Still digging

As frustrating as it is I am still sifting through boxes of storage items and not making minis! 

Out of the 200 or so boxes I have gone through roughly 40 and the house is creaking under the weight of books and books and books! Books on interior design, painting, jewellery, buttons, embroidery etc. Also novels I can't wait to read again and it's tempting to stop and sit and open one!

I came across my collection of bronze greyhounds and placed them here under the window in place of the white coral which I decided to put on the hall table and what was on the hall table back into a box. It's like a game of chess. I also found things I have no recollection of, weirdly.

 My poor Fo dogs have been squashed by a Victorian china spaniel, two art nouveau pitchers, a carved 19th century Chinese bamboo 'brush pot' and some 15th century India carved stone pieces from Hampi in India. The kids would dig in the mud of the river and find these rare items that they sold to a man in the village who sold them to me for roughly 1 euro each!

 I used to collect these small embroidered pillows, no idea why as I also came across about 30 large embroidered pillows by me back when I was into that craft. I also found an unfinished rug with part of the border to be done. The stool that you can see upended is also a creation of mine, crazy craft, when I find something I like doing I go at it like there is no tomorrow.

 This lovely 18th  century chair covered in ivory woven horse hair came from the trash ! The sculpture sitting on it is by a young artist called Clementine de Chabaneix, it plugs in and the street lamp works but it's only good in the dark. I was afraid that it hadn't survived the move but it has proved me wrong, now WHERE to put it!

 My lovely ugly lion now sitting on a small 19th century Chinese table and surrounded by prickly white coral. I began with one small piece and then it just grew as usual. I can never just have one of something. 

 Here you can see a minimalists nightmare ! it's usually busy but this is too much. I intend to move in two years time to somewhere bigger, I might not wait that long now! 

The notary oak unit was a gift from friends and when I saw it realised that I couldn't put books in it until my thinking went horizontal! I adorned it with an egyptian gilt bronze plaque taken from a huge egyptian revival bed found in the street when I lived in the South of France. 

 Taken tonight, a lovely log fire, a comfy sofa, lots of pillows and my computer. The fireplace is not my taste, too rustic but it's still a fire and it makes all the difference to a home.

Not quite a 'mini' post more of a 'maxi' one !