shrinking lady

my beau and hazel have been busy.

oh la la

a good pair of nails and a better pair of socks.
(from my good pal Hal!)

three good finds

u s e f u l and l o v e l y!

from Faulty Diction:
whack, what, which, etc
Pronounced hwac, hwat, hwich, etc.: not wac, wat, wich, etc.
The English are especially lax in the pronunciation of such words as these, almost uniformly dropping the initial h sound, while many Americans err by making the aspirate too sharply prominent.

Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company. 1909 – 1915.

I spotted and stalked this perfect club house in a fancy minneapolis neighborhood this fall. I could live here!
++
This is the first house I ever lived in——it was tiny! And get a load of these homemade stickers—YIKES—I made hundreds when I was six! Now that I've shared some of my graphic prowess, it's time to get rid of them.

fitting in

nice!

gravity!

a new year

Wishing you all a happy happy happy 2010!

hasty tasty

This piece of correspondence makes me very curious!

++ Hope all of you had a merry christmas.

le petit chien

Another sweet find from the MCAD library. Flip the book over and you get the english version. By the same authors.

by Denise and Alain Trez. World Publishing Company. 1961.

mom+winter

That snowsuit is c r a z y, huh?!!
My mom is holiday c r a z y!!!! I am loving the mini scarves.

on ice

Just look at this! from a Holiday on Ice program. Those Continental Clowns, S'cool Days and Kanine Kulture were some of the other skating themes of 1961.

Our local pond appears to be frozen——we'll all be iceskating soon.

= ^. .^ =

uncanny

A year ago.
F + H in their jumpsuits—up to no good.

uncut matchbox labels

Someday I'll get a flickr site up and going——I have thousands of these Czechoslovakian gems to share.

I'm sure you've seen maraid's great collections. Her museum set is one of my favorites.

a perfectly timed note

I've been madly preparing for a presentation—which I gave tonight. Done, what a huge relief!! Amongst the flurry of paper and chaos; I found this hilarious note. It totally cracked me up and made me miss my friend—Satchel. The note was well worth saving for fifteen years.

wallpaper

A few fruitful patterns made during my summer vacation.

Handcut orgami paper and security envelopes.

A to Z: a few of my favorite things

---- C, D and E ----


---- H, I and J ----


---- T, U and V ----


---- the A — Z compilation ----

C: Cats + Cheetahs
D:Dogs + Daisies
E: Eagles + Echidea + Egret + Elephants
H: the oak, Hercules of the forest + Hailey's comet + Hedgehogs of the vegetable world
I: Ivy + Illusions
J: Justification + (queer looking tenants of the) Jungle + a Jumping gibbon
T: Tortoise + Table + Tableware
U: Unwholesome American Fungi
V: Vanishing race + Virtue

Reorganized using my 1941 Books of Knowledge.

die-cuts

Look at these friends. This batch is also quite quaint.