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There are many admirers of fine art out there, but whenever buying a painting for your home or office a natural question arises, which is, “how many times can one stare at a pretty picture?”

“Enough times to want to look at it again, if the picture is that good.” This is certainly true of the paintings of William Wendt, a Californian impressionist, capturing the Golden State during its Eden-like period, enticing others to come there to live. Wendt was clearly a painter endowed with great talent and passion for nature. His paintings are unbelievably realistic, yet in the same time rich in color.

William Wendt is one of California’s best-known landscape painters, often referred to as the “Dean of Southern California”. The characteristic feature of his landscapes is abundant use of rich greens and browns. Born in Bentzen, Germany, he immigrated to Chicago in 1880, where after a brief study at the Chicago Art Institute, he continued to self-perfect his skills and become one of the first American painters to embrace the Impressionist style, begun in France towards the middle of 19th century. Through a rich heritage of his paintings, Wendt left a deep impact upon the artists to follow.

Presently his works receive a high critical acclaim and are priced well. In this aspect, if you are one of San Francisco or California residents, you may just as well benefit from free evaluation of William Wendt paintings, should you wish to sell it. The San Francisco William Wendt Gallery aims at preservation of vanishing treasures of Wendt’s art for the benefit of present & future generations and can find a good home for your painting. Often times you don’t even have to submit the photo of the front, back and signature, you may simply call 949-981-0070 and discuss it over the phone. Be it your intention to find a new home for the paintings of William Wendt; don’t hesitate to give William Wendt Gallery a call.

Here at the wedding wish lantern headquarters, we have always stuck to the hypothesis that wedding lanterns must be white. Not only are they fine and gracious with a swan-like grace in their white garb, they are also more uniform and- more often than not- blend in nicely with the creams of the bridal wear. When lantern enthusiasts have required wedding lanterns for their wedding day, inthe vast majority of cases they would never even consider having anything other than a lovely white lantern at their wedding. As of last month that has all been revised We are now proud to say, that as well as our traditional white lanterns, we offer coloured lanterns to future brides and grooms. Though many people might still prefer to have the cleaner white variety, there is an increasing call for for variety in a wedding lantern, and it is only fair that our company should meet this growing need for options by adding a splash of colour to our unique product.Weddings are, after all, a jovial occasion, as well as a great gesture of loyalty and dedication to a loved one. There are a growing number of couples that like toput some fun into their special day by having a themed wedding - just think of the Jordan and Peter Andre bonanza awhile back. For this reason, a colourful lantern may be just right for the occasion.

Personally, I started scrapbooking as a way to preserve my precious memories of family and friends.
I feel the memories that I have in the way of photo’s mean nothing without a little story behind them. Have you ever flicked through someone’s photo album and just seen faces and places? How great is it to know the story behind where, when and how these photo’s came about. Who are these people? what are they doing?, when was that event?

Scrapbooking allows you to answer these questions in a manner that helps preserve the memories for generations to come. You may say - this is a passing fad! However scrapbooking has been around for many years. They didn’t necessarily have photos but did contain etchings, engraving or lithographs. Queen Victoria even had a scrapbook to display in the royal palace.

In 1826, the scrapbooking craze really took off with the publication of John Poole’s ‘Manuscript Gleanings and Literary Scrapbook while the year previous had seen the publication of a serial titled ‘The Scrapbook’ which defined a scrapbook as a blank book which held newspaper articles and pictures for preservation. The actual term ’scrapbook’ had been coined just a few years earlier because of the bright pieces of paper left over from a printing job, or scrap, that people had begun to paste into their albums for decorative purposes.
One of the biggest supporters of “scrapbooking” in the 1800’s was Mark Twain. He devoted his Sundays to creating his scrapbooks.

The art of scrapbooking changed dramatically around 1839, when photography was available to the public. However by 1940 there was a decline in the hobby as photo albums where mass produced and photography became the hobby. However, after the publication of Alex Haley’s “Roots” that told his family history back to 18th century Africa in the mid 1970’s, was the importance on genealogy and preserving the family history an important factor. Therefore the resurgance of scrapbooking began.