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“I Remember Laura” June Blog-A-Thon
For the month of June I will be participating in a once-a-week blog-a-thon celebrating Laura Ingalls Wilder hosted by Miss Sandy at Quill Cottage. I have enjoyed the Little House books since I was very young. Before I could read my mother read them to us as bedtime stories, one chapter a night. I couldn’t stand having to wait until…
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The Workbasket – October 1950
This week’s Workbasket magazine is from October 1950. The cover features a “Hairpin Lace Vanity Set.” Interestingly enough, I have recently learned to make hairpin lace. A friend of mine gave me a hairpin loom and showed me how to do it, after I admired an afghan she had made. I won’t be able to make the vanity set, though,…
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The Workbasket – July 1950
This past weekend, while out garage-saling, I “scored” a stack of 25 vintage Workbasket magazines from the early 1950s for $2! At the time I was thinking there might be some vintage crochet patterns I would enjoy making… but there is, oh, so much more! Just so many “precious” things, I have to share. Here is the cover of the…
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Decora-a-Tea
This week’s theme on the Gracious Hospitali-Tea Blog-a-thon is to share ideas and pictures that incorporate tea and/or tea themes into home decor. Now, as you no doubt realize, my home is not all put together yet from our move… and my decorating is not complete. (But then, is it ever?) But here are a few pictures that go along…
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Favorite Books
My sister-in-law posted this challenge a few days ago. I had to think about it awhile. I just love books… many books… so it was hard to narrow my selections down. Even the ones I finally settled on may not necessarily be my final choice. Oh. And in many cases the Bible would have been the best obvious choice. Truly…
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Vintage Children’s Books Series
Vintage Children’s Series Books Books I enjoyed reading as a child, and collect as an adult. Many of these were already “vintage” when I was reading them! How many do you remember? (Just for fun, click on the titles to be taken to fan websites for each series.) Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators Anne of Green Gables Beany Malone…
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Notes from Numbers
I mentioned in my New Year’s post that I was taking up my Bible reading again in Leviticus where I got bogged down last year. I wanted to read the Bible straight through from Genesis to Revelation, but gave up and switched to the New Testament for several months. But for New Year’s I decided to try again. We’ll see…
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Lum & Abner
One of my [many] hobbies is listening to and collecting Old Time Radio Shows. Hands down, my all-time favorite show is Lum & Abner, which ran almost daily for over 20 years. I have all the existing recorded episodes on MP3, but there are a lot of gaps of “lost shows”. When I found out that this book [of mostly…
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Bible Reading
Just out of curiosity, as we enter into Passover and Easter season… have you ever read the Bible? Just the odd chapter or Psalm? The whole thing? (Or, almost the whole thing? It’s some heavy reading, of course, and those “begats” get kind of tedious.) I have read the whole Bible. Portions of it many, many times… but I did…
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He’s My Hero
I'm a girly-girl when it comes to all things automotive. I've been driving for twenty-mumble years and can count on my fingers the number of times I've put gas in a car. My husband, on the other hand, is what you might call an automotive enthusiast... which may explain why he's always been willing to get gas for me.
