My husband and me stopped in our local antiques mall yesterday and found the most beautiful burl wood wall clock. Ones this size roughly sell for 45-75 dollars. We picked it up for $3.50 the only thing wrong is it needs a new movement, which we happen to have a spare from an old broken clock...

I am an avid antique collector. I have lots of family heirlooms and my real passion is stoneware and quilts. I have lots of blue stone bowls and stone pickling crocks. My dh says our floors are going to fall in if I buy anymore crocks. I also have a large collection of quilts. Antiques tell such...

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Watching for those very "exquisites" - in other words antiques or old things!! Here are a few tips to watching for those "oldies but goodies" when desiring to fill your home with them. - put aside a specific amount of $$ just for this. You never know when you'll see a goodie at a yard sale...

I always wonder if I'm cleaning them right or not. I use Old English to clean mine, but I wonder if there is something else I can use instead. What is your cleaning method of antiques?

is it furniture, or jewlery, or dishes? or something else. my passion is books, so i love them, but also hand cooking things like a whisp or a wooden spoon, or butter churn, i love those.

I'm planning on it and hoping that they will continue to pass down the antiques to their kids. How about you?

Did you purchase most of them yourself. I purchased all of my antiques myself. Nothing was passed down to me except a set of dishes which I had to sell after a few years of marriage in order to make ends meet. I usually get my antiques at antique dealers but have been fortunate...