French Cottage Spirit

 Burlap Luxe Home Style

Designer/Artiste

Living with a salvaged past and

creating in the French cottage spirit.

A salvaged French 

lantern. 

Decayed and weathered from the

seaside, and purchased from a California, Malibu

cliff-side home remodel.

This exterior veranda lantern, took on years of

sea wash that only a sea breeze and mist

can create rustically.

  

Artist Dore Callaway

The writer of Burlap Luxe

Painting on salvaged antique mahogany floor

planks.

Vintage linen is mounted and canvas nailed

to the wood plank, then painted in an aged

style of intrigue.

Artist Dore (me) signed,

Callaway

Each linen painting is purposefully tattered,

torn, and frayed. Adding all the rightness

to the look and feel of French cottage

spirit.

  

Tattered

Frayed

Relaxed in romance, where graceful age is

painted.

 I will have 17 linen paintings,

the number of salvaged planks.

Listed soon in my online shop,

etsy.

My home that acts as a studio

 muse that inspires

Shop linked here...

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Would love to share with you, 

Burlap Luxe

Home and Art

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French Wire Art...Rustic Luxe

Burlap Luxe Art

My art in creating French wire art
CROWNS.

Salvage rusted and decayed tin,

perfect in the use of my tags.

Vintage book word ephemerea

"Europe"

Crown And LampShade

I love the haunting shadow play with wire.

The shade I created to play off my

art and light.

I love the unexpected outcome.

Aged in cartapesta and a patina

of tarnish.

I weave and bend, twist and tie every

inch that goes into creating with

wire.

The chain wire garland, I use a crochet hook and single

crochet a chain woven into the wire.

You can follow my art and home designs on my

instagram account.

Where I create in French brocante style.

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Designer~Artiste

Dore Callaway

Writer of Burlap Luxe

French Botanical Art...Vintage Salvage

 Burlap Luxe Art

Artist

Dore Callaway

the writer of

BurlapLuxe blog 

Creating petite French botanic art theatre's.

 

Alpine Columbine Native to Europe

'Lily Family'

Attracts humming birds and butterflies. 

Decayed in an abandoned feel.

Backdrop in botanic drama.

 

Building and painting, weeds and wildflowers

(Dandelions)

'Daisy Family'

"Make a wish".

A Symbol of Spring.

Tulips are the bees knees for Spring pollination.

(Tulips)

'Lily Family' 

There are greenhouses and shade-houses, now

I bring you the botanic theatre house.

 

Art

Can be found listed in my

 etsy shop click link here...

BurlapLuxe etsy shop 

Also would love your visit on my instagram 

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French Theatrics Of Salvage

 BURLAP LUXE DESIGNS

My latest theatre of the arts, I design and create from

 rustic salvage wood.

Along with my bending of wire art and paper doll and 

cartapesta mice.

 

 Salvage Wood

Chosen and cut to dimensions, using the best pieces showing

signs of weathered and decaying inspiration.

Every piece gets wood glued and screwed, adding all the

rightness to a French theatre of song and

dance.

  

Theatre Taking Shape 

 Moldings, picture frames, chair rungs and drawer pulls for finials

are often found in pieces of furniture I salvage from their past.

History in such pieces inspire my art in building forgotten

 treasured play.

This Theatre hangs on a wall.

22" in height x 17" in width x 6" in depth.

 Ephemera

Vintage paper ephemera I collect, papering a backdrop wall.

Yet, I nudge along its brittle aged look with tearing and

piecing it together so this wall takes on a look

of centuries old.

 

 Paint And Tattered Curtians

A paint treatment I give it to preserve each piece rustically.

I have still yet to lay the planked stage flooring, adding

a bit more moldings and its vintage music box

under the stage base.

Hopeful in completion soon, old wood salvage finds can not be

rushed.

Threate Quote

 

"Look, a new day has

begun"...

Stage play

~CATS 

Looking forward to a creative new year ...

 

Curtain Call  

Nouvel An

(New Year)

 A Happy New Year

and all it 

inspires.

~2018~

  

French Holiday Home...Oysters And Tree

Burlap Luxe Home

Season greets with a simple greeting of the use of a

natural pine, beaded garlands and silver glass crusty and 

aged to feel decayed in ancient times.

  

Natural tones of tree bark beige and

tarnished grey.

Wrapped up and tied in twine.

 

 Oyster Garland

30 foot garland for your holiday tree, or drape it in

French culinary style from your farmhouse beams, 

as well as styling for a beach style wedding.

You will find this latest creation of mine, hand-

knit and weaved through a hand drilled hole

in each oyster shell.

by

Designer/Artiste

Dore Callaway

Burlap Luxe

 

Salvage Tin

A salvage piece of tin written message is  from

vintage book ephemera

 (Words)

Holiday message of gathering and peace.

 

Washed From The French Sea

French Culinary

Should I make oysters, yes, and some for the 

TREE.

 

  

Here Listed In My BURLAP LUXE Shop

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BURLAP LUXE Shop

All things French culinary, French from the sea.

Holiday garland,

Un Joyeux Noel

Main-et-Loire, Bleu du Maine Sheep...French Home

 Writer and Artiste of Burlap Luxe

Created in wire forms and cartapesta.

Fashioned after, and wanting them to feel as if

they had been artiste created in the 

19th century.

Hand sculpted BurlapLuxe One-of-A-Kind

Blue-du-Maine Sheep,

a domestic breed originated 

in Western France.

I have painted the faces rustically, in decay to take on 

an old world look and feel to this flock of

French bleu faced sheep.

 I design and create around my French cottage;

 inspired from within.

 A rustic style does not have to lack in 

value or beauty..

After the body and legs of primitive style are created,

I mummy wrap them in cloth to emulate their hide.

Then sheared in livestock virgin sheeps

wool.

This flock of 5 would look great corralled in a

holiday display, or placed in a rural farmhouse

collection.

 

Listed Now!!

In my

Burlap Luxe etsy shop...

Designer/Artiste

Dore Callaway

Click link here!...BURLAPLUXE shop 

 

Here at Burlap Luxe, my French cottage home,

is where pieces that have become tired in their use;

become something of better use.

I took and marked off the sides of this 100 plus year old

desk. Cutting each end off to the surface desk top, I

then used salvage old wood planking the surface;

turning a desk into a side table.

I have created more function and use from an old desk that

once sat in a space for looks and storing clutter.

Yes, this French iron lantern from a Malibu California,

seaside homes estate sale I placed dibs on in seconds of spotting it.

 I extended the wiring adding a toggle switch and plug to

the end, it then became my added lighting.

Statement piece? indeed.

 

My home designs and art can be followed over at my

Burlap Luxe

Dore Callaway

Instagram

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Inspiring salvage finds, living with them artistically.