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Other Crafts - "Frilly Lacy Jewelry" from 1973

 

From Make it From Odds 'n' Ends, published in 1973 by the Pack O' Fun people, a variety of jewelry, pendants and earrings to make from string and acetate (a suggested source of the acetate - the lids to holiday card boxes).  Available as an online loan only at the Internet Archive. 

Tomorrow Is National Chocolate Day

 

Govern yourselves accordingly.

Caturday!

 

History Repeats Itself

 

Seven Nisei soldiers of the 442nd posthumously receive commission. ~ Military Times, 10/20/25

Last month, the Secretary of the Army posthumously promoted seven second-generation ('Nisei') Japanese-American soldiers to the rank of second lieutentant.  These men had been ROTC cadets at the University of Hawaii in December of 1941.  

They were expelled and forcibly removed to a relocation center on the West Coast after Roosevelt signed an executive order stripping them not only of their chance at serving as officers but most of their legal rights as citizens.

All enlisted in the 442nd Regimental Combat team.  All were killed fighting in Europe.  

Their names were Grover Nagaji, Howard Urabe, Robert Murata, Jenhatsu Chinen, Daniel Betsui, Hiroichi Tomita and Akio Nishikawa.

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Vintage Furniture Crafts - a "Costumer" from 1915

 

From The Boy Mechanic: Book II, a free download from the Internet Archive, dating back to a time when your house might have one or two small closets - if you were lucky.  This is a grand book, full of interesting projects that in those dear dead days were considered simple enough for a boy 12-16 years old to make.  

Happy Birthday To The Woman Who Tried To Warn Us

 

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Quote Of The Day

 

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Vintage Sewing - Plastic Bibs from 1950

 

From Crafts for Everyone by Louis Newkirk, a set of bibs to be made from that new-fangled plastic fabric that was all the rage just after the war.

Instructions can be found at the Internet Archive - unfortunately, this is one of those books that has to be checked out by the hour, but an account is free.

Happy Columbus Day

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

photo from Getty Images

I must counsel you, my dear, to remember that patience is one of the highest virtues a woman can possess, and self-control is another. ~ Bessie Dill

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Children's Crafts - A Clothes Peg Boat from 1949

From Hobbies Weekly, November 16th, 1949.  A British publication from a time when toys, and materials to make toys, were in short supply.  A better picture can be found at the Internet Archive. 
 

Happy Birthday, Fannie Lou Hamer

 

"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."

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Quote of the Day

 

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Target of Opportunity

 

Brian has been getting out of bed early to go to work, and someone is taking advantage.

(*corn and soybean harvesting with his BIL).

Tatting - Trimmings for Household Linens from 1919

 

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A page extracted from Needlecraft magazine, September 1919, from the Antique Pattern Library.  The medallion in the left column would make a nice snowflake ornament.

Left-click to enlarge.

Obscure Holidays - National Coffee Day

 

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Quote of the Day

It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy.  You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people.  It was so much easier to blame it on Them.  It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us.  If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault.  If it was Us, then what did that make Me?  After all, I'm one of Us.  I must be.  I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them.

No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them.  We're always one of Us.  It's Them that do the bad things. ~ Sir Terry Pratchett

 

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Vintage Crochet - A Christmas Bear from 1950

 

From Workbasket magazine, October 1950 comes a frilly teddy bear to crochet for Christmas - slightly more  legible instructions and the entire issue can be found at the Antique Pattern Library.

Tis Autumn Equinox

 

AKA the day people in Chicago jam Randolph Street near Millennial Park to get a photo of the sunset aligning perfectly with the east-west street grid.

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Quote of the Day

 

If you want to know who rules over you, look at who you aren't allowed to criticize. ~ George Orwell 

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Vingage Knitting - Baby Booties from 1957

 

From Workbasket magazine, September 1957 (this is from the copy in my collection, but the entire magazine can be found at the Antique Pattern Library).  By the time you finish making these, the weather may actually have cooled off enough for a baby to wear them.

Vintage Advertising - Borden's 1949

From Woman's Day, March 1949.

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Quote of the Day

 

The prudent man does not make the goat his gardener. ~ Hungarian proverb

Lest We Forget

 

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Jewelry - A "Wall of Jericho" Necklace from 1957

From Workbasket magazine, October, 1957.  Where the name came is anybody's guess.  The entire issue is available as a free download at the Antique Pattern Library.

 

Obscure Holidays - National Honey Month

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy

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Quote of the Day

 

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. ~ Rod McKuen

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Vintage Woodworking - A Whatnot from 1943

 

This is an example of what boys were expected to be able to accomplish, perhaps with a bit of help from Dad or the shop teacher.  From Popular Mechanic's The Young Craftsman, available as a free download from Archive.org.

Happy Labor Day

 

 

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Quote Of The Day

 

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins. ~ Laurie Colwin

Girl With A Pearl Earring