Life Classes Nov 19, 2008
In addition to postcards of shopping malls, holiday camps, highways, postwar German housing projects, and other mundanities, he hoards"perversely"Margaret Thatcher plates, Spice Girls chocolate bars, Lawrence Welk trays, and other junk-culture souvenirs. ("If I didn't collect Saddam Hussein watches," he says, "no one would.") Parr's massive collections will one day be inherited by the Victoria and Albert Museum. (Slate)
The Bargain Hunter's guide to holiday shopping Nov 13, 2008
50; antique-like printed chair pads and quilts $5 to $25; coir mats $6; needlepoint footstools $25 to $40; needlepoint pillows $8 to $35; tablecloths $8 and $15; all Christmas ornaments 50 cents to $1; all tassels 50 cents to $2 - plus cutting boards, decorative plates, handcrafted wooden accessories (bed trays, tissue boxes, wastebaskets) and hand-painted drinkware ... Highlights: Serving trays at $10 to $45; decorative boxes at $7 to $25; the Snowflake collection (silver snowflakes on white... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Decorators get seal of approval for makeovers Oct 30, 2008
White House china: The Bushes ordered large silver-plated serving pieces for buffet dinners and holiday entertaining, including round and oval chafing dishes, multitiered stands, punch bowls and cookie trays. Oval Office desk: Resolute. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Libraries are 'microcosms of community' Oct 26, 2008
While all that was going on, children and adults walked through rows of book shelves, sat at computer tables and/or lined up to sample cheese, meat and cracker trays, vegetables and dips, ice cream and cake. Dozens of black, purple, silver and white basketball-sized balloons, freed from their overhead holding location by 1-year-old Najier Clark, were "shoed" and booted out of the way or batted toward the ceiling by enthusiastic teenagers. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Consignment Sales Rise as Economy Falls Oct 15, 2008
At Weschler's Auctioneers and Appraisers in the District, well-dressed matrons are dipping into their supply of botanical engravings or sterling trays to help tide them over until the blue chips bounce back. "We are not a pawn shop, so people don't walk in here expecting immediate cash," said Virginia Weschler, executive vice president. (Washington Post -- Technology)
Artisans recreate early American furniture Oct 3, 2008
Some of these places sell Shaker-style crafts like oval wooden boxes, trays and brooms. In Massachusetts, Hancock Shaker Village sells reproductions of several Shaker tables, made by Chilton Furniture of Maine, that run $450-$650. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
HOLIDAY BAZAARS Oct 3, 2008
Christmas Around the Samovar Bazaar, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, St. Innocent's Orthodox Cathedral, 401 Turpin St. Look for all types of crafts, plus cookie trays and baked goods. Vendor tables still available. (Anchorage Daily News)
A city filled with places to go lets her follow her heart Aug 24, 2008
Between the celebratory enclaves, waiters maneuver balancing trays of coffee, orange juice, pretzels, and tea served in tulip-shaped glasses. People dash amid the groups to snap pictures. (Boston Globe)
Next stop, summer Jul 13, 2008
Our visit coincided with strawberry season and ambitious pickers were carrying overflowing trays of deep red berries from the fields ... Someone's always finishing up as the next family laden with trays of food is searching for a table - certainly faster than hostess seating. (Boston Globe)
Mid-Century modern styles a natural fit at City Issue Jul 1, 2008
Also in stock are dining tables, buffets, china cabinets, glass-topped coffee tables, side chairs, hanging lamps, ceramics, daybeds, steel desks, swivel desk chairs and a range of accent pieces, from old globes to platters, glassware and trays. Best sellers. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
Habitude: Great deals at sample sale Jun 13, 2008
All OL silk products, leather trays and cocktail and end tables will be marked down as well. When. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
T's: Food lures customers Jun 2, 2008
The co-owner of the popular southside eatery never strays far from the kitchen, where he can make sure his employees are preparing catfish, shrimp and oysters the same way his parents did when they founded the business in 1946 ... Unlike the Miller's Pond location, the new T's was strictly a drive-in, complete with carhops and window trays. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Saturday Market kicks off another season in style May 12, 2008
