Month: May 2007

Vintage Purses Add Class to a Wardrobe

Vintage purses have recently become very fashionable, and as a result these purses sell well. A vintage purse can be interpreted as an antique purse, and there are some antique purses available from different sources.

Real antique purses are old so that means these antique purses could be very expensive. There are stores that specialize in antique clothing and accessories. These shops would be a great place to look for vintage purses from long ago. One might also look closer to home and save time as well as some money to find splendid purses.

Vintage purses would include those from the age of your mother and grandmothers. If your mother and grandmothers are packrats, there may be perfect purses right in their closets. These may be the greatest finds of the century, and you might be the envy of your local fashion scene.

Once the closets of your mother and grandmothers are scoured, you might check out the closets of aunts. If you actually find vintage purses in the closets of your mother, aunts and grandmothers, you might face a new dilemma. These purses might be worth a lot of money, and it might be hard to pass up the money to put these into your own closet.

Vintage Purses Are Popular Models

If there is no antique purse in the closets of your mother, grandmothers and aunts, there are other avenues to search for vintage purses. Some of the online auction sites offer a wide range of antique purses. A person dedicated to finding a real vintage purse can check out several of these websites to find the perfect purse.

There are many shops that sell used clothing. Some of the items are straight from somebody else s mother and grandmother. These shops may have a good selection of vintage purses. These will probably be more expensive than the ones you find in your own mother s closet but cheaper than those in an antique store.

A purse described as vintage is not necessarily old, but it could be a purse that looks like an antique purse. It could be a purse that is modeled on those from a fashion era of the past. In that case, these purses are easier to find. Vintage purses are popular so there are many available. There is at least one website that is devoted to the sale of vintage purses. Almost all good department stores will have some purses modeled on those from bygone eras.

Salt Lamp Promotes Healthier Feelings

While few people can explain any health benefits for an increase in negative ions, there is little argument that a salt lamp makes people begin to feel better. They credit their feelings to the negative ions being released when the salt in their salt lamp is heated.

Essentially, a salt lamp is a block of mined salt hollowed out with a candle or some other light source inserted into the hollow space. The light is refracted as it passes through the salt block creating a beautiful distortion as it passes through and the heated salt also is said to give off negative ions, usually referred to simply as ions, to improve a persons health.

While the health benefit claims remain unproven, people who use a salt lamp have no doubt of their benefits. At the very least, the sights of the light from a salt lamp coupled with the warm salt smell can provide a soothing effect to help reduce stress. Colors of salt frequently used in lamps ranges from a pink or salmon color to a pale orange color. Usually, the salt is mined in Russia, central Europe or the Himalayas.

Ions Work As Air Cleaners

It has been noted that the negative ions created by the heating of the salt lamp combines with pollution in the air to make them too heavy to stay aloft and they fall to the ground where they are unable to be inhaled. This, it is claimed, is what makes the air healthier by using a salt lamp.

While the rock salt used in a salt lamp is considered block salt, they have been finely modeled into many different shapes during the hollowing process to create a decorative piece and not just a chunk of salt hollowed out to hold a candle. Their coloring will be unique and it would be difficult to find two pieces exactly the same shape and with the same colors.

Large lamps can be found that weight upwards of 250 pounds with a big lamp considered to be between 50 and 100 pounds. A small salt lamp may weigh around three or four pounds and go all the way to just under 50 pounds. The ionizing range varies based on the size of the lamp. A mini salt lamp of about four pounds may ionize the air in about a six foot radius while a large 40 pound salt lamp offers a range of over 35 feet radius.