Beauty of Uniqueness: Collection Reflection

I am excited about a recent eBay win.  I didn't think that I would win when I bid, and usually those are the types of auctions I tend to open my email and find 'Pay Now' invoices.  You see, I have an eclectic love of glass.  No, I'm not that Waterford Crystal kind of girl.  I love the way light shines through glass.  It's mesmerizing.

 

I love the artistry it takes for someone to just take a lump of nothing and make it into something spectacular.  So I'll talk about my collections.

 

I collect porcelain dogs and cats.  The little ones made for shadow boxes.  Some expensive, others, not so much.  I've been collecting them since I was ten or so.  I can't tell you how many I have, but I know it's probably more than a couple hundred.  I'm trying to find something to showcase them in that keeps dust and fingers out.  Right now they are all lovingly tucked away in boxes waiting for the day I find that perfect way to keep them safe.

 

Then there's hand blown glass balls for my Christmas tree.  There's nothing like white lights shining through them.  My Christmas tree is two things:  glass balls and birds.  I try to add a new one each year.

 

My Christmas tree of Birds and Light

 

Moving ahead, my favorite of all my glass and porcelain collections has to be my bottles.  I collect vintage bottles from the sixties and seventies.  The ones with glass stoppers.  They are to be the centerpiece of my new living room I'm putting together.  I have a rug from Capel Rugs that just happens to match all the colors of my bottles and it will be a challenge to shelf all of them and tie my living room together.

 

So back to my eBay win.  I won a kaleidoscope made by Sheryl Koch.  It is magnificent.  I had to tell my husband I won it and I am still in awe of the fact that I did.

 

I have this vision for my living room.  I have custom twenty two foot long window.  My husband replaced all our windows when we bought our house, and that long window lets in amazing light.  I plan to fill that room with rainbows of color and happiness.  Mostly of silicon base.