Stroller-pushing parents crunched on candied nuts, admiring racks of handmade baby dresses and trays of jewelry. There s a variety of everything. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Collecting Newlyn Copperware May 11, 2008
A full range of copperware was produced by the original Newlyn Industrial Class including food and beverage containers such as tea caddys, coffee pots, fruit bowls, plates, chargers, trays and interior design items including mirror and photograph frames and storage boxes. Artists of the Newlyn Industrial Class inscribed their names on copperware and from 1917 onwards, a Newlyn mark was inlaid in the metalwork. (Suite101.com)
Treasure hunters tell no lies Apr 19, 2008
Items the men have purchased line the walls, lunch sits on the table in room-service trays, and the place has the feel of a pawn shop, minus the old stereos. Sometimes, Gervasi and Kohl say they don't see 30 people all day. (News & Observer)
Day Out | Marunouchi, Tokyo: A district, suddenly, of the fashionable Mar 7, 2008
Meal Muji, where customers can sample basic, clean-cut dishes like lotus root salad on basic, clean-cut serving trays. Multimedia. (International Herald Tribune)
Dear Editor, Feb 29, 2008
Some people just emptied there ash trays full of coins. Thank you for the food donated by Long's Donut Shop and Kentucky Fried Chicken; the buckets for collecting from Couch's BBQ and Baker Lumber; Phil Smith and Checkerboard Antiques for letting us use their corner and also Victory Insurance for that corner; Regions Bank (official MAW bank) for counting our money; Carin McClung and the Trumann Democrat for the great coverage for this event each year; the school and the administrators for... (Truman Democrat, AR)
Western Auction Features Civil War Arms and Major Pre-Columbian Artifacts Collection Feb 2, 2008
Other artifacts and collectible items in the sale are swords, Bowie knives, country store advertising and displays, early American antiques, coin op, slot machines, collection of antique toys, cast iron mechanical banks, black Americana, Coca Cola coolers and trays, vintage Pearl and Lone Star Beer neon signs, a saloon bar and back bar, an Oak roll top desk and a Wurlitzer juke box. The auction is being held in New Braunfels, Texas, at the Burley Auction Gallery, 134 Deborah Drive, Saturday... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
DeKalb postcards, NIU memorabilia featured at DAWC in January Jan 18, 2008
Steven Johnson, who retired from NIU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences External Programming Office in 2005, will show items from his collection of DeKalb and NIU postcards as well as NIU collectibles such as spoons, pitchers, candy dishes, ash trays, bowls, sugar and creamers and more in the DAWC Great Hall Exhibit Space from Jan. 4-27. Johnson's collection began shortly after he started employment at NIU in 1981. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Entertaining at home Dec 9, 2007
() -- For many homeowners, it's an answer to the old, 'Every time I have a party, everyone ends up in the kitchen,'" says Jay Haverson, a Greenwich, Connecticut, architect who has designed half-a-dozen built-in bars in the last year. This bar might only seat two, but it serves dozens when the Pacific Palisades, California, homeowners throw a party. But that mental image of a paneled basement rec room, foosball tables, and Uncle Herman's beer mug collection? Forget it. Today's bars sit in... (CNN)
Holiday City Market Dec 7, 2007
Owners and sisters Jessica and Susan Partain sat behind their trays molding bits of polymer clay into new, inedible food art, seemingly oblivious to passerbys' squeals of admiration. "We come from a food-obsessed family [and] we used to make the furniture for our dollhouses, but jewelry is a lot more fun," Jessica Partain said. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
A home office that's not all business Dec 3, 2007
Out went the Sam Spade-era furniture, in came a crisp maple workstation - built in, with drawers, keyboard trays, filing cabinets and niches to contain 21st century machines and their cords. This new order allowed for adding some eye candy without increasing clutter. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Holiday sales feature crafts, antiques Nov 2, 2007
