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Tunnel of Gold – review
Tunnel of Gold is the second installment in Susan K. Marlow’s Goldtown Adventure series for tweens. Twelve-year-old Jem is caught in the thick of things when trouble erupts in Goldtown with a disagreement between the rich mine owner and the Chinese immigrants over the rights to a previously abandoned mine. Jem, his younger sister Ellie, and greenhorn cousin Nathan, are…
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Just another shade of greige…
Ask me to describe a vehicle and I’m likely to say something like “the blue car” or “the red pickup.” Lyle, on the other hand, can identify at a glance the make and model of practically anything on the road, and often the year. Our girls are pretty good at it, too, having picked it up from their dad. I…
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The Workbasket – March 1953
The next issue of The Workbasket that I have is from March 1953– almost exactly 60 years ago. The only comment I’ll make as to the cover is that women’s foundation garments in the 1950s were very different from what they are now. Goodness! The popularity of cheap, synthetic fabrics amuses me. “This striking fast color makes unusual blouses, curtains,…
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Vintage Valentines
Vintage Valentines cards are so much fun. I think my favorites are from the mid-20th century. The artwork is so sweet, and the puns are so lame! Here’s a darling one I came across recently and “sent” to my husband, just because of the vintage car and trailer. I have no idea what the message means: “…I’d trailer all around.”…
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Travel Fragments
It’s been a busy, productive week. No time on Friday to post fragments… but who says they have to be posted on a Friday, right? I mean, it’s not like I get around to posting fragments every Friday anyway. Today’s fragments are related to travel. Mostly because I doubt you’d be very interested in the nitty-gritty of the workshops I…
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The Workbasket – September 1952
It recently occurred to me that I never did finish sharing my collection of vintage Workbasket magazines. It’s time-consuming to choose and scan the “precious” little tid-bits from each issue, but oh-so-much-fun to share. So let’s see… looks like we’re ready for September 1952. Crocheted hats are kinda in right now. Just trying to visualize how that one would look made…
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Love Finds You in Glacier Bay, Alaska – review
Love Finds You in Glacier Bay, Alaska by Tricia Goyer and Ocieanna Fleiss is a great curl-up-by-the-fire winter read! It is actually two stories in one, with one being set in the present and the other in the 1920s, told through a box of old letters. I loved this format of storytelling and got caught up in both story-lines as…
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Then Sings My Soul: Book 3 – review
When it comes to worship style, I am very much a traditionalist. I love the old hymns (and newer ones as well) sung in parts with a piano. I like holding a hymnal so I can see the notes as well as the words. I also enjoy knowing the stories behind the hymns, so I have enjoy Robert J. Morgan’s…
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The New Recruit – review
The New Recruit is Book 1 in Jill Williamson’s Mission League series about a spy organization made up of Christian teens who fight the supernatural. It’s a little bit espionage, a little bit sci-fi, and a whole lot of excitement! The main character is Spencer Garmond who is decidedly not a Christian. However, his Grandma is. And when Spencer gets into…
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The Antique Buggy
Imagine, if you will, a young mommy in the late 1960s out for a walk with her baby. In your mind, what does that baby stroller look like? Maybe bright and plasticky, with shiny chrome metal bars and such? Yeah, me, too. (Go ahead. Google “baby stroller 1960s” and you’ll see what I mean.) Whatever you had pictured, it was…
