Amendment to "Curated"

 To my surprise, I realize I actually have a couple more collections that I didn't include in my post "Curated."  It's not important, but I like to be thorough! 

Somewhere along the way, I began acquiring an assortment of old children's chairs.  The one I grew up with was from my mom's childhood, so almost 100 years old now.  It sits in my bedroom with her equally old 'Petite Sally' doll.  When Jaime was little I had this dress made out of her bedroom fabric.

 

At some point in the last forty years I guess I saw another cute chair...  So now I have them in several rooms.  I like simple woven or wooden chairs.  And I'm drawn to rocking chairs because I imagine they'd be inviting for little ones to sit in. 

I didn't notice how many I had until I moved here and Jaime and Brian started pointing them out.  Now, it's their 'drinking game' as they show their friends around my house.  Everyone gets a beverage, and every time you spot a little chair, you take a sip.  Ha, ha, the joke's on me.

    

I have a couple small chairs outside.  And I have a pretty children's table with chairs in the basement, with Jaime's old dolls just waiting for a tea party.  

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In Palo Alto we had a small cottage that I decided to decorate with "Paint-by-Number" paintings.  They were inexpensive and easy to find on Etsy and Ebay.  I didn't buy kits, but already-painted canvases.  I painted none of them!  

I had them all framed the same.  Consequently they were no longer as inexpensive as I'd planned, but it united them as a collection.  They now hang in my basement, giving the space a little touch of colorful decor.

Popular subjects were horses and New England snow scenes and coastlines.  I tried to find a couple that weren't so typical.  There were lots to choose from and the quality of the painting--due to the age and talent of the 'artist'--varies greatly.

To those of us who are old enough to remember them, they look exactly like what they are, amateur, unsophisticated, but very recognizable and nostalgic paintings from the 1950s.     

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