Not surprisingly, there are all kinds of goodies in my new encyclopedias. I'm enjoying the book on decorating, which takes us room by room through various styles of homes: "shabby apartments", "old four-room apartments", "apartments for career girls", and my favorite so far, the (modernized) "wonderful old country home".
"The living room is colorful and cozy. It is the kind of a room where friends love to bring their mending and spend an afternoon sewing and visiting around the generous tea table. There is everything a man needs to work comfortably at this slant-top desk."
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The Homemaker's Encyclopedia: Decorating Handbook (1952)
I read on another site it was delurking week or something, funny I never thought of my reading as lurking :) Anyway you website is so neat, it encourages me! thank you! I apreciate you! Anyway it would have been neat to have been born and a housemaker in that time your books are set.
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Deana
How wonderful--especially women getting together and mending in a circle, visiting.
ReplyDeleteI think that the hostess volume and the meal-planning volume would be the first two I'd crack open!
Thanks for sharing your "find" with us! I agree-mending with friends sounds so fun!
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