I had an early holiday; John had gone to upstate NY cleaning out stuff from his mom's house. He brought back boxes and boxes and boxes! of costume jewelry. To know me is to know I love all things
vintage!
He brought in all these boxes, said here, take your pick! OMG! Rhinestones and crystals, faux pearls and handpainted beads. Brooches and long strands and chokers and dangly earrings. Some of this stuff clearly dates back to the 1930's and goes up through the wacky 1960's (anyone remember Laugh-In? Some of it reminded me of that!)
We'd been hitting the egg nog (okay, it was wine
) and he draped me like a Christmas tree! I was sitting in a recliner wearing PJ's draped in faux pearls and all sorts of glitter
WHEE!
But the best of all, he brought back some of his early paintings (he's a freelance oil painter, it's what he does for a living) that he'd done around 1968's of KITTENS. Oh how adorable! Worth more than any bead or button or bow anyone could ever give me!
He'd also done some rather wild caricature-type cats... you can see one I scanned here:
Kartoon Kat pictures from art photos on webshots
I call it the Kartoon Kat but, really is this a cat on amphetamines or what?!
I haven't been able to scan (clearly) the really pretty oil paintings of the kittens he did; might just have to photograph them like I do his large paintings from the art shows. He also brought me some old photos which included pictures of his folks and of himself as a little boy. Those are absolutely priceless.
Fraidy