By the time I got back to the Hallmark store, the ornaments were 60% off rather than 50%! Here's a photo from one of my Barbie books of a Barbie doll wearing the outfit ( not sure why she has the stole on, that was from "Enchanted Evening" - but it looks nice!)
And another photo - just the outfit, this time:
Apparently, movie premieres were quite the events back in the day, as they still are now. I have an old program from 1924, when The Thief Of Bagdad premiered at 
I cannot even imagine what it must have been like to attend a premiere back in 1924 of a movie starring Douglas Fairbanks!
He has put in a gate and steps on the south side of the deck.
Now we can just open the gate and walk out to where the peonies grow, take a shortcut to the cherry tomatoes or to check to see if the cherokee rose is blooming yet.
Doesn't seem like much of a big deal, I guess. but before the gate, we had to go down the steps on the north side and walk all the way around the fence to get to the other side, OR go through the house and out the front door and down those steps.
He bought the gate at a local store, Clifton and Warren, which supplies feed and grain, fencing, and even baby chicks in spring. I have always liked these metal gates with the curlicues on the top.
The cats find the gate very interesting. They haven't tried to go under it yet, they just kind of stand there and look through it, somewhat surprised that they can see us.
The steps below are a combination of concrete and local rocks. They are a big improvement. Before there was just a path formed out of the red clay soil. Dusty and slippery in the summer, and slick and slimy in the winter (well, not this winter, not yet anyway...)
Out I will go to weed the little hill which will soon be covered with naked ladies (amaryllis belladonna) leaves popping out of the soil. Or I can use it as a shortcut to go out and pick daffodils. Oh, the possibilities!
It is a gateway to my return to a mobile life, it beckons to me, it is tempting me...
My featured model in today's installment of my favorite models is the absolutely adorable and lovely Joyce Walker:
And in this ad for clothing from "Charlie's Girls":
On the cover of Seventeen magazine:
What a fabulous floral outfit, below! With shoes from Famolare:
Another cute ensemble:
And comfy red overalls - and I love those comic-strip shirts they're wearing:
And before baking, with cheese:
And after baking:
And before eating:
And, even with the addition of my salad dressing, my entire dinner was 10 Points Plus Values.
Not bad in this pretty blue (Fair Isle style?) pullover, either:
Plum-colored wool with angora - but I do believe the gorgeous scarf rather steals the show, here:
A feathery-fringed shawl collar in this soft and cozy 50's or 60's Orlon cardigan that belonged to my mother-in-law:
I paired it with a nice scarf I bought at a thrift shop, and you can see how pretty they are together a little bit better in this close-up:
Since I don't have the real vintage clothes for him, here's a photo of Ken wearing the outfit instead - nice!
And here are two images of "Campus Hero" from the booklets, as well:
If only I owned more of the vintage clothes, I'd be more than happy to share them with you!
