Quote of the Day

 

If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it. ~ Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. 

Vintage Crochet - Workbasket Magazine, July 1947

 

The July 1947 issue is all-crochet, with those adorable pansy pan-holders shown above and a menagerie of crochet animals to applique starting on page 8.

The other projects are booties and a carriage robe for baby, and a rose insertion in filet.  The entire issue can be downloaded for free from the Antique Pattern Library (click on the pdf option at left to download).

Happy Move More Month, National Park Week, and Earth Day

 

photo from americanrivers.org

Convenient, no?

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

I'm waiting at RDU
for Susan's multiply
delayed flight with

a jar of pickles
a woman flying out 
after visiting Mount

Olive college couldn't
take on board even
though it would have been

I'm sure a precious memento 
and maybe her only reminder
of North Carolina if
she doesn't come back. ~ Chris Mazzara

Grrrsday

 I don't know what they're up to, but I don't like it.

Children's Crafts - Plant Pots from 1953

 With spring (almost - sorry about that, Utah) upon us, here are some easy projects for plant pots to decorate in various ways.  From my personal copy of McCall's Golden Book, published 1953.  

Vintage Advertising - Chiffon Soap Flakes

 

Woman's Day, September 1947

Oh, and happy National Laundry Day.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Look, the dreamer is coming!  Let us now kill him and cast him into some pit...We shall see what will become of his dreams.  Genesis 37:18-20.

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Tatting from the Antique Pattern Library

 

Tatting and It's Uses, by Miss Johanna Rubli, undated but sometime in the 1910's from the illustrations.  Some lovely medallions and edgings, and a free download from the Antique Pattern Library.

Vintage Magazines - Popular Magazine, April 1924

 

There Went Sunday

 

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

The power of Armies is a visible thing,

Formal and circumscribed in time and space;

But who the limits of that power shall trace

Which a brave People into light can bring

Or hide, at will, - for freedom combating

By just revenge inflamed? No foot may chase,

No eye can follow, to a fatal place

That power, that spirit, whether on the wing

Like the strong wind, or sleeping like the wind

Within its awful caves. - From year to year

Springs this indigenous produce far and near;

No craft this subtle element can bind,

Rising like water from the soil, to find

In every nook a lip that it may cheer. 

 ~ William Wordsworth

Happy Easter

 

image from the Graphics Fairy.

I'd Work There

 

Just A Butterfly

 

And I'm on the road again tomorrow, taking a bus tour with the Illinois State Museum to Alton and Memphis.  Back Friday.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible ~ Stanislaw Lec

The Online Bookshelf - The Danube, by Walter Jerrold, Redux

 

Passau, from Walter Jerrold's The Danube.  It doesn't look a lot different today.

Opportunity Knocks But Once

 

breakfast on the cruise ship

We arrived in Chicago last night on a typical Illinois early spring day, meaning it was pelting down rain and the wind was blowing all the signs over.  Hopped on the regional shuttle bus to drive us back downstate, and the driver lamented that there were only three passengers.  Such a load just wasn't heavy enough - he was going to have to fight to keep it on the road.

I knew I should have had that second muffin.

This Morning, We Went To Mauthausen

 

 

Konzentrationslager Mauthausen. 

Glad To Have Helped

 

   Not shown: Crepes, fruit, and ice cream

There were eight different Nachtische displayed on the buffet last night. I stood next to a lovely English gentleman who had slices of Sachertorte and Doboschtorte on his plate and was dithering over the Esterhazy cake.

Me: Go for it. Think of all the people on the Titanic who skipped dessert.

(When last seen, he was happily helping himself).

.

Note to Self

 

Don't ever again mix tatting with aquavit.

Eastward Ho!

 

Off to our Danube cruise. Blogging may or may not occur for a while.

(and the lovely young couple that usually does our pet-sitting f is going to be living in the house, in case you were worried about the dogs.  I have no idea what we're going to do if they ever decide to start having kids).

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

"Spring," by Dame Laura Knight

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~ Charles Dickens

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Woodworking - Art Deco Doghouses, 1943

 

From The Young Craftsman, 1943, a collection of projects designed for young woodworkers, from the pages of Popular Mechanics magazine.  Free download from the Internet Archive.

Vintage Holidays - St Patrick's Day

image from thegraphicsfairy.com

 

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Les Bouquinistes by Irek Szelag

There is no bond like the bond of having read the same books. ~ Edith Nesbit

Grrrsday

 

Scrap Crafts - Cardboard Hampers, "Easily Made" from 1930

 

From Popular Mechanics, May 1930, "Many useful and serviceable articles can be made from discarded corrugated-board cartons, which most merchants are glad to give away."  Allowing the thrifty housewife to create a clothes or scrap hamper for next to nothing.  Left-click to enlarge.

Vintage Advertising - Argo Cornstarch

 

From McCall's magazine, March 1919, an advertisement for Argo Cornstarch that includes a couple of recipes if you can enlarge it enough to still be legible.  Food advertisements in the days before color photography came into widespread use are uniformly bright and pretty.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Under the constitutional laws of the United States, there has never been an argument that a former president is immune from prosecution for crimes that he committed while in office. ~ Judge Michael Luttig

Every Four Years

 

Grrrsday

Vintage Workbasket Magazine - November, 1946

Some very nice projects in this one, including a knitted rag rug, edging and baby socks, a crocheted table runner, and a quilted afghan.  Free download from the Antique Pattern Library.

National Library Lovers Month

 

My kind of holiday.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world.  We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did. ~ Shane Claiborne

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Upcycling - Slipper Socks from 1947

 

From the October, 1947 issue of Woman's Day - their monthly column "How To Be A Girl" offered projects as well as etiquette and dating advice. Here are three different styles to make from felt and old socks. 

Left-click to enlarge.

Happy President's Day