On a quest to find vintage china to use when we’re feeling fancy, we found two almost complete sets at a thrift store with complementary gold and silver accents. That meant an abundance of tea cups we won’t need. This one is filled with small rocks on bottom (so roots won’t rot), soil, and cuttings from succulents growing in the yard.
Flags are out for Memorial Day.
In the style section for Sunday’s NY Times, the shopping snapshots feature showed cameo brooches and rings worn by stylish fashion editors and other taste-makers. I’ve long loved cameos and always like to see a vintage accessory appreciated. For me, it’s like is a tiny piece of art. I like that cameos are carved out of seashells and generally reveal one side of the subject in only one color but with much detail, providing a bit of mystery (find more about the beautiful art of carving them in this much older NYT story).
I also love mermaids and my mini-collection of cameos includes a mermaid cameo ring (pictured). It was an eBay find and I remember being thrilled to see it during a general search for cameo rings. Many others share my love of mermaids, but the mermaid cameo was an unexpected, double-the-pleasure discovery. (Like accidentally dropping a piece of chocolate in peanut butter and realizing they tasted better together?) This cameo one is set in a sterling silver ring and the siren is sitting with her arms wrapped around her tail, resting peacefully (and, I imagine, soaking up the sun’s rays before diving back into the sea).
Purple flower in mermaid’s arms from the plant on our porch from the nursery guy who said, “Not sure if this plant will flower or if it will live, but plant it and give it a try.”
Mermaid mural photo taken in Venice, CA.
I found this vintage necklace on a recent thrift shop mission for my Etsy shop and decided I had to keep it for myself. Reminds me of mermaid scales and it looks so great with a black tank top.
My friend Rebecca went to college in New Orleans and suggested we mark Mardi Gras with a New Orleans King Cake for dessert following our Sunday dinner party. The traditional version of the cake has a plastic baby doll hidden inside, but I suggested a small plastic mermaid (the kind you find on the side of a cocktail glass; we keep a few in our garden). Our friend Maya was the lucky one who found the mermaid in her piece of cake.
Photo taken in Montauk, NY.
Photo taken in San Diego, CA. I’m pretty sure she’s a mermaid.
Art by a neighbor.
Photo a mermaid and child miniature sculpture at LACMA’s Pavillion for Japanese Art. Tiny and sweet.
Photo taken in Venice Beach, CA.
The land of the mermaids received a visit by some little people. Find out more about the little people at Personne Trouve.
Photo of mermaids in Venice Beach singing for a good cause: collecting donations for an ailing friend in need.
Photo taken in Venice Beach.
I love this mermaid story from today’s “Early Show.”
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