We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at [email protected] or call Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. Jan Abrams sees the world in a wonderfully colorful way thanks to her ...

Question: Many years ago, my great-grandfather received an antique kaleidoscope as a gift when he retired as comptroller of a small optical company. It has a 10-inch-long, leather-covered cardboard ...

Hundreds dressed in Victorian-style outfits embellished with small repurposed gears, miniature clocks and feathered hats for the Steampunk Industrial Show in Mount Dora on Saturday. Artists and ...

Michelle Smith is living her dream as the new owner of Kaleidoscope, 117 N. Main St. of Urbana. “To be able to own a piece of history of Urbana is an incredible feeling,” she said. Kaleidoscope, which ...

Cozy Baker is, well, kaleidoscopic. Aficionados call her “the grande dame of kaleidoscopes,” “the first lady of American kaleidoscopes” and even “the patron saint of kaleidoscopes.” She looks ...

BEL AIR — You see one, you pick it up. You can’t help yourself. Peer through the eyepiece, and your eye transports your mind to a new universe, a world of ever-changing color and image that becomes ...

Cozy Baker is, well, kaleidoscopic. Aficionados call her “the grande dame of kaleidoscopes,” “the first lady of American kaleidoscopes” and even “the patron saint of kaleidoscopes.” She looks ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. The kaleidoscope was the iPhone of the 19th century, reckons British designer Bethan Laura Wood. “It was this tool of visual wonder ...

Cozy Baker is, well, kaleidoscopic. Aficionados call her “the grande dame of kaleidoscopes,” “the first lady of American kaleidoscopes” and even “the patron saint of kaleidoscopes.” She’s a handsome, ...

When I was a child, I loved kaleidoscopes. A simple tube filled with pieces of colored glass and mirrors. You rotate a kaleidoscope, the image pieces move, and a new picture forms. Although the ...