This month, I had a booth at our local Arts and Crafts Show. Even though we live in a small town, lots of people circulated through and it was fun to watch their reactions. Most of the other booths were strictly crafts so when they entered my antiques and collectibles ‘shop’ filled with memories, they would say things like, “Oh, my mom had a mixer like this!” “My grandmother wore an apron just like this one.” “Oh look! We used to wear this kind of jewelry.” You could just see the sentimental warm feelings that were stirred up as they browsed the glassware, old books, vintage sheet music, jewelry, prints and more. I even made gifts in a jar using vintage fabric for my lid covers and added an antique button on the bow. And the best part was, I got to sell to lots of happy customers!
Christmas time…antiques and collectibles, arts and crafts shows, they all go together.
Especially antique books!
She loved to read and she loved to accumulate books. Lots and lots of books! Unfortunately, after her passing over twelve years ago, her large collection was in most part carted to the storage shed on the home place where dust and other outside elements had opportunity to touch these volumes of history books, text books, literature, fiction and fantasy to faraway places and times. However, before this happened, I was able to rescue some valuable copies, including a few classics, and have begun offering these treasures on 
