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My Type Case
It’s Show & Tell Friday over at Kelli’s House, so I decided to show you the type case I have hanging in my kitchen (right below my clothesline). My husband is a printer. His dad was a printer, and Lyle grew up in the print shop. Two of his brothers are also printers, so it is somewhat of a family…
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The Workbasket – September 1950
I don’t know if anyone else is enjoying these nearly as much as I am… but for your viewing pleasure I present the September 1950 issue of The Workbasket! Such a pretty crocheted tablecloth. It was patterns like this one that initially caught my eye in this stack of magazines. This pattern, on the other hand, looks just a little…
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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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When I Grow Up…
Since Mother’s Day is this weekend, for my Show & Tell I wanted to show you something I “inherited” from my mother… As Mother was unpacking her luggage when she and Dad were here in March, she handed me this 40-some-year-old stationery box.“Oh, Mother!” I said somewhat reverently as she placed it in my hands. “You found it! Do I…
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Vintage Thingy Thursday
For today’s Vintage Thingy Thursday I decided to show you some of the string art my husband made when he was a teen. Although, I dunno. Is late 1970s/early 1980s considered “vintage”? Or is that just “retro”? Or do they mean the same thing? When we moved into this house with the knotty-pine walls in the downstairs family room, I…
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David the Bear
Remember the story of David’s missing pajamas a few weeks ago? I knew they were packed away somewhere, but I had no idea where. Well, I came across them last week while I was unpacking yet another box from the garage and I knew you would want to see them! I decided to put them on David and in the…
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Vintage Clothesline
For this week’s Vintage Thingy Thursday I thought I’d show you the clothesline I blatantly copied from Confessions of an Apron Queen. (Wanna see hers? Click here.) Not everything on my clothesline is vintage… the first item is a pair of bloomers that went with a cute little outfit my daughter wore when she was little (mid-1990s)… next is the…
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Dressed-to-a-Tea
Many years ago my mother received this beautiful antique chocolate set as a wedding gift from her brother and his wife. Don’t know what a chocolate set is? Well, neither did my mother. She thought it was a tea set for years. The pot is taller and narrow, and the cups are smaller than a tea set. Not sure why…
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Meet David!
Several weeks ago I introduced you to “Sits”… a keepsake from my husband’s childhood. This week, as part of the Vintage Thingies Thursdays meme going on at Confessions of an Apron Queen, I thought I would introduce to another of my husband’s childhood friends. This is David! Lyle’s grandma made David for him. No one seems to remember exactly when,…
