Obscure Holidays - National Honey Month

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

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

Grrrsday

 

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

 

 

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

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

Girl With A Pearl Earring

 

Home Sewing - Applique Placemats from 1952

From Good Housekeeping, August 1952, a quartet of placemats to applique with fruits and leaves.  Left-click to enlarge.

HOIST, PETARD, OWN

 

In an appalling but typical display of vindictiveness and attempted intimidation, the governor of Texas is forbidding any of the returning Democratic state representatives to go anywhere unless accompanied by a police escort.

In response, two of the lawmakers decided to visit a drag show in Austin yesterday.

And It's August Already

 I feel his pain.

Caturday!

 

Minnie came up from the basement after we got home last night* and gave me a cold stare and an angry meow - then turned around and went right back downstairs.  She got over her snit by bedtime, though.

(*she despises the new petsitter, a sweet local high school kid that the dogs, Blitzen and Sheba adore).

A Journey of 1,000 Miles Begins With A Single Step

 And ends with sleeping for the entire day.

I May Be Moving

 

We docked in Kotor yesterday.

There Will Always Be An England

 

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND DEP'T: Our cruise director, during the port brief for the next day's adventures, pointed out with typical British understatement that there were only three roads into and out of our destination, and "...if you get lost, you should not be out unsupervised."

Bon Voyage (Again)

 

Departing for the Adriatic tomorrow.  Blogging will be intermittent for a while. 

(The dog-sitter has been engaged, and the boys are not pleased).

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Grrrsday

 

While We're On the Subject of Vacances

 

Does anyone know of any good yarn shops in Athens?

Vintage Crochet - A Thread Motif from 1950

 

From the September, 1950 issue of Workbasket magazine, a delicate motif in thread crochet for a tablecloth or dresser scarf. This is from my own collection, and as of this date, not yet available at the Antique Pattern Library.

Left-click to enlarge.

Semper Paratus

 

Happy birthday to the branch nobody remembers until some damn fool rents a powerboat and sinks it.

Summer In The City

 

 

Why I am taking vacation when technically I am always on vacation?  Oldest sister is arriving today and we'll be hitting the fleshpots of Chicago* until Saturday.

(*or at least the Art Institute and the Palmer House).

Welcome to Summer in the Midwest

 We will be under a "heat dome" until Thursday.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

I ate healthy, I didn't drink or smoke...and then my reward was to watch everyone around me die.  So go ahead, get the French fries instead of the carrots. ~ Anonymous hospice resident

Grrrsday

 

Children's Crafts - A PaperDoll from 1925

 

"Hildegarde Lives in Holland," a paper doll from Good Housekeeping magazine, January 1925.  The entire year's issues as a bound copy to download can be found at archive.org.

Obscure Holidays - National Junk Food Day

 

image from FB

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Knitting - A Child's Sweater from 1952

 

A child's blazer-style sweater with contrasting trim, from Modern Knitting, Summer 1952. Left-click to enlarge.

Quote of the Day

 

image from the Graphics Fairy

When the heat like a mist veil floats,
And poppies flame in the rye,
And the silver note in the streamlet's throat
Has softened almost to a sigh.  It is July. ~ Susan Hartley Swett

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Tatting - A Traycloth motif from 1916

If you are getting started on your Christmas tatting already, the center motif from this tray cloth (first three rows) would, stiffly starched, make a classic snowflake (even if it does have eight points instead of six).  It's from a 1916 Bucilla tatting and crochet manual, with the instructions on p43.

(And if you do filet crochet, there are a variety of fantastic "La Belle et La Bete" beasts on pages 9-12.

Obscure Holidays - Happy National Koi Day

 

image from Pinterest

Give a cat a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach a cat to fish and he'll empty the neighbor's koi pond. ~ old Japanese saying.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

A Republic - if you can keep it. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Grrrsday

 

We Still Love You, Neighbors to the North, In Spite of our Stupid President

 

Vintage Crochet - Daisy Lace from 1948

 From the January, 1948 issue of Workbasket magazine, a rather tricky-looking edging to crochet. Left-click to enlarge.

Vintage Magazines - Good Housekeeping, July, 1921

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

photo by Jacob Riis

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace. ~ Federico Garcia Lopez

Grrrsday

 

A Vintage "Model" Dolls' House Sink from 1938

Finding stuff to put on the blog on Tuesdays gives me a great excuse to burrow around on the Internet - and here courtesy of Pinterest is a dolls' house project from the April 30th, 1938 issue of Hobbies Weekly, a small (fewer than 30 pages) publication that looks as though it was done rather on the cheap.  Still great fun and some wonderful person has scanned several issues from 1938 to 1944 and put them up on the Internet Archive.  Enjoy.  EDITED TO ADD:  left-clicking to enlarge the image above results in reduced legibility but if you enlarge from the Internet Archive page, the font is still faint but readable.  The pattern pieces on the center of the booklet are quite clear.

(The sink is 6 inches tall so, not to scale).

 

Don't Tempt Me

 Today is International Widows' Day.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Nobody's free until everybody's free. ~ Fannie Lou Hamer