Quote Of The Day

 

Jesus was a liberator of the oppressed, not a mascot for the powerful. ~ Carlos Rodriguez

CLEAN-UP ON AISLE THREE

 

A local thrift store just posted this on their Facebook page:  "To the grandmother & granddaughter who came in on Wednesday and bought the sewing machine, we have your owl that was accidentally left behind."

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Vintage Knitting - A Lacy Leaf Insertion from 1966

 

From Workbasket magazine, May 1966, an "elegant insertion (to) add a touch of luxury to your linens."  Left-click to enlarge.

Happy National Reading Month

 

I have a feeling my reading time is going to be limited shortly - the Red Cross has sent out a heads up that we will probably be responding to three simultaneous Level 5 (the highest) weather events by the weekend.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

They Also Serve Who Stay Home and Watch This On The Internet

 

His third trip to the Bataan Memorial Death March in White Sands, NM. There were 983 starters in the category Civilian-Males, Light and 801 finished.  Average time, all age groups was 8:6:26, he finished in 7:56:22, in 351st place overall.

He says this is his last year.  We'll see.

  

Grrrsday

 

Happy World Poetry Day

Senescence begins

And middle age ends

The day your descendents

Outnumber your friends.  Ogden Nash

Vintage Tatting - An Insertion from 1916

An insertion in "Modern Tatting" from American Woman, June 1916.  It is presumably modern because of the lack of frilly picots, but who knows.  Left-click to enlarge.

 

Vintage Holidays - Happy Vernal Equinox

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy

Also, Happy Earth Day.

Life Imitates Art, Part Deux

 

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.  ~ John Keegan.

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Children's Crafts - A Wooden String Holder from 1943

 

From the early 1940's Hobbycraft series, this is a string holder in the shape of a cat's head, not unlike the cloth one from a few years ago.  

 

Woodcraft, by William H. Johnson and Louis V. Newkirk.  This is from my personal copy, as I have not been able to find this anywhere online.

Vintage Holidays - St Patrick's Day

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Mirrors are not more silent

Nor the creeping dawn more secretive;

in the moonlight, you are that panther

we catch sight of from afar. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

 

The Online Bookshelf - Our Old Nursery Rhymes

 

A lovely old book with charming, Kate Greenaway-esque illustrations.  Free download from Project Gutenberg.

"We See You Are Making A Turkey Sammich"

 

He spends way too much time with the dogs.

Vintage Tatting - Edgings from Workbasket Magazine, 1946

 

Four edgings from Workbasket magazine, June 1946.  The instructions can be downloaded (along with the rest of it) for free, at the Antique Pattern Library.

Happy Casimir Pulaski Day

 

Established as a holiday in Illinois in 1986, and originally everything including banks and schools closed.  The mean-spirited point out that this was only 3 years after MLK day was designated, and claim it happened so the white residents of Chicago could have their own holiday (eye-roll).

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

And in other, perhaps not very surprising news, Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of only 2 members of Congress to vote against a Republican-sponsored declaration mourning the loss of life in the earthquakes earlier this month.

Forecasts For The Weekend Look...Interesting

 

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