Vintage Holidays - Happy New Year

image from the Graphics Fairy

In a startling break from the usual, Brian and I will be spending New Year's Eve in the company of some incredibly witty and sophisticated people.  AMC is having a Thin Man marathon.

Caturday!

I've posted this before but it bears repeating.

Quote of the Day

The world is full of books about women - most often alluded to in such books as "Woman." The vast majority of these books have been written by men. ~ Helena Stanwick

The Online Bookshelf: Rescue Dog Of The High Pass

I loved this writer's animal stories when I was young.  A free download is available on Project Gutenberg. I think he also wrote "Big Red."

A Christmas Poem

Vintage Images - Christmas

free image from the Graphics Fairy

Caturday!

(somewhat belated).

Quote Of The Day

Treachery has existed as long as there has been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust. ~ Gen James Mattis

Grrrsday

Help Not Wanted

Judging from the shouts of "What did you do with the washcloth!" emanating from downstairs, Little Man is helping Big Man take his shower.

Other Crafts - Christmas Gift Wrapping Ideas

More ideas from Nina Jordan's book, Holiday Handicraft.

Vintage Holidays - Christmas

A vintage Santa Claus from the Graphics Fairy.

Caturday!

Quote Of The Day

photograph courtesy LA Times

Nature bears long with those who wrong her.  She is patient under abuse.  But when abuse has gone too far, when the time of reckoning finally comes, she is equally slow to be appeased and to turn away her wrath. ~ Nathaniel Egleston.

Grrrsday

Aunt Martha's Workbasket, August, 1937

Volume 1, No 11, which if my calculations are correct (and there's no guarantee of that) is the August 1937 issue. In this eight-page little booklet, readers could find patterns for a late summer blouse in shell stitch, a collar and cuffs, and a pan holder.  The only non-crochet pattern was for "From The Land Of Cherry Blossoms" in embroidery, the next in the magazine's round-the-world children's series. 

This pdf can be downloaded (free) at the Antique Patterns Library site.

Quote Of The Day

magazine cover from Pinterest

Half of our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~ Will Rogers

Grrrsday

Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

He just pee'd down the heating register in the front room.

No Rest For The Wicked

Last night was my last in Florida, and I was called at the hotel by my region.  They need me to deploy for the tornado response.  Unfortunately for their plans, when I got home there was a summons to jury duty waiting for me.

(And in other news, while I was gone Little Man figured out how to open the gate to get to the basement where the kitty litter boxes are).