► As always, I keep accumulating stuff, even when I'm not trying. Visited my grandmother today and ended up with 4 old blankets from the batch stored in a barrel in the basement (old hard cardboard barrel with tin bottom and lid). I also inherited a small half moon shaped end table, which is now sitting in the hallway since I have barely enough ( Read more... )

► Why is it I never see blankets with satin/ribbon trim anymore? When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s all the blankets my parents, grandparents and basically everyone else had had that folded zig-zag stitched ribbon trim along the ends of the blankets. I haven't see any like that in... well, I guess decades ( Read more... )