Antique chandelier

'I've heard that people are out there liking a lot of what they see, but they wait to buy,' said Sandy Fleming, co-owner alongside husband Howard of A Few Nice Things, a Steele Street store that focuses on custom framing and antiques. 'We find that's true here.'
However, Fleming feels little concern for the future of the business, despite news custom framing is down to half the business it had last year.
'Our antique shoppers are a bit different from the Wal-Mart shoppers,' she said. 'They prefer a certain type of product.'
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ietNamNet Bridge - Com is a delicacy that is made only in autumn and cherished by all Vietnamese, but sadly less and less people are interested in producing it.
Every autumn, in September or October, when a cool wind leaves a cold dew across the north of Vietnam, the sticky rice ears will start to bend, and the local farmers will know it is time to make com a specialty made from young green sticky rice.
But this year, after decades of using his stone mortars to pound the green sticky rice, Nguyen Van Hung doesnt want to hear about the cool wind, the morning dew or the sticky rice ears starting to bend. He has just sold his stone mortars to an antique collector, while the workshop will be rented out to students or another tradesman. For Hung it is time to move on. In Vong village, where he lives, making com used to be a common trade

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