From the Lifestyles Channel & Beyond
Layers Upon Layers • Mixed Media Artist Christy Sobolewski
The Artful Crafter • How to Make Wine Corsets
Quilting & Patchwork • Quilting Memory Books for Alzheimer’s Patients
Tangled Thread • Handmade Fringed Fabric Scarf
Junk Creation • Antique Pick of the Week: Nixie Tube Clock (Do you remember these clocks?)
Image via flickr.

I don’t do the antique picks every week, but I did come across a cool find this week. And it’s more of a new antique — a rebirth of the first digital clock.
Do you remember Nixie tubes? I sure don’t. They arrived on the scene in 1954. And got lost somewhere in the 70s.
But, just what is a Nixie tube? I’ll give it to you straight from Ramsey Electronics (they sell them now):
“The Nixie tube is a cold-cathode tube filled with neon gas and equipped with a wire mesh anode and multiple cathodes in the shape of numerals. …read more