I splurged today. I bought a hand made oriental rug from ... well, personally, I think it was the Russian Mafia. Chinese, silk and wool. It's a red letter day. I thnk Candy believes I went over the top. It was significantly more than I'd planned to spend, but about one order of magnitude at any rate. Will have to post a picture of it.

I had a nice little antique prayer rug back in the 70s before they were all that popular. Skip Copper, who worked in my frame shop, gave it to me. Unfortunately, it got caught up in one of those "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine" things. This one is far larger than a prayer rug: 8'x10'. Dark blues and dark reds.