A Brief Hiatus

My youngest sister, her husband, and their three children arrive tomorrow.

If you think Reserve Cat is cranky now....

UPDATE: Reserve Cat bonded with the twelve year old boy.  The kittens hid in the basement until they left.

Talk about unexpected developments!

A Nice Derangement Of Pussycats

Crochet - A Motif from 1953

From the February, 1953 issue of Workbasket magazine.  The instructions can be found on my Flickr account.

Woman Proposes, Cat Disposes

After washing the white coverlet and putting it back on the spare-room bed, I carefully spread a bath-towel over the top to keep it from getting soiled or covered in pet hair...someone had other plans.  Seriously, why do I bother?

Caturday!

Quote Of The Day

Grrrsday

Crochet - A Table Mat from 1953

From the February, 1953 issue of Workbasket magazine.  Three pages of instructions can be found on my Flickr account, along with instructions on how to take the lettering off of feedsacks,  the Fat Girl's Diet and something that looks like a scold's bridle but promises that Fifteen Minutes a Day Brings Thrilling New Loveliness!

In related news, I was free for a few hours one morning last week and hit a couple of local thrift shops returning with -- among other treasures -- a dozen copies of Workbasket, only one of which I already had (I had to buy the lot).

When one of my fellow trainees heard this, she mentioned that she had all of her aunt's copies and did I want them?

(hell, yes).

Vintage Advertising - Camel Cigarettes

From Adventure magazine, February 1930 - back when men going topless on the beach was unheard of.

Caturday!

On The Road Again

Off for another week of training. Blogging will resume on Caturday!

Caturday!

Quote of the Day

Still Life with Melon by Luis Melendez

It is hard to provide and cook so simple and clean a diet as will not offend the imagination, but this, I think is to be fed when we feed the body; they should both sit down at the same table. ~ Henry David Thoreau

They're Enjoying The Scenery, Too

Because Sam asked for photos ~

Knitting - Golf Mitts from 1953

It's still almost two weeks till Father's Day -- knit fast.

From Workbasket magazine, February 1953.  One double-page of instructions on my Flickr account.

Vintage Magazines - Adventure, April 1941

Caturday!

With Apologies to Gertrude Stein

Kittehs on the grass alas.

Kittehs on the grass alas.

Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow grass.

Kittehs large kittehs on the shorter longer yellow grass alas kittehs on the grass.

If they were not kittehs what were they.

If they were not kittehs on the grass alas what were they.  He had heard of a third and he asked about if it was a magpie in the sky.

If a magpie in the sky on the sky can not cry if the kitteh on the grass alas can alas and to pass the kitteh on the grass alas and the magpie in the sky on the sky and to try and to try alas on the grass alas the kitteh on the grass the kitteh on the grass and alas.

They might be very well they might be very well very well they might be.