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- Making the most of my day… How to create a spending record to prepare for budgeting. Also a recipe for baked lentils and cheese. Yum!
- Patchwork Quilts Antiques -> Textiles, Linens -> Quilts, Bedspreads ->Patchwork -> Patchwork quilts are an Americana staple, and these items are also highly collectible. While they are most commonly associated with the pioneer times and early formation of the United States, many cultures produce patchwork quilts and many of them are extremely...
- Antique Wedding Dress Antiques -> Textiles, Linens -> Lace, Crochet, Doilies Wedding dresses are a big business today, but many people prefer the look of an antique wedding dress to the more modern gowns. Choosing a vintage dress is certainly one way to make your wedding unique, as it's highly unlikely that any...
- Vintage Wedding Dress Antiques -> Textiles, Linens -> Lace, Crochet, Doilies Many people today want to wear a vintage wedding dress when they get married. Vintage clothing in general has become hugely popular. You can purchase actually vintage clothing in various states of wear, vintage fabric which to make clothing from, or reproduction...
Wall Tapestries Dealers -> Textiles-Linens -> Tapestries A wall tapestry can be a beautiful addition to your home, whether it's a reproduction or an antique piece. A tapestry is much more than a woven cloth that covers the wall, it's often a piece of history that tells a story, and speaks...- 1920 Flapper Dress Collectables -> Textiles, Linens The 1920 flapper dress is commonly referred to as just a flapper, but the word flapper actually refers to much more than the garment itself, it refers to the entire sensibility of the era in the 1920s. Flapper actually referred to the women themselves, with their...
- Link Roundup: Quilt patterns edition I'm really excited for my wife. She showed some of her quilt patterns to the owner of a local quilt store, and the owner has decided to give a trial run to ten of her patterns! She loves designing quilts so this is a big deal. She's also gearing up...
- My Quilt Gallery Project Quilting is my favorite hobby -- besides blogging and crafting blogs. I'm a traditionalist of sorts (though I wouldn't want to match skills with quilters of old) in that I make my quilts entirely by hand. I've been using Flickr to share the quilts online. Here are a few:
11 Ways to Get Paid (...for Pipers...) This article is part of a group writing project started by Lynnae at Being Frugal. 11 different personal finance blogs are participating in the effort and are writing a series called The Twelve Days of Christmas - Personal Finance style. You’ll find links to all of the other articles...- Quilt-Redeeming Roundup (don't worry, it's still personal finance) Quilting is one of my favorite hobbies. I do it all by hand; I love the connection. In the last year, blogging has been pushing it out of the way more than I'd like. The other factor in my willingness to let it be (except for some small quilts) is...
- Video Tapestry: Realtime Mobile Video Stitching Is So Crazy It Just Might Work I got excited about this idea until I read "and of course all the timecodes on all the mobiles sending video have to be totally in sync."... Â Going out on a limb here but that be a small problem for this work anywhere other than in the lab! Video Tapestry:...
Ancient Wall discovered in Jeruselem An ancient wall that was built around the Time of the Second Temple has been uncovered, and also remains of a wall built on top of the ancient wall that was built in the Byzantine Period. An exciting discovery in Jerusalem constituting extraordinary remains of the wall of the city...- The Pope & Nancy Pelosi The Pope & Nancy Pelosi The Pope and Nancy Pelosi are on the same stage in front of a huge crowd. The speaker and His Holiness, however, have seen it all before. To make it a little more interesting, the speaker says to the Pope, "Did You know that with...
- Pathetic on so many levels This azcentral article about homeowners who mail in their keys instead of making payments described a situation that's just pathetic on so many levels. It said: "Joan Shaffer is turning in the keys of the north Phoenix Tatum Ranch home she bought with her daughter in late 2005. They put...
- Sorry, we have a minimum purchase amount I went shopping recently in a series of little boutiques and antique stores, and stopped for lunch at a restaurant that I'd never been to before. My lunch was pretty inexpensive ($6) but I went to pay for it using my credit card as usual. When I got to the...
- Worry about your own darn economy Naturally many people are worried about the economy right now. But the thing is, the only thing we can do about "the economy" is to worry about our own darn economy instead. It frustrates me to hear people say things like this: Should I buy a house with the economy...
Crazy receipts When I was a little kid I used to ramble around outside for hours, poking through neighboring fields. I usually found Indian pottery, but one day I found a very beat up, chipped old hammer half buried in the dirt. I took it home and showed my dad, who told...
Happy Thanksgiving [caption id="" align="alignright" width="202" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Bio for Marshal Sandler Marshal Sandler was born in 1936 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Detroit Country Day School (high school), and he left Michigan to attend the University of Miami, Florida. Marshal served in the Us Army and served from 1959...- Diary of a Demented Snow Shoveler Diary of a Demented Snow Shoveler, written by someone who just moved back to snow country. December 8Â 6:00 PM It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes...
- Step five toward getting out of debt Step five toward getting out of debt addresses ways to use 'found' money to pay down debt. If you have completed steps one, two, three, and four, you’ll have an accurate picture of what you’ve really been spending your money on, will know what your fixed expenses are, and will...
- Public showers in Amman I know we don't even have public toilets in Amman and the two or three that exists looks like dogs park but I really don't care about having public toilets in Amman as we are used to hold it and bombing it later when the crisis happens and in some...
- Quotes of the Day-June 16 Here are a few one liners and jokes from Henny Youngman. Most of the young people that read these won't know who he is but all the old timers will. Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love,...
- What we can learn from Guitar Hero As I mentioned earlier this week, reading is one way that helps me brainstorm new ideas. It doesn't have to be something new, it just has to be something interesting. So yesterday I was going through Ramit's blog, Iwillteachyoutoberich, poking around some of his old posts looking for something interesting....
- Maybe Salvidore Dali was right! This world really is a strange place. It seems like everything that we do and see does nothing more than prove this point these days. In fact, I have to stop and wonder if maybe the ones that can truly see things as they are, are not the ones that...
Silk Screen Dealers -> Antiques -> Asian For anyone who enjoys Asian art, an antique silk screen can make a gorgeous addition to your home. Paintings and even silkscreened prints with an Asian theme can give a room a distinct atmosphere, but there’s nothing quite like a paneled screen that can be...- How Mrs. Micah stayed sane (relatively) This is mostly an accomplishments post--but it doesn't include our biggest one. We don't plan to spend any money today. None. We did use a little gas, but no metro cards, no purchases, nothing. Tomorrow we're going to use some free movie passes we got. I'd say that would save...
- I am a WordPress Butt Boy! There, I've said it. No apologies. A year ago you would not have been able to force any level of computer programming down my craw. That is actually still the case. I HATE programming! I was a Blogger Blogging Blog aficionado. I owned a full featured authority website in a...
Boyds Bears Dolls-and-Bears -> Bears -> Boyds Boyds Bears are the creation of Gary Lowenthal and his wife, Justina Unger. Before they were married, they owned an antique shop together in 1979, and found that they couldn’t afford the types of antiques they wanted to carry. So in 1982 they started making...
something has changed Back in the 50s and 60s a large portion of the New York City population escaped the city for the Catskills during the summer. The families would relocated to cabins, and the mothers and children would set up camp for months while the husbands commuted back and forth to...- Carnivalsup There are two great carnivals up this week: first, The Carnival of Personal Finance at Money, Matter and More Musings and the Carnival of Money Stories at I've Paid For This Twice Already. As always, I'm grateful that my posts were included, particularly since the editing process seems to be...
