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Happy Pumpkins!
Personally, I’m just not real crazy about Halloween, but when you have little kids you can’t exactly ignore it all together. I was happy to discover The Pumpkin Patch Parable several years ago, when my children were quite small. It has become a “Halloween” tradition at our house. It is the sweetly-illustrated story of a farmer who raises pumpkins. When…
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Tea and Cookies for Fall
When the weather turns cool and crisp, nothing says “cozy” to me like a hot beverage! I have decided that hot beverages are my “comfort food.” I like coffee, tea, cocoa, apple cider… and I like cute mugs! I splurged the other day and got a set of 4 pumpkin mugs just to celebrate the season.Later, I found Pumpkin Spice…
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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 Great Depression
I wonder what it was really like to live through the Great Depression. Oh, yes, I’ve read about it… seen movies about it… heard my grandparents talk about it… but truthfully, I have no concept of what that would be like. As I’ve been going about my daily routine the last few days I’ve been wondering… Would it save money…
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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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Old-Fashioned Popcorn
What do you do when you hanker for some popcorn but have no electricity? Do without, I thought. We were “dry camping” a few weeks ago and I mentioned that popcorn sounded good, but since we had no power the microwave in the travel-trailer was useless. My romantic man remembered that and the next week went to Sportsman’s Warehouse and…
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Seasons of Life
Well, I hadn’t really planned to have a “seasonal” theme on my blog this week, but it seems that what it’s turning out to be. My husband printed out these two pictures this morning and asked if I wanted to blog about them. (No, he won’t start a blog himself, but every now and then he suggests things for me…
