French Country Magazine...Rustic Trunk, And A Lantern

 Burlap Luxe Home

Awake

With 

Fall

 Salvage

Makes for a beautiful mix in a simple fall vignette.

 

Pottery

(BL) Burlap Luxe artist hand thrown pottery with the feeling of a French roadside find 

will feel rich and comfortable with authentic history in your hands and

home.

~Dore Callaway

Burlap Luxe etsy shop  

 Comforts Greyer Days

with rustic farmhouse charm.

 Forced Misshapen Rural Mud

 Objects Of Desire

over 59 years ago my grandparents purchased a country home that was

already 250 years old.

In this home was family heirlooms that my grandparents 

became the new caretakers. Old film plates date this

rural farmhouse trunk back 250 plus years.

Its original milk washed French bleu paint was amazing, yet had been

painted over with a black-green that left me no other choice than to

strip it back to its rawness and add new history in a washed and 

distressed white... A lime waxed technique.

This trunk chest adds a sense of simplicity of all things peasant and

rural to my French home without a gap in it fitting in.

Inherited 

Thank You Grandpa, 

it is resting where it belongs 

 

 Solid Forged Iron Handles

Original to the piece.

 Dore Callaway of Burlap Luxe

wants to thank 

Country French Magazine Fall/Winter 2016

For a special honor featuring my hand thrown (BL) pottery

by Burlap Luxe 

in this special edition feature on page 79

Marketplace

1. Burlap Luxe Dishes

 Found here...

Burlap Luxe etsy

 Cup/Bowls

Nothing in my home is not of use or rustic beauty, the making of 
 perfect harmony.

Natural clay mud, French farmhouse style pottery
cup/bowls. 

 

 Settings

for friends.

 

 Grapevine Clipping

 Wrapped delicately by my hands for a simple fall wreath.

 Idea To Inspire A

Lantern

 Seaside French Lantern

This vintage lantern made of hand forged iron trimmed in barley twisted iron 

was purchase from a beautiful seaside home yard sale in 
Malibu, California.

Washed in years of sea mist, aged in the beauty of white and galvanized grey.

A French lantern that needed to come with me and where would I hang it was not

my concern, I just knew I had to have it.

  It has moved about my home in a vignette or two and pushed aside in my 

home office space out of the way until now!

 

A Side Table Lantern Lamp

I wired the pendant length wire and chain with new wire, then 

attached a toggle switch for tuning it off and on.

Enough wire and a plug was added in length long enough to not

limit my moving it about and where outlets may be at my access.

Yes, it came to thought that I did not have to hang it quite yet, I could 

find some uniqueness in its use until a good fit is constructed.

 

 Perfectly aged with all the rightness of a patina to love.

Chippy whites layered on a patina of grey and

sea rust.

 

 

 Within this space it became interesting with light, and

it casts interesting reflections around the room.

  The Black-Eye Susan's

all dried up add to whats all natural in our

fall home.

Late In The Day

the light warms in the stillness.

Inspiring a lantern for a lamp. 

Letter Boxes...Rustic LOVE

 Burlap Luxe Love

Little salvaged boxes filled with letters and words of

LOVE.

Burlap Luxe home gathers words of love...

past and future.

Being A 

Gatherer of 

WORDS

 Recipes To Love

Past and present.

Gatherings

My daughter Hannah's box filled with ephemera words,

poetic pieces of meaning, a collection of her Callaway grandfathers broken

watch faces, skeleton keys, crystals and coins.

All gathered with love.

   

 Garden Seed Box

Hand crafted with love, and found thrifting to love

all over again.

 Letters Spell LOVE,

Word Profound

Artist-Designer-Creator

Dore Callaway

Burlap Luxe 

I salvage for design and display.

A perfect word of love for a snug nursery, a wedding with

vintage rustic appeal, as well as a special gifting of

LOVE.

 Gathered Salvage

 Door Hinge

Hangs off the edge of a salvaged door-jam,

a perfect placing for a sweet dried petite bud, or

a gathering of wild clippings.

 Weathered and Rough-Hewn 

Rustic Pieces

Filled with window pane plasters and a 100 years of

age and decay. 

 LOVE

I love how my art evolves from a single slice of wood.

 

Artful Blogging Magazine Feature

Feb/Mar/Apr 2014

Pg. 6-13 
My home and written article
by
Dore Callaway Burlap Luxe  

Another one of my love signs, barn-wood and rustic elegant 

salvage.

