Delft Dutch Antique Lighting – Very Rare, Mid 18th Century, French Faience Table Lamp The French 18th century saw the full flowering of decorative art and France led the rest of Europe in artistic expression and high style.  It was in the region of Marseille that saw the production of some of the most beautiful [...]

White Delft Greenhouse Scent Many winter flowers are highly scented to attract any pollinating insects that are brave enough to forage outside on a still and hopefully sunny day. In the garden many of these winter stalwarts are already in flower. I had great intentions to plant some prepared hyacinths in August and September so [...]

Blue Delft Free Pub Trivia Quiz Questions – May 2009 Try out this month’s free quiz questions and see how you get on ! This first section could be used as a handout round in a pub quiz … What colour is … ? 1. Rose Wine 2. The Eight of Diamonds 3. The cross [...]

Unique Hand Crafted Products from Portugal – Lisbon Historic Centre Portugal offers a wide variety of handcrafted items in artists’ studios, factory showrooms, department and hardware stores in all the important cities. You can buy these items as souvenirs for your loved ones. Pottery – Black pottery You can buy exquisite handcrafted black pottery items [...]

Does anybody have the Pottery Barn Kids stylehouse alphabet font printable from Christmas 2006? Wondering if anybody has the free PDF file that was on Style house around Christmas 2006. It was for decorating ornaments in the kids activity area. It is no longer on the website and it is not the alphabet book project. [...]

Greece Ithaka Island In Ionian Sea Ithaka Ithaka is known to every schoolboy as the home island of Odysseus, and even if not all scholars can agree on the exact location of the sites associated with the Odyssey, this island has as much claim as any of receiving the homage due to that epic hero [...]

Pinheiro Portugal The Portugese cartoonist, Rafael Bordallo Pinheiro began creating unique ceramic tiles & pottery at 38 years of age. He became renowned for some of his creations and quickly became known as a Master in the pottery world. Relatively unknown in America, Bordallo Pinheiro pottery is very popular in Portugal and abroad. The production [...]

Ceramic Vs Carbon Infrared Saunas – Know Which is Better Before choosing to buy an infrared sauna based on size, style, and price, make sure to consider the heating element used. It can be difficult to tell the real differences between ceramic and carbon infrared saunas, and even more difficult to judge which is better. [...]

More things to do THEATER Top of Utah ‘H.M.S. PINAFORE,’ 7:30 p.m. daily, excluding Sundays, through April 24, Rodgers Memorial Theatre, 292 E. Pages Lane, Centerville. $14-$17; $13-$15/seniors; $10/children. (801) 298-1302. read more Throwing Making a simple flattened clay pottery Wall Hanging Vase on the wheel. US Auctions Australian Auctions Austrian Auctions Belgian Auctions Canadian [...]

Chinese Art-pottery, Chinese folk art is an important part of the country’s extremely rich cultural and art heritage. Chinese folk art has won recognition and praise from experts both at home and abroad for its great variety, sincere rural content, rich flavor of life, distinctive local style, straightforward, natural, flexible, free from affectedness, vivid and [...]