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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.
His mum had loved her ornaments, as she called them, but when she died, his dad waited about a week before boxing them up and giving them to a charity shop. "I loved your mum, Quinton," he'd said, "but I hate them fuckin' porcelaincats.
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Jewels! Today each twig is important,
each ring, each infection, each form
is all that the gods must have meant.
It is customary for those who wish to have the most beautiful ones to endeavourer to offer them gifts of those things which they hold most precious in order to win their hearts.
That head of yours should be for use as well as
ornament.
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.
I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.
We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation
I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases ...
For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.
And a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
gifts - that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands.
Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
These are the gifts that last. Small, as easy as breathing in and out, as plain as bread, they sink beneath what we think we remember, what we think we know, but they remain.
When a woman wants to look festive, she should add some shine, sheen or sparkle to her outfit, like a metallic clutch, an embellished shoe, or a blingy statement necklace.
Medals hang from his neck in a glittering array, like jewelry, like starts that will now go out because their sun no longer burns.
We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.
Beautiful gifts sometimes come adorned in ugly wrapping.
I supposed that with her stunning beauty, she needed no ornamentation. It would have been like putting jewelry on a lion.
I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;
I am the memory of a moment of happiness;
I am the last gift of the living to the dead;
I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
Who has ever heard of a maid and a concierge making use of their afternoon break to ponder the cultural significance of interior decoration? You would be surprised by what ordinary little people come out with.
There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy.
Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.
If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it,
like jewels, small islands.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
Sapphires for my bride-to-be and a severed head for the king my brother," said Duke Richard cheerfully. "As St Paul pointed out, gifts may vary but the spirit is the same. In the present instance, a spirit of goodwill.
These are icons to be treasured.
Feather Presents are those things life brings that can't be held in the hand, or tied with bows, but are presents none-the-less
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.
No decoration
can compare in loveliness;
a perfect flower
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
bushel of gold pieces;
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.
The building's identity resided in the ornament.
I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress,
Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins ...
Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made ~ fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.
Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
Gingerbread houses
with gumdrops and peppermint
and marshmallow snow.
I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
8 My son, hear the instruction of your father; reject not nor forsake the teaching of your mother. 9 For they are a [victor's] chaplet (garland) of grace upon your head and chains and pendants [of gold worn by kings] for your neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.
The objects for which there is no satisfactory resolution ... In theory, these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here.
Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.
The greatest gifts of a New Year; it brings a new beginning, new blessings and new bliss.
I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
In the Old Way, women might decorate themselves with ornaments bought with coin, but a warrior wore only the jewelry he took off the corpses of enemies slain by his own hand. Paying the iron price, it was called.
Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.
Around their necks hung ceremonial jewels that glistened like
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.
I had a gift too; not the bright and shining coin that was Christopher's. It was my way to turn over all that glittered and look for the tarnish.
The pendant, girl, give me the pendant.
In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a piece of furniture in your home. But jewelry is worn by a person, so there is a fascination with the history of a piece.
God's a connoisseur of fragile things, and decorates His cloudy outlook with ornaments of finest glass.
As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me ...
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.
People like to give the sort of presents they
Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.
So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.
Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
And the Bastard grant us ... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word.
Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.
I'm not a huge jewelry fan.
It is curious how in English embroideries there has always been a predilection on the part of the designers for interlacing stems, and for the inconsequent introduction of birds and beasts.
The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.
The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.
A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.
I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.
the chapel bells. Unlike most of his
The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.
They were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.
Thank you for my accessories. This is over the top. And not practical." She hugged him around the waist and set her head on his chest.
"Fuck practical." He tilted her face to his. "I want to decorate you with diamonds. It's sort of like peeing on my tree, 'cept more expensive.
Looking around, I felt a mad desire to go shopping for pink flamingo and garden gnome lawn ornaments. I could do a midnight visit, plant one of each in every yard.
Life isn't just a gift, it's an abundant series of more gifts (i.e. Feather Presents) than one can count
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.
Objects are the markers of our humanity. Everything we hold onto has meaning for us. Those things are souvenirs that can transport us to that exact moment in time and make us feel that emotion all over again.
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Every gift is edged.
But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.
Christmas
Silence in the time
The first snow fell in your laughter
Childlike anticipation
Christmas is in your heart
The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.
The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.
A little care and a dash of creativity can transform the simplest items into great expressions of love.