Cristina Acosta: building a colorful world through art
"When it's what you do 40 hours a week, and you're on a clock, you can't contemplate your color red too long. You've got a boss Once her little girl was old enough to hold brushes, Acosta pushed her work table into the corner of her studio and let ...
www.desertsun.com
April 8, 2015
Delving into the past and presents
counter topped with antique figurines and a key-operated doll carousel from the 1880s. One grandfather clock's chime is so rich and robust that I mistake it for church bells. “We sell a lot of clocks,” said David, showing me a table-top example ...
www.roanoke.com
April 5, 2015
Ken Dixon: An eagle's glorious 7-story flight
You don't have to hit me over the head with an antique eagle to find a metaphor, but it was close. was awarded a second-strike 30 months in the joint for shielding his dubious name from tainting the federal campaign filings of a failed, neophyte ...
www.ctpost.com
March 20, 2015
ONE PAIR OF PIERRE-LOUIS ROUILLARD URNS C. 1856
This drafting table was an early industrial design, fabricated from cast iron and steel with a wooden top. It has been fully restored and its new acrylic top is adjustable in height by use of counterbalance weights and rotates by mechanical adjustments ...
www.architecturaldigest.com
March 23, 2015
Election 2015: Tony Blair: public can't be trusted to make 'sensible choice' on EU
As #ge2015 ticks down the Chancellor visits a #Dudley clock shop & speaks to #wato about reviving local businesses pic.twitter.com/d3g1ZFmbXs. — Tom Edgington .. Great to visit Bird and Yates Garage in #Cannock this morning. #VoteUKIP ...
www.telegraph.co.uk
April 7, 2015
The 2015 Winter Antiques Show
The New York Winter Antiques Show, held January 23-February 1, was rebranded THE WAS. Tillou Gallery, Litchfield, Connecticut, sold a sculptural Philadelphia scalloped-top tea table, refinished, circa 1760, reasonably priced at $75,000. of the ...
www.maineantiquedigest.com
March 13, 2015
B&B brings touch of Italy to PC
Her background as an artist is evident, as every detail throughout the building — whether it be a pack of vintage playing cards placed on a table or the polished silver spoons served alongside each cup of Italian imported coffee — acts as a careful ...
www.portclintonnewsherald.com
March 9, 2015
Greensboro has been flaunting signs of Spring for weeks … crocus and daffodils are in bloom, and the flowering trees are bursting with beautiful pink and white blossoms. I decorated my home with Spring vignettes to chase away the winter blues. Nothing says Spring like nests, flowerpots, flowers and mossy balls. I’ve put a weathered watering can, pot of faux purple hyacinths and a fat pottery bird in front of my chippy old window on the mantle in our family room. On the other side of the mantle is a nest, a silver perched bird, and an arched window with a glass knob. It reminds me of my parent’s home, where I grew up. Their house had glass doorknobs throughout the interior of the house. Another case of hindsight being 20/20. Opposite the mantle is our couch and coffee table. On one end of the table is a vignette made up of a tall turquoise urn topped off with a moss-lined nest. This sits on an off white charger with another nest and two little ceramic birds. In our sunroom is a drop-leaf table that belonged to my Grandmother. This Spring, I have a wire birdcage cloche with a pot of faux spring flowers and a clay toad in it. Next to the yellow orchid is another bird nest (because you can NEVER have too many).
My name is Debbie and I live
When we last left off, I was out in the car trying to charge our cell phones. See all those white "bumps" on the ice. Well, those are the ice chunks that the wind was hurtling off the trees and slamming down on the icy earth. And the trees groaned. Can you see the ice that fell off of the tree trunk on the left side of the pic. All the trees and buildings were covered with ice on the southwest side as that was the direction from which the winds blew the storm onto our farm. And the poor bird house on the lower right was drenched in icicles. We spent Saturday helplessly keeping an eye on the trees around our buildings, praying none of the limbs or trees themselves would crash onto them. It was cold, cold, cold outside and without electricity to run our heating system, we were losing heat in the house fast. Excuse the truly messy living room, but we had to push my antique sideboard to the right away from the heat of our wall propane heater. And the leather love seat had to be moved over as well because the heater was throwing off a tremendous amount of heat and making the couch hot. When we first bought the farmhouse, I was not thrilled with the ugly appliance installed right on the living room wall. My friends all know how much I love to decorate our home and that atrocity just wasn't going to work in my decorating scheme.
