Monthly Archives: August 2015

Estate Sale, Granada Hills home with furniture, jewelry and Drums

Granada Hills home with furniture, jewelry and Drums

Granada Hills, CA

Times:
8/29, 2015 closed (Sat)

8/ 30, 2015 closed (Sun)

Granada Hills home with furniture and jewelry This is a last minute sale! This nice home in Granada Hills. It has the following items included in it: King size Sleep Number Mattress and frame, Queen Anne style Dining room table with 6 chairs, Newer entertainment / showcase cabinet, Futon sofa / daybed, Electronics, art, oil paintings, misc. household goods, Antiques, vintage costume jewelry and silver jewelry, many vintage porcelain collectors figurines, lots of books, Cd’s and records, vintage clothing and men’s and woman’s clothing, vintage 50’s O’Keefe and Merritt gas stove, refrigerator, Kenmore washer and dryer, professional drums, violins and musical interments and many items too numerous to list!

Antique Spotlight: Collecting Vintage & Retro Patterns

Original Article: Dusty Old Thing

There’s a romance in looking back at the kinds of clothes we wore “back in the day” and a fascination with certain styles from long ago. With so many period TV shows and movies we see some of the wonderful clothes worn “upstairs” or “down”, Edwardian, flapper, frugal during War, extravagant later, bold, modest, strange and classic.

This is Nancy with Dusty Old Thing and I have two favorite periods: The “New Look” following WWII and the ‘60s classic lines. Like many of us, I took Home Economics in school. Sewing and Cooking and Basic Homemaking were required in Junior High for girls. The boys got a shorter course. In high school I took more Sewing along with all the college prep classes. Those were the days when designer patterns were replicated by Vogue and when quality fabric filled department stores.
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