Do you ever get wanderlust or rambling bones? On this Vintage Friday, let’s take a musical stroll back to 1966 to a man with a melodious voice, Mr. Gene Pitney. The song Golden Earrings was covered by numerous artists and draws us in with its haunting guitar and melancholy gypsy lyrics. I hope you enjoyed… Continue reading Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1966
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Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1965
Groovy music from the Sixties, man, on this Vintage Friday! We used to dance “the Jerk” to this tune from 1965. It wasn’t until after the turn of the current century that I discovered that one of my favorite musicians Doug Sahm, head of the Tex Mex band Texas Tornados, was none other than Sir… Continue reading Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1965
Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Girl of the Limberlost
A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST Author – Gene Stratton Porter First Published – 1909 Genre – Fiction Setting – the Limberlost Swamp of rural Indiana Heroine – Elnora Comstock – Poor country girl with music in her blood who pays for schooling by collecting and selling rare moths. Hero – Philip Ammon – Pure hearted… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Girl of the Limberlost
Vintage Friday: Roaring 20s Honey Mace Cookies by Flossie Benton Rogers
Delicious cookies are the bee’s knees! Today we consider a lesser known spice for our jar full of goodness. Mace comes from the same evergreen tree as the more familiar nutmeg. Whereas nutmeg is the pit of the fruit, mace is derived from the outer covering of the nutmeg seed. Mace has a flavor and… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Roaring 20s Honey Mace Cookies by Flossie Benton Rogers
Vintage Friday: Singalong 1961 by Flossie Benton Rogers
My elementary school friends and I always loved music class. It was a period unlike any other—loud and entertaining rather than solemn and studious. Basically we had fun singing songs under the leadership of Mr. Lyons. Tall, thin, bespeckled, gentlemanly, and personable, he would play the clarinet as we sang along. My favorite song was… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Singalong 1961 by Flossie Benton Rogers
Vintage Friday: Banana Pudding 1960
As children in the early 1960s, we enjoyed our mother’s banana pudding made with vanilla wafers and topped with meringue. It was a special weekend treat that also found its way to each annual family reunion held outside at a local state park. BANANA PUDDING Ingredients: Large package vanilla pudding & pie filling mix, 3… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Banana Pudding 1960
Vintage Friday: It’s the Bee’s Knees, Baby!
Get dolled up in your flapper dress and enjoy these scrumptious tidbits inspired by the Roaring Twenties. The crazy pic to the left is an old one of me at a library fundraiser. BEE’S KNEES COCKTAIL Ingredients: 2 ounces gin, ¾ ounce honey syrup (mix ½ ounce honey with ½ ounce water), ½ ounce lemon juice.… Continue reading Vintage Friday: It’s the Bee’s Knees, Baby!
Vintage Friday: Hold My Hanky
For Christmas I decided to buy some pretty handkerchiefs for Miss Viola, the mother of a friend of mine. Miss Vi calls me her “other daughter,” and that’s a good feeling for someone who lost her mother in 1987. She and my mother were friends as well. How wonderful that Miss Vi still uses actual… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Hold My Hanky
Bee’s Knees Cocktail for Release Day
I can’t believe that my third book comes out today! I am on author and friend Catherine Green’s blog today talking about Mind Your Goddess – Wytchfae 3. http://spookymrsgreen.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/guest-author-feature-mind-your-goddess-wytchfae-3/ You can take a peek and see the opening paragraph as well as a teaser paragraph. Nothing like whetting the appetite for the sexy hero!… Continue reading Bee’s Knees Cocktail for Release Day
Vintage Friday: Lose Weight with Ginger Cake
The 1940’s Experiment is a fascinating blog by a woman named Caroline whose weight loss regimen revolves around a diet of — you guessed it — 1940’s recipes. For every pound lost, she recreates and shares a 1940’s recipe. She’s had great success with the weight loss. I remember my mother talking about rationing and the hardships… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Lose Weight with Ginger Cake