History Center to host appraisal day Sunday
13.07.11
Appraisal days are one position to learn more about a family heirloom or recent gift, often including the monetary benefit. One such is the fourth annual "Pittsburgh's Hidden Treasures," which will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Senator John Heinz R Center, Strip District.
Approximately 50 appraisers will assess the noteworthy significance of items and estimate a monetary value. A number of conservators will also offer safeguarding tips, including Gail Joice of the Smithsonian Institution. Expertise will take in Civil and World War II items, political memorabilia, antique coins and jewelry, books and documents, textiles including quilts and wedding dresses, close arts, furniture, historic photographs and household items including glass, sweet, china and vases.
KDKA-TV will be filming the most unusual items for later broadcast. No pre-registration is inexorable; visitors may bring two items. Entry is free with History Center entr, which is $10, $9 seniors, $5 children ages 4-17 and students, and unrestricted ages 3 and under and museum members.
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Turn your backyard into a party venue
26.06.11
Sometimes you don't have to look beyond your own backyard for
the upper-class party place in town.
In this season of wedding receptions and pre-nuptial dinners,
Fourth of July cookouts and neighborhood deny stuff up parties, outdoors
venues are in style.
"Keep it simple and enjoy it," said Deb Schulte, a Lincoln upshot
planner. She has organized all sizes and shapes of outdoor parties
with a wide distribute of budgets and venues. Having a party outside
makes everybody value more casually, she said.
The hostess sets the tone, and that sometimes begins with the
invitation. For one summer open-air party, Schulte used a single
rubber flip-flop for the invite and put it in an envelope.
"It was polished and unexpected," she said.
Small pop-up tents (no sides, just poles) proposition some shade, and
they are easy to put up and take down. Schulte thinks buying a few
are worth the investment if you sustain outdoors a lot.
Keep the decorations minimal. Schulte used plastic tablecloths
at an out of doors wedding shower, then she cut another tablecloth in
strips and hung them as streamers from a tent.
Source: Lincoln Journal Star