Other Crafts - Dollhouse Furniture from Berry Baskets

 

I'm not sure berries are still sold in plastic baskets, but I think grape tomatoes are.  From Pack O Fun, April 1978.  Left click to enlarge, or download the page from archive.org.

Happy Bank Holiday To Our Cousins Across The Pond

 

red clover image from the Graphics Fairy

And bidding summer good-bye. After the heat we've experienced the last week and a half, I'm ready.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

poppy image from the Graphics Fairy

Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. ~ Meg Cabot

Grrrsday

 

None of the above right now, actually.  They are both lying on the cool concrete floor in the basement with a fan going.

This week has been brutal, evening for central Illinois in August.

Rest For The Weary

 

Little Man was at a MARC on Saturday, as part of his training to be a therapy dog (test is next week - wish us luck).  

After two hours of being petted and cuddled by stressed-out flood survivors and staff/volunteers, he was pooped.

This Is A Tough Bunch

 

Team Rubicon Coordinator (conducting her morning briefing):  ... and, finally - don't forget to read the policy manual - it covers things like harassment, substance abuse, and weapons. Any questions?

TR volunteer:  Do hand grenades count as weapons?

I Picked The Wrong Week To Start My Diet

 

THANK GOD FOR THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE BECAUSE GOOGLE MAPS IS A SNARE AND A DELUSION DEP'T

 

I'll be spending this week in Ford County.

Scrap Crafts - A Toy Colonial Kitchen from 1908

 

From Home Mission Handicraft: Ideas for Work and Play in Mission Bands and Junior Societies, by the indefatigable Lidia and Adelia Beard, authoresses of a half dozen genteel Edwardian craft and hobby books for children. Instructions on page 29 are included for everything you see, including the spinning wheel, to be made out of cardboard, twigs, and an eggshell. 

The entire book may be found at archive dot org.

Holidays - National Book Lover's Day

 

A holiday we can all get behind.

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND

 This appeared in an online current events forum I sometimes frequent.

Leviticus 26:3-4

 

We're also going to be picking off the second row of beans and making tomato sauce - so don't expect much in the way of posting this week.

Caturday!

 

(But it's too hot).

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

 

German shepherds who go through fence gates as though they were not there make good neighbors essential.

The lady on the opposite corner brought him back this morning after he went over to visit with her dogs. We didn't even realize he was gone.

Apres-nous la Deluge

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Please Stop Helping Dep't

 

While I was down in the basement sorting laundry, the Little Man kindly dropped his rawhide bone in the pile of whites on the floor, and it went through the hot-with-bleach cycle.  

He now has the cleanest chew toy in town, and I now have soggy rawhide crumbs on my socks and sheets.

More Scrappy Fun - a Sock Bulldog from 1977

 

From Pack O Fun, January 1977, a bulldog to make from a pair of men's work socks.  Two pages of instructions can be found on my Flickr account, and an e-copy of the original publication on the Internet Archive.

Happy National Marine Week!

copyright free image from The Graphics Fairy

 What kind of marine did you think I was referring to?