How to Go to a Flea Market, Get the Glass You Want and Survive

June 14th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments

How to Go to a Flea Market, Get the Glass You Want and Survive

Flea Market Tips, a Treasure and a Video Tips for Flea Market Shopping Have you ever been to a flea market? They are a cross between a humongous garage sale, a bad discount store, and a treasure hunt. It’s the treasure hunt part that’s fun. Not everything billing itself a “flea market” has much in [...]

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Shopping with Us Is Like Antiquing with Your Best Friend

June 5th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments

If you read this blog you’ve seen our tag line “Shopping with us is like antiquing with your best friend”.  That’s kind of a gutsy statement to make when you don’t know me, we’ll probably never meet and you’re shopping online. There are three reasons I say this: I love glass too.  You will see [...]

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Three Tips for Successful Flea Market Shopping

May 16th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments

Three Tips for Successful Flea Market Shopping

Do you like shopping for real bargains? You can find a huge range of good, bad and scarily horrible at flea markets. Sometimes you can even find depression glass! Last week Dave and I went to our local flea market and got a few pieces of glassware including the Manhattan clear depression glass candle holder [...]

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Come with Me Shopping for Depression Glass

April 11th, 2011 @ Kathy // One Comment

Come with Me Shopping for Depression Glass

It’s our newest video for Antiquing with Your Best Friend. We went to the local antique mall and found some lovely pieces and some not so lovely. Come watch with us as we shop for elegant and depression glass! If you are reading this via email subscription here is the link for you: Antiquing with [...]

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Antiquing with Your Best Friend – Depression Glass Shopping Fun

April 2nd, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments

Do you like to go antiquing?  It’s fun and we’ve got some candid videos of the last time we went shopping for elegant and depression glass.  I’ll be releasing a longer video on April 10 and want to give you a short snippet today. Dave and I went to the Bay Antique Center in Bay [...]

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Vanity of Vanities – Updated How to Pack Glass for Shipment Video

March 28th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments

Vanity of Vanities – Updated How to Pack Glass for Shipment Video

I admit it. I am vain. When we shot the video showing how we pack glass so it ships to you in one piece the ending showed my wonderful waistline – of which there is too much. I retook the ending and posted the update on YouTube. Here is a link to the video for [...]

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Are You a Blogger? Want to Participate in Theme Each Week?

March 26th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments

Are You a Blogger?  Want to Participate in Theme Each Week?

Do you like to participate in theme blogs? We join the Pink Saturday and Tablescape Thursday each week that are hosted by other bloggers. I’m considering hosting a new theme for all of us who enjoy vintage glass or elegant stemware. What themes would you be interested in joining? I’ve some ideas but would like [...]

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Antiquing with Your Best Friend – How to Check Glass for Damage

March 13th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments

If you’re like me you want to have glass in good shape, no chips or cracks, not a lot of wear. You don’t want to waste your money buying that perfect piece only to find it’s full of damage when you get it home. Watch the video linked in below to learn tips to check [...]

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Antiquing Fun or How to Get Glass in the Mail Intact

February 22nd, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments

Antiquing Fun or How to Get Glass in the Mail Intact

If you’ve read my posts you’ve seen the claim that “shopping with us is like antiquing with your best friend”.  Maybe you wondered how I could say that. What does it mean to go antiquing with your best friend? When you shop with your friend you look at things together.  You laugh together at the [...]

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What Do You Find Antiquing?

October 25th, 2010 @ Kathy // One Comment

What Do You Find Antiquing?

What do you find when you go antiquing?  What do you look for that you don’t find?  Leave a comment so we can compare and share. Dave and I went antiquing on our way home from Tennessee yesterday and today.  We found nothing at a flea market, a few pieces of way over-priced glass at [...]

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