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Tracing History: Vintage Hand Mixer and Egg Beaters

  Hand-operated rotating egg beaters were invented before 1860, but it was unclear what the best design for the job would be. Inventors devised a number of labor-saving egg whisking techniques. The first spinning vintage hand mixer and egg beaters were most likely an American innovation copyrighted in 1856 and patented in England by Griffiths' Whisk in 1857. A completely new egg-beater was invented in 1849. Rotating beaters with a handle were always the best, although they came in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some of the first were attached to a pot and couldn't be used with the cook's preferred mixing bowl. Some were created by the same people that came up with the idea for miniature hand-cranked butter churns. Mechanical egg beaters were commonly the shape we know now by the 1880s. After being popularized by the Dover Stamping Company in the United States, they were dubbed Dover egg beaters. Starting with the Monroe vintage hand mixer and egg beaters , which were p...

Vintage Love: Sewing Up Memories

Remember those childhood days? A hot summer vacation, granny by your side, sewing up tiny flowers on a 'kerchief while you gorge on one of her delicious snacks? Hey, do you remember her vintage sewing tools kit ? Each thread roll had its own space, and every needle was to be stacked in order. And even the scissors had to be placed in the correct space, on the top shelf! No matter how busy we might have become today, a glimpse of the simplest of things is so enough to bring back a flood of memories, those stories! Well, here’s your chance to relive those moments, every day of your life. And no, we don’t mean for you to buy a vintage sewing tools kit. What we want you to do, is get a painting of one of those tools that have a ton of memories strung around it. It could be those bobbins, with their thread breaking or getting entangled every time you tried to fix it in the sewing machine. Granny could do it right, and how amazed would you be all the time! Okay, so how does a colorf...

3 Ways To Decorate Kitchen Walls With Art

  The kitchen is more than just a room in a house - it’s a corner where every family gathers every day to share meals. It’s a space where moms and dads discuss payments and bills while children share what happened at school or college. Don’t you believe this little hub, where you spend most hours of your day with your family, deserves more attention in terms of aesthetic appeal? Here are a few things that you can consider to add a touch of art to the kitchen walls. Decorate it yourself Perhaps your children do their homework at the dining table, or you discuss the next destination for holidays - whatever you do at your kitchen corner apart from having meals add a personal touch by decorating it yourself. And how would you do that? Add drawings and paintings created by your children to the walls, or include maps, stickers, and souvenirs of places you want to visit or have visited already. Create a story Maybe you love recalling days when you were a little one yourself and ...