{Our Living Room ANGELS - CHERUBS}

As promised yesterday, you will meet today our ANGELS - CHERUBS in the living room. That is, those that reside on the mantle, and the others I will introduce to you some other day. Okay? Tomorrow I will be posting about some antique ANGELS - CHERUBS that I will be offering for sale on my on line Mariette's Back to Basics Boutique. Not the same as we have, but they too are from TYROL, either from Austria or Italy. There the wood carvers do this meticulous craft since the 1700s and not only are they displayed inside Churches all over Europe but also in many homes, as lots of people do collect them. Angels are heavenly and they kind of link us to another world, one without sorrow and pain. It would be great if we too could flap our wings and at times take off... Vanish from the spot where we at times get stuck in an overload of work or other problems. Soaring free and high in the sky where the sun shines and moving on to some nice and warm place. BUT, we cannot fly, so therefore we only can collect ANGELS - CHERUBS for reminding us of a better after-life, by placing them inside our homes. As far as I can remember, I've always loved angels and roses... For me, they are the key ingredients for romance and for creating a warm place that we love to call 'HOME'.

Our ANGEL - CHERUB residence...

All our ANGELS - CHERUBS are the REAL thing, made out of special wood and hand carved in South Tyrol, Italy.

Due to the long winters with lots of snow in that region, from October till April, they have taken up this ancient art since the 1700s.

They use only high quality wood from Linden, Maple and Cendia Pine trees. This Cendia Pine tree, also called Swiss pine or Arolla pine, grows at a high altitude, in the Alps. Wood carvings are expensive and that is because the tree has to be 75 years old before they can start drying it in a natural surrounding for several years, before the actual carving is done. 

Please click here→ Rafaello Angel from Salcher in South Tyrol, Italy for viewing.

But once you make such an investment, it means this is for life and it becomes a family heirloom. Quite different from any resin product or worse, mass production from China...

The Italians do also use 23 Ct gold, so you can figure why their pricing is according to all that.

We love them and instead of having a Christmas tree with all kind of things, we keep our ANGELS - CHERUBS year round on display.

You can order this very Baroque CHERUB in linden with 23 carat gold (antique) at Lorenz ← click link.

Ours is 30 cm (+ 12") and the price would be 336.00 € or 453.00 US $ + shipping 69.90 € via UPS to the US and UK.

This will make you appreciate what I have to offer tomorrow in my next post...

Oh, the Baroque CHERUB we have is antique, that means antique painted with 23 Ct gold leaf.

Haydn ANGEL with lute, 25 cm or + 10" tall.

Haydn ANGEL with trombone 25 cm or + 10" tall.

Similar Haydn ANGEL as ours and the 25 cm in gold plated 23 Ct would cost 392,00 € or 529.00 US $

A 20 cm tall ANGEL on a cloud...

Our 14 cm Raffaello ANGEL

To the left is another Raffaello ANGEL in naturel and it is 10 cm with a Heart ANGEL next to it.

Our 14 cm gold plated 23 Carat Raffaello ANGEL is not listed here but the 19 cm gold plated 23 Ct Raffaello would cost 406,56 € or 549.00 US $.

The 10 cm natural Raffaello we have is listed for 40,90 € or 55.00 US $ and I have calculated the EURO at a 1.35 US $ value.

These Raffaello ANGELS are again available at Salcher ←directly from Italy.

This ANGEL was given to me out of the estate of a friend that sadly passed away. His Mother who gave it to me also has joined her son in heaven...

This is a very special ANGELS engraved calender coin from France, from the year 1969.

That's when Pieter and I first met... 

YES, I BELIEVE IN ANGELS...

A French silver Raphael ANGEL... 

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Quite fittingly to end this post with these Italian silver ANGELS by Raphael...

Related links:
{Angels engraved on lucky calendar coin of 1969} | previous post by me
{5 Angels - Putti from Italy & Germany}| previous post by me {6 Antique & Vintage Italian Angels, Cherubs Putti}| previous post by me Our Living Room ANGELS - CHERUBS | previous post by me {Conrad Moroder, Italy | Angels & Cherubs} | previous post by me {Angels & Cross Stitch for Christmas} | previous post by me

{Our Living Room}

In previous posts I have shown you several other rooms already, so today I take you inside our Living Room. For links to the other rooms, you can check below this post.

You come inside the living room from the entrance hall and there is another door into the kitchen on the right side (for the viewer).

