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Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Letterpress Poster Printing ... And A Little Wood Type Puzzle Solved

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 I've been doing more printing lately. This is the first poster I've ever printed. I am pretty happy with it! It was a give-away ...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

Historic Jefferson, Texas

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Pat at And So It Goes In Shreveport is having fun this summer blogging their day trips and outings. Her most recent is about the Norton Art...
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Friday, June 4, 2010

Ain't That America? Pat Austin Takes A Daydream of a Southern Road Trip

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Go on over to And So It Goes In Shreveport , and feel the tension disappear. Feel the world right itself again, and remember how it feels t...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Victorian Bible Verse Cards "You Are My Friends"

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These lovely calling cards with bible verses were popular during the Victorian era up through the Edwardian. This one probably dates from th...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

A House with a Name

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An unexpectedly free weekend... and it is too cold to do anything! 21 degrees out right now, my rain guage has a block of ice 8" tall i...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Letterpress Printing, Metal Type and Amateur Journalism

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I haven't talked about printing and presses here yet, but one of my hobbies is letterpress printing. I'm not talking about it right ...
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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,...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

In God We Trust: Daily Life In America

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I started this blog as a way to organize family recipes for the young bunch of our family, and that continues. It has also kind of evolved t...
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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...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

The Lovingest Season: Sending Christmas Cards

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For years I prepared to send Christmas cards. Often I bought them. Sometimes I got as far as addressing them. I hardly ever got around to ma...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Cottage Industry, Vintage Christmas Toys, and WWII

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Before WWII broke out (for the US - it had already started in Europe) with Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States imported va...
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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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Sunday, October 11, 2009

For The Life Of The World

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Here is another antique Sunday School card, showing the Manna that God sent to feed the Hebrews during their exodus out of slavery in Egypt....
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Living Life by a Vintage Calendar

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I didn't know until a few years ago when I was printing a calendar page for a letterpress bundle, but there are only 14 different calend...
Sunday, October 4, 2009

Vintage Sunday School Card: Paul the Tentmaker

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This is a vintage Sunday School card, copyrighted in 1897, picturing Paul sewing a tent at the end of his second missionary journey. He was ...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Thrifty Happiness: Red Points used Wisely

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Brookshire's has pork chops on sale for 99 cents a pound! Even though there is a limit, I was able to get enough to put away 6 packages...
Friday, September 4, 2009

Vintage Photos: Child Actors in Mexican Costume

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Aren't these little actors wonderful? No, they aren't family (although that little girl does remind me of Frances except Frances is ...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

Vintage Dutch Postcards

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Within my collection of vintage photos, I ran across these lovely ones from The Netherlands, before WWI (World War One). These were the ever...