that is creative and represents YOU
I know it takes forever to get around to adding pictures to your computer etc  so take your time 
Also please give any background information such as when you made the art a part of your life and what it meant/means to you.
If you are comfortable with words, rather than pictures, please feel free to illustrate with prose rather than a photo whenever it pleases you. 
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MysticMelody
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posted March 06, 2008 06:58 PM
"Leave room in your garden for fairies to dance." ~ a fridge magnet I picked up at a barn sale flea market on the way up the Mississippi River on a drive with my daughter to Wisconsin
(~ I also bought/found an amazing print on the floor under the tables stacked with some old frames. It is a mother holding a naked baby with angel wings. I will post it on this thread sometime soon.) IP: Logged |
AcousticGod
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From: Pleasanton, CA, USA
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posted March 07, 2008 02:25 PM
I've fashioned the words, "Live life deliberately," out of tie wire and tacked it to my bedroom wall. It's an attempt to remind myself not to be so (Gemini Rising) scattered, and to do things purposely.IP: Logged |
hippichick
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posted March 09, 2008 09:32 PM
With a Bull Moon....O, the sensual wonders my home holds...and a sun and Venus in the 4th...I never want to leave.... IP: Logged |
NosiS
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posted March 09, 2008 10:00 PM
For starters,The door at my apartment's entrance has a sticker right underneath the peephole that says, "ETERNAL LIFE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE PRESENT".  *edit And it wasn't even I who put it there! IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted March 09, 2008 11:19 PM
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pixelpixie
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From: Ontario Canada
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posted March 11, 2008 01:51 PM
awwwwwwwww I wish I'd been around to see some others...
This is in my entryway.
This is in my kitchen
In my kitchen I have lots of spicy colours and a pot rack which houses butterflies and on the top of a shelf, the occasional pixie. On the wall there is a sign that says 'Indulge'
I am currently painting another for my living room (a big one) and for my daughter's room.. she has requested a grown up one with flowers.
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juniperb
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posted March 11, 2008 02:11 PM
Your Home is a Living Work of Art
Just visualize cat and dog hair everywhere, potted plants & books from floor to ceiling and all colors vibrant; then you see my farmhouse.
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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~ - George Eliot IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted March 11, 2008 02:13 PM
Pixie, those are phenomenal!! 
Are they acrylics?The first one is gorgeous and 'so you'. Dont you have a tatoo of peacock feathers on your foot...? That is sooo cool. Please show us the one you create for your daughter!  IP: Logged |
NosiS
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posted March 12, 2008 06:29 PM
Yeah, pix. I agree with T.These are awesome! I had no idea you were a visual artist, too. This is good news! IP: Logged |
MysticMelody
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posted March 12, 2008 07:14 PM
You haven't missed anything yet, Pixie. We are just getting started. Looooove what you shared! I love what everyone is sharing. I took a couple pics but I have so many more in mind...IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
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From: Ontario Canada
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posted March 12, 2008 08:34 PM
awww thanks guys! I hadn't been here in so long I thought I was unearthing old news!
But it's a great thread idea! I love homes, the warmth, personality!NosiS, thanks! Yeah, I sort of do it all. I am too scattered ... Thanks! Oh, yes, it is acrylics!
I'd love love love to look into oils, but that means an initial investment, when I already have so many acrylics.....
One day when I am feeling a medium expansion.
And yes, I have a **** of the pea variety on my foot!
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26taurus
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posted March 12, 2008 10:15 PM
 pix. juni, LOL! Sounds like a place I'd love to visit. IP: Logged |
wheelsofcheese
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posted April 02, 2008 07:12 AM
I like this thread very much.
Okay, here are some of mine. In the afternoons I make cards and scarves (out of silk and kimono fabric mostly). Then I sell them at craft fairs.
 Here is my home, which my SO built. It is 9mx8m.We have no mains electricity or gas. Life is nice and simple. I look at my home and gasp sometimes because every corner is beautiful. I can't believe I live there.
We have a teepee in the garden. A view from:
My kitchen sink!
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wheelsofcheese
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From: UK
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted April 02, 2008 07:17 AM
A last one. A quilt I made for my mother (in progress) Excuse the mess. It's before we got the walls plastered. If anyone else is into quilting I would love to know.
