Thursday, December 31, 2020

Happy New Year

 


Here's hoping 2021 turns out a lot better than it's looking so far.

Monday, December 28, 2020

Vintage Images - Cat Music

 

If anyone ever figures out how to sing this, let me know.

Friday, December 25, 2020

Quote Of The Day

 



 
In the bleak mid-winter

Frosty wind made moan;

Earth stood hard as iron,

Water like a stone; 

Snow had fallen, snow on snow,

Snow on snow,

In the bleak mid-winter

Long ago. ~ Christina Rossetti

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Sewing: The "Twenty Minutes'" Blouse from 1923

 


From The Girl's Own Paper, January 1923.  The editors want you to send them ninepence for a pattern, but I don't think it's really needed.

Interestingly enough, like many of the other designs featured in the GOP, this appears to have been swiped, without attribution, from a French fashion supplement, Les Modes De La Femmes De France. I pinned this a few months ago and of course now can't find it. EDITED TO ADD: Found it! 
https://pin.it/lZGL7GO 

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Friday, December 18, 2020

Quote Of The Day

image from Pinterest

Therefore, all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree, while the night-thatch
Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Sunday, December 13, 2020

In Some States, That's a Hanging Offense

 


We had to put it back up on the bookshelf.  Someone kept stealing a sheep.

Sunday, December 6, 2020

WHAT A GUY


Brian is giving me a water buffalo for Christmas.