The world of collecting can become a good investment. The photo accompanying this blog was taken recently at The DC Big Flea Antique Show near Washington DC. The vendor at this booth has collected hat pins since 1979. Once she began collecting, her passion for hat pins became a treasure hunt. Her vacations were planned treasure hunts to search for antique hat pins. Her hat pin collection is huge.

I have always found it quite ironic that the most 'uncomfortable' part of the online shopping process, seemingly, for my clients is handling their item's shipment. The bulk of questions I received were not about the authenticity of the listings or concern about paying online but about how to work out the additional cost of shipping.

Old-style holiday candy containers and figurines like the the new Chanticleer theme decorative box shown here are often offered for sale in advance of specific holidays.  Sometimes new pieces are sold as paper mache, but they are actually made of resin.

I wonder what this selling season has in store for me. By mid-April I should be able to open my store, if the weather holds, and our Spring is kind to us.

Everyone knows that a four-leaf clover is lucky – but why? As children, we’d play countless games of hide and seek, red light or freeze tag, then collapse onto the lawn, fanning through the grass in search of that special clover. Our yard was particularly lucky. We had a patch that yielded dozens of four leaf clovers, an occasional five leaf clover and once, an extremely rare seven leaf clover!