Today's Quote - Angels
"When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels." ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994The Collectors Hub Blog gives you, our customers and visitors, a way to keep up-to-date on our newest collectibles and figurines, current sales offerings and news/articles on all types of collectibles.
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May 15, 2009
"When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels." ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994May 14, 2009
Home Style Hut Adds Wrought Iron Decor
Home Style Hut, a retailer of home decor and outdoor living accessories, has added a line of wrought iron home decor. Each item is Handcrafted in the USA by American craftsmen from lead free Domestic materials. Each has a baked on powder coated matt black finish.
Offered are high quality giftware, candleware and home interior and exterior accessories including items for the lawn and garden including candle holders and sconces, wine racks, key holders, desk accessories, towel racks, napkin holders and more. Their outdoor items, durable in rain or shine, include welcome signs, plant hangers and house numbers.
Home Style Hut has wrought iron accessories that are perfect not only for rustic or country home decor but look great for traditional and victorian decor as well.
Today's Quote - Friendship
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Saint Thomas Aquinas May 13, 2009
Quote of the Day
"Humor is the great thing, the saying thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place" - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
May 12, 2009
About Wedding Cake Toppers
Spring is here and love is in the air. Spring symbolizes a new beginning making is a very popular time of year for many couples to wed.
Wedding cakes, aside from the bride's dress, are one of the main attractions of today's weddings. The wedding cake topper, adding the finishing touch, can be a very personal reflection of the bride and groom's tastes, style and personalities and becomes a treasured momento of the wedding ceremony.
Vintage toppers can be a cherished addition to a traditional wedding however, it is rare to find a wedding cake topper more than 100 years old. As most historians agree, wedding cake toppers became fashionable for elaborate weddings in the late 19th century in the 1890s. Wedding cake toppers became mainstream by the late 1920s during which time, they were included in the Sears and Roebuck catalog. Bride and Groom Wedding Cake Toppers in the June 2006 issue of The Antique Shoppe Newspaper, "The idea of wedding toppers in general and bride and groom toppers in particular had expanded enough in 1927 for the Sears and Roebuck mail order catalog where it include a whole page of wedding cake ornaments."
In the early years, wedding cake toppers were typically home made. Today's wedding cake toppers can be found made in a wide variety of materials including crystal, china, silver, plastic, resin or even molded sugar.
Today, wedding cake topper can feature silver bells, love birds, arches, cupids, hearts or the initials of the happy couple. Still, the most popular wedding cake toppers are a miniature model of the bride and groom, usually in formal wedding attire, but it's not so rare to see the bride in groom in casual attire or dressed to match the couples hobbies. Couples with a keen sense of humor have even chosen bride and groom figures in whimsical poses such as the bride and groom both talking on their cell phones.
So go ahead and express your self with your choice of wedding cake topper. From sophisticated or tradition to whimsical or comical, your options today are wide open!
May 09, 2009
Today's Quote
All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown