Two vintage games

The vintage version of well know sliding puzzle. I had a few of these small plastic puzzles. With a company logo or an illustration. I was never able to solve these unless the pieces were numbered. 

This game is from 1950 published by Jumbo. I love the small box and the beautiful typography on it.

This game was far from complete when I bought it. All the game pieces were missing! Don't know why I bought it at the time...

It's a game from 1973.

Crochet for kids clothing

I never got the hang of crochet, knitting was more my thing. But I love these old needlework books. I actually have quite a few in my collection. All beautiful ones with wonderful graphic illustrations and - sometimes - hilarious pictures.

Friday fruitday #10

I need a new Moleskine!

  

Found alphabet

I'm still looking for F and K! Any suggestions? I come across a lot of Xs, Cs or Ys to make a few alphabets but some letters are quite difficult to find...

Another vintage book about dogs

I'm always on the lookout for vintage books about dogs, about different breeds or about raising dogs. The vintage photos can be so hilarious at times! 

I just love how this German Shepard flies!

Emily Barletta

Emily Barletta's (recent) work is amazing. It reflects what I love; repetition and stitching. Especially the way she uses colour in her work is very inspiring to me.

Garage Gallery:

'Barletta’s repetitive gestures, marks, and shape building techniques accumulate and combine in mass to create larger works. Each object she makes is to be viewed as a physical container instilled with the memories and experiences that occurred while it was being made. Through her art she builds imaginary machines that organically grow to reference patternmaking, weaving, flesh, blood, cells, plants, topography, molds, and diseases.'

I once set myself to do a stitching project as well (absolutely no comparison!). I loved doing it, but it was extremely more time consuming than I thought when I started out. So I can only imagine how much work Emily Barletta puts into each piece.

Emily has a blog as well.