Vintage Advertisement: Mincemeat/Plum Pudding

Hello.

Today I am sharing a vintage add for mincemeat.

My mother-in-law made an apple pie with mincemeat on it last weekend.

I always thought that mincemeat had to have meat in it,

but it is the fruit and spices used on the mincemeat pie.

It was very good, too.

Here is a black and white version.

Here is an antiqued version.

These ads are from a late 1800's magazine,

so as far as I know, they are free for you to use as you'd like.

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"What is On Your Workdesk" Wednesday 229

This week I am joining Stamping Ground and sharing

"What is on my Workdesk."

Because we school at home, the table is usually covered with school or crafts that the kids are creating.

For this reason, my work tends to be at different places around the room,

and I pull them out as I have a moment to work on them.

This pile of pieces have been base-coated this week.

I hope to make some signs for the Christmas craft sales coming up.

This basket has some recycled sweater that I am making into purses.

I worked on them at one point while I was listening to a program on the television with the kids.

These gourds and papier mache' will be painted with scenes to make ornaments.

 I just rounded them all up and gathered them in a box so I can get working on them.

 This easel is actually where I have "what I am working on,"

or attempt to work on, when I don't get distracted by the kids' needing help.

This is what I enjoy doing most.

 (I just recovered that chair, too.  It was in desperate need of some new material,

and it makes it so much nicer to work at the easel with a pretty chair.)

So far, I just have the sketch of the piano on the tracing paper,

the  measurements and the start of the outline.

When I am running out to take my daughter to her violin lesson, I grab my bag and work on these:

I finished the school counting page and am working on another verse page.

My son's birthday is coming up and I would like to squeeze in a card for him,

so I have these images I plan to work from.

This sketch of the cat is one I was working on this week, too.

I seem to have too many projects going on at once, but it works best when I have something to work on depending upon what the kids are doing and where I need to be.

Either that, or perhaps I need to work on my attention span.

What are you working on this week?

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Art Lesson: Rooster.

This week's art lesson is a sketch page of our rooster.

I like our rooster.

He is quite the protector of his three lady hens and I enjoy watching him find bugs and then

cluck to let them know he has something for them.

He has been pretty tame to us humans so far,

and I hope that will continue so that all will be peaceful around the yard.

Here is a printable sketch page which you are free to use as you'd like,

just not for resale.

Thank you for stopping by!

(To copy this sketch page, click on the image, right click, and then click on "copy".

Open up Microsoft Word and right click on the screen, and then click "paste".

 The image should paste onto the page.

You can then click "print."

If you have difficulties or suggestions, please let me know.)

Ten Commandments Coloring Page: 9th Commandment.

Today I am sharing the 9th of the 10 Commandments of the Kids' Coloring Pages.

(If this looks familiar, it is because I posted this one by accident last week as the 8th Commandment:

I must have been very tired.

It is fixed now and I have the 8th Commandment on last week's post where it should have been).

Here is the colored version.

These are free for use,

just not resale.

Thanks for stopping by.

Art Tip: Repurposing Ornaments with Paint.

Hello!

Today I am sharing a simple tip for making a gift more...

personal.

(If you are a Hallmark ornament collector, you may not appreciate this post,

so you may need to look away.)

 

I know it is a bit early for Christmas, but thought this tip might be helpful as we head into the season soon.

Every year at Hallmark,

I see the ornaments from other years deeply reduced for sale because the date on them

is past.

 When my son was a preschooler,

David and Goliath was his favorite story.

He loved the song.

Hallmark had one of those great discounted ornaments,

but the date was old and the year wasn't even meaningful in some way to our family

(Was anybody born that yeat?  Did anybody do anything special that year?

What year did we get the puppy?)

So I decided to "fix" it.

 I used some paint that works great on glass and plastic

(Should I mention her name since she was kind of hard on us bloggers?

That's okay; everybody makes mistakes.

  Bitterness never gets anybody anywhere, and I do so love her all-purpose and glass paint.  I'm not an expert on it or anything, but I find it works very well).

:)

 I painted the book binding with the gold paint, and it hid the year that had been there.

My children have unusual names,

so finding them the personal ornaments can be difficult.

I used the paint on these to remedy that as well.

Once I had painted the gold over the names that were there and let it dry,

I then drew on my children's names using a paint pen.

Oil based permanent marker paint pens work great, too.

It seems a shame that all those great ornament sit on the shelf because there aren't enough Sarahs and Matthews in the world,

 so this is a great way to repurpose something at a great price.

Do you have any helpful ideas for easy fixes?

Thanks for stopping by!

Free Vintage Image: Owl

Hello!

Today I am sharing a vintage owl illustration.

We hear an occasional owl outside in the pine trees or out in the pasture.

He has a very distinctive : "Hoo, hoo, hoo-hoo."

They are such unique birds.

Here he is in black and white.

Here he is antiqued.

The owl is from a book from the late 1800's

so you are free to use his as you'd like.

Thanks for stopping by.

Educational Printable: Counting by 2's

2, 4, 6, 8...

Hope your day is really great!

Today I am sharing a chart I made for my son:

counting by 2's.

 I originally created the chart larger,

in four separate pages.

If you would like those to make a poster,

I am posting those as well.

(To copy these coloring pages, click on the image, right click, and then click on "copy".

Open up Microsoft Word and right click on the screen, and then click "paste".

 The image should paste onto the page.

You can then click "print" to use them as coloring pages.

If you have difficulties or suggestions, please let me know.) 

Thanks for stopping by!