Not the baby’s head!

So who went to Hawaii, and who got the goodies?  And shy is there a keyboard AND a piano in Mom’s living room?

There’s a melting ice cream cone on my knee with a cherry on it and flowers and a butterfly on the lower leg. Let’s also not forget another 70s item of clothing, the poncho.

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 something from another world. I like the artistic style too, which is delicate and folkloric.

However I really like this lady’s 1940s style platinum blonde hair and the old fashioned sewing machine she is using.

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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 it looks like it was made just after WWII.

So booklets like this were produced for doting parents or grandparents to knit their own (or the child, if she was clever.) The typeface that says TEEN AGE [sic] screams 1950s asymmetry and outrageousness, in a time when teen agers [sic] were seen as cutely primitive beings.

But the problem with the knitted clothes was that they were bulky and, let’s face it, dorky in comparison to the store-bought ones. Barbie in this picture looks like she wishes she were somewhere else. Perhaps she is daydreaming of GI Joe who would never wear a knit newsboy cap like Ken is doing.

Dresses fared better, because they looked like the boucle knits of the time. By the picture it was even possible to knit miniature gloves. That is Midge, Barbie’s best friend, on the right. comparing the two, I don’t know what Barbie saw in her. Even as a five-year-old I was embarrassed being seen with my cousins’ hand-me-down Midge doll.

This alien beast is a herbivore that lives on a cold world with normal gravity. Woolly rhino-ish with a hint of mastodon.

This butterfly-like carnivore lived on a low gravity world with a temperate climate.

With the advent of the internet, other people play this game, called speculative zoology or speculative biology for want of a better term.

The planet Furaha has many strange animals like these tubesharks.

A world called Snaiad feaures deadly carnivores with sexual organs in their jaws and mouths in their chests.

This pentapod flyer comes from Epona, a world near the end of its geological  life.

But what about life on earth? If the dinosaurs had never gone extinct, creatures like this might inhabit the earth, courtesy of Dinosaur Central:

Just kidding 

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.

Our cats were always spoiled. Here Patches enjoys a relaxing time on a human’s lap.

In 1967, when I first came to Hawaii, I collected all these matchbook covers.  You really don’t see them any more, as smoking has become very politically incorrect.  So I guess these could be considered to be collectors items!