Yesterday I bought a 100 pc. art glass collection which Mom & I spent 3 hours carefully wrapping in newspaper and packing in boxes for a trip from Picton to the barn.
I know nothing about art glass but am learning quickly.  This collection has vases, paperweights, animals, fish, clowns, people, bowls, decanters....  Some is signed, some have Murano stickers, some have nothing.  I see Vetri, Zeretti or is that Zenetti? Vistosi, Birks, Venini, Blenko, Marcolin, Loguille?? Royal de Champagne, Nasa Di Muran.
I have some research to do!

The other day my Mom was sitting the store and heard a customer scream in the back hall.  Turns out a lovely little Mama mouse had made her and her babies a little nest in the the top drawer of an antique dresser I have for sale.  Thank goodness the woman laughed it off.  It could have been a bad scene.

I didn't want to move them so I put a sign up hoping noone would bother them.  4 days later they were still there so I gently pulled the drawer out, set it in the back area of the barn and Mama moved her family to an undisclosed location.

I've been meaning to post something about the project Colm is working on.  He's making 38 tables for the Rotman School of Management at U of T through KPMB Architects. 
16 of the tables are 36" round disks, 18" high so you can imagine the tree he has to start with to get this size.  Heavy equipment only as they weigh 100's of pounds each. I bought 6 antique furniture carts last week and he's taken them over to move these beasts around.
He's had a machine fabricated (thanks Franc, Chris, and Jason) to carve them into perfect circles.
The other 2 styles are an 18" x 18" beam and 15" round disks (that are a bit cork like.)  They're all made from silver maple and are going to be spectacular!