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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Embroidery
I used to love embroidering my blue jeans. My mom got me into it but my cousins also inspired me. In the 1970s, EVERYTHING got embroidered. Jackets, jeans, shirts, scarves, you name it, and the more disparate the elements, the better. Kind of like tattoos today, except you can always pull out the stitches, whereas [...]
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Monday, April 16th, 2012
Polish Shields, Part I: Krakow
I believe this is the shield of the City of Krakow. But what’s going on around it is more interesting. There are thistles, oak leaves, sheaves of wheat, morning glory flowers, pine needles, and round symbols that look like Tibetan mandalas or the hex signs of the Amish. And the man’s costume looks truly like [...]
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Sunday, April 15th, 2012
It’s Fun to Sew for Christmas
Yes, I know it’s not Christmas yet. However I really like this lady’s 1940s style platinum blonde hair and the old fashioned sewing machine she is using. Click to see larger This little foldover booklet was made by Wrights, the company that gave us the ultra-mod 1970s accessroies here. There’s no date on it but [...]
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
Barbie the Knit Wit
Barbie was THE revolutionary toy of the 1950s. Never before had there been a doll for little girls to play with that had a bust and hips. (Let’s not mention those world-weary, cocktail-hour eyes and come-hither pout.) Barbie also had more fashionable clothes in comparison to the jumpers and pinafores of baby dolls. But the [...]
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Alien Wildlife
In the 1976 my mom and I went on a trip to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. It had just opened that year. Among the exhibits for space exploration was a console where you could dial the conditions of a planet and see what kind of creature might live there. I [...]
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
A Dino’s Lament
Someone at my workplace created this little tableaux for Valentine’s Day. Where’s my card! Where’s my chocolate! Where’s my dozen red roses! Don’t you think I’m still pretty??? YOU DON’T LOVE ME ANY MORE! Dilophosaurus is not very happy with how her boyfriend treated her.
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
The Pampered Pet
Our cats were always spoiled. Here Patches enjoys a relaxing time on a human’s lap.
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
Hard at Work
Jeanne and I apply ourselves seriously to the job of dying Easter eggs. This was always done on Good Friday. I am reading the box while Jeanne meticulously starts the dye job.
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
The Eye of Wise
One of the most pervasive symbols of my childhood years was the Wise’s Potato Chip logo — an owl’s eye in black, yellow, and turquoise, with an arched brow. Over the years it accreted a status like the flaming Eye of Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings movies. But instead of evil and [...]
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Monday, March 26th, 2012
Polish Costumes
These are from the city of Lubkhow (?) which is in the southeast part of Poland, near the place the Karpinsis and Bocheneks came from. Each region of Poland had its own dress. The man’s coat looks Russian or even a little Mongolian, but his flat crowned hat looks Amish! The city’s emblem is the [...]
