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Crochet Hook Collection
For Show & Tell Friday, I thought I’d share about my collection of crochet hooks. Now, I ask you. Does any one person really need this many crochet hooks?Of course not! But I love having them, anyway. The bottom row is of steel crochet hooks for working with thread, from size 00 to size 14. The upper row is of…
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My “Pioneer” Nook
When I was a new bride in the mid-1980s the country style of decorating was in full swing, and I loved it! But like all styles, we got tired of it and moved on to something else… and now you mostly find decorative items in dusty rose and country blue, and all the ducks and geese collecting dust in the…
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Vintage Radio
As a long-time fan of Old Time Radio shows, I’ve been wanting an antique radio for years. I didn’t care whether or not it worked. I just thought it would be neat to have one. I’ve seen replicas that are very cool (and also spendy) but they usually just have a regular modern radio or maybe a CD player inside.…
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“I Remember Laura” – Heirlooms
The afternoon light made plain the gilded titles of the books on the whatnot’s lower shelf, and glittered in the three glass boxes on the shelf above, each with tiny flowers painted on it. Above them, on the next shelf, the gilt flowers shone on the glass face of the clock and its brass pendulum glinted, swinging to and fro.…
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“I Remember Laura” swap
I am participating in the “I Remember Laura” art swap in conjunction with the blog-a-thon hosted at Quill Cottage. Miss Sandy provided some basic elements for us to start with, and our job is to embellish them. The first project ties in with the first week’s theme of quilts. Miss Sandy sent a basic 9-patch block from a vintage quilt,…
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“I Remember Laura” – Family Recipes
This week’s topic for the “I Remember Laura” blog-a-thon is family recipes. Laura was such a descriptive writer that any time she wrote about a meal or a special dish, it simply made my mouth water. Later I came to appreciate the utter simplicity of the meals that “Ma and the girls” served to family and guests alike. Here are…
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“I Remember Laura” – Buttons
“Ma had saved buttons since she was smaller than Laura, and she had buttons her mother had saved when her mother was a little girl. There were blue buttons and red buttons, silvery and goldy buttons, curved-in buttons with tiny raised castles and bridges and trees on them, and twinkling jet buttons, painted china buttons, striped buttons, buttons like juicy…
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Workbasket comes alive!
Recently I’ve been showing you clippings from some old Workbasket magazines that I picked up at a garage sale a few weeks ago. I’ve enjoyed poring over them and scanning some of the pages to share here. (Don’t worry. I’m not through yet!) Last week I showed you a picture of a sunflower potholder pattern that I said I wanted…
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“I Remember Laura” – Quilts
“Laura brought her Dove-in-the-Window quilt that she had pieced as a little girl while Mary pieced a nine-patch. It had been kept carefully all the years since then.” –These Happy Golden Years I grew up with quilts. Not necessarily the lovely works of art that you see at fairs and exhibits these days, but practical, made-from-leftover-fabric-scraps, use-every-day quilts. Since the…
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My Type Case
It’s Show & Tell Friday over at Kelli’s House, so I decided to show you the type case I have hanging in my kitchen (right below my clothesline). My husband is a printer. His dad was a printer, and Lyle grew up in the print shop. Two of his brothers are also printers, so it is somewhat of a family…