 My art in making this LOVE sign appeared on the book cover and

 pages of love In fifi O'Neill Prairie style weddings book.

By

FIFI  O'NEILL

PRAIRIE-STYLE WEDDINGS

Rustic and Romantic Farm, Woodland, and Garden Celebrations.

2014

I am honored to be involved in the actual making of art that

is featured and then loved in the hands of those who purchase from my 

etsy Burlap Luxe of Burlap Luxe.

My featured LOVE sign is now listed for sale In my etsy shop,

click link here...BURLAPLUXE

 

French FarmHouse

 Burlap Luxe French Home

Pared-down dinning allows the rural and rustic of

natural Provence living.

 French Vintage Stone Dove

The latest piece that has moved in on my French living is

this stone dove aged perfectly. It gives my side-table a

feeling of something captured, or found deep in

the French countryside.

Decayed, Weathered, Chipped

It spoke to me.

Now looking for that perfect dove cote.

 

 Hand Thrown Burlap Luxe Pottery

When its in your hands, you understand its value.

My monogrammed (BL) pottery for Burlap Luxe

is set and will be all listed in time for my feature in French Country Decorating magazine

due in your local book sellers and magazine stands here about the middle of the

 month, published by Better Homes And Garden their special edition...
August 2016

This week my BL pottery will be filling up in my Burlap Luxe esty shop,

and custom orders will be welcomed.

Photo Burlap Luxe Home Setting.

This four piece place setting is now in the home of Kathryn,

New Hope, PA.

Kathryn has shared her new old French cottage foto's with me and I am 

charmed to see BL stacked along with a BL serving bowl on her

open shelves;

A rustic cottage full of inspiration.

 

 BL for Burlap Luxe Pottery

I added formal French flatware with rustic rural style, adding a creative approach to 

my BL roadside pottery style.

 Platter Bowls French Roadside Style.

Hand thrown and misshapen added a rustic rural feel to each BL piece.

little imperfections are embraced for its beauty and dinning

experience, and I feel it makes the food taste that much 

more.

 Beautiful New With Beautiful Old Flatware.

Serves its purpose.

 

Vintage Stone Dove

  

There is no art of arrangement here, it just called to be placed.

  

My French Wire-Work

I love bending wire, creating is who I am.

This French egg wire basket is filled with 4 porcelain pottery eggs:

yes! and is also available at Burlap Luxe by Burlap Luxe etsy shop!

 

The Passage of Time...In All Its Paleness

 Burlap Luxe Home

Aged over the years, the old crock has taken on years of use, as well as a

patina of well used through its passage of time.

 

 I love using old pieces in rather not such common places in 

my home. Changing the look of a room can be as easy as,

a couple of old pieces salvaged from the kitchen to a

side table in a living room.

 Past  Makes  For  Perfect

Chips and rust from the clay body of this ironstone crock adds to

the patina of time. Well suites and increases living with age and 

character of all things old.

 

I wanted a little more charm to a side table, adding planks that helped it feel 

rural French added past to the present.

 

Iron urns salvaged from the outdoors, layered with gathered French

vintage pieces that tell a story in how and why living with

found pieces is easy.

  

Everything in this room and my home has seen...

 the passage of time.

There is a special joy in discovering new beauty in things

of old.

 

When I design I like to start from the floor up,

never overlooking how a pieces sits so grounded in its space.

 

Found listed in my, Burlap Luxe online etsy shop!

Artist Dore Callaway, Burlap Luxe

The effect of how I live certainly inspires the mood I create in.

My Latest art piece is a Cartapesta plaster hand-molded and shaped by

my hands, Sea Angel decayed by the salted air.

Inspired by being in the midst of the sea.

Stands: 8" 1/2 x 4" 1/2 wing span.

"THE SEA SEPARATES LAND, NOT SOULS."

   

The Midst Of The Sea

decayed old sea weathered in French Nordic grey, seaside sand beige, layered in

decayed whites and bronzed golds.

 

My hand twisted French wire-work art crown sits firmly embedded, barnacled with sea 

glass and stones along with a tattered fragment of whats left of sea netting..

 

Known for my use of vintage book words ephemera,

the fitting gathered words...

 "the midst of the sea."

lines the hem.

In the shades of my crusty gathered French oyster shells, this

angel of the sea came about.

 " The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me.

Come in, it said, come in."

~The Wanderer 

Burlap Luxe etsy here...www.etsy.com/shop/BurlapLuxe

 

"Inspiration is all around me"

~Dore