I had a look around my scrap table to see what was sitting there then I took that “don’t over think it” approach with some Glimmer Mists. I am a notorious, self confessed, need-to-just-step-away-and-leave-it-alone scrapper so this was a challenge for me. I DID change my mind on the photo, so bearing in mind it took about 15 minutes to upload my second choice of photo, edit it and... That’s like a land speed record for me. I admit that most of my pages sit on my scrap desk for days (even weeks) before I finally settle on the design and glue them down. First up I found a piece of 12x12 white American Crafts cardstock, a good old letter stencil and some white gesso. I then turned the stencil over and sort of stamped the excess randomly across the page on the left of the page (towards the top left of where my photo would sit). You don't need THIS stencil. I just added a couple of strips of that under the stenciled numbers and again top left of the photo. I also found that netting stuff sitting in a scrap pile. scrap papers, ribbon, fibres, fabric or gauze would work equally as well. Start off with the lightest colours then work towards the darker. Be conservative with the darker colours so they don’t overwhelm the page. then for that darker colour I got closer to the page. When the spray pools you can move your page to manipulate how it drizzles down the page.
League Two: Matthew Palmer's goal keeps Burton top of table
Matthew Palmer's solitary strike was enough to keep Burton top of the League Two table ... Seamus Conneely notched the second with 90 minutes on the clock. And in the battle between two mid-table teams, Morecambe ran out 3-1 winners over Portsmouth.
www1.skysports.com
April 11, 2015
Jack Bird could be the silver lining to Cronulla’s NRL pain
For the Cronulla Sharks this period of adversity has unearthed Jack Bird. Bird was all class against top ... and the clock is showing only minutes to go, the game becomes a completely different beast. Like playing $5 hands at the Blackjack table, then ...
www.dailytelegraph.com.au
April 10, 2015
On the block: Burkhart estate auction fuels interest in Cathy M. Pennypacker event
The reason was that word had spread quickly among auction-goers, some of whom owned antique shops and ... leather, slant-top writing box at $42.50; an ornate, blue, Victorian-carved wooden jewelry box, with birds and ivy at the top, at $65.
readingeagle.com
April 8, 2015
Real people an endangered species
He was eighty-ish (no one seemed to know his exact vintage), and was just one of a number of great ... But in this case, Bob had remained just Bob. We lived at the top of a hill, and every Thursday he would get into his Ford Fiesta - a car which through ...
www.euroweeklynews.com
April 7, 2015
Bird Walk, Nature Hike, Art Day in the Angeles National Forest
Light refreshments will be available and contributions to the refreshment table are always welcome. There are two refrigerators, indoor flush toilets, indoor and outdoor seating and working spaces, two outdoor camp stoves and a vintage 1963 playground ...
Spartanburg guys tap into their interests in getaway man caves
“When this was just a concrete floor, the one thing I was concerned about was the pool table,” Moses said ... a bust of Elvis, vintage electronic games, an ET alarm clock, a Billy Jack for President button, and his wife's New Kids on the Block ...
www.goupstate.com
April 5, 2015
Top 10 group holiday rentals: Big and beautiful getaway lets with friends or family
And the views are even better on the roof terrace at the top of the “ship’s ladder” from the top ... There is free wifi, a pool table and off-road parking for up to 12 cars. The nearest railway station is 19 miles away. It’s surrounded by 19 ...
www.mirror.co.uk
April 4, 2015
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