So here is what I think

I have seen similar figures in the Cairo Museum in Egypt

Are these figures very old?

Are these figures from the Orient?

Maybe I don't need to know

But now that I have so many blogging friends who are experts in antiques....

Maybe you, my dear friends, have an answer.  I purchased these figures  from an elderly couple who came into a consignment shop in Santa Barbara
http://ginaceramics.blogspot.com/2009/12/do-you-recognize-these.html 

 

Those who have seen these figures admire them but no one knows anything about them.

DO YOU?

Gina

Special Doors

Our new House has old doors, very old doors.

Both front and back doors are more than 200 years old.

They were brought from Argentina.

They were also 14 feet tall and had to be cut.

We cut the top from the front door and made this cabinet.

And we cut the bottom of the back door and built a bathroom vanity.

It now holds this fine hand painted sink from Kohler.

This is the front door with glass panels and hand wrought iron windows

The  Letter box spells "Cartas"

This is what the front door looks like from the inside.

And this is what you see from the inside of the front door, our outbuildings.

Sometimes you see sunflower heads and onions drying on top of the wall and beyond that, our mountains.

Gina

A walk around my house

These are a few of my favorite things . . . .

Oh, what stories these pieces could tell . . . . .

I need to mention the rabbits. It is a belt buckle which my Father hand carved for me.

The Madonna painting I purchased, many years ago, from a very charming friend and Art Collector. We had an office in the same building. He would visit often but never mentioned how much I still owed him. I would pay him a few dollars, when I could, and he would acknowledge receipt on a small slip of paper (which I kept in my desk).

And then one day, the painting was paid in full and it was mine, all mine.

Gina