Verrrry interesting. This intrepid blogger is going to attempt living under WWII clothes rationing for a year, in a project she calls Fashion on the Ration.
She’s following British rationing, which was instituted in 1941. I’ll be very interested in seeing how she does on her self-imposed rationing!
Sorry, folks, but this blog has been hit with so much spam recently that I’ve disabled comments on all posts older than 7 days. Which, at this point, is all of them. Except this one.
Via Unclutterer: Robert Heinlein’s space age house, from Popular Mechanics. Brilliant, far-thinking ideas (what else would you expect from Robert Heinlein?), including some Universal Design features, like hip-height electrical outlets.
I’ve been using Etsy more and more to satisfy my appetite for vintage goodies. I’ve come to prefer it to eBay for many reasons; for starters, did you ever see an eBay seller use a photo like this? I love the woodland setting for the mushroom canisters, but Etsy sellers tend to post beautiful, loving, detailed, and whimsical photos of their goods even if they’re just sitting on a counter. They describe things in a way that invites you to look, rather than just throwing in as many SEO terms as they can think of. Their spelling is better (the people who did my mother’s estate sale misspelled Fostoria, Royal Doulton, and the name of the Haviland pattern they were selling for her on eBay; good luck to anyone searching for it), their descriptions are better, and their pages load faster. AND the prices are generally better. On eBay I’m betting someone would have set a starting price of $22.50 on this set. They’re wonderful, but the price their Etsy seller has set is just about right.
I’ve been getting comment-spammed, so I’ve turned on comment moderation.
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Happy Halloween from the Vintage Reader (and family). Here’s Vintage Boy in his blue robot costume. I think it turned out rather well.
Boo! A not-so-scary ghost made of salt dough.
Boo.
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What’s a Halloween party without a good game of Bloody Mary, a question for the Ouija board, or this gem from RavensBlight (of course), THE EYE OF MIDNIGHT!!? Just print out the pendulum and the answer board, supply your own string and a quarter, and find the answers to all those troubling questions you’ve been DYING to ask!
Okay, so I’m still playing around on the Family Fun site. Vintage Boy, in true Vintage Boy fashion, has his heart set on being a robot for Halloween this year. Of course, this fills my heart with gladness, because I love costumes made from cardboard boxes, duct tape, and empty plastic packaging. Since that’s the kind of thing Family Fun tends to promote (even though it’s produced by Disney, the whole focus of the magazine is doing stuff cheaply, with things you already have whenever possible) I thought it might have some good pointers on the logistics of making such a costume.
But I was wrong. Instead of a cardboard box, their Retro Robot costume is made from two foil roasting pans… and duct tape. Sheer genius! In addition to being MUCH easier to move around in than a cardboard box, the roasting pans also require no spray paint, and if they’re not too banged up, you can use one next month for your Thanksgiving turkey. Just another reason that Family Fun is the only parenting magazine I read.