Blogger Tag Sale - Majolica

The Blogger Tag Sale! What a great idea! Hope you enjoy it.

I'm offering the majority of my Majolica collection for sale. Majolica is a soft paste pottery, so many antique and vintage pieces have acceptable nicks and hair line cracks. Many of my pieces are in pretty perfect condition, or may have some have some minor flaws that do not detract from displaying them.

About age: Antique is 100 years or older, vintage is 25 years old and older.

Lot of 3 vintage Majolica thistle form plates - $45.

Antique Majolica Square in Circle plate - $75.

Lot of 5 vintage Majolica sea theme plates - $85. - SOLD

Vintage Majolica red basket weave plate with flower - $35.

Vintage Majolica raised fruit plate - $45.

Antique Majolica three pine leaf plate - $95.

Lot of 2 vintage Majolica fruit theme plates - $65.- SOLD

Antique Majolica leaf form plate - $95.

Antique Majolica Mariposa plate - $95.

Lot of 2 vintage Majolica leaf form plates - $65. - SOLD

Antique Majolica leaf form and dots plate - $75.

Antique Majolica leaf form plate - $75.

Monumental vintage Majolica leaf form platter (3 feet long!) - $195.

Vintage Majolica ivy and grape form tray - $75.

Vintage Majolica pink crab plate - $65.

Large vintage Majolica corn form platter - $95.

Vintage Majolica basket weave form plate - $45.

Antique Majolica bird form plate (has repairs) - $75.

Vintage Majolica ivy leaf form plate - $85.

Antique Majolica leaf form plate #1 (gift from Lauren Bacall) - $125.

Antique Majolica leaf form plate #2 (gift from Lauren Bacall) - $125.

Lot of 3 antique Majolica begonia form plates - small one has a repair - $110.

Lot of 2 vintage Majolica Art Nouveau plates - $95.

Lot of 3 Majolica flower form plates - $75.

Large vintage Majolica rabbit cache pot - $55.

Lot of 10 antique and vintage Majolica pitchers - $350.

Sweet Chinese porcelain dog with a basket of puppies - $25.

Vintage Faust plate $25.

Folk art large gold wooden egg - $20.

Antique English Imari style pitcher (has a chip, but would be sweet for flowers) $10.

Antique Japanese brush holder/vase - $35.

Box of chandelier lamp shades (over a dozen) - $10.

Mini bust of Napoleon from Paris - $20.

Antique English wooden tub rack - rests across the bath tub for bath supplies,
and rest a glass of wine and a book on it while you're in the tub. $95.

Boxed set of Cafe Brulot 4 cups and 4 saucers - comes with recipe
mint condition - $40.


"Fernando" plate from Spain - handmade in Seville - $20.
Spanish tradition, name plates for your family and regular guests
Know anyone named Fernando?

Shipping by US Priority Mail Flat Rate Box - $10.20 for most items. Larger items will be a bit more.

You may pay via Paypal, and make payment to boutique@planet-tango.com, or you may pay by personal check (e-mail me).

If you have any questions about any of the items, please e-mail me: mizvtheb@yahoo.com


Also, tweet about the tag sale using hashtag #bloggertagsale.

#Bloggertagsale on Facebook

Also be sure to check Design Blahg for more participating bloggers!

Some Participating Blogs (so far!):

http://sketch42blog.com/
http://www.designblahg.com/
http://thingsthatsparkleblog.blogspot.com/
http://hellandheartaches.com/
http://www.thirtysecondlife.com/
http://www.fuckedinparkslope.com/
http://theambershow.net/
http://decoratortagsale.com/
http://www.prettypleasedblog.com/
http://www.fromtherightbank.com/
http://cottagelove.blogspot.com/
http://www.brooklynlimestone.com/
http://visualvamp.blogspot.com/
http://www.mythologyvintage.com/
http://www.theapiary.org/

TMI

"We're so in love with ourselves, and we're selling, selling, selling."

