I fell in love with this bed at the Getty. It was taken from Paris in the 1700s. The embroidery is beautiful on this robin’s egg blue silk fabric, and the detailing is amazing. The tassels were neat and different, the top corners of the canopy had plumes of real ostrich feathers. I’m bummed the photos didn’t come out (no flash allowed in museums).

THE bed...MY bed

I wish the detail could've come out on this picture the way I saw it in person. :(

My mother, ever the muse for my runaway imagination, said, “Maybe you like that bed so much because in the past, in another lifetime, that was your bed.” Well, in that case, I think it’s really messed up that I used to run from across the room and leap onto the bed, and it was my bed, and now, just because it’s a few lifetimes later and I’m in another body, I’m not allowed to even touch my own bed anymore. Hmmph.