Saturday, March 22, 2025
Friday, March 21, 2025
Quote of the Day
Do everything you can to live a quiet life. Mind your own business. Work with your own hands, just as we told you to. ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:11
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Sì, mi chiamano Mimì
Off to Chicago for the opera and a costume exhibit. Best get some use out of Amtrak while it's still around.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Vintage Workbasket Crafts - a Two-fer from 1955
From the June, 1955 issue of Workbasket magazine, a belt to crochet and a rug to knit. Rug yarn is hard to find these days, but I'm wondering if some of the new cotton t-shirt yarns wouldn't work just as well.
This one isn't on the Antique Pattern Library page yet - it's from my own copy. Left-click to enlarge.
Monday, March 17, 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Friday, March 14, 2025
Quote Of The Day
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer.
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Miscellaneous Crafts - Washcloth Gifts from 1970
Left-click to enlarge.
Monday, March 10, 2025
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
A Cliche But He Pulled It Off
He went as Fluffy the 3-Headed Dog and I was Hagrid. Half the second grade came as Ron, Harry or Hermione, so he had his picture taken a lot.
Quote of the Day
More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, but only a past that suits their purpose. ~ Eric Hobsbawm
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Vintage Tatting - A Floral Edge from 1948
Monday, March 3, 2025
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
Suggestions Welcome
Next Friday the elementary school where the Little Man and I volunteer is having a "Dress Up As Your Favorite Book Character" day. I really need some good (achievable) ideas for the two of us.
Quote of the Day
Shades of Evening by Mildred Anne Butler
For never resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter and confounds him there
Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone
Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness everywhere. ~ William Shakespeare
To hideous winter and confounds him there
Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone
Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness everywhere. ~ William Shakespeare
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Grrrsday
photo from r/germanshepherds
If I can give you no other piece of advice, it's this. Don't have a pet dog. Get a cat, get a budgie, get fish. 40% of all unexpected bodies are found by people walking dogs. ~ Forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black
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