Obscure Holidays - National Honey Month

 

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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.

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

 

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Obscure Holidays - Happy National Koi Day

 

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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.

Vintage Magazines - Good Housekeeping, July, 1921

 

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).

 

The Online Bookshelf - The Rainbow Book

Subtitled Tales of Fun and Fancy, with illustrators that include Arthur Rackham and Harry Rountree. A free download from Project Gutenberg.

Vintage Magazines - The Blue Book, April, 1926

 

How could anyone resist that cover?

Tatting - A Doyley from 1871

 

From The Ladies' Own Paper, June 24th, 1871.  And here are the instructions, in their entirety.

National Volunteer Week

 

Vintage Holidays - Easter

 

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Vintage Holidays - Easter

 

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Obscure Holidays - another Two-fer

This is not only National Mustache Month, it's also Talk Like Shakespeare Week ("thou crusted botch of nature" is a personal fave).

 

Vintage Holidays - St Patrick's Day

 

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Vintage Magazines - The Delineator, November, 1919

 This lovely Edwardian lady isn't attending a Mardi-Gras ball, but she looks as though she could be.

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.

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).  

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Vintage Holidays - Valentine's Day

 

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Vintage Advertising - Kinsey Whiskey

 

From Collier's magazine.