Abstract beauties.

These works are by the talented Amy Carnes.
She puts a micro chip into each painting with a different # in each,
so that they can be identified if there is a theft, etc...
I love the colors that she uses and the method is striking...

Via- Art Quiver

Earthy, Eclectic, Glam...

This chandelier is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G..
This is the home of Judy Alderidge, designed to perfection by Samantha Reitmayer Sano of Swoon Studio.
Love the cute corgi in the pic. The arched entries are beautiful.
The lamps over the table are insane...
Serpent anything is just cool.
The picture below is my favorite of them all. It is purely unique. And every home should have a station of uniqueness. A station, a corner, a shelf, a hub, an area of the home that shows people who you are, trinkets and all. It could be your mothers collection of bronze baby booties...The white house ashtray that your Aunt Gerty stole when she was on a tour in '69...Or rocks from beautiful caves that you hiked through in Thailand. (Those are in my house. ) Just some ideas of how it does not take money, just a bit of creative thinking to make your house a home.
This stool with the Muppet cushion...I am dying to know where this was found?? It looks like it is from morocco. Maybe a prince used it as a stool to wash his face in gold?
www.styleswoon.com

The Art of Animation : Mark Portillo of Drop Me Off In Harlem.

The photo above makes me laugh everytime I look at it...

Have a great weekend!

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Oh Montana, how I miss thee...

So we took a little trip to Montana...
We had planned to float the Missouri River in a canoe and camp on the side of the river in the middle of NOWHERE, following Louis and Clark's path. We had our pages bookmarked in our little Louis and Clark book, telling us where the buffalo jumps were, and where some gorgeous places like a stone cavern where the old outlaws used to hide from the law, and Native American sites all around..(We found actual intact tee-pee rings the last time we went).

Unfortunately, it just happened to be one of the worst weeks of weather in Montana history. There were tornado's, and hail the size of golf balls, and flooding everywhere...So we did not get to do our well planned trip down the river after all...We still had an amazing time at the "Big Sandy Homecoming", which is the teeny-tiny town that my husband grew up in and graduated with 25 people or so. Here are some highlights...

As we get closer to Montana...The sky opens wide and says hello...



This is the river we were supposed to be floating...Is it not just lovely?



The road into Big Sandy...Be careful not to blink or you will miss it...




The best pizza joint / bar in town. Peps.


The way this one was behaving, I almost threw him in there for a night...


The parade is about to begin...




This was a dinosaur and old west museum that had the only skeleton in the world with actual arrowheads in the chest, hips, and back..They think it was a European trapper who walked down the wrong road...He was found in a shallow grave in the late 1800's



The world's longest Dinosaur below and a T-rex skull above...


I found this artist at the only coffee place at town and fell in love with his Montana landscape shots. His name is Craig Edwards and he lives in Big Sandy. This one was my favorite...Click on it to see more detail, the colors are amazing and the middle building says something like "Sara Sucks!" I need this in my home...www.edwardsstudio.com/

Gypsy Paintings.

Gypsy Splendor.

Just back from a trip to Montana for a much needed break, and am excited to share some pics from the old west that I collected, in a few days. Many of the people from the small towns of Montana have character that you will not find anywhere else. These old paintings reminded me of the trip.
The Old Gypsy.
The Gypsy.

The Young Gypsies.

Gypsies, painted in the 1930s
by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970).

Russian country house of Tolstoy...

This country house belonged to one of my favorite writers, Tolstoy. It makes me want to cry with joy. What a perfect placement of images and art. It has character, and evokes a feeling of pure warmth, and wonder. What is the story of the persons life that lived there? Why are sooo many houses today looking like everything in them was purchased to look like a catalog, and not CREATED in an AUTHENTIC way...
The bench on the back wall?? How beautiful is that???

19th century Russian house of writer Tolstoy, where he wrote War & Peace, and Anna Karenina.
Found these images from one of my favorite blogs...balustrade and bitters

Artist of the month : Doug T. Foltz

Arrival - Oil on canvas.
Chasing Dawn - Oil on canvas
Rubicon - Oil on canvas.
Silver lining - Oil on canvas.

Worth the effort - Oil on canvas.

If you have not noticed, I like ocean scenes. Not bright, colorful, ocean scenes, but muted, moody, or soothing scenes. Doug Foltz hits the nail on the head for me, the colors are sophisticated, beautiful and timeless.

A native of South Miami he has spent much of his life exploring alone, on or around the water. Those elemental moments of sky and water -- and the edges between -- form the foundation for his exploration as a painter.

Most often referenced as "interpretive" his style, based in realism, intentionally and easily departs to explore more abstract or distant characters... usually returning once again to rest comfortably at home. His art is a collection of personal views associated with those experiences -- in life and in paint. Easy departure... and constant returns from open exploration to known edges and more familiar horizons.


Doug holds a Bachelors of Environmental Design and a Bachelors of Architecture from Auburn University and has spent a 25 year professional career as an architect, graphic designer, visual communication strategist, and corporate communication consultant.

He has been painting and drawing since childhood, and his work hangs in private and corporate collections from Seattle to the Bahamas.

Doug currently shares his time between Atlanta, Georgia and the beaches of Northwest Florida.

He is represented:
... in Atlanta, Georgia by Huff Harrington Fine Art,
... in St. Simons Island, Georgia by Mix Art & Design,
... in Boston, Massachusetts by Jules Place, and
... in Boca Raton, Florida by the Addison Gallery