From an interesting article in the Sunday New York Times HERE


Sharing is a good thing. And there's no dishonor in selling. Do you ever feel uneasy that you have shared too much about yourself on a blog or Facebook or Twitter? Or that you have to constantly sell yourself (your product, your service, your skill, your opinion)? Does it make you queasy?

I meet bloggers and readers frequently, because I am on display in the fishbowl of pretties that is the shop I work in. I love meeting them, and having a real life encounter. The funny thing is when they tell me all the things they know about me from the blog. I'm stunned and touched that they remember the details, or even care.

Or have you ever gotten together with a friend who reads your blog, and you start to talk about this and that, and you feel redundant, like maybe they already read it on the blog so it's old hat, or you feel like you're repeating yourself?

Or have you met bloggers who are prolific posters and writers and in person they are shy and can hardly speak? Or that they are virtual shut-ins who never travel anywhere, and prefer not to go anywhere.

Let me tell you that getting bloggers together is not easy. Most prefer life behind the screen. With Skype, and all the other social media, no one really has to go anywhere to have a public presence. And perhaps no one has the time since we spend a major part of our day on the computer.

Frankly I'm amazed by these blog conventions like Blog Her. Who goes to these things? And why? I'd love to have a blog meet up where all we do is talk, and eat, and drink, and hang out, or maybe go on a bloggers house tour, but please no business style networking, giving out cards, name tags, or selling.

Okay I'm off on a tangent here, so back to the article about writing a profile for the social media.

What do you think is TMI (too much information), or TMS (too much selling)? Or is there no limit because we are all truly interested in other people's lives.

I'm up for a good discussion, so in the word of the now defunct Decorno: Discuss.

Welcome To The Man Mansion

In honor of Fathers Day I thought I'd show you a classic 1980's style man mansion, a mantasy realized.




It's actually the official residence of the mayor of Denver, although no mayor has lived in it, and certainly no first lady has either.


It's called Cableland, because a cable TV mogul built it, and then donated this excess of 1980's style to the city of Denver. What were they thinking when they accepted it as the mayor's residence?


It has every manerism: conversation pits, big fat furniture, a pink grand piano, flame stitch upholstery, hard edge steel, big fugly sculpture...


...uber electronics, tons of TV screens (88 to be exact), tanning beds, mauve walls, and I heard there are plenty of naughty bits lying about too, like a 12 foot fire pole in the master bedroom (I think they call it a stripper pole nowadays).


What was the bachelor home like of the guy you ended up with? I think many were in the same vein of Cableland, even if more modest with a big ugly recliner, a platform bed, and milk crate bookcases.


What would Cableland be without the big ass pool awaiting a bevy of bikini girls to frolic in?


Read what's going on with Cableland HERE
And rent it for a special party HERE
I think they should turn it into a theme park for guys.

And Happy Fathers Day!

The specs (kind of fascinating):

Construction: Summer 1986 to Fall 1987 Subcontractors: Over 50 trades involved Home & Grounds: 24,000 Square Feet Swimming Pool: 1,102 Square Feet Facilities: Guest house, pool house, staff quarters Creature Features: Squirrel condos, birdbaths TV Reception: Cable TV; closed circuit TV Sets - 88 including viewing wall with 64 TV Monitors; 61-inch TV (great room); 55-inch TV (video room) Telephone Lines - 5; Telephones -97 Bathrooms - 14; Bedrooms -4; Kitchens - 4 (including catering kitchen) Features: Custom designed furniture Upholstered fabric walls Underlighting for furniture Sunken Bar Guest office suite, kitchen and bath Terraced patios Pink Weber baby grand piano 12-foot fireman's pole Three fireplaces Tanning bed & spa equipment Underwater seascape mural Resistance exercise pool Surround sound & tactile sound systems Lite-touch lighting systems Snowmelt driveway system Laser security system Ice cream bar Project Management & Interior Design: Gerhard Interiors Limited, Rancho La Costa, CA Architecture: Lawrence Pepper, Rancho Santa Fe, CA Landscape Architecture: DHM, Inc., Denver, CO Lighting Design: Noel Allanmeyer, Carlsbad, CA