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dreamflowerAs promised, here's a pic of the unicorn and lady that the DH got for me last Saturday at a local second-hand store. The figurine is a music box and plays "Some Enchanted Evening":
For some time I've thought about making a post of my unicorn collection (my second obsession after hobbits). The post is pic-heavy, so I've put the rest behind a cut:
Nearly all the unicorns I have are gifts, mostly from my DH, and a few from my son, and some from friends. I do have a very few that I bought back when I first began collecting them, back when I was in college before I knew my husband.
The following are the unicorns that are kept in the bedroom. Most of them are on my dresser. The first one shows the lovely unicorn Christmas and Birthday cards I've received over the years, tucked into the mirror frame:
You can see one of my unicorn music boxes below. This one plays "Camelot". The pink box has a unicorn cameo on top:
Another music box unicorn, this one plays "The Impossible Dream". The blue box is like the pink one, with a cameo on top:
Here is a close-up of the cameo boxes (I keep earrings in one, and loose change in the other:
This tapestry was a Christmas gift from the DH a few years before we left Mississippi. It hung over the sofa in the living room there, but in this house there's not enough wall space. You can also see my unicorn touch lamp (the other one on the left-hand side has wolves, which is what my DH collects), my unicorn clock, and my stuffed unicorn:
These unicorns live in my sewing/craft room. The one on the top has a broken horn. I am going to try to fix that someday with some polymer clay. He's a Breyer collectible, and one of my oldest figures. To the left the three little round pictures were cut from an ad on the back cover of a comic book and framed in cheap little plastic frames. They date from about 1970. I have two little brass ones on the upper shelves were picked up at a yard sale, the two wooden ones are made of pecan wood and both were bought for me at different times by the DH. The green one is actually plastic and glows in the dark--I bought that one myself in a souvenir shop somewhere (Disney world, I think). The picture on the right-hand side I cut from a calendar. The shelf was a gift from the DH. He found the shelf being thrown away. It was a horrible bright orange color. He sanded and painted it and put the gold on the front of the shelf, and put in the little light above the center shelf.
Not a very good picture of this one. He lives on the living room fireplace mantel. He's about a foot high and made of bronze. He's modeled after a giant unicorn statue that I actually got to see when I was in Scotland in 2007, for ScotMoot. The DH got him for me for Christmas a few years back.
Here are my "fancy dishes"; they are stoneware, not porcelain. But they have unicorns!!! The DH bought them for me for Christmas from Fingerhut almost 30 years ago, LOL! There are also a few other unicorn pieces in there as well.
Here's a closer look.
In the center are two goblets, crystal with unicorn bases; on the left hand side is an etched glass mug with a unicorn head (we got that on vacation in Missouri about 20 years ago. To the right hand side is the odd creature out, a dragon goblet. I used to keep that with my feastware for SCA events. I use these dishes on most special occasions.
Here are some of my hanging pictures. These are about all I have wall space for. I had a great many more, but many of them are put away since I don't have as much wall space in this house. In the upper left hand corner is a beautiful piece of original art my in-laws gave me for Christmas the second year after we got married. It's not hanging up right now, however, because one of our little earthquakes knocked it down and now the hook on the back of the frame that it hangs by is broken. We will probably need a new frame for it. The copper unicorn was a birthday gift from the DH, and he made the two carved heads in his woodshop many years back as a Christmas gift. Most of the rest of them are framed pictures from calendars.
The two lamps were part of a set with the clock that's in my bedroom on the headboard below the tapestry. He bought the lamps and clock for my birthday at a flea market.
Here's another angle of the wall:
These ceramic beauties were also a gift from the DH, for Christmas. He actually commissioned them for me. There's gold leaf on the horn, mane, hooves and tail:
Here is the cabinet in which the rest of my collection abides. It's glass doored, but of course I had to have it open to eliminate the glare. Most of these are gifts from the DH or my son, but three I bought myself. On the bottom shelf between the "furry" unicorn and the black candle unicorn is one of heavy glass--it's a bottle and the horn is the lid; it was one of my very first acquisitions, an Avon bottle that came filled with Sweet Honesty cologne. On the second shelf down the unicorn on the far left-hand side with the golden collar was also from Avon--it's hollow with a stopper in the bottom, and held potpourri. The Christmas ball next to it, I bought at a Christmas shop, and the brass one on the far right on the same shelf I picked up at a yard sale:
Closer look at the middle shelves:
Closer look at the bottom shelf.
My very first unicorn was a gorgeous psychedelic black light poster I purchased in 1970. There was a huge white unicorn surrounded by neon colored flowers and butterflies. It finally became too brittle and fell apart when I tried to reframe it. Many of my other items are not on display. I have a nice unicorn throw, and two scented soaps with a unicorn theme that I use in my lingerie drawer.
For some time I've thought about making a post of my unicorn collection (my second obsession after hobbits). The post is pic-heavy, so I've put the rest behind a cut:
Nearly all the unicorns I have are gifts, mostly from my DH, and a few from my son, and some from friends. I do have a very few that I bought back when I first began collecting them, back when I was in college before I knew my husband.
