Archive for December, 2007
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Paint by Number
Sometimes you just have to look on the back shelves at the craft store to find the oddest things…
2 Comments » - Posted in Art, Dittrich by Barb
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Polish Glass Ornaments
These are my Christmas ornaments. Each is about 9″ tall. I’m going to hang them in the kitchen, which has a sort of spacy theme.
2 Comments » - Posted in Dittrich by Barb
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Space Tree
This is my first attempt to use a bamboo plant as a Christmas tree. But let me go to the beginning…
Hawaii is a beautiful place, but it is too warm here to grow “real” Christmas trees. So sometime around Halloween, they cut down real Christmas trees in Washington and Oregon. They put them in a [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Dittrich by Barb
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Helen, Lottie, and Walter
Helen Dittrich, Lottie Delgaudio, and their father Walter Karpinski pose on a couch in Lottie’s Red Bank, New Jersey living room in 1965. This was another of those old faded, yellow photos that I cleaned up in Photoshop. To appreciate the job I did, the original is here.
The photo is interesting because Grandpop seems grumpy [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Dittrich, Karpinski by Tracy
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Old-Fashioned Bread Pudding
(This holiday desert was made by thrifty Minnesota farming families as a way to use up yesterday’s stale bread. Some people save bread in the freezer all year long for this.)
4 cups (1 quart) day-old bread, cut into cubes 1/2″ to 1″ in size
4 large eggs, beaten well
3 cups milk
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup raisins, soaked in water
3/4 cup chopped, [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Personal news, Recipes and food by Tracy
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Strange Santas
Because it’s Christmas Day and I have no obligations other than to eat, drink, and be merry, I have plenty of time to surf stuff online. Here is a link to some strange images of Santa Claus that are mainly from Japanese culture.
Images of Mexican Santas are here and here.
Hawaiian Santas wear flipflops and sunglasses.
Polish Santas deliver [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Amusing timewaster by Tracy
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Happy Holidays!!
Hello everyone! Jackson and I hope that everyone will have a happy, healthy, restful, and enjoyable Holiday!!
We will be spending time with my family, then heading up to Rochester to spend time with Janine, Melissa, and Gabor.
Have fun, and I look forward to sharing more pictures soon!!
3 Comments » - Posted in Family news by Marie
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
She’s Such a Poser
This badly yellowed (since adjusted in Photoshop) print is of Jane Nyberg (Karpinski) on a trip to… somewhere, I think France or Italy. She is clowning around with some roughly hewn statues of classical origin — I get a sense of Rodin or Giacommeti from them, but they could be Greek or Italian replicas. The era [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Art, Karpinski by Tracy
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Eighty Years Ago…
… this was what my neighborhood in Seattle looked like, 15 blocks south and a few blocks west of my house. The craftsman house pictured was one of the few that existed in the 1910s in an area of cleared farms and stands of still-extent evergreen forest. I think the fencing in front is a chicken pen. [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Personal news, Vintage Publications by Tracy
Monday, December 10th, 2007
Italian Spiderman
Did you know the Italians made the first Spiderman movie, back in the swingin’ sixties, complete with cheesy organ music, hookah-smoking hippies, and Mexican wrestling masks?
I didn’t either.
