More Collections {we love ‘em}
Since this post, our Creative Collections flickr group has grown to include some of you eager to show and tell. Here are some recent photos from the group that inspired me, each so very different from the next but all are quite well arranged and interesting I think. Check out these creative ideas…
A collection of art over the sofa in the home of flickr member ATLITW. She has a great collection of necklaces on display, too. It’s smart to create a focal point out of items you actually use, don’t you think?
Pretty things from Amsterdam artist, Rinske Dekker, also known on Flickr as Apple Blossom Girl. From plants to precious antiques, her arrangements make you pause and think, maybe if you were visiting Rinske you would like to ask her questions about these items? I know I would. And this is precisely why I love unique arrangements of things, maybe you can call them offbeat collections, but they stimulate the best conversations. When you wear an interesting necklace or a pin on your jacket, don’t you get a few curious passerbys wanting to know more about this piece? Same goes at home. Your guests will appreciate that you’ve opened up your heart to them by showing things that are uniquely you. I prefer rotating “living” displays in the home because they are very present tense. They speak loudly about who you are today, what inspires you and brings you joy. Try pulling together a little collection and see what happens.
Ready for this collection? Very unique and eco-friendly. Abbey, the New York blogger behind Aesthetic Outburst and esty store owner of How Now Design, collects all sorts of delightful, some may call them odd, objects. Here you can see a collection of bread bag tags beneath a glass cloche. Clever. And cloches are still hot by the way, so give one a try.
More from Abbey over at How Now Design. This time, bundt pans in the kitchen. Abbey mentions that she still needs 1 more bundt to complete this wall. Any leads for her on something cute and unique? Here’s a vintage metal pan from Germany, but I tend to think she could use another brightly colored one.
Abbey collects vintage birdies along with bundt pans and bread tags. Isn’t this lady someone you’d love to know? Her collections reveal her playful side, the ability to really enjoy living in a space and decorating it according to exactly who you are. Isn’t that what we’re all after, and what makes our homes so wonderful? Enjoying our abode and allowing them to reflect who we are is far more interesting than copying some trend or catalog.
Amy Gross ( amyla174 on flickr) is a mixed media artist (etsy store here) and has lots of interesting collections around her home. Here are some doll heads she collects. Doll heads are right up there with clowns for me, they absolutely creep me out, so I give anyone a high five who can sleep beneath a shelf of little heads. But I appreciate her collection and still think Amy is one cool girl. It would be fun to walk through her home and ask her about all the things she loves there. I bet even these heads have a story, huh?
More collections from Amy Gross, this time, pottery arranged on a pretty shelf. No heads here, just some natural beauty this time.
Nina van de Goor is a flickr girl who lives in the Netherlands, she collects vintage modern ceramics. I like the fishy bowl in the bottom left corner in gray and mustard yellow. Nice colors and the pattern would be fun for serving something from the sea.
More on collections, how to get started, and some inspiring displays can be found here.
(images linked above to their photo bugs)
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December 17th, 2007 at 6:29pm
i’ll never look at bundt pans the same again :)
December 17th, 2007 at 9:01pm
This is so inspiring – I wonder if the owner of the necklace display has any mischievous cats. I doubt it!
December 17th, 2007 at 10:37pm
Thank you so much, Holly, for your including me (and my doll heads!) on your excellent blog! Ironically, I too have a serious issue with clowns! I’ve been reading Decor 8 for a year now, it has been a wonderfully inspirational way to start my day, and to be a part of it today means so much to me!
December 18th, 2007 at 12:59am
These are amazing, beautiful collections.
December 18th, 2007 at 2:48am
Wow! Thanks so much! I’m honored to be included with such beautiful and inspiring collections. I’ve spent the last week falling in love with (and getting so many ideas from) all of the images in the Creative Collections pool.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:31am
love the birdies! and what a cute idea with the bread bag tags… very cool collections :)
December 18th, 2007 at 4:44am
I LOVE the plastic tab collection – brilliant. I’ve been collecting antique egg beaters for years. Next to paper, the egg beater is definitely the greatest invention!
December 18th, 2007 at 2:41pm
Love the birds! My daughters do too and I think we’re going to do a branch for each of their bedrooms. Does anyone have any ideas for how to mount the branch so it stands?
December 19th, 2007 at 4:12pm
Holly, I love this post! I’ve been writing a lot about display on my blog lately, so when I have more time I will check out the links! Thanks for the inspiration.
Work is sooo busy right now and I just want to read blogs! Have a great holiday!
December 20th, 2007 at 2:14pm
If you consider it, anything that was made by someone else – however mundane and ubiquitous it may be – was designed.
By bringing these ordinary things together as a collection, you find you suddenly appreciate the aesthetic of the individual pieces that make up the collection.
It’s a great way to celebrate things less-noticed. I think the stuff we take for granted is proof that these objects are so well-designed, we fail to notice them anymore!
December 28th, 2007 at 1:42am
As you know, I’m obsessed with our urge to collect — I’m now of course heading over Aesthetic Outburst! Thanks for the great link!