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wheelsofcheese
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posted April 02, 2008 07:27 AM
Awesome pictures miss Pixie.IP: Logged |
MysticMelody
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posted April 02, 2008 10:04 AM
Wheels, how BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to learn to quilt so much. I picked up books and hope to take the time some day. I've saved favorite baby clothes of my daughter's and I hope to use them someday, but I do know that quilts work better with the same material so I will have to cut pieces from the clothes to sew to each square so I will need a lot of talent. Nice long term goal. I LOVE your home. Where do I get a guy with those kind of skills and that kind of heart? Nice gardening around there too. Paradise. Those paintings are just lovely to look at... I bet your cards are amazing.
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pixelpixie
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posted April 02, 2008 12:35 PM
wow!beautiful! My Oma quilts and runs quilting workshops and sells them for charity.
I love fabrics, I've never learned how to do it properly but I haven't given up because texture is sooooooooo important. One day I will quilt!
I LOVE the visual dance of your quilt. and the cards look so lovely!What a great idea! Your home is so beautiful!
It reminds me of my brother right now. He lives off the grid, on our family's cottage. Solar power/grow and make their own food/get water from spring, etc. They even made maple syrup last year!
It''s pretty awesome!
My kids wouldn't fit in with that scenario but I can appreciate it!
What a peaceful life you must lead!
I thought based on your Dalai Lama egg that you had a talent for fabrics! Thanks for sharing. I knew you were cool. I have 'cool-dar'.. just ask the people on this thread  IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
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From: Ontario Canada
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posted April 02, 2008 12:38 PM
AG~
"Live life deliberately"
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wheelsofcheese
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posted April 03, 2008 05:01 AM
Thanks both for your lovely comments! Quilting's relatively easy - it's just straight sewing, but a big investment in time. Like 6 months or so...arrgh! Have a look at this woman's amazing quilts, that's where the pattern came from for mine, so I can't take all the credit for the design: http://www.dsquilts.com/thegoods.html
She has such a beautiful sense of design, I love her stuff. "Where do I get a guy with those kind of skills and that kind of heart"
MM - I went man-shopping on the internet (an online dating service) because I wasn't meeting anybody in the situation I was in (all my friends were hooked up). I didn't even know what he looked like when we met up for the first time (he's yum though). And the weirdest thing was - we had the same furniture. Same captain's chair, same oak three-drawer chest, same sofa (mine green, his purple). Same kitchen sink even - a 'Belfast' sink with a pale beige stripe. Really rare sink! It was odd. Same aesthetic sense. It's important I think. We are both Virgo rising - very neat, so the small space works out ok. Anyway, I could yap about him all day but I'll spare you. Pixie, your brother's place sounds ideal. SO and I are always talking about Canada - it appeals to us both. Maybe to live there one day...? Canadians seem to do things properly. And the maple syrup... I can't imagine having it on tap. We have a solar panel too, it's starting to kick-in around now so it powers my sewing machine in the summer. 'Oma' - are you Korean-Canadian at all? Only that Oma's Korean for Mom and I spent some time in Korea once. You're setting my cool-dar off too mate, your paintings are beautiful. I like the feather motif - does it have any special significance for you?
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NosiS
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posted April 03, 2008 11:09 AM
 wheels, you just get cooler and cooler... Mel, You're a genius for starting this thread! IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5299
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted April 04, 2008 12:35 AM
awww, yes, I do enjoy being Canadian... being British sounds awfully nice too, mind you...I am Dutch. My Oma is my grandma.
I just write it, without thinking... lol.. Well, my heritage is half Dutch, my dad was born in Holland and came to Canada when he was a boy. I'd love to get off the grid a bit more. I really admire that. Small things do make a difference, I am very proud to talk about my brother's choices though... I appreciate your way of life. It sounds like my utopia! feather.. yeah, I mean, I've always been drawn to both wings and fins.. dreams of flying and swimming as a mermaid, etc... but the peacock feather is so lovely and opalescent ( that's my name) that it does it's job in attracting females.... as it has attracted me.
My mom always had vases of them in the house...they fascinated me as a girl.... they just seem the ultimate in feminine beauty to me. Even though they originate from a male. I like that duality as well.
Quite the explanation, but you asked! haha IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted April 05, 2008 09:43 AM
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