Vintage Holidays - July 4th

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Let us be honest; most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness.  I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression. ~ Beverly Nichols.

Grrrsday

 

Other Crafts - Button Jewelry from 1947

 

From Keen Teens, the August-September issue of 1947, ideas on using buttons to get your back-to-school clothes in the groove and on the beam, so that ducky shincracker in English class thinks you're a real dish with the duds rather than strictly from Dixie.  Even if you're not khaki-wacky, you still want to be cooking with gas, right?

(The cat is rather cute; left-click to enlarge).

The magazine, which is mostly comics and stories aimed at high school girls, is available to download from the Internet Archive.

Vintage Magazines - Collier's

 

From this week in 1932, a rather dapper commuter pair.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

When all else fails, go to the library. ~ Stephen King.

Grrrsday

 

Summer Sewing - A Corset Cover from 1910

 

A frilly but cool muslin corset cover from the Harper's Handy Book for Girls, with four pages of instructions (and a pair of drawers to match). Make it of seersucker and you won't even have to iron it.

Available as a free download from the Internet Archive. 

Vintage Advertising - Chesterfields Cigarettes

 

From Popular Magazine, July 7th, 1927.

Quote Of The Day

 

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Ridogulously Photogenic

 

We were on our way to a reading therapy session in town yesterday evening, and stopped at a traffic light.  I have the habit, once we are in the older neighborhoods where I can't go faster than 25 if I wanted to, of letting the window down just enough to let him stick his head out.

The woman in the next car rolled her window down and started taking pictures of him.

Well, Looky Here - It's Karma Calling

 

"More Than One Way To Tie A Scarf" from 1951

From the Summer 1951 Simplicity pattern catalog, advice on accessorizing with a summer scarf.

 

Happy National Red Rose Day

 

copyright-free image from the Graphics Fairy.

Quote of the Day

 

Librarians are the secret masters of the world.  They control information.  Don't ever piss one off. ~ Spider Robinson.

Grrrsday

 

Then -

and now.

But We In It Shall Be Remembered

 

Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words...
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us...

Gift Horses

 

A local business (let's call it Queenie's House 

Of Fantasy) showed up at the Red Cross shelter to donate several boxes of...um..hygiene items.