MAGPIE

Last week out of town contractor friend popped in for a visit

He said our home was 

ECLECTIC

I find myself shying away from that compliment

even though it clearly fits us...(please refer to previous mantel post)
I find myself kind of liking
magpie

def:  one who uses a method or approach that is composed of elements drawn from various sources

This is the den mantel which usually has a 6x2 foot heavy knife impasto oil on board 

of the Spearman Parade, circa 1965, by Nelda Sheets 

who I took art from as a child

When I removed the Nutcrackers

Mr. PV said...

why don't you do something different?

(he's the bossiest thing)

I'm a theme girl...so I gathered the pots and baskets and weapons

and realize I should have done this in October

Mr. PV came home with this lovely pastel from his trip to Panama

the others he purchased (neon fish) are hidden in the far side and underneath

just kidding honey...it's not their turn for a  mantel yet

this basket came from Santa Fe

L.O.V.E. I.T.

You know how we love our owls around here

I could only pray this came from some Hopi or Anasazi Village

and will take the ranks of my Rothko as in 

"could it be possible and what if"

the small owls were discovered here at 822

and the large one I bought at a flea market because

no one loves owls like us

and 

At West End

Thank you Cross Bottle Guy for reminding me of our porcupine quills 

(from grandparent's mission trip...eclectic basket also from Panama)

candles...yep...they were left here too, and as we all know

orange was popular in 1976 

AND NOW...

hello...I'm a galumpher

**see below

I love to stack books to stack stuff 

make sense?

I'm still pretty smitten with this old rough hewn hunk a wood we like to refer to as

DEN MANTEL

Those quills are dang sharp and dang out of focus

(No..it's not your vision)

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaang I love this basket

and the word dang

and how do you feel about that pot?

the one I bought at.....

my grocery store!

and while I'm bragging...the afghan came from last week's estate auction

pillow?  eBay!

and my color inspiration for the den mantel

Thank you Loi for teaching me how to fold and chop...I hope no one will hold my technique against you

as you waste your time reading the 

definition of eclectic provided below

I hope that if you...like me..want another word for how wonderfully unusual you are

(I chose MAGPIE)

you will embrace the one that fits you

Let's all be creative...shall we?

use piebald in a sentence!

Definition of ECLECTIC

: one who uses a method or approach that is composed of elements drawn from various sources : one who uses an eclectic method or approach 

Examples of ECLECTIC

1. The collection includes an eclectic mix of historical artifacts.
2. eclectic

collection has everything from a giraffe skeleton to medieval musical instruments>

All around us, fishers galumphed past. … They carried an eclectic array of rods, nets, buckets and coolers. —Stephen C. Sautner, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2000

Her witty, mordant and splendidly vinegary observations were informed by broad and eclectic reading. —George F. Will, Newsweek, 24 May 1999

The polo crowd is eclectic and dangerously hagridden with narcissism and treachery, and that is the way they like it. —Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 1994

… big wheels of country bread and eclectic selections of pâtés, hams, cheeses, honey and all sorts of homemade cookies and sweets. —Per-Henrik Mansson, Wine Spectator, 28 Feb. 1993

Related to ECLECTIC

Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, kitchen-sink, magpie, mixed, motley, patchwork, piebald, promiscuous, raggle-taggle, ragtag, varied

Antonyms: homogeneous

Related Words: manifold, multifarious; multiple, multiplex, myriad; disparate, divergent, diverse, sundry, various; chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, farraginous, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled; amalgamated, blended, combined, commingled, commixed, conglomerated, fused, incorporated, intermingled, intermixed, merged, mingled; composite, conglomerate, hybrid; unclassified, unsorted

Near Antonyms: monolithic, uniform; alike, identical, like, same; distinct, distinctive, individual, separate

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Rhymes with ECLECTIC

cachectic, cathectic

²eclec·tic

noun \e-ˈklek-tik, i-\