Triangle Earrings

I love to make beaded triangles as do many beadweavers, but when I submit items for jurying at Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery, there is a limit on what we call "like items." In other words, don't submit production work, or work that is so similar, it looks like you just cranked out a batch of the same design even if using different colors...making it a little tough on the beaded triangle addict. Hence this design which I came up with around midnight, the night before jurying. I turned the ol' triangle on its edge, added a moonstone oval drop bead and voila, a new design (for me at least). This pair went in the gallery, but I can make another just like it in case someone orders from my Etsy shop...did I mention, I LOVE TRIANGLES ???

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2011/08/triangle-earrings.html

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Stitchy Stitchy

Stitchy Stitchy, originally uploaded by painter girl.

I just loved this pic!

Source: http://stitchybritches.blogspot.com/2008/07/stitchy-stitchy.html

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Let the experts do the talking

WQED-TV's social media guy Zack Tanner speaks at PodCamp Pittsburgh to nonprofits entering the sometimes scary world of social media. (Scott Beveridge photo)

By Scott Beveridge

PITTSBURGH ? When it comes to getting an education in social media for beginners the Web guru at WQED public television station has great advice on how to build a strategy.

Jump right in and engage your followers on Facebook or Twitter. Ask questions.

"Get them talking," said Zack Tanner, the Web developer at the station made famous by the likes of the affable cardigan sweater-wearing character Mr. Rogers and his kid-friendly "neighborhood."

"Be a good social media citizen," said Tanner, while speaking Oct. 28 at the 7th annual PodCamp Pittsburgh, a free conference organized by tech geeks and hosted by Point Park University.

His session is specifically designed for nonprofit organizations with small staffs that are being told to embrace social media platforms to raise money. But, he also makes great suggestions that can help anyone who is tiptoeing for the first time into what can be an intimidating place to play for some people.

"It will really put a nice face on what your are doing in a way that's never been done before," Tanner said.

Here is social media 101, Tanner style:

"Interact with other nonprofits. Retweet their tweets because as nonprofits everyone has to work together."

Pay close attention to what similar organizations are doing online.

Avoid cross posting, he said, defining that as loading Facebook and Twitter with identical information.

"It takes away the uniqueness of the different platforms."

Let the experts do the talking because they know the business and already have the information in their heads.

Nonprofits can run into problems, he said, when dividing up the chore of who is going to post what, where and when. Keep that to two or three people, at best, and avoid using platforms that roboTweet.

"We don't want to look like a machine doing the posting in real time. That's worse than not posting at all."

And, he said, don't over ask for money.

"That's one thing nonprofits are notorious for."

Design a campaign and explain on social media why you are raising money.

"Do the right thing. The donors will come. Post well. Be upfront."

Take a second to think about posts, too, before putting them out there to make sure they are sending the intended message.

And, then think about whether or not the post could cause a "secondary backlash" that can land organizations in crisis mode.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/10/let-experts-do-talking.html

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Mid-year stitch along 2008

I'm a bit behind the 8-ball at the moment, but I just found this in the Flickr embroidery group. I'm very flattered that they're using a design from my Stitchybritches Vogart stash, so of course I'm playing along. And you should too! I can't can't can't wait to see what everyone makes! Yay!

Source: http://stitchybritches.blogspot.com/2008/06/mid-year-stitch-along-2008.html

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Awesomeness.

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Let the experts do the talking

WQED-TV's social media guy Zack Tanner speaks at PodCamp Pittsburgh to nonprofits entering the sometimes scary world of social media. (Scott Beveridge photo)

By Scott Beveridge

PITTSBURGH ? When it comes to getting an education in social media for beginners the Web guru at WQED public television station has great advice on how to build a strategy.

Jump right in and engage your followers on Facebook or Twitter. Ask questions.

"Get them talking," said Zack Tanner, the Web developer at the station made famous by the likes of the affable cardigan sweater-wearing character Mr. Rogers and his kid-friendly "neighborhood."

"Be a good social media citizen," said Tanner, while speaking Oct. 28 at the 7th annual PodCamp Pittsburgh, a free conference organized by tech geeks and hosted by Point Park University.

