what's your hobby/obsession what's in your basement?

[Suesumba]

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[Suesumba]

13003182937973000055904.jpg the german lady head one couldn't be passed up, likewiise the tangerine.

[Suesumba]

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[Peasie]

I love the arrangement in this little nook.

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a little cluster - photos kinda grainy

[Peasie]

Nice, which one is from Botswana

I bet you figured out which one

I have resisted many giraffe tchotchkes over the years except these. Clockwise starting with the large spotted one on the left:

1. Carved wood. Botswana. Purchased 27 years ago at Philadelphia Art Museum.
2. Bronze. Purchased at Home Goods store in Florida somewhere.
3. Shaped from a recycled soda can. Malawi (I think?). Purchased at Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.
4. Carved stone. Malawi (I think?). Purchased at Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.
5. Leather. Italy. (I saw a shoemaker making these from scraps in his store in Amalfi and could not resist )
6. Wood letter opener. Friend purchased for me in Tanzania.

[Xavier]

Love the giraffes.

My hobby (which I don't do often) is photography so nothing is in the basement...it is on the hard drive...

[Suesumba]

Love the giraffes.

My hobby (which I don't do often) is photography so nothing is in the basement...it is on the hard drive...

Less messier! what i do is when I become overwhelmed, well I lay stuff off on my kids and they won;t know it`s a meis vandeer rohe or an eimes or marcel bbruer chair, they`ll just love it if they look at it and they think it`s cool, without knowiing what it is. and if they want it, it belongs to them because I just keep getting more stuff. that`s the whole fun.

the way i shop is in old thrift stores out in small towns. someone empties grandmas`old farm house and lo and below i have a salt cellar which they had before the days of iodized salt.

[CeaBee]

i collect books. My kindle has 397 or so books stored.




doesn't take up much space. I do need to de-clutter both my kindle and living quarters tho'

[Gen]

oh didn't know yuh do furniture as well, I love the flea markets.

eames

Less messier! what i do is when I become overwhelmed, well I lay stuff off on my kids and they won;t know it`s a meis vandeer rohe or an eimes or marcel bbruer chair, they`ll just love it if they look at it and they think it`s cool, without knowiing what it is. and if they want it, it belongs to them because I just keep getting more stuff. that`s the whole fun.

the way i shop is in old thrift stores out in small towns. someone empties grandmas`old farm house and lo and below i have a salt cellar which they had before the days of iodized salt.

[Suesumba]

lamps. honey. it's crazy. and CB you can use books to anchor things. Love me some old books and old ... men, but that's besides the point. If you look at things, you can turn anythig into anyrhibng, you just have to beINSANE ENUFF

[CeaBee]

Sue..put down the rum!

[Suesumba]

GB, i oes what mi like. i found my meis in an autobody shop for $$$0, becaz the (ahem) old (ahem hem) man didn't know what it was. all I had to do was clean and restore the leather. comfortabler with those cantilevered legs.

[SandiF]

I love vases too but it's been a while I haven't gone picking through for some old vases.

btw, your living area looks nice and airy.... clean, inviting and comfy

[Suesumba]

thanks dahlink.. guess i should not show yuze di up stairs den... work in progress. it will look like a proper cathouse when i`m done

[My Looh]

I have an extensive cigar collection. Most are well aged and stored in various humidors, and while I do sample them now and again I do so in extreme moderation. I certainly would not consider myself a regular smoker.