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Shipments:
4/16/2008-
The remainder of our order from Michoacan arrived. It includes high gloss Catrinas from Capula as well as very large trees of life in high gloss from there. There are tin roosters in three sizes and small Ocumicho crucifixes and Virgins of Guadalupe for the wall. In addition, we took delivery on some Talavera boxes and tiny lizards.
4/11/2008- A marvelous shipment of things from Michoacan arrived today. We have wonderful new pieces from Ocumicho including magnificent masks, mermaids, small animals, and devils galore.
Nearly all of these pieces are signed (unusual for Ocumicho pieces) and are of especially high quality (also unusual for Ocumicho pieces.) There are also pineapple pots of all sizes and some beautiful high gloss Catrina Fridas and trees of life from Capula. There are also some lovely talavera pedestal fruit bowls. Definitely worth a visit!
3/5/2008- More wonderful things from San Miguel de Allende including more milagro crosses and hears, a new San Pasqual retablo, mirrors featuring pictures of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Frida, or Day of the
Dead, lots of wonderful highly glittered glasses-in miniature boxes, lots of new Catrinas in all sizes to fit any budget, and some really fun candleholders also featuring the Virgin of Guadalupe, Frida, and Day of
the Dead. Oh, and lets not forget loving skeleton valances. Lots of fun has arrived at Casa!
1/21/2008- We just got in a lot more pieces from San Miguel de Allende including Milagro crosses and hearts,
a lovely painting of fruit done retablo style, hand-painted crosses and nichos by David, tin hearts, and some tin skeletal bride and groom figures suitable to be used as cake toppers.
1/3/2008- Our
first shipment of the year is from San Miguel de Allende and consists of a large number of new santo paintings by Ramos Filemon (many of them signed) including batellas by him, and a very nice assortment of
encrusted milagro crosses and hearts with wings. We also have some new and very unusual knotted silk and silver jewelry (some with milagros.)
11/29/2007- The talavera has arrived! Planters--fish,
turtle, other--as well as more plates and platters, lizards, salamanders, frogs, a bull skull with horns (yes, in colorful talavera), a drink server, tiny bull skulls, and small whimsical frogs, plus more.
11/21/2007- Two shipments arrived today. The first includes Taxco silver, turquoise, coral, and natural stone jewelry as well as some funky necklace and earring sets and bracelets.
The second shipment included lots of wonderful ornaments and miniature nativities from South America as well as still more jewelry including funky earrings featuring saints.
11/3/2007- A surprise shipment
arrived today from Morelia and San Miguel which includes lots of talavera Christmas tree ornaments as well as skull ornaments which can be used for the tree. There are those wonderful Catrina skull plaques
which have sold so well and small painted clay skulls.
We now have more Catrina valances, painted bright colors, a couple lovely carved wood Virgin of Guadalupes decorated with milagros, lots more milagros, and more wonderful Virgin and Mexican house/ landscape pictures. I'm getting snowed under by the site, but I'll try to get some of these up before we sell out.
10/27 & 30/ 2007- New arrivals from Guadalajara include hand blown glass masks with wrought iron stands which allow them to hang with a candle behind them--great indoors or out.
There are also wonderful heavy class balls, intricately worked and suitable for Christmas or year-round ornaments. With this shipment we also received hand painted tin roosters, Capula trees of Death, and more Ocumicho Sorpresas (x-rated.)
10/24/2007- We just took a second shipment from San Miguel, this one rich with art by Ramos Filemon which I will attempt to get onto the site as soon as is humanly possible. In addition, there
are some wonderful tin crosses of a type we have not seen before, some milagro crosses, talavera mirrors and crosses, and a beautiful small milagro Virgin of Soledad.
10/19/2007- Our expected shipment from
San Miguel has arrived with paper mache skulls, ornaments, Catrinas, and Zapatas.
We also have wonderful tin star ornaments and tin Catrinas and Christmas ornaments, beautiful small pewter and talavera crosses that can be used as ornaments and some wonderful pewter and some tin nativities. There are some lovely new painted nichos as well.
10/7/2007- We have gotten in new jewelry and I brought some back from my recent trip along with some new rebozos.
9/12/2007- We just got in a beautiful shipment of things from the Guadalajara
area--some beautiful things we have never had before include high-laquer masks, hand-painted santos, nichos, and angel shelves in wood and some beautiful ceramic santas as well.
There are beautiful plates, pots, and nativities from Tonala, Catrinas from Capula, and pineapple pottery from Patamban. There are a couple of "naughty" Ocumicho pieces that will never go on the site (although people may e-mail me for pictures.) And there are things still in boxes to be unpacked--all will be available at this week-end's sale.
8/25/2007- We just got in a new shipment of Taxco silver jewelry. There are some really pretty pendants, earrings, and bracelets (some of the bracelets would be great for women or men.)
8/8/2007- OK, now this is getting ridiculous. Our Talavera shipment came in today. We have three new birdbaths, lots of new planters (one a fish design, several pigs, etc.), plates (of course), Catrina
urns (arge ones), wall fish, frogs, and lizards, and a fabulous armadillo (which I am betting will be the first thing to go--it is wonderful). Don't forget Sangria Saturdays though August!
8/4/2007-
Today we got in a shipment from Guatamala: lots of wonderful purses, some shirts (black with the Guatamala fabric in stripes), colorful wooden animals, and beaded jewelry.
