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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.…
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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’…
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“I Remember Laura” swap
I am participating in the “I Remember Laura” art swap in conjunction with the blog-a-thon hosted at Quill Cottage. Miss Sandy provided some basic elements for us to start with, and our job is to embellish them. The first project ties in with the first week’s theme of quilts. Miss Sandy sent a basic 9-patch block from a vintage quilt,…
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The Workbasket – December 1950
The December 1950 issue of The Workbasket had a new cover design. I wondered if this was the first month for it, or if it debuted the previous month? I am missing the November issue. Still no color, though. And notice the 15 cents price! Check out this ad for a convertible shopping bag See how it unfolds into a…
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“I Remember Laura” – Family Recipes
This week’s topic for the “I Remember Laura” blog-a-thon is family recipes. Laura was such a descriptive writer that any time she wrote about a meal or a special dish, it simply made my mouth water. Later I came to appreciate the utter simplicity of the meals that “Ma and the girls” served to family and guests alike. Here are…
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Mount Rainier National Park
It was a crystal clear day… a rarity in Seattle… and the mountain was “out”… so we decided to come home via Mount Rainier National Park. (please excuse the dirty windshield) Our first glimpse of the mountain this morning… Entering the Park… Pictures taken from the highway through the Park… The highway through the Park…
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“I Remember Laura” – Buttons
“Ma had saved buttons since she was smaller than Laura, and she had buttons her mother had saved when her mother was a little girl. There were blue buttons and red buttons, silvery and goldy buttons, curved-in buttons with tiny raised castles and bridges and trees on them, and twinkling jet buttons, painted china buttons, striped buttons, buttons like juicy…
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Workbasket comes alive!
Recently I’ve been showing you clippings from some old Workbasket magazines that I picked up at a garage sale a few weeks ago. I’ve enjoyed poring over them and scanning some of the pages to share here. (Don’t worry. I’m not through yet!) Last week I showed you a picture of a sunflower potholder pattern that I said I wanted…
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“I Remember Laura” – Quilts
“Laura brought her Dove-in-the-Window quilt that she had pieced as a little girl while Mary pieced a nine-patch. It had been kept carefully all the years since then.” –These Happy Golden Years I grew up with quilts. Not necessarily the lovely works of art that you see at fairs and exhibits these days, but practical, made-from-leftover-fabric-scraps, use-every-day quilts. Since the…
