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Archive for November 6th, 2008
Vintage magazines make me happy.
Fabulous illustration work make me happy.
Bourjois cosmetics make me happy (such good stuff!)
Playing with girlie smelly requisites* makes me happy.
An evening in Paris would make me happy too, but that’s not going to happen any time soon!
* “requisit-t-t-teeets” a la Michael Palin (he makes me happy too.)
A Week of Happy at Mikes is also happy.
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Found via this great blog.
More happy at Mikes.
Vintage thingy Thursday : a poultry offering
Published Thursday, November 6, 2008 Chicken , thingy Thursday , vintage 10 Comments
Poultry make me happy, I love chooks and ducks…well all birdies really. If you’re not at all interested in vintage chook loving, best look away now. So today’s Vintage Thursday Thingy is a copy of the Poultry Tribune magazine from 1934, that’s been kicking around my office at work. It’s not a very stimulating read, all dry stuff about raising the best chickens for your dollar, and given this was depression era America, I suppose that’s logical. Win money- $1500 in Cash! growing “those fluffy balls of down”… that would have been a pretty good prize at the time.
For example, the article on page six is titled “Chickens Pay!” and starts:
“I wanted to go to college and I wished to study music,” Lillian Becker, 21 year old Cass county, North Dakota, poultry and egg producer, said as she laid down her chicken house cleaning tools. That is the reason why I launched into the poultry and egg business…And here I am still in the business which has proven profitable the past two years in spite of ’slow times’.”
Here’s Lillian (a girl after my own heart) cuddling one of her chickens:
I like the advertisements, they’re all rather charming…bring those eggs out! Make them pay! Actually it sounds rather painful really. Run little hen!
And of course to keep the lady of the house happy, there’s the requisite pattern service, a stern toned article on “Homemaking!” (this magazine! likes! exclamation! marks!) and even the odd bit o’ humour:
“Was your garden a success this year, Mr Wiggins?”
“I’ll say so! My neighbor’s chickens won three prizes at the State Fair.” Boom boom!
I’m a bit dubious about the “harmless fun” of this one…but just hope he doesn’t fire at the chickens!
More Vintage Thingy Thursdays of a less paltry nature here.
Tea and snot blocks = happy. I’m sure they’re not as yum as country bakery ones, but for elevenses at work, it’s all good.
A week of happy things here.
What’s not to love about Ken as Aladdin Sane?
More happy things here.
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