Steph

I am not able to get an image when I use that address. The one you sent me in email had more in the address. http://i.rwpic.com/images/sissydear/hothousemar3b.6842165.jpg When I use that, the picture shows up. Try that and see if the box still freezes. It doesn't freeze for me in either case so it might not be the address which is causing the problem. But let's see anyway what happens when you use the address which starts with http.

A couple of people have mentioned problems when trying to include pictures. They seem to be different problems so far. But if you're having issues, please post a little about what you were trying to do and what you saw. Might be useful to know which browser or operating system you're using too. Thanks.

Well, you know mine.

Awww ... so much personality in that face! <3

My husband asked if Jesus was playing keepsies.

that's lovely

We'll have to figure out why you can't post. Meanwhile here's the second Hot House disco ball!

Hi Wade. Nice to see you. Getting pix of those magazines with the Akro ads inside is still on my to-do list but I've been dragging. My scanner doesn't look like it's going to be up to the job.

The adventure begins!

Jan. 1 This is Edna's marble, made by Hot House Glass. Someone called it a disco ball for the New Year. I thought that was appropriate to start things out with. Anybody and everybody is invited to help out. More than one marble a day is allowed.

I don't remember ever seeing helixes like that.

Love it!

Yes! And I see by your last post that you've figured it out. Except you posted the same link twice, so I'm going to edit that post so that it shows the 2nd auction also.

Hello! Thank you very much for weighing in on this one.

Hello Stefan! Nice to meet you!

It's a song from Due South, a series I just discovered. The series started out as a joint Canadian and U.S. show in 1993 (aired on CTV and CBS) but was cancelled by CBS twice and ended up as a Canadian and British show. Despite all the juggling and cancelling they got four seasons out of it and I'm enjoying it greatly. Plus Paul Gross is a total babe. Scott Bakula has competition.

lololol

You?

When I was young, the smell of bacon foiled many of my attempts to be a vegetarian.

Cool! This is brand new info for me.

Is that the same red as the one with three views in the first post? With creases like those, I tend to think Japanese. As to the Figure 8, usually they're two color marbles ... like white ribbons on a blue base, for example. Figure 8 refers to how the ribbons angle in toward each other at the seams instead of being as nearly parallel as Peltier Rainbo ribbons might be. They'd be non-US marbles. But I'm not sure where they're believed to have been made.

Nice finds! I think European for sure on the wire pull. Might be Dutch. That blue/yellow/red on white at the top of your first picture is quite interesting to me. Looks like Figure 8. Not sure I've seen those colors on one before though. Nifty. And the red with the nine and tail is sweet. About any as-mades, I'm afraid the reflections might be getting in the way of the features I'm supposed to see. I'll stop talking now.

Looks like something to string on the Christmas tree!

Santa is here!