Coming soon . . .

Tammy Tutterow will be in Springfield Friday, April 29th and Saturday, April 30th teaching classes at Scrapbook Generation. 

Friday, April 29th 6:00 PM: Home Sweet Home Canvas Class.
The class features a fun vintage style collage on a 8x10 stretched box canvas. It features products from Pink Paislee's Hometown Summer collection, Wendy Vecchi's Art Parts, and some fun uses for Tim Holtz's new Distress Stains!

Saturday, April 30th 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Made from Scratch Binder Class. 
This class is a follow up to her popular Made From Scratch class that she taught at Scrapbook Generation last year! If you loved that class and all of the options it gave you fro making your own books, you are going to love this one too!  It features the beautiful Butterfly Garden collection by Pink Paislee and Art Parts by Wendy Vecchi and Stamper's Anonymous as well as plenty of Tim Holtz goodies and Sticky Back Canvas by Claudine Hellmuth! I really love the way it turned out! It is packed with pockets, tags, and pretty little bits of this and that.

If you are interested in either classes, please call Scrapbook Generation at 417-886-0440, or visit their website at http://www.scrapbookgeneration.com/ or their blog at http://www.scrapbookgeneration.blogspot.com/

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Get your kicks at Adin 26!

Get your kicks at Adin 26!
Celebrating 26 years of Adin
with our 26th spring discount week

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Just this week !!!
5% cash-back on all your purchases! (*)

In sincere appreciation for making Adin your antique jewelry destination we gladly offer you
5% cash back on your entire Adin purchase made between April 10 and April 17, 2011. (*)

Antiqualy yours,
The Adin team
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(*) Offer is only valid for purchases made between April 10th and April 17th, 2011. Not combinable with special orders, transfers, previously purchased merchandise or lay-aways. The discount will be refunded once the 14-days-no-question-asked-return-policy has not been used.

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Religious discoveries in The Garden of Adin

Religious discoveries
in The Garden of Adin

We would like to explain a little bit about the variations in our collection of antique French provincial jewelry. Most of these are inspired by religion, which is not so unexpected given the might of the church in the last centuries. Every province of France had a different type of dress code with specific jewelry for each one. The quality of our collection is truly museum-worthy and yet eminently wearable. Just imagine wearing a piece of jewelry that has seen two or even three turns of centuries.

Croix Boulonnaise
Circa 1770

Click on the picture to get to this antique cross.

This type of cross is part of the adornment of wealthy married women along the coast between Boulogne and Dunkirk in France. They are recognised by the shell motifs that evoke pilgrimage to Saint Jacques de Compostelle. The filigree work harks back to it's distant Spanish origin.

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Croix Normande
Circa 1819-1830

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This cross pendant is both a religious symbol and a tool for regional identification. Together with a specific costume it denotes social status too. Size and abundance of materials that compose it reflect the wealth of its wearer.

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Croix Viroles
Circa 1750-1790

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This cross belongs to the rare group of French Provincial gold cross pendants that were made at the end of the 18th Century (around 1790). It was bought and worn by wealthy provincial French women. These jewels rarely contained diamonds which were mostly used by jewellers for the nobility. This very cross from our collection is depicted in the famous book "Georgian Jewellery 1714-1830" page 152.

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Croix Badinne
Circa 1838-1850

Click on the picture to get to this antique cross.

This cross was the most typical and traditional cross made in Roussillon in France. Usually tied around the neck with a silk or velvet ribbon. The shape of this jewel was developed by Catalan goldsmiths in the late 17th Century. It was worn in the Empire and Restoration periods, and depicted on the portrait of Elizabeth Campagnac.

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Today, French regional crosses are very rare unlike the variety that existed in the old days. Most of these crosses are now kept in musea or in private collections.

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Spring sprung in The Garden of Adin

Spring sprung
in The Garden of Adin

(Click the picture to get to this Victorian flower brooch and pendant)

Any idea how often spring has sprung over this flower?
.... at least 150 times!

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Recipes d'Amour, Gratiné Oysters with antique pearl jewelry

Recipes d'Amour:
Gratiné Oysters with antique pearl jewelry

(Click the picture to see this magnificent Art Deco ring with big South Sea pearl)

"La nouvelle cuisine d'Adin"
proudly presents:
Crusted Oysters

Preparation time: 90 minutes

Ingredients:
24 fresh oysters
1 leek
1 tablespoon oil
1 dl Champagne
1 dl whipped cream
300 grams grated cheese
One piece of antique pearl jewelry (can even be the Art Deco ring as pictured too)


Method
- Open the shells and take the oysters out.
- Collect and sift the moisture and separate the deeper half of the shells.
- Cut the leek in small rectangles, wash them and let them drain.
- Rinse the deeper halfs of the shells and pat them dry.
- Sauté the leek in the oil and add the whipped cream, the collected oyster-moisture, the Champagne and some grated cheese.
- Boil this down to a third and season to taste.
- Fill the deeper half of the shells with a bed of the leek substance and put an oyster on top.
- Sprinkle some grated cheese on top of this.
- Place under a grill till the cheese is melted and slightly crusted.

Serve with Champagne.

Present the antique jewel after degustation of oysters and Champagne.

Success guaranteed.

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St. Pat's Day Wishes . . .

May love and laughter light your days,

and warm your heart and home.

May good and faithful friends be yours,

wherever you may roam.

May peace and plenty bless your world

with joy that long endures.

May all life's passing seasons

bring the best to you and yours!

- author unknown

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ADIN... Now, with a new improved formula!

ADIN
Now, with a new improved formula!

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The new improved Adin formula allows effective wearing of antique jewelry at all temperatures. Furthermore it allows women to improve the impact on the environment by wearing antique jewelry in a specific color to their own choice, like antique jewelry with the color white, blue, red, yellow, purple and/or even black. Inspired on color and mineral based ideas, this latest antique jewelry formula is virtually biodegradable and has a good environmental profile that exceeds European Union and American legislation.

Antiqualy yours,
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