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7/11/2018

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 ..is sometimes translated from the Japanese as 'secular shrine'. The literal translation is alcove and this alcove in my sitting room is probably the most photographed place in my house!

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I change it often. It's simply about things that give me pleasure.
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Mary
8/11/2018 01:24:40 am

Almost as though you had your own, personal light box, but with no need to take it down after a photo session--rather someplace to simply enjoy your creations.

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Freda
8/11/2018 02:19:54 am

Do you have a favourite spot for favourite things?

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Lotta link
8/11/2018 01:52:24 am

How funny, I was reading about tokonoma completely by chance about 20 mins ago! Beautiful arrangement, I love the little teapot. Doesn't the warmth of candlelight (or fire) transform a scene? What is in the basket Freda?

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Freda
8/11/2018 02:22:29 am

Quince, for the wonderful scent The room comes alive with the fire and/ or a candle.

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Julia
8/11/2018 05:00:40 am

This tokonoma seems, to me, to represent everything you have been working towards, Freda. Simplicity, elegance, serenity, beauty...and a sense of joy.
I admire how you change things around too. Once i get the click-point, it tends to stay that way for, oh, maybe 5 years!

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Freda
8/11/2018 11:47:59 am

Some things stay the one way for even longer Julia, but i love to change this every time I get new flowers I find a card or a painting that goes with the flowers. It's my fun spot.

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Rosemary
8/11/2018 06:13:41 am

I suppose my most significant arrangement reflects my pleasure in writing. On top of a long, white, half-height bookcase I have a weighty Visconti ballpoint in its leather box, near that an Il Papiro marbled notebook, both of these were bought for me by my late husband - the book from Venice and inscribed by him. Behind them is a box of 12 Blackwing 602 pencils. In a pot made by my grandson are a handful of wooden biros, their exteriors carved from a lopped branch from the wisteria outside the kitchen window. There are photos too and 3 beautiful little Wentworth wooden puzzles standing upright in their boxes. Not minimal at all, and I plan to add more...fountain pens, notebooks, in fact an uberfest (hope that's the right word) of writing implements and paper-related artefacts ! They're all sparking joy, but perhaps better not to tell Marie Kondo.

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Freda
8/11/2018 11:49:50 am

That sounds gorgeous Rosemary and clearly meaningful. I think Marie Kondo would say you can't have too much joy!

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cath
8/11/2018 09:07:26 am

White comes in so many different shades. This scene spells peace.

The Japanese have so many interesting concepts to explore. Just now I am reading about finding your Ikigai (your passion, the happiness secret). It is the second book by Francesc Miralles and Héctor Garcia about Ikigai.

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Freda
8/11/2018 11:50:40 am

I'm reading Japonisme. :-)

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cath
9/11/2018 01:38:07 am

Made a reservation for it at the library...




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