Not so out of the blue, but I can hardly contain myself,
urban rustic is about to
open a STORE! At Newport Beach NSW Australia. Yay!
It’ll be fresh, and fun. So fun. OMG I hope I am not crazy.
All that dreaming, my head in the clouds, it’s becoming a tangible thing. Finally.
I am in various measure, full of…
Stacks more to come,
watch this cake, um I mean space…
xo
PS click any image to see it in the urban rustic store
After a night let loose in the city, I stumbled upon and drooled over
the Rosenthal Limited Edition Andy Warhol art plate @ Macleay on Manning [in the high street] Potts Point. For $249.
I put it down, sadly. No soup for me!
And realised I need to get out more.
Back to reality…I say hel-lo to these Campbell’s soups for $1 each at the local supermarket.
Can do…
50+ years The Art of Soup
This year marks the 51st Anniversary of Andy Warhol’s 1962 Campbell’s Soup Can. These silk-screen paintings played a pivotal role in the emergence of the pop art genre. Warhol was particularly fond of Campbell’s soup, which was often the subject of his pieces…
… Produced under license from The Andy Warhol Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation that promotes the visual arts.
www.warholfoundation.org
source: taken straight from the can
When Andy Warhol first exhibited the 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans canvases in 1962, they were displayed together on shelves, like products in a grocery aisle. At the time, the Campbell’s Soup Company sold this many varieties; each canvas corresponds to a different flavor. Warhol did not indicate how the canvases should be installed. At MoMA, they are arranged in rows that reflect the chronological order in which the soups were introduced. The first flavor introduced by the company was tomato, in 1897.
Campbell’s Soup Cans reproduces an object of mass consumption in the most literal sense. These paintings were silkscreened, a printmaking method originally invented for commercial use. In a semi-mechanized process, Warhol repeated the same basic soup can image on dozens of canvases. He then hand-painted or stenciled the names of the individual soup varieties.
source: MoMA: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Warhol said of Campbell’s Soup:
I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again. Someone said my life has dominated me; I liked that idea.
So I’m wondering if your life dominating you is a good or a bad thing? Or a statement of the bleeding obvious?
What do you call the father of all corny jokes?
Popcorn
The giant corn cob stool. Pick it up @ third drawer down
Photo courtesy of a blogger I love stalking. Sunday Collector
sweet.
My Bastille Day offering…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
Liberty, equality and fraternity forever.
Old Enid Blyton hardcovers from the 70’s including
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Fancy some classic French, Saunders & Adrian Edmondson? Rather!
Five Go Mad In Dorset.
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And how about these delightful versions?
Splendid, I say!
AFTERWORD:
Book your own adventure at the urban rustic store:
Wishing Chair set of 2
vintage ceramic kitten bookends
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Saving cake, clearly. Leftovers that could go on forever [if you are irrational and can leave them that long]
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Vintage Tupperware pie slice keepers.
Mock chocolate cake face cloth part of a set I found at Salvos. Unreal.
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I loved the film but I haven’t read the book yet, must confess I lifted these quotes from Goodreads.
Have you read it? And or seen the movie? Did it live up to the book?
It’s a question, it’s a statement, it’s an appeal.
shop now please, so I can buy more…
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PS Or email me: sandy@urbanrustic.com.au
if you see anything you love not listed. xo
If one man’s trash is another man’s treasure as the cliche goes,
what happens when one wife’s treasure is one husband’s trash?
Her: [hand’s on hips]: Where’s my favourite wire basket?
Him: [casual] I threw it out. It was all rusty.
Her: [wailing] But it had the perfect amount of rust!
My husband thinks I am a hoarder. It’s true.
True that he thinks I am. True that I am?
After watching episodes [in horror] or Hoarders and other similar shows. I think I am safe for now. Possibly not from D-I-V-O-R-C-E but from the clutches of this sad disorder.
According to the TLC website hoarding is a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. O.C.D.
Hoarding usually involves objects that have little if any value. Newspapers, old flyers and used food packaging and in extreme cases fingernails, hair and crap. And I mean that literally. Distressing but true apparently.
Professionals look for these three things when evaluating compulsive hoarders:
Hoarding is not the same as Collecting. In general, collectors have a sense of pride about their possessions [as opposed to embarrassment] and they experience joy in displaying and talking about them. They usually keep their collection organized, feel satisfaction when adding to it, [rather than sadness and shame] and budget their time and money whereas hoarders may be in debt.
Anxiety & Depression Association of America [ADAA]
It’s possible however, I may be a borderline Obsessive Compulsive Collector if I wanted to pay attention to Science A Go Go. Judging by the name I don’t think I do -do. According to this link, collecting items can trigger O.C.D. E.E.K!
You know you have a problem [don’t you?] if you can’t drive past a thrift/ Op Shop without swerving to a halt and dashing in [no matter how late you already may be] just to make sure you are not missing the next best new old thing.
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So I may be self-labelled mad or
berko/birko in this case but at least I am in good company.
Probably the most famous of all collectors being Andy Warhol whose possession obsession has eternal fame with 612 Time Capsules preserved forever at Warhol.org
So…any ideas? Collect your thoughts and let me know, please! xS
urban rustic 
