Archive for October, 2009

• 1942 Animal Paint Book – Part 8

  This is the final group of the Animal Paint Book images.

  October 11th, 2009

• Embroidered Haunted House Pillow

  This cute pattern is an online coloring page located here in case you’re interested in stitching this up. There are quite a few cute haunted house coloring pages out there, but this one is my favorite. All of the fabric is vintage and the lavender percale was especially nice to stitch on. [...]

  October 9th, 2009

• Circus Quilt – Center Blocks and Border

  The blocks for the center are finished, and I have just completed the stitching on the bottom border. I’m going to make a similar border for each side. Because I only have one skein of each color of Danish Flower Thread, the elephants are stitched with a few different shades of gray. [...]

  October 7th, 2009

• Antizyme Toothpaste & Fizzies

  This is a total deviation from my normal posts, but I couldn’t resist after Jan at Just-A-Mere blogged about her entire family getting free samples of VICL (Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion) from her sister’s employer.  When I was growing up, my father worked in the advertising department at Phillips Petroleum Company.  Their NY ad agency [...]

  October 4th, 2009

• 1942 Animal Paint Book – Part 7

  I am finally finishing cleaning up the scans from the Animal Paint Book. These are over-sized pages and do not fit on my scanner, so I took the book apart and ran them through our copier at school and e-mailed them to myself as a pdf. I thought this was so clever until [...]

  October 4th, 2009

• Gifts from Blogging Friends

  This has been a very good week for me. First I won a vintage apron from my friend, Jan, at Just-A-Mere. Actually everyone who entered her give-away won a vintage apron because….well….she’s just nice like that and she’s got a lot of aprons. I got my first choice — a chicken scratch [...]

  October 2nd, 2009