{"id":3664,"date":"2021-10-02T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2021-10-02T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T16:12:12","slug":"2021-nutcracker-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=3664","title":{"rendered":"2021 Nutcracker Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congratulations to Mike and Linda Pickwick for hosting a great Nutcracker Convention last weekend!<\/h4>\n

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As always, it was great to see old friends, meet new ones, and get an opportunity to buy pieces for our collection.<\/h4>\n

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The whirlwind of a weekend started off Friday evening with Mike and Linda graciously opening their home to everyone for up close personal tours of their collection and\u00a0 a nice Italian dinner.<\/h4>\n

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The convention was held at the Hampton Inn Danbury on Saturday. There were lots of great pieces available to bid on in the silent auction in the morning:<\/h4>\n

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A couple people brought their collections to show off as well as sell outside the auction:<\/h4>\n

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After the auction and meeting at the hotel, everyone was invited back to Mike and Linda’s to spend some time before going to dinner.<\/h4>\n

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Here are some pictures of Mike and Linda’s fantastic collection:<\/h4>\n

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We ended the day at Armando’s for dinner. Said our good byes to everyone and headed back home to Ohio Sunday morning.<\/h4>\n

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We had a great time and can’t thank Mike and Linda enough for their hospitality and for hosting such a great event!<\/h4>\n

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    Congratulations to Mike and Linda Pickwick for hosting a great Nutcracker Convention last weekend!   As always, it was great to see old friends, meet new ones, and get an opportunity to buy pieces for our collection.   The whirlwind of a weekend started off Friday evening with Mike and Linda graciously opening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,107],"tags":[193,182,208,232,229,127,310,298,27,28,51,58,305,117,71,306,98,309,213],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-my-travels","tag-anri","tag-antique","tag-antique-nutcracker","tag-black-forest","tag-boxwood","tag-carved-wood-nutcracker","tag-carving","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-decorating","tag-christmas-gifts","tag-hand-carved","tag-leavenworth-nutcracker-museum","tag-nutcracker-collectors-club","tag-nutcracker-repair","tag-nutcracker-restoration","tag-restoration","tag-vintage-nutcracker","tag-wood-carving","tag-wood-nutcracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}