Little Grey Bungalow
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Friday, May 29, 2020
Quote Of The Day
image from the Graphics Fairy
A bumblebee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. ~ Anonymous
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Vintage Woodcrafts - Doll's Garden Furniture from 1939
Garden furniture, and a fence and gate from clothespins, from Popular Mechanics, October 1939.
Monday, May 25, 2020
Vintage Images - A Red Poppy
image from the Graphics Fairy
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. ~ John McCrae
Saturday, May 23, 2020
Friday, May 22, 2020
Quote Of The Day
River Landscape, Gustave Courbet (1869)
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. ~ Toni Morrison
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Vintage Papercrafts - Some Dolls' Furniture
From Tina Lee's 1965 book Things To Do, dolls' furniture to make of discarded boxes. More doll projects available in the book which can be found (to borrow only) on the Open Library.
Monday, May 18, 2020
Vintage Images - Flags of Scandinavia
image from Pinterest
Happy Syttende Mai (belated) to my Norwegian readers - if I have any. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that without Scandinavian immigrants, the Midwest as we know it today would not exist.
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Friday, May 15, 2020
Eternal Vigilance
And an eighty dollar child gate - is the price of freedom from Little Man and Batdog sneaking into the laundry room to snack on cat poo.
Quote Of The Day
copyright-free image from Dover
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Tempus Done Fugited On Me
watercolor by Charles Rennie MacKintosh
I just lost a day - I've been under the impression for the past four hours now that it was Tuesday (which is why the usual Tuesday needlework project was just posted).
Is this happening to everyone else?
Sewing - A Beach Coat from 1951
"Just a towel - So useful for the beach girl, just a large towel and she has a draped coat for use. So easy to make." And with summer just around the corner (unless you live in the Midwest, where the weather keeps trying to convince us that it is still February), a timely project.
Left click to enlarge, or have the fun of looking for the original in the Australian Home Journal at archive.org. You are warned - the link is to their run of issues from 1949-1952.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Friday, May 8, 2020
Quote Of The Day
image from The National Geographic
The climate is like a rowboat; you can only tip it so far before you get to the other stable state, which is upside down. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Thursday, May 7, 2020
The Online Bookshelf - A Little Garden Calendar
A children's gardening manual with a lovely Edwardian cover. Download at Project Gutenberg.
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Aunt Martha's Workbasket, December 1937
Crocheted panholders and a poinsettia refreshment set of coasters and a pitcher mat. Two quilt patterns - "Save-all" - to use up every scrap you have, even the tiniest, and one for "Ring Around The Star." Transfers for the cross-stitch pets on the cover would set you back the magnificent sum of twenty-five cents.
The download is available at the Antique Pattern Library.
Monday, May 4, 2020
Vintage Images - Dahlia
image from Pinterest
An early Cinco de Mayo greeting with Mexico's national flower.
Saturday, May 2, 2020
Friday, May 1, 2020
Parabola
1. a symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. The path of a projectile under the influence of gravity ideally follows a curve of this shape.
2. What happens to the liquid when someone slips while moving a freshly-made bowl of strawberry Jello™ into the refrigerator and tries to catch the bowl but only manages to flip it up on one end.
It looks like we ritually slaughtered a goat in there.
Quote Of The Day
image from the Graphics Fairy
I thought that spring must last forevermore; For I was young and loved, and it was May. ~ Vera Brittain
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