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Weekend Getaway
It was a beautiful weekend to enjoy the national forest. On Friday we had the whole campground to ourselves. The kids thought it was fun to pump water! Not native wildlife, but still picture worthy! Crystal-clear streams for wading.
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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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Moose sighting!
This afternoon we went for a family bike ride on a really great trail in our area that used to be railroad tracks. It winds through the mountains and the scenery is spectacular.It was an unusually hot day for our area (right at 100 degrees) and since we haven’t ridden bikes all summer (at least the parents of the family…
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Westbound in Wisconsin
We had a fantastic time at our college reunion over the weekend. Lyle and I met at Bible college, so it was a nostalgic trip for us, back to the campus our romance began 25 years ago this summer. It was great to reconnect with old friends to share memories of that long-ago time, and get re-acquainted. Now we’re headed…
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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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Baby Shoes
Earlier this week, when I showed you my pioneer nook I had a comment about the “little black shoes” that I have tucked in on one of the shelves. So for today’s Vintage Thingy Thursday, I thought I’d tell you about the little black shoes! The shoes are definitely “vintage”… but they don’t go as far back as pioneer days!…
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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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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” – 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.…
