Our new antique is a beautiful piece of old school craftsmanship. It is so unique that I have been having a hard time coming up with a name for it. It is obviously a bookcase, but it is so much …

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My parents filled all of their houses with antiques. That makes it sound like they had a lot of houses. They did, but one at a time. We moved A LOT- exactly eight times in my first fourteen years of life, …

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THE SECOND BEDROOM 2012

My house was so messy by Saturday last week, that I could not believe so little time had passed since the last cleaning. I was particularly dismayed by the state of the second bedroom. Two weeks ago, on Labor Day …

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