Never mind. I give up. LOL! Maggie, I love the Bake King glass baking dishes for the philbe and sapphire design. And I do use them. I'm sure I'd like your mother's depression glass but it's usually delicate, which makes me nervous. :)
'Bella On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Lavolta Press <f...@lavoltapress.com>wrote: > People are entitled to preserve their own items for any aesthetic or > sentimental reason they want. I certainly have things I think are > beautiful that I would not alter for style (at least not right now), but > that is different from being a custodian of history, let alone a custodian > of someone else's stuff, and different from thinking everything old is > precious and should be inviolable. > > Fran > Lavolta Press > www.lavoltapress.com > > > On 3/29/2013 7:22 PM, Sybella wrote: > >> Yeeessss!! Maggie's got it!! :) >> >> Though, I do use my vintage gold and silver hat pins, jewelry, hair combs, >> etc. they will never be altered while I own them. Their history is an >> important part of why I adore them so much. I have a few vintage hats that >> I have considered hand-sewing some vintage bobbles to but I'm having a >> hard >> time convincing myself that it's okay to alter them. >> >> One time I hurt my finger and had to get a ring off quick because my >> finger >> was swelling. You should have seen me stressing about cutting it off! It >> was comical! The inside is inscribed "10 29 1895-1945" because it was >> someone's 50 year anniversary ring at one time. The people that were with >> me were looking at me funny because I couldn't bring myself cut the center >> middle. "What are you doing?!!?" they were saying, "You don't cut a ring >> toward the front!" All the while, I was just hoping I would miss the >> inscription. Finger, be damned! LOL! >> >> Clothing, household textiles and whatnot, I don't have that same problem >> with. I do buy linen at thrift stores just to harvest the fabric for other >> projects. >> >> 'Bella >> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
