Decorating With Collections (or how to use lots of stuff)

Continuing on with my BFF's overstuffed home......

(and let me just say here and now, that I've encouraged and enabled her every step of the way.....)

let's go to the upstairs hall.

As you guys know, we used just a few dogs to decorate her living room.....

and being one to beat a dead horse.....

(not really,

 I don't hurt animals,

 that's just an expression, 

don't send me emails of outrage.....

JEESH!!!!)

where was I?????

Oh yeah, beating dead animals.....

No, no, no.....

COLLECTIONS!!!!!

THAT'S WHAT I WAS TALKIN' ABOUT!!!!!

Anyway.

As we sorta' kinda' went a little wild with dogs in the living room, we figured why stop now???????

Soooooo.....

We went to another collection in the upstairs hall.

(Actually, we've done one in every room, 

but you'll just have to wait to see them all.......)

SO HERE'S THE UPSTAIRS HALL!!!

Boy.....

Since I'm shooting in towards the window, you can't even see what our collection is.....

Here's a closer shot.

Now.....

I could say that we chose owls, because we are both such wise old babes.....

But the truth of the matter is.....

they were prints I had left over from my Lake Sunapee cabin, and Kris was a big enough sucker savvy enough shopper to snatch these babies up!!!!!

I got the brilliant idea that we needed more than prints, so Kris, being the intrepid ebayer that she is, found this pair of birds.

Here's an even closer shot of the owl prints.....

And another of the grouping on the right....

And the grouping on the left.....

This is the wall across from the owls.

We haven't started hanging things yet.

We need to get everything we want to hang collected before I put the next hole in the wall.

The collection on the opposite wall is going to be pictures of animals that the owls eat.

Squirrels, mice, little birds.....etc.

Kris has a really warped sense of humor.

Needless to say, I think this is a brilliant idea!!!!!

Kris found this wonderful statue that looks like it's carved out of wood, but it's plaster, or something.

She told me what it was made out of, but I wasn't listening.....

I was probably too busy talking......

This is a rotten picture, since it's towards the window.

Kris suggested that I move the owl away from the light to get a better picture....

BUT.....

I was too lazy.....

So suck it up and deal with it!!!!!

Ain't I the gracious one!!!!!

I am a lady of class and refinement!!!!!

Yep!!!!

Indeedy do!!!

On that note,

I'm off to dinner with my family, wish me luck.

Latah, Gatah

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