Like our bedrooms and dining room we do have here also solid red oak Liberty Plains natural 5" planks.

We have many things from exotic places where we worked and/or lived.

The wooden chess set and the two wall plaques are from Bali, Indonesia.

Later I will show you certain things again with more detail.

The furniture is all solid French oak and we did bring it over from The Netherlands, it crossed the Atlantic Ocean three times.

You see the door to our veranda here.

The arched window is looking out onto the garden, backside of the house with our huge live oak tree.

The arched window also has solid oak (painted white) indoor shutters for saving energy and being Eco friendly.

A collection of Baccarat crystal.

Also our Russian Icon as you can find at Christie's.

On our travels to Eastern Europe we admired many in their beautiful Churches.

Stepping back it looks like this. A large solid oak rectangular coffee table and a 3-seat leather sofa; a love seat; a chair and an ottoman.

Tomorrow I will show you the Italian and German wood carved angels - cherubs - putties on the mantle shelf and chimney wall.

A double window looking out onto the balcony.

Full view of the double window, with the solid oak indoor shutters. Very hard to capture against the light.

The Energy Star ceiling fan has been hung by Pieter earlier this year, see link below. What a perfect timing for this record hot summer!

The 42-color 19th century Danish cross stitch embroidered roses on the wall I've shown before in a post, you can find the link also below this post.

We have lots of books in our home... This is the secretaire and its leather chair, Pieter's writing area.

Stepping back a little bit to see the love seat and the rest.

That completes our circle, almost back at the hallway door...

That's it!

A classic interior, as we don't change much.

We've been now 63 times to The Netherlands to see mainly my Parents and Pieter's elder brother, he lost the middle brother and his sisters-in-law already. When we lived in Italy, Pieter's Mom died, so we actually drove to her funeral in 12 hours time.

 Visiting family and dear friends has more value to us than replacing furniture...

Peace of mind is important for being able to grow old gracefully with a smile on your face instead of bitterness.

There will always be new furniture, but one's life can be lived ONLY once.

Loved ones and the TRUE LOVE of your life are worth much more for investing in... keeping a blissful relationship!

Tomorrow you will meet the Angels - Cherubs - Putti!

Related links:
{BOOKS in Our Living Room} | previous post by me
{Our 'GREEN' Bedroom} | previous post by me
{Our Kitchen Improvements} | previous post by me
{Our White Ceramic Chandeliers from Italy} | previous post by me
{More of Our Kitchen} | previous post by me
{Our Dining Room} | previous post by me
{My Embroidered Roses in 19th Century Danish Pattern} | previous post by me

{Our Energy Star ceiling fans from Wayfair + Superior CustomerService} | previous post by me

{My Paternal Great-Grandmothers wearing their Lace Toer}

As promised yesterday in my post about Museum Lace Factory - Antique Lace Toer or Poffer, I will now show them wearing their Lace Toer or Poffer. This is a special head covering for the Province of Limburg in The Netherlands from the past century. Both my Paternal Great-Grandmothers I will show here.

This is my Paternal Great-Grandmother (Dad's Mother's Mother) Petronella Nelissen-Smits wearing her Lace Toer or Poffer

What a beautiful embroidery on her collar and on the front of her black dress.

My Great-Grandmother was born in 1866, to give you just an idea of which time period we're looking at.

By Dutch law you hyphenate your name after that of your husband's.

Here in the USA you hyphenate your husband's name after your maiden name...

This is a Catholic prayer card from her funeral. She died on December 16 of 1931 at the age of 65. Probably due to respiratory problems, either asthma or more serious. In those days medicine was by far not as advanced as it is now. 

Her husband was Pieter Nelissen who died at the age of 47, also due to respiratory problems. That made my Great-Grandmother a widow for 16 years.

This is art work from  My OPA - GRANDDADDY,  just click on the link in red. Probably a pencil drawing he did from his Mother.

This is Jacoba Van den Munckhof-Bus who lived for 32 years life as a widow. Her husband, my Great-Grandfather Mathijs Van den Munckhof died at the age of 52. My Opa was only 14 when he lost his Dad...

My Great-Grandmother Jacoba Van den Munckhof-Bus (center) with her two sisters.

Jacoba Bus lived to be almost 83... This is also the Catholic prayer card from her funeral.

Related link:

Museum de Kantfabriek Horst aan de Maas | Youtube video