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The Workbasket – January 1952
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Workbasket post… and I still have quite a few I haven’t share with you yet. I know you’re just so excited about that, aren’t you? This one is from January 1952, and as you can see, the cover was torn off. For some reason, this issue seemed to have more than its share…
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The Workbasket – December 1951
It’s been awhile since I shared a Workbasket with you, and I thought you might be needing some hokey gift ideas for Christmas… circa 1951. I loved the edgings on those towels, but all I can think of is having to iron them to keep them looking nice. Iron bath towels? Uh… no, thanks!I’m sure these are very sweet baby…
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NaNoWriMo
All my life I’ve dreamed of writing a novel. Not because I have this burning story that just begs to be told. I don’t. But mainly because I have read so many mediocre novels that someone somewhere thought worthy of publishing, and I think, “I could write a better story than that.” That, plus my mother fully believes that someday…
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Junior Elf Books
I love vintage books! Big surprise, huh? And because I always need more books, I couldn’t pass up this handful of “Junior Elf” books when I came across them at a garage sale this summer. You’ll probably have to click on the picture to enlarge it to see that the cover price on most of them is 15 cents! (One…
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A Lost Art
I think I’ll do something way retro this weekend… I received some cute monogrammed note cards recently as a gift, and they are such lovely fall colors that I’m tempted to jot off some handwritten notes to a few friends. Or would that just be terribly old-fashioned of me? Seriously, I love to get letters and little gifts in the…
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Vintage Library Blessing
Being the book hound I am, I couldn’t resist this quaint framed blessing when I came across it at a garage sale this summer:I just love the verbose pompous wording! “O God, the Lord of all knowledge, mercifully bestow thy blessing upon this library that it may be protected from fire and all other evils; grant that at times it…
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The Workbasket – November 1951
Is everybody ready for another vintage Workbasket installment? The next magazine in my small collection is from November 1951. It is Volume 17, Number 1. According to my calculations that means The Workbasket started in October 1934. Recently an older lady friend of mine was letting me go through her crochet patterns… Be still my heart! The vintage patterns she…
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The Workbasket – October 1951
Yes, ladies (and any gentlemen who are interested), it’s time once again for an irregular installment of The Workbasket magazine from almost 60 years ago. Send along your 15 cents (in cash or stamps, please) and you, too, (along with Miss A. L. Davitt–whoever she might have been) can learn how to make a cross-stitch rug, along with many other…
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The Workbasket – February 1951
Check it out! Color printing! But The Workbasket is still only 15 cents! What a deal! “Ideas for the Bazaar, the Home, Gifts, Sparetime Money Makers, with Many Articles, Easily Made and Inexpensive, that find a Ready Sale.” Is that the subtitle?? No, I guess not. There is actually a shorter subtitle at the top. Then why in the world…
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“I Remember Laura” – Books & Music
Laura loved singing school. It began with singing scales to limber up the voices. Then Mr. Clewett taught them a simple exercise, the first in the book. He gave them the pitch with his tuning fork again and again, until all their voices chimed in with it. …on the way home Laura sang. “Oh childhood’s joys are very great, A-swingin’…