The sale will feature hand painted items including furniture, lamps, trays, bowls, suitcases, Christmas decorations and more. There will be a door prize. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Greenwich offers ritzy shopping up and down The Avenue Oct 17, 2007
The store's selection of jewelry storage ranges from modest valet trays and watch boxes to full-scale jewelry armoires. Should you feel the pressing need for a fleece-lined leather shotgun case, EuroChasse (398 Greenwich Ave., 203-625-9501, ) specializes in European hunting and country manor gear and attire for self-deemed squires. (Boston Globe)
Fair Creative Arts entry deadline nears Sep 26, 2007
Please provide drainage trays for pots when needed. Class 1 Horticulture by categories: A Ferns; B Flowering plants; C Foliage plants; D Succulents; E Herbs; F General group; G Cut specimen; H Vegetables; I Dish gardens; J Terrariums; (Loose vegetables must be in a basket or container) Class 2 Artificial and/or dried material arrangements Class 3 Fresh flower arrangements. (Rosenberg Herald-Coaster, TX)
Asian motifs, metallics lead design trends Sep 13, 2007
It's still "mirror, mirror on the wall," but the looking-glass look extends to tables, lamps, chandelier shades, room dividers, chests, bar carts and trays. Whether clear or distressed, mirrors add glamour and visually expand a space. (San Francisco Chronicle)
At home: Tim Gunn makes it work in his NYC apartment Aug 31, 2007
So Gunn purged some pieces that felt out of scale a chest, a lamp, toile trays that hung in the kitchen and relegated them to the downstairs laundry room, where scavengers scooped them up as quickly as he dropped them off. "Someone said, 'Why not sell them on eBay?' " Gunn recalls. (USA Today -- Life)
Street Art festival on tap Saturday Aug 22, 2007
Ramona Kirchgessner, Montgomery, mosaic art, birdhouses, trays, etc. Albert Eastridge, Opelika, semiprecious stones wire wrapped with sterling silver. (Eufaula Tribune, AL)
Fairgoers find indoor exhibits cool in the State Fair Center hall Jul 25, 2007
The collections and hobby exhibit includes Harley-Davidson motorcycle memorabilia, buttons, ash trays, Furby dolls and other collectibles. "No matter what you like, there's always something to do (at the fair),"Alyssa Montgomery, of Jamestown, said. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Paris lives for decadence Jul 21, 2007
They appear from behind gauzy chocolate curtains like actors on a stage, balancing silver trays bearing dish upon delicious dish. It's a marathon meal accompanied by flotillas of amuse-bouches ferried out between every course. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Sterling silver worth money, but silver plate isn't Jun 15, 2007
Q: Jack, I have two silver coffee/tea service sets (including trays) as well as a set of silverware (silver plate) that I would like to get rid of. Is there a market for these items in Jackson. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Clear and icy Jun 9, 2007
I Googled and Wiki'd and scrolled through comment boards for eons: When the Internet suggested that freezing ice in layers clears things up, I poured bits of water into my ice-cube trays and let them freeze again and again until they finally were full. (Don't do this. (AZCentral -- Home)
Vista expert spreads word about using herbs, blossoms in cooking May 31, 2007
"You can make pastes with them and freeze them in ice cube trays. Jams, jellies and pickles, too, can be made much nicer with herbs.". At the end of last summer, she said, she made her friends pretty jars of her favorite seven-basil vinegar for gifts at Christmas time. (North County Times)
Miss-Lou mourns death of store owner Hal Garner May 24, 2007
And he served them from silver trays, Jenkins said. Ratcliffe said she heard Garner many times ask tourists about where they were staying, where they were dining and even offering to make reservations for them. (Natchez Democrat, MS)
Coke's savior May 20, 2007
Phil Mooney's office was a virtual museum when he started 30 years ago as archivist for the Coca-Cola Co. So many people tramped through to look at the vintage bottles, trays and calendars that he had it all removed so he could get some work done ... There are posters, ads, paintings done for ads, trays, calendars, bottles, corporate records, licensed products anything, it seems, that promoted the product. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Coca-Cola Museum opens May 19 May 8, 2007
