Estelle at Forture Favours has started up a mantlepiece Monday's linky...I'm keen as mustard as I have 3 mantlepieces, and though I rarely pimp them, and never dust them, I'm love-em, mine and others, so count me in!
Here is my fave at our place, in the lounge. I like to think it looks rather dramatic, with the spooky Bill Hammond lithograph above (NZ artist, from Lyttelton). I like the red brick as it reminds me of my old red brick primary school back in England!
These are 'sea secrets', rather coral-like ceramic creations by Len Castle, an outstanding NZ potter. Safely out of reach of Claud-hands, and stuck fast with large gobs of quake wax; none of them moved in any of the earthquakes (so far...).
And these antique welsh dragons, or are the griffins...hmm, whichever they are they look terribly grand lit-up at night.
The paper fans are from the 50's, I have millions of them, you can get them from Acorn and Will if you really like them, cheaps as chips and twice as cheery!
We were equally frightened and relieved by a recent inspection by the Earthquake commision, who noticed that this whole mantlepiece/brick edifice had in fact come loose from the wall/chimney during the quakes and could have fallen at any time. Feck!
So we've bolted it to the wall as best we can and the builder thinks it can be saved-hurrah!!!
See you next week with more mantles x
Lordy that's some nice stuff, the Bill Hammond Litho and the coral sculptures are tre sexy!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear your surviving all that earth shakey malarky, what pain in the butt.
Thanks for playing along, I hope we get to see some more next week.
Loved seeing your mantle! Fans are always a winner :o) Scarlett x
ReplyDeleteLiking the mantlepiece. I'm a big fan of Acorn and Will.
ReplyDeleteLoving the eclectic mix on your mantle, especially the dragon/griffins! Brick reminds me old schools, too :)
ReplyDeleteI love my mantlepiece too, though I never dust it either :)
ReplyDeleteI was pleased to have worked out the Bill Hammond on my own. We have a mantlepiece outside waiting to come back in on a new wall after some renovations - scary about your other one coming off the wall!!!
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