His session is specifically designed for nonprofit organizations with small staffs that are being told to embrace social media platforms to raise money. But, he also makes great suggestions that can help anyone who is tiptoeing for the first time into what can be an intimidating place to play for some people.

"It will really put a nice face on what your are doing in a way that's never been done before," Tanner said.

Here is social media 101, Tanner style:

"Interact with other nonprofits. Retweet their tweets because as nonprofits everyone has to work together."

Pay close attention to what similar organizations are doing online.

Avoid cross posting, he said, defining that as loading Facebook and Twitter with identical information.

"It takes away the uniqueness of the different platforms."

Let the experts do the talking because they know the business and already have the information in their heads.

Nonprofits can run into problems, he said, when dividing up the chore of who is going to post what, where and when. Keep that to two or three people, at best, and avoid using platforms that roboTweet.

"We don't want to look like a machine doing the posting in real time. That's worse than not posting at all."

And, he said, don't over ask for money.

"That's one thing nonprofits are notorious for."

Design a campaign and explain on social media why you are raising money.

"Do the right thing. The donors will come. Post well. Be upfront."

Take a second to think about posts, too, before putting them out there to make sure they are sending the intended message.

And, then think about whether or not the post could cause a "secondary backlash" that can land organizations in crisis mode.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/10/let-experts-do-talking.html

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Triangle Earrings

I love to make beaded triangles as do many beadweavers, but when I submit items for jurying at Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery, there is a limit on what we call "like items." In other words, don't submit production work, or work that is so similar, it looks like you just cranked out a batch of the same design even if using different colors...making it a little tough on the beaded triangle addict. Hence this design which I came up with around midnight, the night before jurying. I turned the ol' triangle on its edge, added a moonstone oval drop bead and voila, a new design (for me at least). This pair went in the gallery, but I can make another just like it in case someone orders from my Etsy shop...did I mention, I LOVE TRIANGLES ???

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2011/08/triangle-earrings.html

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Wanted: Old trolley furnishings

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Chartiers Township, Pa., is dying to find these old leather chairs to complete an antique luxury street car it's restoring. 


By Scott Beveridge


WASHINGTON, Pa. ? Big-shot railway executives lounged in over-stuffed leather chairs when they toured Ohio and beyond in a luxury Victorian parlor room on wheels in the early 20th Century.


When it was time to light up or chew tobacco, they retired to the smoking room in the 1906 Toledo Railways & Light Co. car to sit in straight-back chairs with wooden arms so as not to burn holes in fine upholstery, said Scott Becker, executive director of Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, which is restoring the vehicle.

The chairs are the missing pieces the Chartiers Township, Pa., museum would die to have to make whole this fancy trolley fitted with interior walls lined with inlaid mahogany. It found the original curtains in boxes in an Ohio transit office and will use them as patterns to create new versions to hang on windows that were purposely installed large to allow riders to view the passing scenery.


?Maybe they are somewhere in a board room in Cleveland,? Becker told the Observer-Reporter in a story published Sunday about this museum's extensive collection of old electric-powered street cars.


This wooden car possibly once made a trip to Detroit to allow exclusive guests to watch a World Series game before it became obsolete because of competition from buses, big cars and airplanes.


What is known is the car was abandoned along with the rail line it sat on near Lake Erie only to be converted there into a summer cabin at Sage's picnic grove in Huron, Ohio.


From there the Toledo landed in Cleveland in a failed attempt to open a trolley museum before the Chartiers Township tourist attraction purchased it and another car in 2009 for $35,000.


?It?s a very unique car,? Becker said. ?This captures people?s imaginations about how the wealthy lived. It was an extra special car. You didn?t go to work in this car.?


The car is a top priority at this museum because it is that rare, he said.


If you or someone you know have seen the old chairs shown in the photos give the museum a ring.


