New from Purple
Kitty – a book of quintessentially mid-30’s hats. They can be downloaded as individual
patterns, one by one for free, as a single pdf for $1.49, or you can opt to
purchase all the 2014 and
2015 files at a whack for $12.00.
Little Grey Bungalow
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Right On Time
image from Pinterest
It's the day after Christmas and we received five seed catalogs in the mail this morning.
Friday, December 25, 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Monday, December 21, 2015
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Nightmare Food
I can’t remember if I’ve posted this before (From Dainty Desserts for Dainty People, courtesy of Knox Gelatine circa 1915), but it
looks as though it has fangs and would turn on anyone unwise enough to attempt
to eat it.
The rest of the illustrations in the booklet are far less menacing.
The rest of the illustrations in the booklet are far less menacing.
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Friday, December 18, 2015
Quote of the Day
Winter Landscape in the Mountains, by Pinio Colombi
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure
of the landscape. Something waits beneath
it; the whole story doesn’t show. ~ Andrew Wyeth
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Der Tag
image from Pinterest
He got
a sizable rebate check from the insurance company yesterday.
Me: Do
you want me to deposit it for you?
He: Only $200.
Keep the rest out for running-around money.
Monday, December 14, 2015
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
Quote of the Day
Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel
proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind
you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove
anything you feel is unlike you…It doesn’t walk in saying, “Our programme means
militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.” ~ Michael
Rosen
Thursday, December 10, 2015
It’s Like Watching An Elephant Trying To Walk On Tip-Toe
image from the Graphics Fairy
He (speaking in a loud and artificially sweet voice to the
dog): I really need to go to bed but I
can’t until I check my email, and I can’t get on the computer.
Me (hunched over the computer keyboard): So ask, already, and stop being so passive aggressive.
He: Can I be actively aggressive? Get off the f*cking computer!
Monday, December 7, 2015
Sunday, December 6, 2015
History Repeats Itself
“A joint review of US
Ebola quarantine policies by analysts at the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) and Yale University found that the quarantines imposed by states weren’t
medically justified and were unconstitutional.
The 46-page report said the infection and death of a
Liberian man in Dallas, and illnesses in two nurses that cared for him,
triggered disproportionate fear and hysteria in October and Novemver of 2014
that led to overly restrictive quarantine measures in many states that misled
the public.
In a forward to the report by Deane Marchbien, MD, president
of Doctors without Borders in the United States, said the report put
responsibility for the panic on political leaders—enabled by a “fear-mongering
mass media”—through ignorance or political expediency.”
