From my heart with Love

 Today, I will take a moment…

...to think about the people of Ethiopia, with love.

I think...

...about the diversity...

...of art and culture...

...with in Ethiopia.

I will take a moment ...

...to appreciate...

…all hard work they put into making crafts and arts.

What I know now…

…contributing to the person I’m today.

To the Ethiopian people...

...I send... 

 ...my love and prayers...

...to be with you. 

Finders, keepers..

While I was out jogging on this morning, I found an absolutely beautiful tree branches.

…Just look at these! ...

viewing from different perspectives

...it's all about textures...

…and it’s unique shapes..

hmm....Just lying there,..

 waiting to be picked up. :)

May you find beauty and peace each day

Quote of the week

 "I'm the oldest antique in town"

Norman Rockwell

Thanks to indianaglass.carnivalheaven.com I know all about my Whitehall Tumbler water pitcher and glasses.

The Fostoria Glass Company manufactured high-quality glass tableware for nearly 100 years. They were founded in 1887 in Fostoria, Ohio.

During the 1970s, when foreign producers began offering all kinds of low cost competing products, the Fostoria company didn’t do well. By 1983 the Lancaster Colony Corporation purchased the Fostoria Company.

It was at this time that Indiana Glass merged with Lancaster. They made the Whitehall pattern from Indiana Glass molds, and renamed the line American Whitehall.

According to my source, Donna Adler, the founder of indianaglass.carnivalheaven.com  

"...the Whitehall pattern is Indiana Glass molds. The American Whitehall pattern was produced after the Fostoria purchase and the American Whitehall pattern was produced using actual Fostoria molds. Thus the name changes to American Whitehall.  So Whitehall was produced from the early 1960's to the early 1980's using Indiana molds. American Whitehall was produced, or I should say reproduced, using the Fostoria American pattern molds...”

So do I really have the Fostoria collection?

well, let's just say...

... not exactly but here it is..

...my beautiful 1975 Whitehall Tumbler American..

...water pitcher with ice lip and the cutest glass (which I have 6 of them)

And now you know all about my Fostoria American:)

Hope your week is productive and relaxing. ...

Frank Lloyd Wright!! I love him.

THE WOMEN 

We have literally a thousand books in our house. Mr. Philosophy reads a lot of books; he averages  2 or 3 books a week, including books on CD. Me …. I try to read 2 or 3 books in a year… ha ha ha the joke’s on me… Anyway he handed me this book “The Women”, a novel by T. C. Boyle, he said,  “It’s about Frank Lloyd Wright’s adult life arranged in segments by the four women he loved.  Since you are an admirer of Frank Lloyd Wright, maybe this is not your book but it will give you plenty of thinking.” 

Frank Lloyd Wright!!  I love him. Any one who loves architecture loves his artistry and vision. He was a world-renowned architect who designed some of the 20th century’s grandest structures.

In an introductory passage of the book Tadashi Sato, a (fictional) Japanese architectural student before he meet Mr. Wright, he explains, how he felt …

“…Could anyone blame me for being more than a little anxious? I felt like a freshman coming to campus for the first time, wondering where he was going to sleep, what he would eat, …unconsciously, I began to increase my speed, the wind seizing my hair, the scarf slapping at my shoulder like a wet towel … “

and when he meet him… “I was just stepping out of the car, pulling off my (sweat- soaked) gloves preparatory to unknotting the scarf, when a figure emerged from one of the garage stalls …. it took me a moment … before I realized, my pulse pounding all over again, that I was in the presence of the Master himself. I bowed. Deeply. As deeply as I’d ever bowed to anyone in my life….”

Wow Wow Wow . Great explanation. So here is my question: have you ever felt like this when you met someone?

I will tell you this:

The first time I overlooked the Pacific Ocean around Redondo Beach located in Los Angeles County, my heart beat, when I saw that big body of water. I cried - but they were tears of joy and I bowed. Deeply. As deeply as I’d ever bowed to any[thing in my life….

The first time I visited The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, I walked up to each painting and sculpture,.. I bowed. Deeply. As deeply as I’d ever bowed to any[thing] in my life….

The first time my husband took me to the Orange County Performing Arts Center to see Swan Lake, Oh! Lord have mercy on me, for the orchestra, for the ballet, for the music of 

Tchaikovsky, I bowed, ….

I still feel emotion when I’m in the presence of beauty. Life is full of beauty and it is easy to bow for it.

I do admire Frank Lloyd Wright, the startling originality of his concepts! If I met him before he died I would probably have fainted! Even though I’m not someone who faints easily.

 1954 portrait by Al Ravenna, New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer from wikipedia.org

What would you do? Would any personage or place that you know of touch you so deeply that you would feel a sweep of emotion akin to bowing? 

Sea treasures to myself

What is better than a collection of sun-bleached seashells? I brought a little bit of the sea into my home. And I love it! ...

...Seashells occur in an amazing range of shapes, sizes and colors. White, natural & sandy toned shells. They are design inspirations.

"Seashells, seashells on the shore,

I wonder where you were before.

Some are big and some are small,

How many seashells are there in all.

In the sea or on the beach,

Some are white and even peach.

Seashells, seashells on the shore,

I feel somewhere else there are many more."

from www.PoetryInNature.com by Valerie Walls

...go gathered some collected shells together 

...and Put them in a large fabulous porcelain bowl or plate..

Have fun!

Happy July 4th Weekend !

 I want to share my impressions of the July 4th. This was the greatest and most unique event in the history of the government, the greatest creation of any conference of men. This is the standard for humanity, eloquent statements of the heart, courage and generosity that elevated society forever.


Independence Hall

When I visited this replica of the real Independence Hall just outside of Knott's Berry Farm 8039 beach blvd, Buena park. I saw Independence Hall in character with the period,

 a great straight wall of red brick marked by large white-framed windows and an entrance way reaching high to a bell tower.

    

 There is so much to see and to learn,The Liberty Bell is one of the iconic symbols of American independence this is a copy of the liberty bell, weighing only five pounds less than the original. do you know how much the original weighs? (2,080 #)

 The history in and of itself is enough to put me over the edge. It is a powerful room, my Favorite Room "The Assembly Hall" where Declaration of Independence was signed.

 It really cool to walk through this room and Yes, it was emotional when you gaze  

at the chairs.
  

Inside what I loved seeing most was where the founding Fathers met, sitting in Windsor chairs, to debate and sign the Declaration of Independence.

America's most popular chair, the Windsor used to be called Philadelphia chair because by 1740, they were being made in Philadelphia instead of imported from England.

This light, strong, and comfortable chair reached its highest point in beauty and variety of detail at the hands of American craftsmen.

American variations of the Windsor chair included the low-back, fan back, loop back and comb back. There were also Windsors with writing arms, Windsor cradles, Windsor high chairs, and Windsor settees. After the revolution they were made in N.Y, Rhode Island and Connecticut. They were also painted in green, white or black.

AMERICAN COLONIAL

   Late Colonial or Georgian C.1720 – 1787

Colonial means so much, so many beginnings, the beginnings of styles that would be subtly American, in harmony with a vast and beautiful land, where freedom would foster creation, and where both concepts would grow and spread,whatever the effort.

painted in 1950 by Walter Haskell Hinton

Wishing you a safe and happy American Colonial 

 Holiday weekend!