About Collectible Treasures

About Collectible Treasures

Collectible Treasures Antique and Collectibles was originally started in 2000, as a personal website, with an online catalog

added, to find new homes for antiques and collectibles, that I acquired thru both my parents estate, and my grandmother's.

I worked five years on the site, and did quite a bit of selling

of many of the items that I had available. I enjoyed doing

that tremendously, and then in 2007 my husband died, and I

just didn't have the heart to continue working with my site,

or my catalog.

So now after 4 years of trying to deal with the loss of my

husband, I have returned to my site to review it, and to see

where I might now take it. It is still linked with many of the interests I had in antiques and collectibles, I am now offering

again my online catalog of items for sell, taking the necessary

time to go thru my website and update the pages, as well as

add items to the online catalog as time allows me to do so.

I will be exploring different avenues and different things that

I can redo my site that will offer hopefully interesting things

for any who may find their way here. I hope that all who drop

by will browse the many pages that I have left, and come again

later to see what I have added. Of course this will take time, so

I appreciate everyone's understanding. Drop me a line if you

wish, and any suggestions you might have for me. I would

love hearing from you.

You can still research your antique and collectible items from

within the website's "items we have sold" links. Thank you for being patient with us during our change over, and especially

for your stopping by and visiting us, and to all our customers

both past and hopefully future we appreciate you very much.

Our Original About Page: Just to let you know more about us:

We were physically located in the small town of Oliver Springs

in the beautiful state of Tennessee. Just a hop skip and jump

from Oak Ridge, Tennessee and within 20 miles of Knoxville,

TN.

Windrock Mountain which is where I was born, and was once

a mining community, of which my Father worked in the mines

both before he did a four year service in the Army, and after he came home, up till the time it went non-union, it is about a 3

mile drive from where I presently live. TVA has recently put

up 3 windmills towers upon the top of the mountain. If you

are interested in some of the history of Windrock I suggest you

visit this site, which has some good pictures and info on the

subject:

http://www.mensetmanus.net/windpower/mine

or at least did when I last viewed it.

I was born and raised here, most all my family is in this area.

My husband I met up north in Indiana when my Father moved north for work after the mines shut down. We have been

married this June 5th 2006 since 1965, 41 years now. If my

husband had lived we would celebrate our 46th year of

marriage this June 6th, 2011. He has now been gone for over 4 years, and I still miss him very much. I still love him very

much.

My husband had worked as an I.B.E.W. ( thats short for International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ) as a

Journeyman Electrician since 1966, up till last year when he

became disabled due to chronic lung disease. He isn't able

to do much at one time now, without having to rest, but he

does try to help as he can, while I am working online. He has become quite the cook, and can do up mashed potatoes that

would melt in your mouth! He is a wonderful man, and I am

very blessed to have him. I love him very much, even more

than I did years ago when I said, I do, at our wedding.

**My darling husband passed away on Feb. 6, 2007. Three

days after his 62nd birthday . I miss him terribly and will

forever love him and cherish the life we had together for

almost 42 years. It has now been over 4 years since he passed

away, and I am now trying to review my site and take it in a

new direction.**

Our daughter and son are grown. Have wonderful children

of their own, and are kept busy with the awesome

responsibility all that entails. We have six grand-children,

our oldest will soon be eighteen and the youngest will be

three years old this coming Jan.

Update: Our grandchildren with the exception of our oldest,

are all now teenagers. One just got married and had a baby,

our second great-grandchild. A boy! Now we have a boy and

a girl great grandchildren, and most likely more will follow as

our other two granddaughters are reaching the age of 18 and

getting ready to soon graduate high school. Then our

grandsons still have a ways to go yet, but you can never tell,

lol.

Note: This was when my husband was alive, I just couldn't

delete what was something special to me in our about pages.

My husband and I use to go fishing every now and then, he

did all the icky stuff for me, like putting that moving slimy

worm on the hook, changing my line when it becomes

necessary, ( which is some-times was all he got to do) and I

caught the fish! Oh, he'd take the fish off the hook for me

too. My sister-in-law calls me a wimp!

There is a place that is a little over an hours drive from where

we live here, Called Brigadoon Resort, if you are ever down

this way it would be well worth your while to check it out.

The fishing is great, the view is beyond compare, the people

are friendly and the pace is slow. You would love it. It is

outside of Rockwood, Tn....A truly wonderful place to

vacation at. If you should stop by tell those nice people

Linda and Dale Parker referred you. They know how much

we love their beautiful place. They have cabins for rent as

well as hook-ups for campers. I think they have their own

website, but you will have to search for it because I

don't remember the url..

UPDATE April 2005: Rumour has it that Brigadoon Resort

has closed their resort and are building homes in the area.

Note: This is just what I have been told, I haven't yet went

down to see if this is true or not, so I am not sure whether the

resort is still there or not. Just wanted to mention it, so that

Anyone reading this that might be planning to visit Brigadoon Resort, first check with them to see if they are still providing

the lake access for camping and cabin rentals. It is a breath-

takingly beautiful area and I do hope that the resort continues

as it was when I was last there, but if it is now a private

residential area I wish the home owners the best. They surely

have a lovely site to view out their windows..!

Update: June 29, 2005

We took a ride down to Brigadoon just last week, and to our dismay, it is no longer there! Everything, even the office and

cafe, along with all the cabins, with the exception of two which

were boarded up, have been taken down and off the property.

All the campsites, even the ones that paid yearly, some for over

20 years, were gone. The place was not the same, not even the lovely views looked the same. They still have their website up

at this date, but the resort is gone. We heard, not sure of all this

as fact however, that a couple of partners bought the place, and

one of the men have plans to build his wife a home there. My,

what a lovely place they will indeed have, and I am happy for

them, but so disappointed that the most beautiful resort around

is gone. It makes it seem all like a dream that we were even

there but we do have the memories of that lovely serene place.

We will miss it very much.

Oh, and take a ride up on Windrock Mountain, its another

beautiful place to see the outstanding mountains and valleys

in the area. There is no camping site, as far as I know you can't camp there, or anything like that , just the closed mines (which

you can't go in naturally) they have closed the entrance

according to the info from the above mentioned url...and the Windmills.

The road up to the mountain is fairly ruff, unless they have

repaired or replaced it since we last went up there. They do

have alot of off the road, or 4-wheelers that go there now, and

the company that owns the mountain property charges a fee

to go up the mountain. But the view is brearthtakingly

beautiful and would be well worth the fee! Just make sure

you plan for it, and take along drinks for the children, alot

of water, and food. A Picnic would be lovely up there. Its

rustic, no water that I know of, no bathroom's and such. It's

the great outdoors in all its natural spendor!

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