Barbara Sullivan

Though the jewelry looks like marble, it`s actually lightweight basswood that Gates has marbleized to resemble the rich-looking, shiny stone. ''I got the idea from a furniture designer I used...

''Forget your troubles and just get happy, you want to chase all your cares away,'' is the way the song goes, but how do you actually go about doing that?...

Think for a moment about the pictures hanging in your home. What`s holding them to the wall? Chances are, it`s a little sawtoothed gizmo on the back of the frame...

So you`d like to have a sitdown dinner for 12 but you have place settings for only 8? Or maybe a buffet for 50 or 60 but you don`t have...

Annie stll has a clear memory of the day two years ago that she lashed out at her mother during the Christmas holidays. ''We were standing in the kitchen and...

On the right, wearing the gorgeous full-length dark mink ranch with rolled collar and turned-back cuffs, we have Georgian ''George'' Florian. And standing next to her, resplendent in a pewter...

Here`s a sure way to cut that loudmouth Bart Simpson and his assorted relatives down to size. Cookie or cake size, that is. Wilton Enterprises has come out with an...

Malcoln Forbes paid $1.7 million in 1985 for one of the legendary eggs crafted by Carl Faberge, the Czar`s jeweler during the pre-Russian revolution years. But a new generation of...

Janet Soule and Nancy Perrone went into a little store called Womencrafts while they were vacationing in Cape Cod, during the summer of 1989 and it changed their lives. The...

Thomas Bastide picked up the glass bear cub and held it in the palm of his hand. ''See, this is how I looked at the bears in the zoo. They...