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Holiday Hospitality

Offering hospitality with an old fashioned flair envelops your guests in a charming spirit of warmth, generosity and good will. You may not have a houseful of servants to cater to your guests’ every whim, but you can anticipate their needs and help them feel welcomed and pampered. Here are a few tips I wrote [...]

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How to care for SILVER

Amongst my very most favorite things…..Silver!! I love it, and can spy a good piece from miles away. {good meaning unusual, Victorian, monogrammed, in fabulous condition, or just the opposite, slightly dinged, worn and dark with years of patina} Not just for Sundays or Holidays….try using your old pieces at home right now with a [...]

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How to Care for your Antique and Vintage Silver

Taking care of your Antique and Vintage Silver is part of the pleasure of owning it. There is something satisfying about taking a piece of Silver with lots of tarnish {unless you Love tarnish!} and making it shine and glow again. And, contrary to popular opinion, it’s not difficult nor all that time consuming. Silver [...]

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Weekly Favorites, Parian Ware

One of the pieces we just recently “found” on our buying spree is this sweet guy. He’s a doll, {ummm, Putto actually} isn’t he? He looks like marble, but he’s actually a piece of Parian Ware. Every properly furnished Victorian parlor contained at least one piece of it. It’s been said that Parian had the [...]

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