miniature cuckoo clocks

Quick Getaways: Solvang serves up lots of calories, but lets you walk them off

The quaint – some would say over-the-top – streets are lined with nearly 100 shops selling clogs, cuckoo clocks, antiques, art and collectibles. Mixed in Stops include Los Olivos, the Quicksilver Miniature Horse Ranch and Old Town Santa Ynez. For ...

Widow Margaret Tyler, 71, is a retired telephonist who has four grown-up ...

Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration. Now that I'm always interested so long as it's a miniature bottle, is full and sealed ...

Hummingbird stuck to Easter bouquet doing well

It sounds cuckoo but this happened over the weekend. A small hummingbird was discovered stuck on the tape of the cellophane The owner of Courtenay 5th Street Florist, the shop that did the packaging and delivery, had no clue a miniature winged ...

Review: "Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart" - Ticks a Good Beat, But Needs ...

Madeleine quickly replaces it with a miniature cuckoo-clock and eventually adopts the baby as her own when the mother leaves. Jack grows up with three cardinal rules to keep his clock-heart at bay: he must never touch the hands of his clock; he must ...

W+K Made a Giant, Amazing Cuckoo Clock Out of an Oregon Maple for Portland ...

W+K recently took the clock—which thematically ties into the "Portland Is Happening Now" campaign—to Seattle and Vancouver for tourism events in those cities. Every hour on the hour, hand-painted, wood-carved miniatures appear when the clock chimes....

Francs, Fear and Folly

Ah, Switzerland, famed for cuckoo clocks and sound money. Other nations may experiment with radical economic policies, but with the Swiss you don't get surprises. Until you do. On Thursday the Swiss National Bank, the equivalent of the Federal Reserve, ...

Dream Space: Clockmaker Marks Time at Home

Mr. Ulfers has no formal training in clockmaking, but as set designer he's made countless scale models, so he was accustomed to working in miniature, he says. The mechanical stuff was learn-as-you-go. When a clock is finished, he makes sure its ...

Meet Britain's most obsessive collectors

Roman says: We eat, sleep and live cuckoo clocks. When we started collecting in the 1970s ... They have three grown-up children He says: I have 2,821 miniature bottles displayed in cabinets next to the bar in my bungalow. Sadly it was a tragedy in 1969 ...