Paper Crafts - A Cat Cutout

 

From a booklet rather starkly entitled Crafts For The Very Disabled and Handicapped, a cat outline that was designed to be colored on a piece of unbleached muslin to make a dresser scarf. I think it would make a better cutout for an applique or a holiday window decoration, personally.

The booklet has a variety of occupational-therapy craft ideas and is available at archive.org as a one-hour loan.

Vingage Images - Hallowe'en

 

Copyright-free images from Dover.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

...October, October.
Can heaven itself be golden 
enough to rival this? ~ Linda Pastan

Grrrsday

 

Other Crafts - A Literary Game for Hallowe'en from 1882

 

Found in Chapter IX, "Halloween and Other Amusements," a literary guessing game for home parties.  From the American Girl's Home Book of Work and Play, a free download from the Internet Archive.  A safer alternative to some of the other suggestions which include melting lead and burning nuts to read the future.  

If you are more actively inclined, costume ideas can be found in the chapter on sewing and doll's dressmaking (starting on p.235) and include a Normandy peasant, a Spanish dancer, and a marquise.

A Passing Thought

 There is no such thing as too many books - only too few bookshelves.

I've Died And Gone To Heaven

 

All In The Family

 

Yes, we're sisters. Why do you ask?

A Brief Sojourn

 

Leaving for Detroit to spend a week with the spousal unit's in-laws.  See you Monday!

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Birdnote sounding here and there,
A bloom, where leaves are brown and sober,
Warm noons, and nights with frosty air,
And loaded wagons say, October. ~ Thomas Stephens Collier

Grrrsday

 

Paper Craft for Children - A Model of the Santa Maria

 

From the indefatigable Beard sisters, a paper model of the Santa Maria to make for a Columbus Day game.  From Things Worth Doing and How to Do Them, 1906.  Free download available at Project Gutenberg.

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Columbus Day

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Democracy means rule of the people, not rule of monarchs, not rule of the monied, not rule of the mighty. Regardless of party, that means respecting free and fair elections; accepting the outcome, win or lose.  It means you can't love your country only when you win. ~ Joseph R. Biden

Grrrsday

 

Canis Arfem

 

The only piece of child art I have on our refrigerator, this was drawn by one of his young readers at the public library.  Dam' good likeness, says I, especially for an 8 year old.

Children's Crafts - Doll Book Marks

 

Since it's National Book Month, here are some bookmarks for children (or anyone) to make out of scraps of yarn, from McCall's Golden Book of Handicrafts, published 1953.  Left-click to enlarge.

Holidays - National Book Month

 And in other news, starting today, the Little Man goes back to school every week to help second graders read.