Grrrsday

 I don't know what they're up to, but I don't like it.

Children's Crafts - Plant Pots from 1953

 With spring (almost - sorry about that, Utah) upon us, here are some easy projects for plant pots to decorate in various ways.  From my personal copy of McCall's Golden Book, published 1953.  

Vintage Advertising - Chiffon Soap Flakes

 

Woman's Day, September 1947

Oh, and happy National Laundry Day.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

Look, the dreamer is coming!  Let us now kill him and cast him into some pit...We shall see what will become of his dreams.  Genesis 37:18-20.

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Tatting from the Antique Pattern Library

 

Tatting and It's Uses, by Miss Johanna Rubli, undated but sometime in the 1910's from the illustrations.  Some lovely medallions and edgings, and a free download from the Antique Pattern Library.

Vintage Magazines - Popular Magazine, April 1924

 

There Went Sunday

 

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

The power of Armies is a visible thing,

Formal and circumscribed in time and space;

But who the limits of that power shall trace

Which a brave People into light can bring

Or hide, at will, - for freedom combating

By just revenge inflamed? No foot may chase,

No eye can follow, to a fatal place

That power, that spirit, whether on the wing

Like the strong wind, or sleeping like the wind

Within its awful caves. - From year to year

Springs this indigenous produce far and near;

No craft this subtle element can bind,

Rising like water from the soil, to find

In every nook a lip that it may cheer. 

 ~ William Wordsworth

Happy Easter

 

image from the Graphics Fairy.

I'd Work There

 

Just A Butterfly

 

And I'm on the road again tomorrow, taking a bus tour with the Illinois State Museum to Alton and Memphis.  Back Friday.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible ~ Stanislaw Lec

The Online Bookshelf - The Danube, by Walter Jerrold, Redux

 

Passau, from Walter Jerrold's The Danube.  It doesn't look a lot different today.

Opportunity Knocks But Once

 

breakfast on the cruise ship

We arrived in Chicago last night on a typical Illinois early spring day, meaning it was pelting down rain and the wind was blowing all the signs over.  Hopped on the regional shuttle bus to drive us back downstate, and the driver lamented that there were only three passengers.  Such a load just wasn't heavy enough - he was going to have to fight to keep it on the road.

I knew I should have had that second muffin.

This Morning, We Went To Mauthausen

 

 

Konzentrationslager Mauthausen. 

Glad To Have Helped

 

   Not shown: Crepes, fruit, and ice cream

There were eight different Nachtische displayed on the buffet last night. I stood next to a lovely English gentleman who had slices of Sachertorte and Doboschtorte on his plate and was dithering over the Esterhazy cake.

Me: Go for it. Think of all the people on the Titanic who skipped dessert.

(When last seen, he was happily helping himself).

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