"Just Not A Good Day Unless It Is A Creative One"

 Burlap luxe Home And Art

Designer~Writer~Artiste

Of

Burlap Luxe

"Just Not A Good Day Unless It Is A Creative One"

My latest created design,

botanic garden theatre, altar~shrine,

built from salvage woods. Antique with 100 year old wood,

embellished with salvage drawer pulls for to use of 

roof top finials.

Backdrop wall is artist papered, with vintage French 

ephemera book pages. Artist weathered with a decay

feeling of centuries old. 

I paint stain in a wash of tones, using a plastering technique

 I developed for this hauntingly aged look.

Distressed in all the right kind of rightness that

 touches the edge of my soul. 

Artistic accents

Ready to hang

Botanic

Garden Theatre~Shrine~Altar~Niche 

Layers of old

French Ephemera Backdrop

Birds

Barn Swallows

Created with salvage barn wood, Cartapesta,

wire, twigs, and vintage book ephemera art.

Wall Hanging

13" 1/2 height x 4" 3/4 width

 Cartapesta Nest and Eggs

Hand molded and hand painted eggs.

The swallow builds a cup nest from mud pellets in

barns or similar structures.They feed on insects 

in flight.

There are cultural references to the barn swallow

in literary and religious works due to both its

 living in close proximity to humans and

its annual migration.

 Burlap Luxe Art

by

Dore Callaway

writer of 

BurlapLuxe

May be purchased, or just a closer look

here in my etsy shop click on link here...

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European home designs and art.

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Decayed Rustic French Fascination...Un Joyeux Noel

 

Burlap Luxe Home Studio Of Production

Designs And Creates, French Theatre's

Artist Dore Callaway

 of

Burlap Luxe

A performance of...

Un Joyeux Noel

  

 Salvage materials are collected and stored away until they call out to become an opulent decayed rustic French theatres of performances.

 

Trim and woodwork is a collection of old antique and vintage woods...
moldings, picture frames, French mirror frame pieces salvaged and desired.
Chair spindles, and furniture legs act as columns, 
drawer pull knobs act as cement finials.

 vintage oak for wood planked floors, and wire for my hand twisted chandeliers, 
ladders, and crowns. Wire is also used to create a body form for the creating 
of cartapesta mice.

 

Cartapesta Mouse

 

My latest addition to my French theatre is my art in creating

cartapesta mice, along with the creation of her tattered decayed old dress.

A pendant necklace studded with a gem, and her gem stone wire crown

that wraps around her sweet French head.

She goes by the French name of (Astrid)

Astrid is in the middle of her performance of

Douce Nuit - Silent Night, and performed in French opera.

 

My art in hand painting

Her patina is hand applied and gilded with aged gold.

 

The art of French wire-work, I bend and shape into chandeliers, ladders, and

body forms for cartapesta mice and crowns.

Aged banners add a bit of theatrical whimsy strung about.

 

French Rococo 

French rococo mirror salvage trim the header. 

French weathered old books created by my French hands.

Stained to appear old.

 

I create paper doll mice, they have come baring gifts and to be entertained

in a holiday performance this Joyeux Noel.

 

 Librairie Francaise

(French Book Shop)

An old decayed French shop.

 With cartapesta and salvage wood I created a French book shop of

theatrics where French and English language books of many can be found.

Seventeen hand-made books I created with vintage book ephemera and

cloth aged and water damage to give the appearance of an old dusty

book sellers shop in France.

Madam Colette tends to her old French shop.

Books are piled in  the attic, and hog warted in the book case.

 Old music books and travel books are some of her book selections

she has for holiday shoppers. The beauty in an old book,

a perfect gifting.

 

The attic is filled, and the charm of rustic decayed flooring and
walls show its age.

Happy New Year!

 

Merci

Thank you for being our audience.

Please visit special performance's here with,

Vera, by clicking link here...Row Home And CobbleStones

Lin, Instagram by clicking link here...A Tiny Cottage In The Woods

 Dore, Instagram by clicking link here...Burlap Luxe

 

Paix et Joie, Joyeux Noel

( Peace and Joy )

xx

Dore

 

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

My French Home Creates...And A New Caretaker.

 Burlap Luxe At Home

Away from it all...

Uninhabited increases the sense of

light

 

Capturing the soul of its

outcome

 

 Inspiring via sourcing

Stealing time Creatively,

Seeing beauty in its

surfaces.

  

The latest created soul of light piece,

Santos cage doll

Santons (French)

One-of-a-kind,

hand-made molded and shaped French Cartapesta

signed Burlap Luxe piece is 

on its way to Vera,

here at...

Row Homes and Cobblestones

 

She has been created in French Cartapesta.

A medium Burlap Luxe is known for,

along with bending and creating hand twisted

wire crowns.

Her skirt is of aged artist painted gauze, trimmed in

vintage salvaged cotton threaded lace fitted to

her caged bodice.
Being a gatherer of words...

Ephemera book word "Peaceable" is seen on her backside

cage and peeks through a gap in her skirt.

The words "the crown" appears on

her arm.

  

Aged and decayed with an expression of love and

thoughtfully complex.

 

She is featured and can be read about in my etsy shop
SOLD!

Thank you Vera,

for becoming her caretaker, a curator of her

light.

xx

bisous

Dore,

Burlap Luxe