Happy Cinco

I was delighted to find Magazo on La Paleteria, a site that reposted one of the Soviet space posters I put up the other day. The video was originally posted on Mexicovers.


Here are some of the album covers I found posted
there by Sr. Mexicant.

Passover vs. Easter

The soup photo, above, left, was sent to me by Terry Rosen. Her title, 'Kneidleachness Monster,' made me not even care that it's really a matzo ball snowman. Besides, it's creepy enough to pass for a monster. (Photo by Joyce Lapinsky Lewis)

'Peepzilla' was posted here by Stacy Hay.

Shop till you ...

Herbert Matter’s "Surreal Shopper" appeared in a 1939 Harper's Bazaar cautioning shopper's not to lose their heads to fashion. (Via bits&bites, via The Eclectic Eye)

Face it; nothing says President’s Day like a good sale. It used to be that Washington’s Birthday was when stores made final markdowns on Winter’s leftovers, in order to make room for the Spring line. Alas, the holiday is now called President’s Day, Winter merchandise went on sale before Christmas, and gauzy florals have been hanging in stores for at least a month or two. And even though, the mere act of shopping, in itself, is downright American, gone is that reverential moment of handing over presidential portraits in exchange for our purchases. Somehow, swiping a credit card just doesn’t make me think of George.


Lacoste windows, Rockefeller center, the first week of January.

Laying Needles to Rest

Broken and worn sewing needles will be lovingly and respectfully laid to rest in soft blocks of tofu throughout Japan today. Though hardly as popular as it once was, the annual ceremony known as Hari-kuyo (needle memorial service), dates back some 400 years. No sewing is done on this day, as all needle-workers (kimono-makers in particular), honor the soul and spirit of these important implements that served so well during their useful lives.

Photo by Michele Walker

Bergdorf's Windows

Bergdorf’s Holiday windows are, so over the top this year that they are a challenge to behold. ‘Labor intensive’ doesn’t even begin to describe this extravaganza of passementarie, quilling, encrustation, and taxidermy, with a dose of steampunk.


During the day, the reflections of Fifth Avenue
upon the glass offer some dreamlike surprises ...


But the general effect is dizzying.


If you visit after dark …


and get up close to explore …


you’ll be transported to a world of fantastical detail.










































Glorious, but exhausting, much like the Christmas season in New York!

greetings cards have all been sent

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I get mounds of old postcards I've collected over the years out each Christmas to reacquaint myself with. Stacks and stacks full of style, reflecting the design of the times they were posted in.

I love cards-I am getting some of them via email from fabric houses, other vendors. They are pretty and appreciated-

but- Don't you love to open the colorful envelopes in the mail? Cards from the post are really an extravagance Now, and I still do love them so.

In the New York apartment of Carroll Petrie
a perfectly beautiful way to show cards off & add festively to the decorations

(from an old Town & Country)

I get many from clients in the post with photographs of their children- I am crazy over these, such fun to see the changes just in a year. I've shared this one before with permission-  and today an update arrived from these two that I would love to share-but I won't. These boys are growing into men, one is now over 6 feet tall-
Still they are full
of
Wonder,
Joy
&
Christmas-

it is good to grow &
& yet, not abandon some of that
Wonder
& Joy.


 all sent, but never too late.


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