{TIP: Forever New Fabric Care}

From my dear French/Canadian friend Hélène, from Québec City, I learned this very valuable TIP that I like to share with my readers. Forever New...

It really is the very best product out on the market for prolonging the life of your Fine Garments. I've been using this for years now and will never do without! It's pure citric base breaks down dirt instead of fibres and rinses so clean without a residue.

For all your fine lingerie items, or for silks and fine woolens it is the safest way. Of course watch your temperature settings too!

Thanks dear friend Hélène; I learned a lot from you!

We always did pick ours up at Neiman Marcus but from above link you see that you can easily order it on Amazon.

Related links:
Forever New Fabric Care Wash |
Forever New Excellence in Fine Garment Care | company itself with more info about product

{Rural Georgia - Stevens Antiques & Guns in Danville}

When we immigrated from The Kingdom of The Netherlands to Georgia, USA there were quite some differences. There were no windmills here in this rural Georgia area.

But it was quite interesting to find in Danville, Georgia such a place like Stevens Antiques & Guns. We did buy a very special silver Verge Fuzee antique pocket watch, some antique silver coins for my sister Diny and a Smith & Wesson for me...

This is me standing on the side of the shop. That was October 1986. The antique silver Verge fuzee pocket watch is since September 2006 in The Netherlands as we gave it to Judith, Pieter's niece. She collects them.

My Smith & Wesson we did trade in again, before leaving for Pennsylvania and moving to Italy.

Related link:
{Tuesday May 4, dinner with friends} | previous post by me, mentioning our Judge Helen through whom I  obtained my concealed weapon's license.

{Antique 19th Century Silver Toast Rack Replica, Made in Kotagede, Indonesia}

Going back and forth all those years for working in Indonesia, we did have this beautiful Antique 19th Century Toast Rack Replica made by those Silversmiths from Kotagede, Indonesia.

It sure is a bonus for having access to such fine craftsmen and when we spotted this exceptional silver toast rack from ca 1819-1831, husband Pieter took a photo of it in July of 1996. We gave the photo to the silversmiths and we were lucky as in the book, also measurements were given. So let me show you this incredible piece of art...

Here it is... After I removed the Birthday cards and such, that I keep in there for writing, I did polish it first. It was not ready for a photo shoot. What do you say? Nice detailing or not? I fell in love with the ball feet from the photo in the antiques book.

This is the photo we took with us to Kotagede, Indonesia on one of our consulting trips in november of 1996.

Don't you think that they did an excellent job in creating this replica from the antique 19th century silver toast rack? 

I have used this also for High Teas, for putting the napkins inside. 

Love the handle at the top, it really is a very convenient one.

Probably since we had this made in November of 1996, there are not that many active silversmiths left in Kotagede... I hate to see this art being lost!

On Sunday, November 17, 1996 at SS Silver shop in Kotagede with Australian business connection Geoff Price. He fell in love with their silver as well and purchased some nice items for his wife.

That Sunday we did hand them the photo for the creation of the Silver Toast Rack.

Husband Pieter did capture my passion for silver very well...

Here the toast rack is on our table on March 16, 1997 with a vase full of fragrant Wisteria blossoms...

The La Perla lingerie set was in Wisteria color, that's why I placed it there.

Related link:
{Have YOU Ever Seen the Making of Silver in Kotagede, Indonesia?} | previous post by me