8/3/2007- Just a small shipment today--large pots, a wonderful agate mask, and a beautiful crucifix.
8/1/2007- Today we took delivery on some wonderful reproductions of Mexican images (Frida Kahlo
paintings, Diego Rivera paintings, Jose Guadalupe Posada prints, Virgin of Guadalupe) reproduced on Amate paper and mounted on fabric. These are truely extraordinary.
8/1/2007- We got a shipment in from San
Miguel with paper mache ornaments and larger paper mache Catrinas, tinwork including angels, hearts, mirrors, and nichos, and lots of new crosses--wood with milagros and the beautiful iron and glass ones that have
been so popular.
7/25/2007- We took delivery today on more Frida note cards--those wonderful picture cards that everyone is enjoying.
7/21/2007- Wonderful Frida "kitch" arrived today--shopping bags,
boxes, coasters, cut paper cards, books, Frida hand earrings (silver), t-shirts and other things.
7/11/2007-
I'm back from vacation and, while I was gone, we took delivery on more of our jewelry orders and also on some wonderful glittery paper mache masks--skulls, devils, and lucho libre. In addition a beautiful shipment of Mata Ortiz pottery arrived today with some of the best prices we have evr seen on this magnificent pottery which rivals that coming from the Navaho nation.
6/16/2007-
Another shipment of jewelry that Tom ordered while in Las Vegas has arrived. This includes funky wood, glass bead, wicker, and stone jewelry from all over Latin American and some wonderful turquoise, silver, and coral pieces from Taxco.
6/8/2007- Tom has returned from a jewelry show in Las Vegas with the first of several shipments of wonderful new jewelry pieces. We, at Casa, have decided to add a lot more jewelry to our
collection and I will be adding a jewelry section to the site when I get back from vacation. Our pieces will feature Mexican silver, natural stones, wood, beadwork, and ethnic pieces that can be very unusual
and hard to find. This shipment includes wood and glass beadwork, bone, horn, natural stones, brass, among other mediums all at low costume jewelry prices.
5/17/2007-
The beautiful hand made cards and t-shirts by Tim O'Reilly have come in. The cards feature both religious and Aztec designs. The t-shirts feature Aztec calendar figures--sun, rabbit, and monkey.
5/3/2007- The eagle has landed!
Our shipment from Mexico City has arrived with wonderful and unusual new masks, santos, paintings, trees of life (and death) as well as papel picado of new and unusual sizes and shapes and lots of other wonderful things. We have more than Larry and I remembered getting and, of course, everything looks beautiful.
4/25/2007-
We just got in a shipment from Guadalajara and San Miguel which includes unusual wooden Virgins and skeletal figures, more wonderful painted crosses and miligro crosses, loose milagros, two beautiful gessoed Virgins, and a number of reproduced textured paintings on wood of santos and of Mexican architectural scenes at quite reasonable prices. Oh, and there is also a nice group of bracelets of wooden beads.
4/11/2007-
Our Talavera shipment has arrived! The shop is bursting with turtles, frogs, iguanas, salamanders, shrimp, crabs, swordfish, pigs, giant parrots, chickens, planters, plates, platters, and more. We have all sizes for your interior, garden, back yard, or pool area.
3/23/2007-
Another shipment from San Miguel and central America has arrived. We have masks galore from Guerrero, Guatamala, and Equador. There are also new santos, church nichos, angels, and a number of tin valances.
3/21/2007-
We just took delivery on a shipment from San Miguel of paper mache angels and skulls to hang on the wall as well as a number of wooden masks including angel mask, both painted and natural, and coconut masks! (finally). There are also some nice wood bead rosaries and a few new tin crosses.
3/14/2007- Of course, we haven't gotten the things we brought back from Mexico displayed yet, but here comes a shipment of small black pottery pieces and figures from Oaxaca. They include skulls, animals,
Virgins, etc.
3/12/2007- Larry and I arrived back from Mexico City carrying exvotos from three families, including the Vilchis, David Mecalco, and Gustavo Villeda.
We also have a huge number of naive painting by the Lorenzo brothers, and all kinds of jewelry--most of it silver from Taxco. There are also beautiful rebozos, purses, some wonderful bark paintings, and three miniature trees of life. Oh, and we got a lot of those miniature scenes so many of you have been waiting for. Most of what we bought will be arriving sometime in April.
3/8/2007- While Larry and I were in Mexico City, Tom took delivery on a small shipment from San Miguel featuring work by Ramos Filemon--these are several saints painted in window frames. These are just single
painting size. There are also a number of small nichos and some nice mirrors.
1/21/2007- The first of our new year's shipments has arrived from San Miguel de Allende.
We have two huge hand carved St. Francis, two beautiful new hand painted mirrors, lots of glass and iron crosses in all sizes, some of the largest milagro crosses we have ever seen, a beautiful selection of hand painted gourd birds, Talavera holy water font crosses, brightly painted smiling paper mache skulls (some hang on the wall, others sit on a table), some beautifully painted realistic looking tin roosters, and some wonderful pewter serving ware. For Valentine's Day, we have tin heart crosses and new tin heart ornaments.
We continue to have the same phone numbers: (214) 747-7227 and our toll free number, 1-877-426-4467 (1-877-4 amigos), if you are calling from out of town, ( but our fax has changed to 214-823-4744.)
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