Wednesday, April 18, 2012

inspiration in unexpected places

last week during one of my 200 mile jaunts to rockland county, new york, i found myself poking around the orangetown historical museum and archives.  my motive was to search out historical documents on the sites i was investigating for the dayjob, but instead found myself pleasantly surprised by the inspiring beauty i found instead.  i treasure moments like these that shine some light into an otherwise monotonous day of work.

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how amazing is this framed antique key canvas?!  i'm so on the hunt for antique keys now :)  maybe i'll even find some matching skeleton keys for all of the antique doors in our house. (we live in a 1919 craftsman bungalow- i can't part with the original door hardware but it would be nice to have a locking bathroom door every now and again!)

3 comments:

Amber said...

Oooh! I love that idea!! Too bad skeleton keys are hard to come by...

Kim Corrigan-Oliver said...

Love it!!! We too have old hardware on our bathroom door. My hubby put a chain lock on it as soon as Reece learned how to open the bathroom door. Funny thing is, I don't use it.

Joan Concilio Otto said...

Ohhh, I love that. My daughter actually collects old keys. We're lucky to have had some in the family, because finding that at antique shops has proven pricey!