Monday, April 30, 2018

Vintage Advertising - Postum


What beautiful colors advertising artists used to use.  This is from McCall's magazine, January 1911.  

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Friday, April 27, 2018

Quote Of The Day


Any man that can make a living doing what he likes is lucky, and I'm that. ~ Charles Russell.

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Caturday!


Amuse me, hoomin.  I'm bored.

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Punting


Because I don't have anything of my own scanned today, I am offering a link to a French vintage enthusiast's blog.  Every Monday she posts scans from her collection of fashion, sewing and knitting magazines (click on Vintagerie for back issues).

Even if you don't parlez-vous, they're a lot of fun to page through.


Monday, April 16, 2018

Vintage Advertising - Kestos Swimwear


Image from patricia's wonderful site, posted because it has been snowing on and off all day and I'm a cruel person.

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Friday, April 13, 2018

Quote Of The Day


It is in truth a most contagious game;
Hiding the Skeleton shall be its name. ~ George Meredith

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Grrrsday


And in other news -- it snowed last weekend.  I spent this afternoon out in the back yard, wearing a tank top and pedal pushers.

According to an ominous email I got from the National Weather Service, it's going to snow again this weekend.

Monday, April 9, 2018

Doggie Valium, Maybe?


Since late Saturday afternoon Batdog has been acting as though he's trying to tell us that Timmy has fallen down the well.  We can't figure out what's bothering him and it's driving us crazy.

Vintage Images - Winter


Timing is everything.  Brian brought the patio furniture out this week and it snowed last night.

Saturday, April 7, 2018

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

An Orthopedic Status Symbol


You fractured a rib tripping over Aunt Glady's porch steps.   I fractured a rib because the Right Honorable Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne needs to do something about that muddy bit between the gift shop and the coach park.

(Having a high pain threshold is not an unmixed blessing.  It didn't dawn on me that I'd broken anything until after I got back).


Monday, April 2, 2018

A Small Price To Pay


The Visa bill came Saturday.

Although (as you can see by Wednesday's post) I did buy a fair amount of yarn, the real big-ticket item was a cherry-red, crew-necked cashmere sweater.

Although I planned to visit some thrift shops while I was in Scotland I only made it to a handful, and none in Edinburgh. I just ran out of time.  

And wind.  It wasn't that I did so much walking (not nearly as much as in Italy, for example, where one tour member with a Fitbit clocked us at forty-eight miles in eight days), it's just that in Scotland everything is either at the very top or the very bottom of a hill.