Thread: Cabinet of Curiosities

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So last year I turned our front office into a Victorian parlor but I wanted to switch it up this year without having to replace all the decorations. So I'm doing a Cabinet of Curiosities / gypsy / Tia Dalma theme. So here are a few pictures I'm using for inspiration:




And the pictures below show the start of my collection. I plan on spending the next 3 months gathering bottles, apothecary jars, wall/spice cabinets, tabletop curios, and other oddities for my collection. I've been hitting up Goodwill, antique stores, and Freecycle so far. I plan on going to my parents house in the country to hike and keep my eye out for birds nest, snake skin, turtle shells, etc.

The jars with water in them are just test runs. I plan on putting coffee grounds in them come time for the party to dirty them up. I've not really put anything together yet, it's all just kind of piled up there. But I think it's already looking fairly cool!

Any opinions or input would be great!

Rikki those are great finds and a fantastic start. I noticed one of the origional pics had a birds wing in the back, maybe you can find one on a fake bird of course
I love the all the jars and that pic with the skull is F A B U L O U S!!!

Oh and the bird cages I love the bird cages, I would love to see a skull in one of those. Oh and how about some large dark dripping candles???

I've been looking for taxidermy birds or other small animals but they are OUTRAGEOUS! I found a little wren for $60 and a small fox for $110. But I like the wing idea, maybe I can fashion one out of feathers...

I have a lot of other relevant stuff but it's all put away with the Halloween decorations right now so I'll just have to wait until decorating time to dig it out. I have a very large list (32 items, some of which I need multiples) of all the stuff I'll be looking for.

The bird cages came from a guy on Freecycle. Nice score huh?

Great start, Rikki...my favorite thing is the oval picture of the skull sitting on top of the book, that is SERIOUSLY cool. I have that very same black cake stand with the bell jar top, got it at Cracker Barrel (of all places) last year. You have such an excellent eye, I wish I could take a pile of junk and make it look good, but mine all just look like.....a pile of junk!! LOL!

Great finds Rikki!
I'm kind of like hooch though. A pile of jumk is a pile of junk when I try to arrange it. My mother had a really good eye like you....too bad I didnt inherit it!

MsM

What a fabulous idea Rikki! I can't wait to see how this turns out.

Oh and butterflies, y ou need to have a butterfly in there somewhere

Just watched the latest Harry Potter film....
& they had a room much like this full of collections.

Thanks guys! Yeah Spooki, I've been keeping my eye out for a butterfly (or a good looking fake). I've got a few of those really cool Martha Stewart gothicy specimen boxes that will fit right in.

Haunty, I've not seen the movie yet. Now I want to even more!