February 23, 2013

Living With The Beauty Of Rustic

"All photos Burlap Luxe home"
The beauty of living with rustic is its effortless elegance.


A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
~John Keats

I am not a collector of anything I just take home what's been lost letting its humble, and soulful beauty live again along with pieces I can rest my heart on.
A silvery aged patina with soothing soul adds romantic rustic rich in honest authenticity while living with grace day by day.  

A muse of artistic vibes with lasting age of patina and tarnish.

My latest piece is this early 1930's ice cream container with lid along side my
French floral cans.


A perfect piece of fence post garden brocante "Not quite valuable but not quite worthless."
sits on the bottom shelf of my center island.

My inspiring corner...
Living with rustic distressed with pale, neutral and calm.

February 02, 2013

Coup de Foudre...Zinc Box


All photos taken by Doré (me)...Burlap Luxe

The zinc box filled with X's and O's hit me with...
"Coup de Foudre"
   (Love at frist sight) 

Kisses and Hugs rest spilt over on my daughter Hannah's chest of drawers. 

Beloved French Kisses, and Hugs!

"Baisers et des Caresses"

I purchased two of them about nine years ago to then gift sentimental tenderness that says it all.


An old rustic box that hides away the mystery in why I love to salvage, and a perfect place I tuck away sweet soulful poems and love notes.

Sentimental rather than valued, this brocante box I keep displayed on a French chest in my sitting room that holds quotes of love and inspiration.

This box is one of my designs and papered with vintage ephemera book pages of love letters.
A romantic box that inspires.

"Instagramed by my daughter Hannah"

Spilt to the floor, there are no boundaries where love lies between inside and out until February reminds us of love.


For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart.

It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

~ Judy Garland


February inspires Hearts, Kisses and Hugs with a patina and tarnish of grey.


January 18, 2013

Private Spaces "Les espaces privés"

I have added these bench~stools I design to my Burlap Luxe etsy shop, and along came a custom order request from a beautiful buyer asking if I could custom paint something on it as I do to my signs, of course my answer back to her was, "I would be happy to".

Leaving something as it is, to then get an order letting it take on whatever would greet it.   

"ELLE DORT"
Was her order, and a request to add my sweet wild bird and its resting twigs.
This bench~stool is going  to be set along side a bed, a step up to a quite, calming, and restful place of dreams.

ELLE DORT... A beautiful French phrase for, "She Sleeps"

I just love this phrase for a step up to bed.
With painting layers of exterior paints, and hand rubbed coats, after coats of matte finish sealer I am assured this art will last until it is no longer in need.

A bench painted for, private spaces
"Les espaces privés"

A stepstool bench that soothes the soul makes a beautiful rustic accessory in a bedroom, charming its reach with a feminine touch.
"Touche de Féminité"

Pictured at the foot of my daughter Hannah's bed before shipping it off.

 Quoting an etsy feed back from the purchaser...

"Dore is awesome! The bench is beautiful. She took an ordinary bench and turned it into a piece of art. I can't wait to get another thing made by this wonderful artist!"
Emily L. MD.
Odessa Florida.
1-17-13


Thank you sweetly for your custom order Emily, and the ever so kind Burlap Luxe etsy feed back.
xox
Doré





January 09, 2013

Every Good And Perfect Piece

Accomplish something beautiful with your simple pieces. Every good and perfect piece lives with you today.



Entertaining spaces

"Les espaces de détente"

" Burlap Luxe Flatware by Lenox"

I just love the French-ness of this flatware, and the charm of the fleur de lis at the ends.
Elegant with European rustic charm to it's relaxed timeless appeal.

"I love them tarnished"
Beautiful flatware, glassware, pottery and linens set to style with a distressed dusting of whites.
English sterling serving spoons add the right kind of rightness when it comes to entertaining
guest with European flea market style.

I was gifted the sterling silver serving spoons passed down to me from family, and they are treasured.
( Thank you M.H )

I find the most important things in my home are relaxed that suggest a casual restful feel like wrinkled linen lap napkins, a detail to a soulful rustic setting that nothing is meant to be that perfect...

(Except for the whipped cream)

Living and entertaining with whites, whitens the greyer days of winter.


