Christmas was weird for us this year, as I'm sure I've mentioned. It's the end of January and I still haven't finished going through my cards. I didn't send any out this year. I really don't feel like it any more, but there are a few I'll have to write before the snow melts ...I did just finish celebrating by exchanging gifts last weekend with a dear friend. Knowing that I'm a map nut, she found a cool mini-globe with Vaugondy's 18th century vision of our planet; he was mapmaker to Louis XIV. It's fun to think that this is the way Louis and company saw the world.
The bamboo cups were also a gift - the globe on one and some of my smaller, harder-to-keep-track-of needles in the other: 
I have to figure out how to display the globe with this leather map we have in the dining room - something we picked up in Spain on our "honeymoon" waaay back when:
And also - can you believe there's more? - this super-cool dish from Northern Clay Center that goes perfectly in my house:
We put it on the comma table:
Boy, did you get cool stuff for the holidays ... love the pottery and especially love the globe!
ReplyDeleteI also just received a holiday card in the mail yesterday ... so you are not alone in your choice of seasonal well wishing
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ReplyDeleteCheck Out this Africa Map/database from Harvard. Very Complex.
ReplyDeletehttp://cga-3.hmdc.harvard.edu/africamap/