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Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts
Friday, July 26, 2013

Linocuts and Letterpress: Printing Seed Packets and Cottage Food Labels

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I've been having fun this year in the print shop, turning out seed packets for saving seeds in.  The Pecan Corner Press is a hobby, a...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Barbarian Days: A Family Doctor's Home in the 1920s & 1930s (the Home of Author Robert E Howard)

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A couple of weeks ago, we went to Cross Plains, Texas, and toured the Robert E Howard home as part of their "Barbarian Days Festiva...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Computer Failure and Summer Pleasantries

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My trusty Dell Inspiron lies comatose, due to hard drive failure. It is 6 years old, so unlikely that we'll have it repaired. I'm go...
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Monday, September 5, 2011

How to Prevent Weevils & Pantry Moths & Get Rid of Them Forever

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In Home Economics class, they taught us how to sift flour, but never owned up to the real reason sifters were invented: to remove weevils f...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Display Ideas For Vintage Recipe Booklets

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A lot of my collections are made of paper. Vintage advertising recipe booklets are one such, and I have a few I just couldn't part with....
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Flood Watch: Louisiana

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Pat Austin at SIGIS is in Shreveport, away from the flood zones, but is keeping the watch and posting roundups of information on the crest...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Refinishing the Bath Tub

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As I mentioned in the bathroom remodeling post , our choices with the worn-nearly-down-to-metal porcelain enamelled cast iron tub were to...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

A Leader Shows the Way: Sarah Palin goes to Israel

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Via Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection (good blog, linked from my sidebar), comes Andrew Sullivan's important points about Sarah...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas for a Sharecropper's Orphan: The Salvation Army, Then and Now

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The 1920's - "the Roaring Twenties" - was a boom time, much like the 1980's or the 2000's , the communications and man...
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Friday, February 5, 2010

How Paul Makes Caesar Salad

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Caesar Salad is named for the Mexican chef who invented it in Tijuana in the 1920s. Our family agrees that Paul's Caesar Salad is the wo...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

The Naturalist's Vintage Calendar

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This page for the week of January 10 through 16 from the 1926 John Burrough's Calendar reads " The apples that cling to the trees,...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

Three Kings Cake For Epiphany, Vintage Bisque Dolls, & the Industrial Revolution

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The Kings Cake celebrates the arrival of the Three Wise Men who brought gifts to baby Jesus. A tiny doll, or a coin or almond, is hidden in ...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy (Old) New Year! A Naturalist's Vintage Calendar

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Did you find a vintage calendar for the upcoming year? Here are the first pages from a beautiful weekly one of John Burroughs quotes. It was...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Flea Marketeer Party! Recent Favorite Finds

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The Flea Market Style Magazine Blog is hosting an " I'm a Flea Marketeer" party . I am posting a little early since I go to ...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Obligatory Cat Post ... and Cat Lore!

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This cat in our yard is not our cat. She/he/it belongs to the neighbors but loves to hang out in our yard. She makes us smile to see her. We...