Cats and Jammers Studio: Tagged for a fun game...

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VINTAGE EYEWEAR
Well, you can go get glasses at the local Lenscrafters, OR you can hunt down some spectacular vintage hand cut frames at your local antique shop and have them fitted with your prescription lenses. Or maybe---do both. I have some very normal, "don'-t-cause trouble" frames, and some "in-your-face" frames I like to wear when I am feeling "con cohones" and have had a drink or two. Better to buy "new old stock", if you are going to invest much in the lenses. It is not good to throw money into old frames in bad shape that will fall off your head or lose an arm and need that proverbial piece of masking tape to keep them together. Unless that is the look you crave--the look of half the boys in my nerdy seventh grade class circa 1965. If so, I have an old briefcase and a pocket pen holder I would like to sell you. I'll throw in the slide rule.
Lawn art and ashtrays
Back when guys stayed home more, listened to the radio and do other things at the same time, they probably labored over homemade lawn art, standing ashtray holders, and door stops. Usually they were made out of plywood, then painted. Look for slightly crackled paint. Many of the best of these were old comic strip characters like Jiggs and Maggie, or the ocasional Disney character. Black cats are plentiful. Also Butlers. You do not have to smoke to appreciate them.
old silhouettes
Many of these come from the 20's and 30's. You can often guess the age of the piece by the dress of the person whose portrait it is. Hung together on a wall, they have a wonderful impact.
Old cookbooks by local groups: i.e. Grange cookbooks, church cookbooks, college cookbooks, etc.
Tacky Souvenirs from old site seeing locales

Author/Illustrator Janie Bynum over at her "Sketchy Words" blog tagged me for a fun game that I am happy to play. Here is what I was told to do:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.*
3. Find the fifth sentence.**
4. Post the next three sentences, so if my math is correct that’d be sentences six, seven and eight.
5. Tag five people and post a comment to the blogger who tagged you.

Now, Janie, being an author and an illustrator of picture books also gave us the PB version, which is to go to page 23 and just put down the text.

SO--I mozied over to my studio book shelf, and quite "randomly" chose one of my favorite PB books--which just happens to have one of my favorite PB texts---"Raising Sweetness" by Diane Stanley and illustrated by G. Brian Karas, which is the sequel to "Saving Sweetness" by the same duo. Page 23 read like this:

"Ma!" cried the young 'uns, and they fell on her like a duck on a June bug.
"I got myself a family since you been gone," I explained.
"So I see," said Miss Lucy, pattin' their little heads. "But let me finish. I will move back to Possum Trot and be your wife on one condition. I plan to go on working at my chosen profession."
"What's that?" cried the little tykes.
"Im a teacher," says she.

I LOVE the Sweetness books, and if you haven't read them, make sure to.

So now I tag a few others. Feel free to play the PB version or the regular version:

Liz Goulet DuBois
Mother Reader
Hip Writer Mama
Monica Lee
Elizabeth O. Dulemba
Mary Beth Cryan

EDITED TO ADD: Thanks to all of my "taggees" for taking the time in busy schedules to play along!! Readers--make sure to check out their responses. Also --Vivian over at HipWriterMama put a special twist on hers.......

June 2008