Vintage Children's Crafts - Milk Carton Toys from 1976

 

From a great and fun book called The Woman's Day Book of Gifts To Make, published in the mid-1970s (which is when I think home crafting with humble supplies really peaked in this country.  So many craft magazines after that rely heavily on stores and kits).  Left-click  to enlarge.

Milk  in cartons is hard to find now, but orange juice is still around.  This book can be borrowed from the Open Library site.  It is free, but an account is required.  

Vintage Holidays - New Year's Eve

 

copyright-free image from The Graphics Fairy

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

 

This Christmas we gave each other our colds.

Vintage Holidays - Christmas

 

Caturday!

 

The Original Antifa

 

The American cemetery in Hamm, Luxembourg 

Kill Me Now

 The most obvious shortcoming of a cruise ship is that you have nowhere else to go.

It becomes even more obvious when the carol singers in the lounge get started on their fourth iteration of Felice Navidad.

The Legend of Bishop Hatto

 

We are passing through Bingen on the Rhine and the Bishop's Tower is on the north bank (he was a real person and a very cruel man). This poem gave me nightmares when I read it at age nine or so.

Walking Off The Pilsner

 

A Balkan Breakfast

Baba ganoush, picked beets, olives, cheese and incomparable bread and butter.

Not All Who Wander Etc Etc

 

Fourteen jours, to be exact.  Blogging will be intermittent for a while.