In the meantime, watch the video, below, to learn more about its trolley collection:

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/07/wanted-old-trolley-furnishings.html

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Behind bars - Rabat Zoo

I recently spent three days in Rabat, Morocco to field a proposal to create a tourism/species conservation centre for Barbary lions in the Atlas mountains. The Barbary, or Atlas Lion went extinct in the wild during the early 20th century. Later it was proposed that the Sultan of Morocco's private collection would likely have specimens of this subspecies within it. In the 1970's these lions were transferred to Rabat zoo, and some later came to our park. Without proper breeding management over the decades, none of the remaining captive lions housed in zoos around the world are likely to be 100% Barbary lions on a genetic level. But it's the closest thing we have left.

Unfortunately the Moroccan authorities ultimately decided not to go ahead with the idea.

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2008/01/behind-bars-rabat-zoo.html

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Yanomama in motion

The Ocelot (Felis pardalis) is a small cat from Central and South America.
The name "ocelot" comes from the Mexican Aztec word "tlalocelot" meaning field tiger.

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2007/08/yanomama-in-motion.html

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Red Gem Ring

Red Gem Ring, originally uploaded by ambrosianbeads.

I started this little ring a few weeks ago to submit to the Embellishing the Runway Flickr group. This was supposed to go with the crazy long-legged design challenge. The red garment was spectacular...weirdly awesome in a way...and I thought the ring would be a nice touch. Here it is finally, better late than never !

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2011/10/red-gem-ring.html

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Contemplating Winter

English, Scottish and Icelandic

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2008/04/contemplating-winter.html

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Remember Hobbytex?

Today's transfers are a recent op-shop (aka thrift store) find. A pack of Hobbytex iron-on transfers, simply marked "No. 302 children designs". They were wrapped up in a plastic bag when I bought them, so I couldn't check what was in there until I got it home, and lo and behold:

More Vogart - a sheet of "Jolly Farmyard Scenes" (aka Vogart 705) and a mixture of kitty and doggy patterns from Vogart 102 and the days of the week kitties. Does anyone know how Vogart patterns ended up being licensed to Hobbytex and Made in Australia*? I know Vogart used to make fabric paint at one stage too... I might have to go a-Google-ing Hobbytex.

I think there's a sheet missing from the pack as the other sheets are marked B, C and D. The third sheet I have I'm guessing is a Hobbytex original, as I've never seen it before, and the designs defintely seem to be geared towards fabric painting rather than embroidery. I like the designs though, they're good and "boyish": sailboats, racing cars, a rodeo rider and an assortment of old aeroplanes.

So if the wee boys in your life don't want a kitteh or a doggie, then I think this Spitfire-like fighter plane is the way to go!

*(..as the patterns proclaim. I like seeing "Made in Australia" on things.)

PS. Yes, I realise that the flags and the winning cup are still upside down on the first car pic, but I know my stitchy friends have the technology to overcome this.

Source: http://stitchybritches.blogspot.com/2008/07/remember-hobbytex.html

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Artistic Coaching Explained... And Two More Free Spots Left!

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Saturday Quotable

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Dad's hot dogs

Crescent-wrapped hot dogs like those my dad used to prepare. (Scott Beveridge photo)


By Scott Beveridge


WEBSTER, Pa. ? One of us made the mistake of telling our father - the "chef" of the family - that we really liked the crescent-wrapped hot dogs he had prepared in the 1960s for supper.


He responded by baking the Pillsbury Crescent Dogs so often that we finally had to complain that we kids had become sick of them.


Jim Beveridge worked the kitchen like a sergeant of a mess hall, preferring to fix meals that were easy, quick, cheap and dirty. The cheaper the better. I mean he stocked up on Jiffy Mix cake mixes like there was no tomorrow. On a good day back then those cakes mixes sold for a quarter apiece.


The cooking around our house often fell to him or dinner was going to be late to the table.


As a steelworker whose job schedule was known as "working the swing shift," he was home in the late afternoon and evening more often than not because his week was divided into his punching the time clock for three different 8-hour shifts. Our mom's day job as a secretary/bookkeeper kept her in the office weekdays until 5 p.m.


