Nor do you need to develop accuracy with a slingshot in order to decommission the streetlight near the jewelry store window and sharpen your glass cutter in order to take the stunning, ruby and diamond necklace beautifully displayed on royal blue velvet ~ even though you really want it.
I have devised an excellent way to steal items without anyone ever knowing; as I have been doing for many years and have taught others how to also do.
No tools are needed to ~ mentally ~ take the 'I LOVE IT' item home with me.
A major addition to my collection occurred when I visited my cousin, Vievia in a town near Boston and she took me to a special collection of Tiffany Silver at the famous Museum of Fine Arts. On the drive there, I explained how I steal from museums, art galleries, stores and more recently from fine specialty mail order catalogs, Vievia loved the idea and was eager to start her own collection that day.
The guard began to eye us with concern when Vievia and I discussed which one of the many silver objects handsomely displayed on pink linen we were each considering taking home. Concerned, until I explained to him and several of the other exhibition viewers, my 'Steal It Home' collecting.
Among the many advantages of this project is that many people can have the same piece. My listeners, including the guard, were entranced and went back to look at everything again. Several people and Vievia agreed with my choices and, also, took with them, a silver tea caddy with enameled Chrysanthemums on it and its top as well as the silver water pitcher with the tall enameled cattails on it. No more than one piece is generally allowed from each museum or gallery, but an exception was made this time to allow for two items. If another 'I Love It' piece is wanted, then one would need to be relinquished.
Carry in a purse or pocket, a pen and a small notebook to record the where and what, size and pertinent facts of each of your items as well as a sketch of it.
As my collection increased, I soon realized that a large Display Room was needed. Considering my house's layout, the best place for the Display Room was off of the left side adjacent to the Dining Room.
Although there is a close neighbor house, it took just a moment of mental activity to push it and its property further to the left, so that the length of half a football field was created thus allowing ample space for the currently planned display area as well as future expansions.
The land on which my house rests slopes towards the back, thus allowing the new room to have its front partly into the hill, while at the back, there can be a full height lower level that can open out to a terrace and garden where garden sculptures could be displayed.
What fun and joy to imagine all this and to think of variations.
That lower level can contain a charming small apartment for the person who will curate the collection, maintain the dust-free equipment and see to the proper installation as I have designed for each new 'I Love It' item.
The Dining Room was made larger and the majority of the left wall replaced with floor to ceiling glass so that the Display Room and its treasures can be easily seen by me and a person with good visualization skills.
Often at night, sometimes while I am in pain, I mentally wander through my Treasure Room to look and again enjoy the Tiffany Silver pieces, the three large Chinese Kites hanging from the rafters at the far end of the room, some pieces by a renowned fabric artist, a large watercolor painting by a client of Queen Anne's Lace, a favorite wild flower and so many other treasured pieces and memories; it is most gratifying and calming.
Apartment dwellers, fear not, for you too can have a Display Room for your 'Steal It Home' treasures. Just mentally push or slide over the neighboring apartment that is adjacent to your living room's side wall. Then visualize a handsome wide, arched doorway with double doors that open into the new room. If there is furniture along that wall where the doors are, the furniture can be screwed to the doors, so when they are opened, that furniture will move into the next room.
You can expand your visions by using an architectural program on your computer to create plan and elevation drawings of your Display Room, as seen from the outside, the view from inside the house looking into your Treasure Room and various vistas within that room.
~ Enjoy Stealing So You Can Have A Treasure Room
To Enjoy Forever~
To Enjoy Forever~
Joan Eastman-Bennett