The following are the unicorns that are kept in the bedroom. Most of them are on my dresser. The first one shows the lovely unicorn Christmas and Birthday cards I've received over the years, tucked into the mirror frame:
You can see one of my unicorn music boxes below. This one plays "Camelot". The pink box has a unicorn cameo on top:
Another music box unicorn, this one plays "The Impossible Dream". The blue box is like the pink one, with a cameo on top:
Here is a close-up of the cameo boxes (I keep earrings in one, and loose change in the other:
This tapestry was a Christmas gift from the DH a few years before we left Mississippi. It hung over the sofa in the living room there, but in this house there's not enough wall space. You can also see my unicorn touch lamp (the other one on the left-hand side has wolves, which is what my DH collects), my unicorn clock, and my stuffed unicorn:
These unicorns live in my sewing/craft room. The one on the top has a broken horn. I am going to try to fix that someday with some polymer clay. He's a Breyer collectible, and one of my oldest figures. To the left the three little round pictures were cut from an ad on the back cover of a comic book and framed in cheap little plastic frames. They date from about 1970. I have two little brass ones on the upper shelves were picked up at a yard sale, the two wooden ones are made of pecan wood and both were bought for me at different times by the DH. The green one is actually plastic and glows in the dark--I bought that one myself in a souvenir shop somewhere (Disney world, I think). The picture on the right-hand side I cut from a calendar. The shelf was a gift from the DH. He found the shelf being thrown away. It was a horrible bright orange color. He sanded and painted it and put the gold on the front of the shelf, and put in the little light above the center shelf.
Not a very good picture of this one. He lives on the living room fireplace mantel. He's about a foot high and made of bronze. He's modeled after a giant unicorn statue that I actually got to see when I was in Scotland in 2007, for ScotMoot. The DH got him for me for Christmas a few years back.
Here are my "fancy dishes"; they are stoneware, not porcelain. But they have unicorns!!! The DH bought them for me for Christmas from Fingerhut almost 30 years ago, LOL! There are also a few other unicorn pieces in there as well.
Here's a closer look.
In the center are two goblets, crystal with unicorn bases; on the left hand side is an etched glass mug with a unicorn head (we got that on vacation in Missouri about 20 years ago. To the right hand side is the odd creature out, a dragon goblet. I used to keep that with my feastware for SCA events. I use these dishes on most special occasions.
Here are some of my hanging pictures. These are about all I have wall space for. I had a great many more, but many of them are put away since I don't have as much wall space in this house. In the upper left hand corner is a beautiful piece of original art my in-laws gave me for Christmas the second year after we got married. It's not hanging up right now, however, because one of our little earthquakes knocked it down and now the hook on the back of the frame that it hangs by is broken. We will probably need a new frame for it. The copper unicorn was a birthday gift from the DH, and he made the two carved heads in his woodshop many years back as a Christmas gift. Most of the rest of them are framed pictures from calendars.
The two lamps were part of a set with the clock that's in my bedroom on the headboard below the tapestry. He bought the lamps and clock for my birthday at a flea market.
Here's another angle of the wall:
These ceramic beauties were also a gift from the DH, for Christmas. He actually commissioned them for me. There's gold leaf on the horn, mane, hooves and tail:
Here is the cabinet in which the rest of my collection abides. It's glass doored, but of course I had to have it open to eliminate the glare. Most of these are gifts from the DH or my son, but three I bought myself. On the bottom shelf between the "furry" unicorn and the black candle unicorn is one of heavy glass--it's a bottle and the horn is the lid; it was one of my very first acquisitions, an Avon bottle that came filled with Sweet Honesty cologne. On the second shelf down the unicorn on the far left-hand side with the golden collar was also from Avon--it's hollow with a stopper in the bottom, and held potpourri. The Christmas ball next to it, I bought at a Christmas shop, and the brass one on the far right on the same shelf I picked up at a yard sale:
Closer look at the middle shelves:
Closer look at the bottom shelf.
My very first unicorn was a gorgeous psychedelic black light poster I purchased in 1970. There was a huge white unicorn surrounded by neon colored flowers and butterflies. It finally became too brittle and fell apart when I tried to reframe it. Many of my other items are not on display. I have a nice unicorn throw, and two scented soaps with a unicorn theme that I use in my lingerie drawer.
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Date: 2015-07-30 02:29 am (UTC)But I didn't know you'd collected unicorns, too!
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Date: 2015-07-30 02:30 am (UTC)I've always loved them too.
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Date: 2015-07-30 01:15 am (UTC)Remember that unicorn song that was a hit in the 1960s?
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Date: 2015-07-30 02:39 am (UTC)"The Unicorn" by the Irish Rovers.
Green alligators and long-necked geese
Humpty back camels and some chimpanzees
Cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born
The loveliest of all was the unicorn...
A really fun re-telling of Noah's Ark. And the flip side was "Black Velvet Band".
I just about wore my 45RPM out.
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Date: 2015-07-30 02:47 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2015-07-30 02:48 am (UTC)(((hugs back)))
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Date: 2015-07-30 12:19 pm (UTC)(I have the same fascination with mermaid things!)
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Date: 2015-07-30 02:53 pm (UTC)I've always loved them, they are so pretty and graceful.
(I know how you love your mermaids! ;D )
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Date: 2015-07-30 12:21 pm (UTC)Just for kicks, I googled "1970s black light unicorn poster" and this one came up: https://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/6407808/il_570xN.259086557.jpg I have no idea if that's similar to the one you had but it made me smile, because I'd completely forgotten about those black velvet posters (some of them you could color yourself--this might have been one like that). I didn't have any unicorn ones but I had a black velvet one with Pegasus on it. Alas, it didn't spawn any collections, though.
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Date: 2015-07-30 02:58 pm (UTC)I really loved that poster, but I'd had it for nearly ten years before I thought to put it in a frame. Another ten or fifteen and the frame came apart and when I tried to take it out to reframe, it rather crumbled up. I guess whatever dyes and such they used for the black light were pretty acid-heavy to make the paper so brittle. I was broken-hearted.
But I suppose it's just as well now. I'd certainly have no place to put it here.
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Date: 2015-07-30 01:19 pm (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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