In the fall of 2009 I took a bus trip with my mother to the
Amana colonies. My favorite part of the trip was visiting this museum. I didn't want to leave to see anything else! I wasn't supposed to take pictures, but my mom and I went back a second time to take some because I was so disappointed in the rest of the trip. I wanted to be able to take these ideas back to our local historical group.
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More children's items-isn't the huge bunny wonderful!
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Christmas display
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The kids are is pretty neat!
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The simplicity, yet detail of the items used is wonderful!
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The items they used were to die for-things I look to purchase for my home!
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I really like how they used real pictures to illustrate their displays. I think this would be a great idea for our local historical home! Notice the real stockings on the wall and their
mannequin dressed up like
Santa with a fur coat and gloves and beard!
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All the kids items were so cute!
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This old parlor stove is wonderful. We looked into buying a refurbished one before we bought our soapstone wood-burning one-still sometimes wish we would have went that route-
efficiency won out!
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I really like the rug in this one-wish you could find items like that! I've got a magazine rack like that in my hallway-wouldn't hold many magazines today!
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Love this old couch-I bought one like it once, but sold it because at the time we had too many couches(I go
through phases buying like items-it was toilets -now refrigerators!).
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I don't usually post lots of pictures in one post-so I'll be back tomorrow to post a few more!
where is the colony? I have never heard of it?
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