Red, White, and Timeless

Outside, it is still all white. I took a picture this morning, through the conservatory windows:

Dion has the right idea. He's napping through the worst of the winter's weather.
He was up late last night, watching the Westminster Dog Show, cheering for his favorites.

That's about as much outdoor as I'm getting today, except to dash to the car
through some persistent light snow flurrying. But inside, something new.

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Ever since daughter Anne raided -- I mean shopped -- our house for furnishings for her apartment, we've been short on table lamps. I've had trouble finding what I like. In an old home, I love a classic urn or ginger jar, its porcelain curves covered in a stylized Asian design.

If you can find them new, they cost the moon, and look too . . . new.

Vintage things need that hint of dust in their tiniest corners, as if time has gotten stuck in the nooks and crannies.
You need that little bit of fuzzy-wuzzy that will only come out on the point of a dampened toothpick; it blurs any sharp or shiny edges.

I keep an eye on vintage table lamps offered on Ebay, and recently I bid. All out -- ten bucks. I won!
Yesterday, through the steady snowfall, the UPS man tossed the box up on my front porch,
where it skidded to a stop against the front door.

Inside:

I love the touches of red and turquoise, the black, the dull gold color. . . .

I even like the scratches; this gal's been around the block a couple of times.

I'm not sure where she's going to perch, but after I give her a cleaning and find the right lampshade,
I think she'll migrate into the parlor. Her colors seem right.

Yesterday, I won another lamp on Ebay -- 99 cents. Not old, but I think it will work in our front hallway; we'll see.
If it doesn't, maybe Annie can use it!

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Three blog parties today, including a quite new one: Timeless Tuesday, hosted at Paula Grace Designs.
Click here to go there!

Thanks to Sue of It's A Very Cherry World for hosting Wednesday is REDnesday. Click, below:

Thanks to Susan of A Southern Daydreamer, for her Outdoor Wednesday blog party. Click below!

A blessed Ash Wednesday to you -- Cass