This year's Philadelphia Antiques Show will be held April 18-21 (opening on my birthday!), and this year's loan exhibition is very exciting, I think--Patriots and Presidents - Philadelphia Portrait Miniatures, 1760-1860. Anyone want to meet up for it? I'll be on vacation starting the 19th, so I can do any of the weekdays, and Saturday is also ( Read more... )

(::GROWLS:: Apparently the 'autosave draft' function isn't compatable with Opera...so I STILL have to write this whole thing out again...::GLARES::)

After going over the program a few more times, I've decided on my schedule for the Phila. Antiques show. I'm ordering one of the combination tickets, which includes the 'Philadelphia's Park Houses' ( Read more... )

The Philadelphia Flower Show, March 5-12

["Enchanted Spring...A Tribute to Mother Nature" will take visitors from the fantastical to the practical and inspire even the most hesitant of gardeners to take up a trowel and start planting. Discover the largest plant sculpture in the world, Natura, goddess of Nature, rising 27 feet from the Show floor. ( Read more... )