December 20, 2012

Performance de Noël...Exposition

"Created  and built by Doré Callaway" ( All photos Burlap Luxe)  Up date...It Sold

Exposition Miss Dore Théâtre Français
du 20 au 31 Décembre

With the understudy standing by the théâtre performance of French drama, and opéra must go on.  

Every French home during Christmas displays a French scène. Our French home is following tradition of French toy theatre making. Creating, and fashioning 19th century papier toy théâtre, yet ours made of salvage that beckons to become a stage of performances.
  
I enjoy the hunt, the thrill, the breathtaking pieces of damage that I find beauty in. Then to create an old French threatre that rustically, and hauntingly echos opera, and dance .

A salvaged  antique piece of frame work forces me so willingly to be inspired to create a theatre that will perform for years to come. I wanted to create a mesmerizing, and extra ordinary avant-garde show of cabaret, and cirque du soleil. A dramatic stage for performances of holiday shows,
Where all the set designs, and props are built by the hands that create theatre soulfully.

I age it with paints, and salvage anything that inspires what I invision my theatre's to become opening night.


Wire chandeliers bent and twisted, wire ladders, and swings to perform on add to the entertaining of what I love to create for French theatre.
The stage lights are lit, and every piece crafted is in its place.

Bravo!

Notice how sweet a production seen through the strong shape of a wood box turning it into theatre shuts off everything esle, is not only an assistance to performing beauty; it is the beauty in the performance itself. 

A French Noël

This bench, stool has many uses, one of a few that can be found in my etsy shop listed on my site.

The start of French theatre to become...

Theatre's emerged in the 19th century as a popular childs toy you would build from paper theatre's mirroring the grandeur of theatres of London, Paris, Vienna, Copenhagen these theatre's flurished in living room's for generations for child's play, and budding performer's.

Nearly every European country as well as the United States created its own. To find one of these rare wood or paper antique theatre's would now hold a pricey tag. I am in hopes that someday someone will find one of my théâtre français, and pass it on for another 100 years.
  
I added one of Penny's felted sugar plum fairy mice to a performance this year that she was so kind to make her tutu, and ballet shoes in grey for me. You can visit her blog site at... http://angelsdoor.blogspot.com   

where she creates in her imagination full of beauty.
Is this little Sugar Plum fairy just the cutest performer you have ever seen. 

Thank you Penny for adding to our holiday performances.
xoxo
Doré

Inspiring Théâtre, and our holiday perfomance.  


One of my theatre's, and my home, featured in "Romantic Country" magazine,
 pages 18-25 spring issue 2013
on stands December 2012








December 11, 2012

Joy In December ~ Romantic Country Magazine

My Home, and I am overjoyed.

Romantic Country Magazine
Flea market Style 2013
On magazine stands now December 2012

"All photos Burlap Luxe"

Joy in December
We unlocked our door to a soulful experience.

Where garlands hang greeting the comforts of a French cottage life.
les comforts rustiques


Our Home Featured In spring Issue 2013 on magazine stands December 2012


Romantic Country magazine welcomes spring in December. I could never have envisioned where my passion to inspire through designing, and blogging in flea market style would have taken me.

I want to thank Romantic Country Magazine Editor Fifi O'Neill

Contributing Photographer Mark Lohman

Contributing Writer Mary Fosell

For adding joy to our lives with an invite to grace the pages of a magazine that shares creative living, inspiring, and personal.




With Fifi's effortless grace, and the amazing work of Marks photography we were romanced with the beauty they created for us.


Graceful Composure

Pieces with little life left to them, are then brought back to life page after page, poetic music to our hearts.
We will not forget these graceful moments.









My Romantic affair with creating French Opera, and Theatres of performance can also be seen featured in Romantic Country magazine where sharing my passion for creating with European-inspired charater touched my heart. 

Thank you Romantic Country

I created a tree of white. 


Adorned with my wire chandeliers I create by twisting, and bending then adding layers of crusty plaster, and paints that I also create for my theatres. I found them adding charm, and a theatrical feel to a winters tree.


Thank you Romantic Country Fifi O'Neill for adding joy to our Joyeux Noël.