It is 27 November and I am sitting in my studio on a Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday. I am grateful and in the spirit. You see, today is the day I start playing traditional Christmas music here in the [...]
We hope you like this issue of Bottles and Extras which is dedicated to our recent 2017 Springfield National. You will find within, an excellent comprehensive Springfield article by Jim Bender, one of our co-chairs. We decided to pair the Springfield article [...]
Elizabeth, my granddaughter Isabella and I just returned from the FOHBC 2017 Springfield National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo and are finally catching our breath after almost two years of planning by the FOHBC and Team Springfield. We’ve returned to [...]
This is an interesting issue of Bottles and Extras because the word or feelings associated with the color brown and amber are evident throughout. First, I write this message after Thanksgiving on 30 November. November is a brown month as many [...]
Elizabeth, my granddaughter Isabella, Coco our Weimaraner and I just returned from the mega FOHBC 2016 Sacramento National Antique Bottle Convention & Expo and are finally catching our breath after almost two years of planning. We welcome that it is [...]
One of the more interesting persons that I have met along the way is Federation member Ken Previtali. He is candid, creative, smart and also the “Ginger Ale Man.” You may remember his great, award-winning display at the 2013 FOHBC [...]
Wednesday, 30 March 2016. I typically feel like I should mention the date when I write these President’s Messages since we are preparing BOTTLES and EXTRAS in a much more timely manner so that an issue arrives a week or [...]
Sitting down at my desk, on this first back-to-work Monday after New Years, I conjure up a vision of a stove with lots of pots-a-cooking. The kettle labeled antique bottle events has us all looking forward to the stretch leading [...]
Time is just zooming by. Just when we finish one BOTTLES and EXTRAS issue or a Federation National Show, there is another to work on. Kind of like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, end-to-end each year. As soon as they [...]
Wow, what a hot and dry summer so far! It was 107 degrees one day in Houston as we look forward to the relief of fall and some rain. Most of us are busy with life and of course, we [...]
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