I mentioned in my interview over at lumberjocks ht...

2007-07-15T01:19:00.000-03:00

I mentioned in my interview over at lumberjocks http://blog.lumberjocks.com/2006/10/interview-7-scott-blanchard/ that handcrafted items are very important to me. Having several artistic or crafty people in my extended family has helped to start fill our home with such handcrafted items as pottery, rugs, and lots of art.

I'm (still) in the (probably lifelong) process of weeding out mass-market items that we don't need (or love) and am striving to only fill our home with (including renovating the house itself) with unique and one-of-a-kind items that were crafted, and not stamped out on an assembly line, whereever practical and possible. Obviously this won't be a cheap proposition, and will take many years whether by my own hands, or others (excluding the obvious - computers, major appliances, and so forth - but now that I type this out - I wouldn't neccessarily rule them out either!

A good question to ask yourself - if your house was on fire, and you had time to save a certain amount of material things (everyone is out safe) what would you save? Apart from the photo albums (which could be replaced with a little help from friends and family) I have nothing that couldn't be replaced - and I surely have a lot of things that I'd never bother with again.

If the house was an empty shell, I could head out and hit an artists colony (with a shopping cart or two) I bet I could find most of the lamps, pottery, glassware, treenware and so on that I'd need to make my house a home.

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I mentioned in my interview over at lumberjocks ht...