The most wonderful time of year? Tell that to the illustrators of the 19th century, who seemed to love nothing more than drawing scenes of violent frogs and creepy onion people
These Christmas cards are not for the faint-hearted and above all -- not for kids! We can already smell Christmas in the air! And that folks is a sign that there'll be a lot of gift-giving. Speaking of gift-giving, there are times that we only...like ONLY receive Christmas cards. It sucks, right? All those red
Thousands of Christmas cards and letters winged their way between loved ones in both world wars.
Old-Timey Christmas Cards Were Weird - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
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"Valentine cards had become a tradition of ours, born of the fact that we could never get ourselves organized in time to send out Christmas cards." - Julia Child, My Life in France.
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The feast day of Saint Nicholas is celebrated in many European countries on 6th December, but who was Saint Nicholas? And why is he associated with Christmas? Saint Nicholas was born around 280 A.D…
I have always been offended by the title “Desperate Housewife”. It always seemed as if people thought that housewives are desperate for attention, desperate to prove themselves the best, or just d…
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Kilka dekad historii mody i estetyki zamknięte w bożonarodzeniowych kartkach.
İnsanlar zaman içerisinde delirmedi, biz hep deliydik.
Some economists claim that it’s the best time to be alive. People have access to everything they want and happiness comes at the push of a button, or more accurately the tap of a touch screen.
İnsanlar zaman içerisinde delirmedi, biz hep deliydik.
Have you ever come across these pictures with retro ladies smiling combined with sarcastic tongue-in-cheek captions? If you have, and also found them funny, then this article is your cup of tea.
Ingredients 1 cup shortening (not oleo) 1 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup peanut butter 3 cups flour 2 teaspoons soda 1/2 teaspoon salt Method Cream shortening, sugars, eggs, and vanilla. Stir in peanut butter. Add dry ingredients. Drop by teaspoon on an ungreased cookie sheet. Press
We’ve all heard it: “Today, your phone has a zillion times more processing power than giant computers that filled an entire room in days past!” Rather than review bits and bytes, let’s look at CHM’s 1401 computer from the point of view of what it can do, and its long-lasting impact on the development of business computing.
Your self-preserving, self-sparing nature is humanity-wide. Across races, across continents, occupations, education levels. Most people today try to eat soup while they can only contribute one or two ingredients to that meal. What do I mean? Speaking languages playing musical instruments singing reading musical notes playing chess, backgammon, bridge (a card game) crossword puzzles, and
Ingredients 1 quart milk 3 eggs 2 teaspoons sugar for each egg - beat eggs and sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla Pinch salt Nutmeg Method Beat eggs (3 eggs) and sugar (6 teaspoons) together. Heat milk in a double boiler and slowly add sugar and eggs to milk. Cook until it coats the spoon. [Remove from
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Charles van Sandwyk's handmade private press books are hits among rare book collectors. A look at his work, in pictures
There are so many things I want desperately to blog about that never come to fruition because there's no time to do all the research and write all the details- however enjoyable I know the whole process will be... sigh. With that said, do you know Mela Koehler's work? She was born in Vienna in 1885 and was a part of the Wiener Werkstätte. If you have ever studied women's roles in the arts in the first half of the 20th century, you will know how extraordinary it was for a woman to have made a living as an artist...
There were many female illustrators working during the 1940s, '50s and '60s. This blog celebrates their accomplishments.