My father took to the crescent dogs after seeing a cooking demonstration about them on the The Mike Douglas Show, the father-of-all daytime television talk shows. In between groundbreaking interviews of such stars of their time as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the show often featured easy recipes for housewives to prepare.


In time he discovered Hamburger Helper. When Betty Crocker expanded that line to include Tuna Helper, the two skillet dishes became our version of surf 'n' turf.


A group of my friends earlier this year wanted to try these crescent rolls after I told them this story, having never heard of the delicacy. They really liked them, too. For the sake of room on the Internet, I won't rehash the recipe here because there are plenty of them already posted across the web.


However, my favorite hot dogs prepared by my father were cooked in beer. (Vegans do not try this at home)


He'd put hot dogs in a skillet, cover them in Iron City and boil them until they swelled and the liquid began to disappear. Then he tossed in a couple tablespoons of butter to brown the hot dogs.


It was a feast de la Resistance, Appalachia style.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/06/dads-hot-dogs.html

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A Little Space, a Little Time...

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30-something collectors mad about mod

Customers line up to buy collectibles dating to the 1950s and 60s from dealer Bess Dunlevy, organizer of Pittsburgh Vintage Mixer. (Scott Beveridge photo)


By Scott Beveridge


PITTSBURGH ? Step aside 50-something-year-old antiques collectors, today's younger consumers aren't interested in your grandmothers' things.


Collectors in their 30s want everything you grew up around, from avocado kitchenware to gold-rimmed, frosted-glass cocktail sets popularized by Hollywood's glamor days in the 1950s, says Bess Dunlevy, a dealer who organized the first Pittsburgh Vintage Mixer.


"People are buying it," Dunlevy, a newspaper editor at the Observer-Reporter, said Sunday at the event in the New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburgh's North Side.


More than 600 people had come through the front doors within four hours after the urban hipster flea market opened with 22 dealers, making it such a success that the mixer likely will become an annual event, organizers said.


"They appreciate old objects. They last a long time and are aesthetically pleasing," Dunlevy said.


True to its 1950s and 60s theme, a disc jockey spun 45 rpm vinyl records at this happening party while a bartender mixed Bloody Marys for the afternoon cocktail set.

Disc jockey David Pohl provides the right music at the urban hipster flea market. (Scott Beveridge photo)


This crowd isn't much interested, either, in the ordinary food that made it to many dining room tables 50 years ago.


Outside the sale a food truck known as Franktuary sold delicious organic locally-produced grass-fed all-beef hot dogs.


Dunlevy said members of her generation who love everything mod are attracted to the look because it reminds them of their grandmothers. These young collectors also are influenced by the popular television show "Mad Men," a sexy drama set in New York in the 1960s, she said.

At Sunday's mixer, dealers' tables boast such items as a pair of 1960s women's pants made with red and white material sporting the Coca-Cola pattern and tableware bearing logos of such manufacturers as Glasbake, Pyrex, Melmac and Frostking.


"We sold a lot," Dunlevy said. 

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/07/30-something-collectors-mad-about-mod.html

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PRS9E11 White Crest Necklace

PRS9E11 White Crest Necklace, originally uploaded by ambrosianbeads.

Episode 11 of Project Runway, Season 9 featured the challenge to design a garment inspired by one of three live birds, a white crested cockatoo, a green amazon parrot and a jet black raven. The winning design was inspired by the raven, but this week, we could use any of the birds to inspire our accessory to embellish the runway. I selected lovely cockatoo because I remembered the large spoon shaped beads I had which, to me, resemble the crest feathers of the parrot. I myself have four small parrots, so this episode was really fascinating. I agree with the judges with their selection of Anya's raven inspired design as the winner, but a close runner up in my mind was Viktor's flowing white feathery gown.

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2011/10/prs9e11-white-crest-necklace.html

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Chaos and Insects

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

E.O. Wilson

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2007/08/chaos-and-insects.html

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An expression of war

By Scott Beveridge


If someone had shown me decades ago the photo, above, taken in South Vietnam of my childhood hero, John Malcom Zelenick, I would have barely recognized him.


