On The Road (Again)

Headed for a Red Cross training institute for a week. Blogging will resume on Caturday!

Happy Year of the Rat

I can't find a rat on my usual papercraft go-to, Canon, so here's a lantern to sit under while you're celebrating the Lunar New Year.

Caturday!

Quote Of The Day

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde

Grrrsday

Aunt Martha's Workbasket, August 1937

A mixed bag this month - how to make rugs by knotting pieces of rag around and through two strands of heavy cord*, tips on trimming using ric-rac, a very PA Dutch-looking tulip applique quilt, a baby's bonnet in crochet, and three pages of patterns to send away for - cross-stitch tea cloths, wooden garden markers, and an embroidered hanging.  Full PDF can be downloaded from the Antique Pattern Library. 

*The same technique is illustrated/explained much more completely in the Popular Mechanics reprint The Girl Mechanic, if you're really interested.

Thought For The Day

MLK poster by Paul Lovering

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal ~ Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

Caturday!

Aquavit, Anyone?

My sister and I have been so enthusiastic about our voyage on Viking River Cruises last year that Mister Ride-To-The-Sound-of-the-Guns has agreed to take a trip with me this spring.

I really hope he likes it because they offer one on the Rhine that is very, very tempting.

(For those inquiring minds out there - we're hiring a live-in petsitter).

Caturday!

And for the knitters out there, Australian animals desperately need our help - The Rescue Collective and Animal Rescue Collective are providing patterns and asking for assistance in producing pouches for orphan joeys, mittens for koalas with burned paws, blankets, knitted vests and sweaters.  A link to patterns and the FB group collecting donations is here (and if you don't knit, they're happy to take cash donations).

Sunday update:  This is what is still needed.

Quote Of The Day

All day the thick, soft flakes had fallen quietly, covering the blank-faced nymphs and satyrs on Vienna's innumerable fountains; blanketing the bronze rumps of the rearing horses on which dead warriors of the Hapsburg Empire rode forever; giving the trees along the Ringstrasse a spare, Siberian splendor. ~ Eva Ibbotson

Quote Of The Day

Horatio Henry Couldery,Cats at the Fishbowl.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ~ George Eliot

Resolutions

With the old Almanack and the old Year,

Leave thy old Vices, tho' ever so dear.  ~ Old Farmer's Almanac

Happy Mew Year

A re-run but worth it.   

When He Hands It To You On A Silver Platter

He (walks into the room waving a catalog): Do you know what my problem is?

Me: Don't get me started.

Quote Of The Day

To me there is no dishonor in being wrong and learning.  There is dishonor in willful ignorance and there is dishonor in disrespect.  ~ James Hatch

(this is from an excellent essay somewhat deceptively titled "My Semester With The Snowflakes").

Grrrsday

And To All A Good Night

Vintage Holidays - A Cowboy Christmas

The cover off a pulp Western (that I now cannot find).  Merry Christmas anyway, pardners!

Caturday!