Posts

Showing posts with the label Antique

My Future Birthday Gift

Image
T here’s a great advantage for working at an Antique Mall!! Of course one of those reasons is that you get to enjoy all those beautiful antiques. Another is that you get a employee discount. Well, the one advantages I love the most is that you get to pick your birthday gift, and everyone pitches in to get it for you! Just the other day I was making an inventory for someone who was looking for Beatrix Potter figurines. There’s a lot of those, by the way! They are soooo cute! Anyway, while I was writing down the info of one I found, something caught my eye. Do you want to see it?!! It was a Johnson Brothers “Old British Castles” Teapot. I picked it up “ooing” and “awing” over it, and found a price that seemed too good to be true!! Well, I had to put it down, knowing I could never get it, even if it was a great price. I went on with what I was doing, but I just had to show my co-workers my recent “love”. As I was doing so, my co-worker asked me when my birthday was. I told he...

Bessie Pease Gutmann

Image
J ust this past week, I really looked into the artist of Bessie Pease Gutman. Working at an Antique Mall, you'll find some of her work....and they don't come cheap! Her artistry is beautiful and sweet! I thought she only did baby and toddler painting, but she also has some of woman that are just gorgeous! Here are few paintings that I have come to love: Taps The Great Love My Darling Blossoms Daddy 's Coming Blossom Time Harmony The Lullaby Go visit the Bessie Pease Gutmann Fine Art Collection to see more! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~