Pick & Grin, The Collecting Couple, Ready For The New Year Grin: With the holiday season ending, I look forward to peace and quiet for the next few months. Pick: Good luck with that thought. We have two antique shows booked and we need to start setting aside the goods we want to sell. One [...]
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Displaying Collections With Antique Printer’s Trays & Other Little Wooden Shelves
Over at Crazy Suburban Mom, Tracy wonders what to do with antique printer’s trays. Is it best to hang them or set them on something – And do you set things in them or attach them inside the little boxes? I’ve seen them painted but I really don’t want to do that… I’d love it [...]
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Great Way To Display Collectible Travel Postcards & Souvenirs
I spotted this clever display at an antique mall and I thought it would be great for use in the home too: a simple vintage wall shelf, with the vintage postcards in the little spaces for knick knacks — the vases and glassware keep the postcards upright. Wouldn’t it be great to pair travel postcards [...]
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Collecting Antique & Vintage Bookmarks With Lauren Roberts
Lauren Roberts is a bookmark collector I met when we were both presenters at the first Bookmark Collectors Virtual Convention. I’ve admired her bookmark collection — and collecting habits — so much I’ve been waiting for us both to have the time to do a proper interview. Lauren, besides being a collector and a blogger, [...]
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Unique Way To Display Your Button Or Pinback Collection
I spotted this clever display idea at a local antique mall: the dealer has put a selection of collectible pinbacks in a birdbath. At home, of course, this might present a dusting problem (always the bane of collectors!), but if you used a sturdy cement birdbath, you could place a large round piece of glass [...]
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Making A Tidbit Or Serving Tray Right Round Again
Two things that are always plentiful at thrift shoppes… Partial tidbit trays or plate holders / servers… And unwanted vinyl records. (And by “unwanted” I mean they are either badly scratched or recordings so common, they are only destined for recycling or worse.) So why not put them together and make a retro-styled display piece? [...]
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DIY China Jewelry Display
I have very mixed feelings about modifying or changing antique and vintage things, but when I saw this project converting plates (and a candlestick) into a jewelry holder I thought it would be a wonderful way to salvage china pieces, bring them out of the boxes and shadows and back to life. I’ve seen this [...]
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ANTIQUIPS GETS A REPLY TO OUR BLOG
ANTIQUIPS GETS A REPLY TO OUR BLOG Our last article mentioned our frustration trying to find good antique shops while on the Carolinas’ coastal area. We drove down to Charleston, SC from North Carolina for sightseeing with our traveling companions with no time left that day for antique shopping. Our first break came in finding [...]
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More from the Antiquips: Bringing Things Home
Pick: That was such a fun auction we went to the other night! Lots of variety, friendly crowd, and it moved along quickly too. My favorite thing was the treasure we got, almost a piece of your family heritage! Grin: I started my inspection of the items going up for auction at the far end [...]
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DIY Display For Vintage Buttons, Ribbons & Other Sewing Notions Collections
At Design Sponge, Haylie Waring shows us how to make sewing notions displays. Waring’s examples use ribbons and buttons, but this project could also be done with beads, lace, fabric swatches, etc. — as well as jewelry, shoe clips, pinbacks, and other bits and bobs. Beautiful to look at and, as Waring says, this offers [...]
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Handbag Collection Drives One Collector Up The Walls
Helga von Trollop shows off her handbag collection, including some great ideas for display.
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10 Tips For Family Vacations To Remember
Thinking of taking a family vacation by car this year so you can go antiquing along the way? Getting there is half the fun — or at least half the story you and the kids remember (complain about?) years later. Below are 10 tips for creating a great family road trip — with a heavy [...]
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Collectible Event News: Collectors Virtual Convention
February 20th and 21st there’s an online event which is rather like a Valentine’s Day celebration for collectors: The first annual Bookmark Collectors Virtual Convention. This two-day event you can attend in your jammies sitting at your computer is obviously focused on the collecting of bookmarks, but the rest of us can learn something too. [...]
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The First Fiesta I Ever Bought
Discover how dishes from the 1930s became a totally hot collection….
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Categorizing & Organizing Collectibles: The Quandry Of Ephemera
Photographer Alex Waterhouse-Hayward’s post has me thinking… He writes: The biggest worry in my mind these days as I toss and turn in bed the waning days of the year has been what to do with 13, four-drawer metal filing cabinets full of my life’s work in the form of negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. [...]
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Display, Protect, & Store Ephemera
What I like about these Lil Davinci Art Cabinets is the fact that each cabinet is a storage container as well as a display piece, holding up to 50 sheets at a time with a spring-loaded pocket. That means you can store multiple pieces of artwork — and ephemera — in one place, with the [...]
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New Life For Old Forks
It’s not always easy for me to accept altering antique and vintage items, but sometimes it’s a matter of salvaging things the best you can, breathing new life into them so that they are appreciated once again. When I spotted these vintage fork easels, I had to say I thought it was a beautiful way [...]
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