Happy Halloween!

Have a Happy and Safe Halloween!

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Turquoise Beauty

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These are not our Childhood Tree Houses...

Remember those tree houses we built as kids sometimes with the help of our Dads. They usually were a floor with a rail or if Dad helped, it was a small building. Hours of fun! But then there are the tree houses for adults (and children too in some cases...)

Here are a few of my favorites....I couldn't decide which I loved more!

They are all so fantastic... Imagine a sleep over in one of these....

Pictures re-blogged from Awesome Spaces, Apartment Therapy,

Inspire Bohemia, Alexandra Valenti and a couple design sites.

(re-blogged from Interior Alchemy)

Happy 70th Birthday John

The Ultimate Hammock

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Framed!

This is a project that my husband and I did together. He drew this picture in the 70's. He did a good job of coping freehand the Flammarion woodcut picture. I thought it needed something special to show it to an advantage. I wanted to see a chunky frame around it. The picture has aged so it reminds me of parchment....of something antique.

Steve came up with some left over wood from a mill he had and made the frame for me.I came up with the design to pull out some elements within the picture. So I hand carved the sun,moon and stars around the frame.

This is the result. Steve was very happy to see the picture displayed like this.

Here is a little history on the woodcut picture itself.

I found this on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_woodcut

The Flammarion woodcut is an anonymous wood engraving (once believed to be a woodcut), so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology").^[1]

In 1957, astronomer Ernst Zinner claimed that the image dated to the German Renaissance, but he was unable to find any version published earlier than 1906.^[2] Further investigation, however, revealed that the work was a composite of images characteristic of different historical periods, and that it had been made with a burin, used for wood engraving only since the late 18th century. The image was traced to Flammarion's book by Arthur Beer, an astrophysicist and historian of German science atCambridge and, independently, by Bruno Weber, the curator of rare books at the Zürich central library.^[3]

According to Weber and to astronomer Joseph Ashbrook,^[4] the depiction of a spherical heavenly vault separating the earth from an outer realm is similar to the first illustration in Sebastian Münster'sCosmographia of 1544,^[5] a book which Flammarion, an ardent bibliophile and book collector, might have owned. The idea of a pilgrim searching for the place where the Earth and sky meet might have been inspired by a legend associated with Saint Macarius of Rome, a legend which Flammarion recounts in detail in his book Les mondes imaginaires et les mondes réels ("The Imaginary Worlds and the Real Worlds", 1865).^[6]

Flammarion had been apprenticed at the age of twelve to an engraver in Paris and it is believed that many of the illustrations for his books were engraved from his own drawings, probably under his supervision. Therefore it is plausible that Flammarion himself created the image, though this has not been conclusively ascertained.

Like most other illustrations in Flammarion's books, the engraving carries no attribution. In the previous page, Flammarion comments on the wrongness of the ancient belief that the sky is a physical barrier, like a vault or a curtain, separating us from another realm. He also mentions, without giving any further details, that a medieval missionary claimed to have discovered a place where the sky and the earth were not joined together, which allowed him to poke his head behind the veil of the sky to look at the heavenly regions behind it.^[1]

The decorative border surrounding the engraving is distinctly non-medieval, and it was only by cropping it that the confusion about the historical origins of the image became possible. Flammarion might have simply intended the image as a fanciful illustration of the false view of the sky as a barrier. Some commentators have claimed that Flammarion produced the image to propagandize the myth that medieval Europeans widely believed the Earth to be flat.^[7] In his book, however, Flammarion never discusses the issue of the shape of the Earth

Original version

Caption says “A medieval missionary tells that he has

found the point where heaven and Earth meet…”

A hand-painted version done after the original.

Peace!

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An Eclectic Bohemian

That is what I am.... It is the only way to describe what inspires and motivates me..... Be it philosophy, art, literature, spirituality, music, science and so on. To box yourself in to a narrow set of rules stifles and hinders the growth of a person. When it comes to the many and varied artistic genre, there is a cornucopia of color, design, textures & architecture out there to discover.

Then .........

you let your imagination go and design something unique to you...

to express your personality....

your individuality....

I found this blog the other day ....... it is all beautiful, inspiring photographs. Interior and exterior... these are a few of the pictures on this blog...I have posted their link..

http://interioralchemy.tumblr.com/

Enjoy!!