He had gone from being a handsome and seemingly happy teenager in 1965 to becoming an emaciated soldier with a hardened, sullen expression two years later, just before he was shot and killed by enemy fire in Tay Ninh.


It's no wonder I didn't recognize him, either, in his open casket in a Monongahela funeral home before his burial. Three white roses had been placed upon his chest before his burial in California, Pa., just shy of his 20th birthday.


I had almost by then forgotten about Malcom - who was nine years older than me - while I went about growing up and the Vietnam War was often shielded from kids.


And then Malcom died and the war suddenly became real to our family.


My mom adored him. He had tagged along with us nearly everywhere we went, and many people often mistook him for her son. And for some reason he took a shine to me.


My best and clearest memory of Malcom involved a Saturday morning spent in the kitchen of his home in New Eagle. He was eating a bowl of Cheerios when an older bully walked into the room and pronounced me - at about age 5 - as being stupid because I didn't know how to tell time.


Malcom waited until that kid left. He sat me on his knee and proceeded to explain to me how to read the clock on the wall. I can still see that clock in my mind to this day. It was one of those metal 1960s clocks surrounded by pointed starbursts.


And then Malcom waited, patiently, for that obnoxious kid to return. At that point Malcom asked me the time and I promptly replied with the correct answer. The brat stormed out of the room with clenched fists. I'm sure Malcom and I wore a broad smiles across our faces.


Another fond memory of him took place at his 16th birthday after he his family relocated to Hazelwood, where his step-father had taken a job in a steel mill. By then Malcom had lost interest in little kids, and he was being chases around that day by pretty girls, all of whom wanted to be his girlfriend. I watched them run down the hill together and I dreamed about wanting to grow up to be just like him.


The next thing I knew he was dead, and my mom and her girlfriends frantically debated ways they could keep their sons from being sent a war that seemed to have no end in sight.


They discussed any variety of medical reasons, which ranged from flat feet to allergies, that might sway the draft board from sending any of us to war. It would have proved fruitless, and our socioeconomic status didn't offer connections to politicians with the pull to get any of us assigned to a branch of the service that didn't deploy men into battle in Southeast Asia.


Fortunately the war came to an end in 1975, shortly before I turned 19, and it felt at the time as is I could finally take a deep breath for the first time since Malcom died February 25, 1967, shortly after he signed up for a second tour in Vietnam.


I would learn decades later that he had been killed in C? Chi territory. It was a famous area possessed by the Viet Cong whom had built a large network of underground tunnels to carry out their defenses. It was there where the guerrilla fighters created booby traps from confiscated U.S. weaponry and would earn much credit for the country's military success. The C? Chi warriors became Vietnamese heros and were given a national monument at their elaborate cemetery alongside a country dirt road intersecting rice paddies.


It's no wonder the two photos of Malcom included with this post show him as a man from a generation that was forever changed by the terrors of war.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/05/expression-of-war.html

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Turning a cold shoulder to the Pledge of Allegiance?

Students in Washington, D.C., recite the Pledge of Allegiance circa 1899. (Frances Benjamin Johnston photo)

By Scott Beveridge

After the morning bell rang on my first day of teaching in a rural southwestern Pennsylvania high school in 1983, I instructed my homeroom to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

The students to my surprise remained seated with bewildered expressions on their faces as if I had arrived to the Bethlehem-Center School District from another planet.

One of them didn't hesitate to say, "Why are you making us do that? None of our other teachers do."

I was shocked to learned that something we had never overlooked when I  attended grades K-12 had become pass� in Fredericktown, Pa., just eight years after receiving my high school diploma.

"Well, I am not like the rest of your schoolteachers, and, we will say the pledge every morning in this classroom," I responded that January morning as I began to fill in until June for an art teacher on leave.

I remember that day, though, every time a Christian patriot pops a nerve when a lawsuit is filed by an atheist in an attempt to remove the phrase 'under God" from the pledge.

