Talavera

We have some awesome Talavera from Mexico, the majority of which arrived this past weekend with my man, from his most recent visit to Mexico. We have loads of pots and some plaques and a lot of one tile and some dishes and lots of animals etc. now, and it is very exciting. I already started setting the new planter pots around this morning for visual testing, and we laid out the animals and such in a rough formation for putting them up on the fence. I have little attachment to the formation. They just needed to be set outside in a rough shape for my man to start hanging them up. He had put up the two pieces before that we already had, but he wanted me to have say for this lot. It’s likely because he doesn’t want me to get annoyed with how he does it. However, if he had just done it with his own tastes and opinions, I likely would have loved it. But, now that he’s asked me, he runs the risk of my being incredibly meticulous about it all, as I tend to get when something is up to me… thus my intentionally loose attachment to the current formation.

Said formation can be seen here:

Oh, JK. I didn’t take a photo of the formation that I actually put together on purpose. Instead, you may enjoy a photo of most of the stuff just sitting in the grass when we first brought it all outside, but I hadn’t organized it for display yet.

Also, yes, there is a chicken in the photo, too. I will see if I can get a photo of the display in the morning, so we can compare later how it all turns out on the fence. 😛

Thank you, God, for such blessings as today has held. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Talaveras

Today, we went shopping for talaveras in Dolores Hidalgo, a town near Sam Miguel. If you are ever nearby, I highly recommend it. We found especially amazing work at Artesanías del Angel. We genuinely wanted to take the majority of it home with us, us was so gorgeous. Sure, we found great pieces at other workshops. But something about these pieces just hit home in a wonderful way. The longer we spent there, the more we wanted to get. We ended up spending far less money than I at all realized we were spending, and we got the following items:

Custom house address sign
House numbers (for on the fence)
Three custom University signs, talavera styled
Sun
3 Medium planters + water plates
Frog
Large planter
Cooking utensil rest
Multi-colored cuernas (longhorn skull)
Large sink basin
Metal sink basin mount

And Angel gave us the actual sink basin for free, because the one we really liked that was the big size we’d wanted was cracked. He at first wouldn’t let us have it, even, since it was cracked. But, once he realized it wasn’t for a backyard kitchen, but for a backyard basin just for washing hands or tools or whatever, he said we could have the sink and the mount for just the price of the mount itself. We gratefully and promptly accepted.

[This is where I would put some amazing photos of some of the wonderful pieces in the shop, if I hadn’t been so engrossed in everything around me, such that I have no photos I took! That’s how great it was!]

All in all, we spent a shockingly low amount of money, and we got some absolutely amazing pieces for our home and backyard. I am beyond excited for all of these pieces to bless our home. ¡Muchas gracias, Angel y los otros allí!

If you can ever go, please do! They have no website themselves, but you can find info for them from the city’s page or from Google Maps (with photos!).

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