19th century bird prints

Find them here.

Marbella

is a

very

feminine

hen.

My mother's doorknob

Purchased out of some cardboard box, probably, out of a barn somewhere around here, when she was young and restless. I vaguely remember her saying it was perfect, and then using it as a paperweight.

The look of OTB

Montague Street OTB in 1976, Brooklyn Heights blog

1960s Steelmaster cash box

1950s Hawaiian shirt with cigarette pocket on the sleeve

Men's plaid hat

Kodak Pony II

1980s purple silk grade soda tie

1970s Sears deadstock vest

1970s trackside whiskey boots

Mother's day

Maya and her daughter Proton, asleep. Pay no attention to the ragged carpet beneath them. Just pay attention to how they're sleeping, back to back.

Up at the cabin

Postcard from Alice Lake in the Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho, vintageplum

1950s coverlet in woven cotton. Cannon Mills USA.

Handmade vintage cotton curtains from enhabiten

1980s chukka boots with moc toes. Eastland, Maine.

1950s REI rucksack, takeahikemercantile

1973 wild food foraging handbook, classicobsessive

1960s wool plaid shirt. Pendleton, Oregon.

1960s denim coat with blanket lining. Sears Work n Leisure.

Oberlin, Ohio bait canteen, susantique

1950s straw hat

the next book.

completion date: september 1.

Bucket Provenance


From the story of an executive who started his career as a file clerk:

National Enameling & Stamping Co. (Nesco) headquarters, around 1907.

From a trove of printing blocks used in the making of a late 1930s hardware catalogue:

1930s letterpress printer's block of the Nesco pail, preservecottage

From a pantry in a farmhouse owned by a hardware store owner back in the day:

1930s Nesco bucket at the luncheonette

The black and the pink / vintage yang and yin

vintage 1930s mop pail by the national enameling and stamping company

vintage early 1990s Doc Martens with steel toes

vintage 1970s beach plum cardigan

vintage 1940s homemade peach pie barkcloth pillow

vintage 1950s Knowles china cup and saucer in coral pine, part of a bigger set

vintage 1950s handknit licorice drops scarf

Separated sometime after birth

Train's a Comin Vintage Wood Inlay Pencil Box from Mousetrapvintage

My own personal pencil box from way back in toddlerhood

(seen in natural daylight, which shows my age)

and on which I wrote some kind of gobblydegook that had to do with letters as opposed to words

Lucille does not like my camera but does like a bit of grit

Lucille, alpha hen of the Atwood Nine

Suddenly a lot of eggs

{me}longings blog was a fave of mine long before I knew anything about it. Organic and eco and patina and light and a kind of unmitigated quiet joy radiates from it. Chanee, the {me} in it, has an eye.

This isn't mutual logrolling time but somehow the luncheonette and {me}longings got together and made good. But she took it farther and sent me all these questions to answer about the luncheonette. So I did. I wasn't sure what she'd use from all the answering: a meadow of answers, it looked like to me, wild and unkempt but honest. She used them all. She also grabbed a whole buffet of items from the shop and put them together in surprising, and gorgeous ways and did that color-matching genius thing too. And she used some of my favorites, though I never told her they were favorites. More good made. Much good. See for yourself.

 

 

 

 

 

A thousand pieces of pie to you for that, C.