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tea stuff

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Always looking for something colorful to Post…

     Above is a Samarkand small bolinpush suzani, hand embroidered.                                                                               Below is a Mongolian yurt wall cover. Siberia.

              The reindeer people. 

Suzani. Samarkand  below. All hand embroidered. 

Some I chose from an album that are bright and colorful from all seasons to brighten cloudy much needed rainy days. 

I love rain anyway. 

As a very young child I didn’t see why I had to stop playing outdoors when showers broke out in spring time. 

I don’t recall why I was sent to my room but I think I wasn’t very quiet about having to come inside. 

To my room I’d go and stand on my little bed, opening the latched window and that way I can as very close to the rain anyway, and after the robins hopped out, I did too. Back out to be with my precious outdoors. My great friend and companion doing I don’t even know what. Exploring like all true adventures I guess! 

 

Longest Beach in US is in Washington State? News to me, but true

Long Beach is a peninsula, we have a few here, and this one is home to a 28 mile beach, longest in the US!

We hiked the refuge here last weekend, it was wonderful, (Take mosquito repellent).



A bay on one side, Pacific Ocean on other, This is THE Tsunami Zone.. of ALL Tsunami zones!

This is also home to an island ( little known) with old growth pockets of 1000 year old trees.
Access by boat only, and is completely primitive.. must filter your own water, and unless you can put your RV in a kayak, you won't be going here in an RV. lol

So I was scheduled to do this island this weekend, but guess what? No kayak rentals nearby, REI doesn't rent kayaks here in WA. so it's too late to order the kayak I would like to get, and my inflatable isn't good for this I think.
Anyway, there is a kayaking water trail 124 miles on the Columbia here too. Wow, what a place, next chapter of my life... begins here! Wanna tag along?

Collections

An angel from my Mexican folk art collection

A beautiful bowl (& gift) is made by my friend Martha ( and ceramics instructor in college).

I have more of her work. Presently she is doing fused glass a lot, and teaches at Normandale Community college in Minnesota.

Below, the b&w plate is more Mexican folk art, shown with two seashells.

The long white one in front is carried in Japanese wedding bouquets. 

Two shrimp are trapped in these for life.

hmmmm....

It's amazing, as most seashells are.

One stunning Scandinavian goblet, and a beer horn from Iittala.

 I also collect some Iittala items.

And it's my year, the year of the ox.

Another Mexican folk art plate. (green) 

It's not clay.

The book in back was my Mother's, Flash Gordon. 

My family had many of these books, but I don't know where they are.

The little clay house is by and from a friend , Marylou, from college.

She is a linguist for the NSA.

Potpourri is in an Iittala vase here, and is primarily tulips petals, and roses.

Two vases are ancient.

 And....... the painting is from Argentina, (from an old BF who traveled there).

Iichiro, thanks.



Mexican folk art links on Amazon
400 Mexican Talavera 4"x 4" ceramic tile Mix
Nevada Tile Mexican Talavera Ceramic - MC (Set of 6)
Talavera Light Switch Plate Cover - Duplex Plate
Ceramica y Cultura: The Story Of Spanish And Mexican Mayolica [VHS]
Mexican Indian Folk Designs: 200 Motifs from Textiles (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)The Ephemeral And The Eternal Of Mexican Folk Art: Two Volumes

More Treasures, folk art, ceramic art, masks and more

This Pitcher by Richard Wilhelmi  was a graduation gift long ago.

 It's a large thrown vase with beautiful workmanship.

I use it when I make gazpacho.

This xylophone is pentatonic, kids love it.

The baskets , on right from a trip to Mexico, lovely basketry.

The one on the left was an easter basket one year, it makes a good sewing basket.

These masks are from Guerrero MX, where masks are famous. 

This artists was doing something very different, in black and white. 

The scenes are of farmers in the fields, and swimming.

This is a bear print by a Seattle artist.

The frame was more than the print that I found at a junk store for 35.00.

These gold shoes are from the roaring 20's. They're a 6 1/2 narrow, from Philadelphia.

The box was decorated by Daisy for me fro Christmas one year, Kim helped her. 

It's filled with fun wind up toys.

The drawing above of the teapot/ cozy is from a Canadian artist.

The bowl is Robin Hopper's work, Canada also, well known potter.

One the left in white with black and gold is an old piece of mine, a vase.

A close up of that drawing, it's amazing. I want that tea cozy!

The Shakatchie flute was a gift when I was in Japan. (Northern Honshu)

It was a delightful gift.

The dog is Mexican Fold art.

Goblets, very tall, and well made. I wish I had made them.

The art behind them is mine tho.

The bowl above is a Canadian potter, a woman.

This black gourd is mine, it's about 14" tall, clay.

The woodcut is mine as well.

The purple creature in Mexican Folk art.

The tiles in relief are mine, the black bowl, Mexican, and the mask,

 I wish I would discover was an early Wiinblad.

The lily plate and bowl are form Mexico, and the vessel is mine.

These two vessels are mine as well. They are from a series of shapes called winged vessels.

Mexican Folk Art links from Amazon

400 Mexican Talavera 4"x 4" ceramic tile Mix

Nevada Tile Mexican Talavera Ceramic - MC (Set of 6)

Talavera Light Switch Plate Cover - Duplex Plate

Ceramica y Cultura: The Story Of Spanish And Mexican Mayolica [VHS]

Mexican Indian Folk Designs: 200 Motifs from Textiles (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)The Ephemeral And The Eternal Of Mexican Folk Art: Two Volumes