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  • tools for everyone!

    I’m the first to admit that I am not the handiest handyman. However, maybe it’s a gender thing, but I love tools. All kinds of tools, gadgets, anything that will enable me to accidentally do more damage to my house while attempting to switch out a light fixture or thermostat or something else equally simple.

    As we all know, it’s important to have the right tools for the job, and in the interests of making sure you all have the right tools (as well as a jillion useful knicknacks that will come in handy on a regular basis), I’ve added a tool section to our Amazon Astore, replete with a coupla dozen near little doohickeys that you had no idea you needed – but now must have.

    So, should another equally disaster-prone handyman or handywoman in your home require that special holiday gift, look no further.

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  • this month’s ebay finds

    Plenty of interesting furniture, metalwork, glass & more on Ebay this month, with more than the usual number of small gift items available:

    • very detailed spindle-sided dollhouse furniture
    • attractive new prairie box chair, from craftsman Dale Martin
    • Guthrie oak sideboard
    • antique Craftsman child’s rocker
    • contemporary Stickley #89-1128A stereo cabinet
    • enormous contemporary corner desk / office set
    • attractive 1907 Limbert glass-front china cabinet
    • a very unique sideboard / dental cabinet, c 1910
    • pretty 1906 Limbert daybed with spade cutout
    • Limbert book & letter holder, c 1910
    • pair of Roycroft copper bookends
    • inexpensive Roycroft copper letterholder
    • Roycroft hammered copper trays, set of three
    • tapered form Roycroft vase, hammered copper with rare nickel patina
    • Grueby Faience tall green vase
    • pretty yellow and green vase by Scott Draves formerly of Ephraim Faience
    • Teco matte green buttressed vase
    • contemporary oak wall mirror with shelf
    • signed Gustav Stickley rocker with leather seat
    • attractive slat-back A&C armchair
    • Mission style bench salvaged from railroad station
    • Stickley Bros. drop-front desk #6534, circa 1903
    • chest of drawers, Gustav Stickley red label
    • Craftsman secretary, unique design
    • contemporary wood and mica ceiling-mount light fixture
    • contemporary wood and mica lamp by same designer as above
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  • fine furniture on Etsy.com

    Speaking of buying handmade gifts this holiday season, I took a quick look at Etsy.com, a site which lets all sorts of craftspeople market their wares easily, and found that plenty of talented woodworkers are selling some really nice furniture:

    • Surrender Desk & Apex Rocking Chair: solid cherry & curly maple
    • Curly Cherry Dean: maple legs & curly cherry top
    • square Mission coffee table: solid ash, great grain
    • Charles Rennie Mackintosh design king bed: solid ash. massive! – also in a queen
    • plant stands / tabourets: solid ash, lighter stain
    • simple Amish farm bench: solid butternut
    • small display shelf: pretty wood, fantastic price
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