There’s Treasure Everywhere: A Costumer’s Guide to Yard Sales
by Jillian Venters, First published for the July/August 2004 issue of Finery The weather is getting warmer. The days are getting longer. You know what this means! Yes, ok, it means summer is here. It also means that yard sale season is upon us! Yard sales are a gold mine for costumers who are willing to be patient and a […]
Dickens on a Shoestring (and an Ice Skate!)
by Trystan Bass, First published for the January/February 2004 issue of Finery In 1857, Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives formed a partnership which created hugely popular prints for American middle-class homes through the 1880s. Many famous prints showed charming winter scenes, such as that of ice skaters in New York’s Central Park. Contemporary with Charles Dickens, the work of […]
