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Judith
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 Posted - Jul 28 2004 : 9:29:28 PM
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| Does anyone else share my passion for collecting these items? I just found 2 more today. 1934 and 1935 Needlecraft..the Home Arts magazine. I love to look at them over and over. Like MJ catamags. I have a collection from 1910 through 1966 (That's my HS grad. year). I also have collected one each of the year of birth for special friend/sisters as a neat surprise. I do not collect those with pages torn out. I almost feel a personal wound when I see that. However, I did purchase a Cream of Wheat ad today for a niece. (It's a comfort thing for her..her mother just passed away). I will have it matted and framed,and send it to her. I love the old dress patterns. |
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Aunt Jenny
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
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Posted - Jul 28 2004 : 9:38:31 PM
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I like the way you think..what thoughtful fun gifts!!! I love old magazines too, although I don't have any as old as that..how neat!!
Jenny in Utah
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jpbluesky
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Jeannie
Florida
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Posted - Jul 29 2004 : 05:04:42 AM
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Judith, that is a great gift idea. And a great collectible idea, too. A friend of mine gave me, matted and framed, a copy of the old sheet music "I Dream of Jeannie", and I really have enjoyed having it.
Being a needleworker, I have seen the old magazines you speak of, and the graphics in them are so appealing. The typeset....it takes you back into a real peek at the past. Even the way sentences are structured in the old magazines is so interesting.
I collect antique postcards (from the early 1900's), mostly real photo cards, for the same reason. The message on the back, the date it was sent, the real photo on the front, are all a piece of yesterday that still exists in that postcard. My favorite is posted from Texas in 1911. A family of about 8 is gathered on the bank of a stream wearing their finest. A straw hat rests on the grass nearby. One of the young girls, in a white linen dress and big hair ribbon, is casually holding a rifle and a leather holster stocked with ammo hangs over her shoulder.
Happy collecting, and maybe share some good tips that you read within your old magazines.
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Judith
Rockford
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Posted - Jul 29 2004 : 8:52:35 PM
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Well, now I feel more like a collector than a packrat. I love the postcards also. I don't really don't have a collection though. However, the few times I have been with my oldest grandaughter (14 yrs.old) into an antique store she heads right to the boxes of postcards, and old pictures. I don't say anything, just love to watch her and listen to her comments. We all have our treasures, don't we? My mother passed away a couple of months ago, and I was lucky to receive a couple of her favorite handkerchiefs. I just can't let those go yet. However, I was antiquing(?)on my lunch hour, and found several perfect condition, old handkerchiefs. I was so excited today when MJ's premier issue arrived. There is an article using handkerchiefs to cover canning jars as a vase for flowers. I have a pretty blue, white and yellow hanky covering a jar for the daisy's from the garden.
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Judith
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Posted - Jul 29 2004 : 8:58:09 PM
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| By the way, that postcard sounds wonderful. Wouldn't you just love to step into it, to know what was going on? I am picturing it. |
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Clare
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Posted - Jul 29 2004 : 9:11:18 PM
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I've been collecting old handkerchiefs and just recently went through my collection to get ideas on what I could make with them. I've seen ideas for a bedskirt and a bed canopy covering, and a quilt idea. I still haven't decided, but it's fun to contemplate them and the women who used them. I also have my mothers collection of old crochet pattern books from the 1940-1950's. There are ones for tablecloths and runners and doillies. I recognize some of these patterns as my grandmother made them. There's also books for crochet baby clothes, and I recognize these too as ones that I had as a baby, made by my grandmother. Fortunately these items are all still in the family. They are our heirlooms. Included with the pattern books are several for crocheting purses, which just fascinates me. I'll have to hone my crochet skills and maybe give one of them a go... won't know unless I try... and the "retro look" is really fashionable right now.... as if I follow fashion trends...haha!
The antique postcards fascinate me too, but I do not own any. My mother still has a collection that my father sent to his mother while he was in WWII. They are from the Middle East mainly, Egypt and Burma. Now those are totally fascinating... to see my young father standing by a camel in front of a pyramid is amazing! We are all curators of memories, aren't we? As long as we value and protect these ordinary items, they will always live on.
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Judith
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Posted - Jul 29 2004 : 9:27:59 PM
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| What a great collection! I can't imaging seeing a family member on a postcard. What a treasure! Hey, you just gave me a fun idea. What a hoot! Our family has a picture of my sister with her pet rooster "Chirp" sitting on her shoulder. He was as big as her head,and she raised him from an Easter chick. The picture turned up in the local newspaper a few years back as a surprise birthday wish. Wouldn't it be fun to make it into a postcard, and send it to her for her birthday, or just a surprise card. |
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jpbluesky
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Jeannie
Florida
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Posted - Jul 30 2004 : 04:57:33 AM
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I love that you immediately see your collecting as wonderful and personal gifts for those you love. That is another good gift idea!
I, too, have a collection of old hankies I inherited from my mom, grandmother, and mother-in-law (probably about 50 of them). When my daughter got married, we placed a family handkerchief in the center of each table at the reception with a small bouquet of hygrangeas on it. That way both grandmothers, and even great-grandmothers had something of their personal self at each table with the guests, even though they could not be at the wedding. I also took one of the white Irish linen hankies that was edged with a three inch lace and made it into the ring pillow topper. I made a 10x10 white satin pillow with one tuft button in the center that anchored the hankie and then brought blue ribbon through to tie the rings with. I anchored each corner of the hankie with a small stitch that did not show. Then we placed a small hydrangea in the center on top right before the ceremony.
On the reception table of my in-laws, many of whom live in Arkansas, I placed a hankie that had the state of Arkansas on it. My hubby's grandma would buy a state hankie when she went on vacations, so I have many different states in the collection.
Hankies and old postcards do not take up a lot of room as a collection, thank goodness! Now, if we are talking quilts....maybe I am a packrat, after all my life denying it!
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cecelia
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cecelia
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Posted - Jul 30 2004 : 5:15:24 PM
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 Oh, I got some great ideas from reading your posts! I have a couple of hankies from when I was a little girl, one from my wedding, and some old postcards which were my father's (they have messages in them in Polish). I couldn't quite make out what to do with them, because I don't have a lot of "one thing", so I'm going to make a shadowbox with all of them. I can probably find a few more old heirlooms to go with them.
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Aunt Jenny
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
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Posted - Jul 30 2004 : 10:31:36 PM
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I have used most of my old hankies for gifts for freinds, either as a sachet with homemade pottpouri in them, or wrapping some of my homemade soap or a small gift..but I did save one..it was one that my grandma saved for me that is the calendar type...the year I was born (1958..yikes!) and it is very good condition. I need to do something nice with it..maybe frame it. I keep it in my top dresser drawer..have for 20 years. Gosh...about time I got on the ball and did something with it!!
Jenny in Utah
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
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Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
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Posted - Nov 25 2005 : 6:51:07 PM
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| oh my yes! i always have an eye open for paper ephemera when antiquing .. i especially look for 'special' dates or 'topics' as gifts for friends. i collect anything from the kennedy era as that was a very important time in my life .. i look for magazines dated 1965 and 1970 for my girls. i have a list of birthdates of special friends and family members and pull that list out when i find piles of old magazines. i collect 'season' editions of magazines like country living, country home, martha stewart, mary engelbreit .. for inspiration with each holiday .. and it is fun to 'put them out' for guest to go through when visiting during holidays. frannie |
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