Suggestions Welcome

 

Next Friday the elementary school where the Little Man and I volunteer is having a "Dress Up As Your Favorite Book Character" day.  I really need some good (achievable) ideas for the two of us.

Quote of the Day

 

Shades of Evening by Mildred Anne Butler

For never resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter and confounds him there
Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone
Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness everywhere. ~ William Shakespeare

Grrrsday

 

photo from r/germanshepherds

If I can give you no other piece of advice, it's this.  Don't have a pet dog.  Get a cat, get a budgie, get fish.  40% of all unexpected bodies are found by people walking dogs. ~ Forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black

Vintage Knitting - Doll Bootees from 1959

 

From my issue of the July, 1959 Workbasket magazine, doll bootees for an 8-inch baby doll. Left-click to enlarge or, a complete copy is available as a free download from the Internet archive. 

Vintage Advertising - Colorite Hat Dye, 1921

 

Oh, the good old days, where staying in fashion was as easy as a bottle of hat dye. From the Womens Home Companion, March 1921.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Come when the rains

Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,

While the slant sun of February pours

Into the bowers a flood of light. ~ William Cullen Bryant

Vintage Fiber Craft - A Basketry Book for Children from 1914

 

A recent offering from the Antique Pattern Library, free download of the Priscilla Juniors Basketry Book, intended for schoolchildren ages five and up  (this basket design was considered suitable for sixth graders).  

And if you really like it, as always, there's a donate button in the top right corner.

Presidents' Day

 

Caturday!

Actual photo of a Mexican who crossed the border to work in America. 

Quote of the Day

 

Photo from the Guardian, UK

Faced with the choice between a cosily heated, well-lit house tonight versus the vague threat of floods and melted icecaps at some distant point in the unknowable future, most people will crank up the thermostat, switch on the lights, and settle down for the evening.  Culture is a habit that is hard to break. ~ Eleanor Barraclough

Grrrsday

 

Valentine Crafts from 1912 - Heart Monograms to Stencil

 From Good Housekeeping magazine, February 1912.  The copy at the Internet Archive is incomplete, but this can be found on p88.

Vintage Holidays - Valentine's Day

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

Hope is the thing with feathers. ~ Emily Dickinson.
 

Grrrsday

 

Valentine Crafts from 1953

 From the McCall's Giant Golden Make-it Book, published 1953.  A copy is available for loan (not download, alas) on the Internet Archive.

Black History Month

 

Caturday!