The collection, which includes everything from Coke Santas, trays, books, bottles, miniature cars and trucks, bottle openers and cups is one of only two Coke museums in the state. The other museum is in Vicksburg. (Grenada Daily Star, MS)
Styling beautiful displays in a snap Apr 23, 2007
I love to use pieces of framed artwork, mirrors, trays and platters propped on their sides at the back of my displays. A large piece of pottery, an urn or a big pitcher also works well. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Quick! Hide the wide-screen Apr 13, 2007
Inside, though, are trays to store DVDs and CDs. Hooker Furniture looked East, introducing a TV console with a red and black finish inspired by Asian antiques. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Venerable eatery off the menu Apr 11, 2007
Tables were pushed to the side of the room and piled high with plates and glasses, cash registers and serving trays. In the kitchen, stainless-steel tables were covered with giant pots and piles of knives. (Albany Times Union)
Residents get dish on collectible pottery Apr 5, 2007
Many of the boxes, according to Lewis, served as cigarette boxes and were paired with ash trays. The ash trays are hard to find, he said. (Erwin Record, TN)
More on this story Mar 31, 2007
Some of the smaller items in the shop include a cast iron skillet clock, a toy John Deere tractor lamp, glass flowers made from ash trays, windchimes made from silverware. y dad often picks up things such as the glass ash trays and we recycle them into craft items, explained Bob. (Cresco Times Plain Dealer, IO)
Have Rooms Reflect YOU Mar 23, 2007
On trays featuring a variety of big costume jewelry, Salk uses a piece of coral to look like a tree -- and hangs jewelry off it, as well. 2. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Altered Art Project: Serving Tray Mar 15, 2007
More times than not, I've been to a flea market or yard sale and found serving trays that really shouldn't have been for sale to use "as is." They were missing a handle, broken pieces, chipped paint, holes in them or whatever else. The last time I found one, though, I looked at it with an "altered artist's eye." This brought the piece to life. (Suite101.com)
Thirty Seconds with Marsha Bemko Mar 2, 2007
For instance, years ago I purchased three vintage printer's trays (they are great places to display small miniatures or tokens that you collect over time): one for myself and one for each of my two daughters. I have spent the last 20 years filling them. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Coke collection stays in City Feb 24, 2007
Oliver, who fought hard to keep the collection in Grenada, has also worked tirelessly to get the thousands of trays, cups, bottles, bottle openers, pictures and collectibles off the floor and into curios. "There is only one more Coca Cola museum in the state, and it is in Vicksburg. I believe there is more in our museum," Collins said. (Grenada Daily Star, MS)
An artist's life in a loft Feb 22, 2007
Many collections are of interesting tableware antique sake cups, smooth wooden bowls, dense iron teapots, Japanese lacquer trays. In the kitchen hangs a Mexican art calendar from a favorite Santa Fe restaurant, Caf. (Los Angeles Times)
The Wild West of auto auctions Jan 29, 2007
" The lowered car, with its high-swooped tail fins, boasted "custom dyed lavender pearl leather and brocade interior, crystal ash trays, princess phone, hand-cast Cadillac crests in solid silver and inlaid with over 100 carats of crystal rhinestone," and a "three-position three-quarters landau top with hand-carved bronze landau irons inlaid with D'Agostino signature in 14K gold and diamonds. " It is probably a safe bet to say that the King would have loved it. Yet those cars were the exceptions.... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Familys craze for everything Coca-Cola Jan 7, 2007
Other items are T-shirts, jackets, sneakers, trays, glasses, ash trays, buttons, decorative plates, flags, clocks, watches and the list goes on and on. There are also reference books on Coca-Cola collectibles Petrettis Coca-Cola Collectibles Price Guide, Wilsons Coco-Cola Price Guide and B.J. Summers Guide to Coca-Cola Third Edition. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
