I’ve been traveling throughout California attending art auctions looking for unique quilts. I have had a lot of success. I have found so many quilts that you could tell were filled with thousands of hours of careful planning and stitching.

I was attending at art auction in Orange and found a wonderful quilt. The quilt was from the Civil War era and was made in the design of Blazing Stars. There was a wonderful appliqued red and green swag-like border. The center of the quilt has a feathered heart hand quilted.

The art auction that I went to in San Bruno had a fabulous quilt that was made in the 1860s. The quilt was hand appliqued using cheddar, red and green cotton solid fabrics. The background was white and the border has a meandering flowering vine. It was truly special.

I found a great quilt that was made in 1894 while I was at an art auction in Rancho Cucamonga. The style of the quilt was really fun. It was called a Victorian Crazy Quilt. There was so much elaborate hand embroidery over every seam and within the blocks, it was magnificent.

I was on vacation in Napa and attended an art auction that had several really nice quilts. The one that I won was made in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and was completed in the 1870s. I like the design called Ocean Waves. The chain had earth green and chocolate brown triangles that were pieced with exceedingly fine skill and precision. The border and background color was warm, cadmium orange.

The quilt I found at an art auction in Paradise was an 1840's thin, cotton Quaker quilt, which measures 108" x 88" and had 10 stitches per inch. It was a Quaker cotton wedding quilt. The top border, near the pillows, had a blue print and each side and the bottom had wide borders with North Carolina Quilt blocks in each corner. There were two rows of North Carolina Lilies in the center, and one row on each side facing outward.

The quilt made its way into the art auction because someone made the decision to sell some of the great historic heirlooms that were passed down through her family to her. I was very fortunate to acquire this heirloom that had passed through the many generations of Quaker families. Now I own one of the great Pennsylvania Quaker masterpieces.

Log cabin quilts are a design that I have always liked. My grandmother made a quilt using this design for me when I was twelve. I found one made in a similar fashion at an art auction Los Gatos. The quilt was made in the 1870s and was made by Mennonites.

I was lucky to find the art auction, it was difficult to find. The quilt is just fantastic. The light and dark design of this quilt has a red center on one side with two green bars, two cinnamon bars and two blue bars and then two red bars and on the other side of the red square in the center are two yellows, two black and white stripe, two lovely Lancaster blue bars, and two peppermint stripe bars.

There was an art auction in Huntington Beach that advertised quilts and I was really happy with the pieces that I found there. The quilt that I bought had a pictorial motif, like an album quilt, with a lot of interesting designs. Each block was quite different and special.

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The following are few points of advice, which you must consider as guidelines to help you buying cheap cars from government repossession auctions.

In government repossession auction repossession cars are sold at public auction and these cars are considered as second hand vehicles. This is the reason it is assumed that price of such cars will a lot less then usual ones. Therefore in these auctions the government is supposed to sell off the repossessed cars at low prices.

But as this is an auction everything happens like a game, where each one wants to overtake other’s bid and therefore sometimes the price of the vehicle under consideration increases to an un-realistic level. So, when you are really buying the car, make sure you are actually able to take over the high costs of a second hand car.

Take an advice of a person who is well experienced. There are some technical details that you may not be aware of but are extremely important while buying a second hand car. So with the help of expert person it will be very easy for you to take a decision to purchase the car you want.

Further the prices of the repossessed cars are never comparative or directly related, so it will be better if you take a friend who is familiar with all this or an expert person along with you when going to examine the repossessed car at government auction.

Inspect the car completely. You will see some unseen and unexposed defects which will help you in making the price a bit down at the time of auction.

Initiate the bid with a with a small amount and if there is already an existing bid amount then just add a little more amount in the top most bid. In other words you just need to add a small amount to the highest bid.

If this processes continuously goes on and the price of the car turn into very high or difficult to deal with then it is better you quit. The reason is there are so many other cars available in the government repossessed car auction and some of them are really better then others. Keep looking for the cheap and best deal.

And once you are able to close the deal with your favorite car and the price, approach the auction authorities and enquire about the payment options to choose the more appropriate for your self.
 

Have you ever considered giving up the old kick-the-tires ruse and admitting that you can’t really tell anything about a car by test-driving it for two minutes? One of the coolest new ways to use the Internet is to join in the fun and bargains in an online auto auction.

Online auto auctions can be the perfect place to find the auto of your dreams – you know that 1965 Mustang or the 280Z that was all the rage during your high school years? If you are searching for a car that will make you feel young again, an online auto auction may be just the paradise to get you that teenage feeling again.

Maybe you are quite satisfied with your sensible family car, but you’ve got a teen of your own who is nagging you for the freedom of the open road. Try an online auto auction to get the best deal on the perfect car for your new driver and don’t spend a fortune on it. Chances are, it won’t be in the family for very long, but you may just find the coolest vehicle for him or her.

When my daughter turned sixteen, I was so thrilled about the prospect of not toting her all over creation, but not so thrilled with the prices at the local used car lots; the unique truck with the pink stripes she ended up with could have never been found around here. And it was a steal. I think she will keep it forever and give it to her kids someday – that’s how much she loves it!

Maybe you are a collector; if so, it can be awfully difficult to find what you are hunting just by staying in your hometown, but who has the time to go all over the place searching for that one addition to your collection? Check out the cool online auto auction sites; what you are craving, someone somewhere is bound to be selling.

You can also find all sorts of vehicles at rock bottom prices; a lot of online auto auctions sell cars and trucks below blue book prices because they paid practically nothing for them in the first place. You can find repos, donated cars; police seized vehicles, and government surplus vehicles with the click of a mouse. And even with all those bargains, let us not forget, it is just plain fun!

Imagine the stares you will get when you pull into the parking lot at work in the primo car; imagine the drool sliding down the chin of your colleagues who carpool in the mini vans and sedans. There is nothing quite like a cool car to fuel the spirit and catch someone’s eye, and with an online auto auction, the dream can become a reality pretty darn easily.

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