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November 15, 2007

Here's a Sneak Peek at Our
7th Annual Holiday Open House...
Greetings!
 
Okay, it is 10am on the day after Thanksgiving - relatives have been stacked like cordwood all around your house for three days and you are on the couch still in your pajamas thinking that if you just keep quiet and not make eye contact, maybe aunt Margaret will mistake you for the dog - she's been a little hard to take before noon since she started drinking double Manhattans at lunch. From the kitchen, you can hear your father-in-law telling your wife, for the fourth time, about how her high school sweetheart (who still has all of his hair and made millions with an Internet company he founded on the side while ambassador to Japan) just endowed your old school with a new library and multimedia center in her name. Your twenty-year-old daughter has been locked in the bathroom for thirty minutes, using your cell phone to alternately call and hang up on her tattooed and pierced boyfriend in Seattle. Lastly, you have finally resigned yourself to the fact that your son will probably not be attending Harvard as you watch him struggle for most of the morning with an application for a temporary holiday job putting sprinkles on doughnuts...
 
Get-up! Get dressed and please join us for our biggest and best yet celebration of the season...

Kimball & Bean's 7th Annual
"Home for the Holidays"

Friday, November 23rd   10am-5pm
Saturday, November 24th   10am-5pm
Sunday, November 25th   12pm-5pm

Oh, the fabulous stuff we have this year. As you come through the door, the first thing that hits you is the delicious aroma of fresh pine, sweet bay and cedar. Wait a moment for your eyes adjust and our best ever selection of antiques, vintage crystal, china, silverplate, Christmas ornaments and handcrafted holiday decorations comes into view. Walk a little further and you'll discover our beautiful selection of fresh and preserved wreaths and trims in magnolia, herbs, boxwood, fruit, evergreens and flowers. We are especially excited this year to be featuring the work of several nationally known artisans - including the amazing husband and wife, jewelry making team of David and Roberta Williamson; vintage Santa designer, Dee Gann; Chocoltier David Nelson and French collage greeting card maker, Jennifer Schilke.

 

Garden Inspired Jewelry
 David & Roberta Williamson on "Craft In America"
David and Roberta Williamson of Berea, OH work together to produce amazing necklaces, brooches, and other jewelry incorporating beautiful Victorian-era illustrations of birds, insects and portraits set in silver, gold and bronze.
"Art Lettres" Collage Greeting Cards
Art Lettres Collage Greetings 
A collage of charming, vintage French images, a single, artfully placed, Swarovski crystal and a handsomely lined envelope - each one of these carefully made greeting cards by Jennifer Schilke of Scottsbluff, NE is a work of art.
 
Chocolat By Daniel
Chocolat by Daniel 
Daniel Nelson's European-style truffles, gourmet chocolates and desserts are made fresh from the highest quality raw Belgian, French, Swiss and Venezuelan chocolate. Daniel's chocolates are handmade, so they don't have that "assembly line appearance and they contain no wax, preservatives or artificial flavors.
Wreaths, Vintage Decorating items and Holiday Trims
Hand Made Wreaths 

Fabulous antique ornaments and holiday decorations. Beautiful, natural trims and wreaths in herbs, magnolia, boxwood, pinecone, flowers, fruits and more - both dried and fresh and beautiful handcrafted stocking hooks.

Silver, Crystal and China
Silver coffee and teapots 
Loads of handsome vintage silver, sparkling crystal stemware, china, quirky figural Majolica and tons more.
Beautifully Mounted Birds
Mounted Game Birds 
Flocks of masterfully mounted Wisconsin native and exotic game birds and a whole barnyard full of mounted rare and ornamental chickens.

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