image from the Graphics Fairy When April steps aside for May, LIke diamonds all the raindrops glisten. Fresh violets open every day, To some...

 

This is the sort of "make do and mend" craft that was popular during the Depression and then later when people were enduring ratio...

  image from Time magazine

 

    Whoever makes a garden Has never worked alone; The rain has alway found it, The sun has always known. ~ Douglas Malloch

 

  A treasure-trove of laces to trim your towels, pillowcases, and babyclothes.  From Woman's Day magazine, May of 1950.  Two additional ...

  From Good Housekeeping magazine, February 1929.  If you want to give that recipe a try, left-click to enlarge.  A black and white copy of...

 

  A summer's morning gave one a beautiful feeling, like Christmas carols and dog's eyes. ~ Ruby Ferguson

 

From the May, 1950 issue of Woman's Day magazine, three pages on making dresses for two different doll sizes.  There are no patterns off...

  "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual...

  Spending the weekend in Chicago being all artsy-fartsy. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom tonight, the Matisse exhibit at the Art Institute and...

 

 

 

 From Handicrafts for the Handicapped , a set of paper animals for a sick or invalid child to cut out and play with - in the days when Mamma...

 From the Pictorial Review , April 1933.