And, then I think the shouters should have more important things to worry about than whether or not public school students take the time each day to express their loyalty to the U.S. flag. It makes me wonder, too, if they should be more concerned about the quality of the curriculum and whether or not the kids from poor homes are getting proper nutrition at school. Now, today in Pennsylvania, school districts are making bare-bones cuts to their budgets and facing dwindling funds to afford to pay teacher salaries, books and supplies.

Back in 1983 it struck me that the pledge wasn't making these students better citizens or boosting their patriotism, as the didn't speak its words with any degree of sincerity. And, even today at the municipal meetings I attend, no one seems to recite the pledge enthusiastically. It just seems like something everyone does quickly and quietly to get it over with before moving on to the agenda.

By 2002, just half of the states in the country were requiring public school students to recite the pledge at the start of school, The New York Times reported that year in a story about a federal judge banning the pledge from schools, citing the "under God" phrase. That ruling later was overturned, yet a similar appeal would be argued again in 2010.

All this makes me curious about how many public schoolteachers still require their students to take part in a ritual dating to 1892 and adopted by Congress in 1942 as America was heading into the Cold War.

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/09/turning-cold-shoulder-to-pledge-of.html

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Botany Bay

Kent that is, not Australia

Source: http://microcosmic.blogspot.com/2007/08/botany-bay.html

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Wanted: Old trolley furnishings

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Chartiers Township, Pa., is dying to find these old leather chairs to complete an antique luxury street car it's restoring. 


By Scott Beveridge


WASHINGTON, Pa. ? Big-shot railway executives lounged in over-stuffed leather chairs when they toured Ohio and beyond in a luxury Victorian parlor room on wheels in the early 20th Century.


When it was time to light up or chew tobacco, they retired to the smoking room in the 1906 Toledo Railways & Light Co. car to sit in straight-back chairs with wooden arms so as not to burn holes in fine upholstery, said Scott Becker, executive director of Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, which is restoring the vehicle.

The chairs are the missing pieces the Chartiers Township, Pa., museum would die to have to make whole this fancy trolley fitted with interior walls lined with inlaid mahogany. It found the original curtains in boxes in an Ohio transit office and will use them as patterns to create new versions to hang on windows that were purposely installed large to allow riders to view the passing scenery.


?Maybe they are somewhere in a board room in Cleveland,? Becker told the Observer-Reporter in a story published Sunday about this museum's extensive collection of old electric-powered street cars.


This wooden car possibly once made a trip to Detroit to allow exclusive guests to watch a World Series game before it became obsolete because of competition from buses, big cars and airplanes.


What is known is the car was abandoned along with the rail line it sat on near Lake Erie only to be converted there into a summer cabin at Sage's picnic grove in Huron, Ohio.


From there the Toledo landed in Cleveland in a failed attempt to open a trolley museum before the Chartiers Township tourist attraction purchased it and another car in 2009 for $35,000.


?It?s a very unique car,? Becker said. ?This captures people?s imaginations about how the wealthy lived. It was an extra special car. You didn?t go to work in this car.?


The car is a top priority at this museum because it is that rare, he said.


If you or someone you know have seen the old chairs shown in the photos give the museum a ring.


In the meantime, watch the video, below, to learn more about its trolley collection:

Source: http://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2012/07/wanted-old-trolley-furnishings.html

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New viking knit project

Viking knit #4, originally uploaded by ambrosianbeads.

As with most of my projects, this one was actually started 6 months ago. I started beading the agate slab back in December...I had it sitting around and it just appealed to me to give it a peyote beaded edge. Today I'm hoping to give it the final touch of a bail...in the meantime, I worked on making a viking knit chain in black coated copper wire. I used 26 gauge wire and it worked out nicely in single weave, could've been too stiff in double. I always guess at the final length and stopped weaving at 11", hoping it would reach at least a comfortable choker length...well, lo and behold, it passed that length and I even have enough to make a bracelet. In this Flickr set, you can see the progression of "draws" (meaning each time I pulled it through the drawplate...it's what I call them, not sure if that's correct). Next after threading on the pendant, I will attempt to close off the ends with some copper caps and add a clasp...stay tuned for those pics !

Source: http://ambrosianbeads.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-viking-knit-project.html

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