From Perfume To Furniture

I just eat this history stuff up in Connecticut. Did you know that the long time Carroll Cut-Rate Furniture in West Haven, Connecticut used to be a perfume store? It’s true. Back in the day it was set right on the trolley line in the city, now that trolley line is on the Boston Post Road.

How did this place… Continue reading

Anna’s Creations Will “Floor” You!

This is just a great idea, period. Anna Amore of Amore Floor Covering and Design Center and Photographer and media specialist, Paul Tortora are making beautiful pictures together. In 2009 a light bulb went off in Anna’s head to take carpeting and flooring and tiles and make fashion out of it and put these creations on mannequins and then real live… Continue reading

The Victorian Lady and The Bubble Master

These two have the whole world in their hands, well actually in this case it’s a bubble. Meet Casey and Kandie Carle of East Haddam, Connecticut. Kandie is known as the Victorian Lady and Casey is a bubble guy and performs for audiences around the world in Bubble Mania. How did this married couple meet more than 20 years ago?… Continue reading

Rich Is The “Wood Wiz”

Rich Ramagli of Madison, Connecticut loves to work with raw wood, in particular wood with “rich” grains like oak, because he says it tells the story of a tree, a living thing. He takes that once living thing, a piece of wood, and brings it back to life in a chair, a bird feeder, planter, doormat, Adirondack furniture or Christmas… Continue reading

AJ Jansen Is A Country Rebel Rose

At six years old AJ Jansen, growing up in Torrington, Connecticut, got on stage at school and started singing and there has been no looking back. She liked the attention, found she had talent, and to this day is going for that “rock country” dream. At the age of ten she started writing music too, and continues to pump out… Continue reading

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