Last weekend was the last of our crazy-early morning flea marketing - I actually didn't buy all that much this time, but my friend Wendy won the day with her antique dinner chimes and a set of velvet armchairs.
Things I found:
Wrapping paper. Hilarious. It's a huge roll and we're going to use it at our booth at Teslacon, since it's got some nice steampunk flair about it.
And, because I can't resist:
There's a chance that I went a little overboard, but they were only $1 each!! Most of them are 40s, a couple of 30s and a couple of 50s. Top left is a pattern for shoulder pads and hip pads.
I also picked up a very sweet, ivory colored, pumpkin shaped teapot, creamer and sugar bowl set, another 50s hat, some white gloves, a metal painted watering can, an antique jewelry box that needs a lot of love and a new lining and such (project!!), and this:
OH MY GOD IT'S SO AMAZING!!!
I paid one American dollar for it and it's my new favorite possession. It's published in 1935 and sort of serves as a Home Economics textbook for teenagers. It's SO wonderful. Here are some interior shots:
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| This is page one of the table of contents, note: "It is Easy to be Good Looking", "Starting the Sewing", and "Making Additional Underwear." |
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| There are all of these exercises and class activities throughout. This one is "Describe complete foundation garments suitable to wear on the following occasions: school wear in January; party wear in June; skating party; playing tennis." Note the oldey timey 1910 versions drawn to the right of the first and last illustration. |
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| Such charming illustrations!!! |
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| AND SOME ARE IN COLOR!!! |
That about wraps up this week's adventures. Next week starts technical rehearsals for our season opener, so I'm sure I'll have melty brain until that's all over....here goes nothing!
Oh my goodness! Lexana Bear is so happy!! Yay for kale soup, I also like it as colcannon which is kale w mashed potatoes and i put sauteed onion in there too. Anwen taught me how to make that :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd believe it or not I have that very same textbook! It was my great aunt Carolyn's when she was a teenager! It has a little survey she filled out which is both charming and heartbreaking as she got polio a few years later and had to live in an iron lung :-( what are the odds!
Wow. Lexana, you never cease to amaze me. Also, that soup was awesome. Also, i just read YOUR last blog post and, you know...you have a lovely little world in which you live. We should all be so lucky. *HUGS* little sister!!!!!
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