August 3: Painting Classes “Country Sunflowers” 1-4 p.m. and August 4 “Paint Jam” Country Music 6-9 p.m. are offered at Red Roof Relics at 25871 Duran Ave. in Conifer, Colorado (across the highway from King Soopers) by Studio FX 13. For more information, call 720-288-2922.   Then on August 5 and 19: there will be a ”Summer Farmers and Craft […]

   Vintage At The Hangar, opens September 15 and continues through September 17 at Wings Over The Rockies Air & Space Museum in the historic Lowry area of Denver.    It’s a weekend of shopping for Vintage of the 20th Century, Antiques, Art, Glass, Pottery, Furniture, Jewelry, Pop Culture, and a touch of Contemporary Design. Exhibitors are surrounded by displays about […]

By Carol Mobley    The 4th of July inspires one to visualize patriotic images and what is more patriotic than an image of Uncle Sam. As I was looking at Uncle Sam images it made me wonder how Uncle Sam came to be. I hope you find this Uncle Sam article as much fun as I had researching it.    The earliest […]

By Anne Gilbert    If you’ve always yearned to live like a king, gold trimmed furniture reproductions await you. They may look like rare antique Baroque and Rococo chairs and beds, but they are made in quantity these days and usually priced in the thousands of dollars.    Often they turn up mislabeled at antique shows, shops and auctions. One is even […]

By Anne Gilbert    Beginning in the 19th century women not only kept house they began inventing things to make their lives easier. They created working models of their inventions in order to get a patent that would protect their ownership rights. These models are avidly collected and worth big bucks.    The making of patent models began when Congress passed the […]