Collections,, what do you collect? ....The Bohemian Life

Below (post) I started writing about expressing yourself freely by furnishing your abode with whatever is dear to your heart, and started in on some of what I've collected over the years, here's more, but please,

tell me what you collect,ok?

How do you express yourself?

Please leave a comment about what you like, collect, and suggestions, too. I'm always open..

These cups are from an artist on VanCouver Island, and were a gift to me.

Much of what I have are gifts, from others artists, friends, and loved ones.

This is a lantern, an oil lamp, it's from Vietnam, it was a birthday gift this year.

I love oil lamps, and this one is unusual..

This small plate is from Vietnam as well, and the bunnies, well the beginning of a collection,, when you have three, I guess it is a collection.

The bunnies were also a birthday gift.

Lomonosov is a china made in Russia, I have some tea cups and a teapot.

This double teapot is actually a china samovar.

I'm hoping I'll run into a nice real samovar I can heat water in soon.

The lamp is from Denmark.

The runner was a gift from a my best friend Kathy.

These sweet cups are Bjorn Wiinblad. I have had them for years.

Recently, the Bohemian lifestyle is being made in a an interior design by those who are finally catching up with a way of life many of us have always lived.

But the Bohemian life has always been lived just fine without designers and magazines telling people what Bohemian is or isn't, which I find silly.

A Bohemian lifestyle is the lifestyle of a gypsy, one who defies convention, who is in fact, an artist.

ONe who chooses a different path to walk, who doesn't look next door to learn what's in or isn't in, because it's an inside job.

Marketing isn't an essential for a Bohemian, inspiration, love, and attraction from the inside out , are.

Bohemians are followed, because they are living a real life, they think, write, make art, and could care less what anyone else has or hasn't. The Bohemian artist's life is about a madness for life.

So don't bother reading how to be.. just be, who you are... and the whole world will beat a path to your door.

Unfortunately, Artists, writers, etc are followed for their proclivity to be vibrant, and create life, and community, then those who follow them, try to make it into something permanent. Life, in the flow, is anything but permanent, and those who refuse to flow always miss the point.

This is why some artists poets, etc actually go under ground, don't want to be known, live private lives. To avoid the inevitable pretenders who follow to exploit their lifestyle for financial gain, and who inevitably turn the lifestyle into a high priced community where only those who have a lot of money can afford to live.

This type of community is opposed to any artistic lifestyle.