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Wanted: Experts & expertise
June 2022Good Eye Wanted: Experts & expertiseby Peggy Whiteneck Reliable dealer/seller Expertise in Antiques and Collectibles Many years ago, I wrote a column for Discover on the need for reliable dealer/seller expertise in antiques and collectibles, and it seems...
Missing the old antiquing haunts
May 2022Good Eye Missing the old antiquing hauntsby Peggy Whiteneck Losing Favorite Antiquing places I guess anyone over the age of 30 has had the experience of losing favorite places for antique shopping - you know, the unforgettable places that you loved visiting...
Slag Glass pieces are first class and one of a kind
April 2022 Good Eye Slag Glass pieces are first class and one of a kind by Peggy Whiteneck Slag Glass One of my favorite decorative glass types is slag glass, made in a number of different colors by a number of 19th- to 20th-century American glassmakers (including...
Quilters, press on – Pressing matters!
March 2022Covering Quilts Quilters, press on - Pressing matters!by Sandra Starley It may sound silly to newcomers, but pressing in quilting is serious business. Note that I say pressing rather than ironing, and no, they are not the same thing. Quilters’ families with...
Quilted fabric postcards – A piece of mail, a real work of art
February 2022 Covering Quilts Quilted fabric postcards – A piece of mail, a real work of art by Sandra Starley Last month I wrote about starting the year off right by learning to quilt or trying a different method of quilting. Stretching your brain with new and...
New Year’s resolution – New FUN!!! Start quilting or learn a new quilting skill
January 2022 Covering Quilts New Year’s resolution – New FUN!!! Start quilting or learn a new quilting skill by Sandra Starley Celebrate than by learning something new We are starting a new year, and what better way to celebrate than by learning something new?...
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‘Single Tree’ was part of old-time farming
November 2021Vintage Discoveries‘Single Tree’ was part of old-time farmingby Ken Weyand Early in the 1940s, after years of “horse-farming,” my dad bought a tractor and sold his team of draft horses. Soon after that, much of the horse-drawn equipment was sold,...
Visiting Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition, 1934
September 2019Vintage DiscoveriesVisiting Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, 1934by Ken Weyand On Sept. 16, 1934, my mother, Mabel Weyand, and her parents, Charles and Carrie Forrester, boarded a train at Medill, MO, for Chicago to attend the Century of...
Flying ‘back in time’ in a vintage biplane
~ October 2018 / Traveling with Ken ~Vintage DiscoveriesFlying 'back in time' in a vintage biplane ~ by Ken Weyand ~ Flying in an open-cockpit biplane is a forgotten part of our history. It was an era when pilots flew "tail-dragger" aircraft from grass...
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