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Say it with a Cookiegram: Cake Mate decorator icing (1971)

Say it with a Cookiegram Cake Mate gives you all the tips you need to put your thoughts in icing. Campaign cookies, exam cookies, apology cookies, courtesy cookies, get well cookies, travel cookies...

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Smart styles to stitch: Trim your planning desk (1966)

Planning desk trims Slipcover sides of a blotter pad with terry cloth. Cut to the height of panel, plus 1-inch seam allowance, and twice the width of the side panel, plus 5 inches for hems and tuck-in...

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Crafty “growing” fun with crayons (1959)

“Growing” fun with crayons Crayola Corner Crayola “family tree.” On shelf paper or a long strip of wrapping paper draw a six-foot “tree-trunk” with crayons. Use a yardstick to measure off inches....

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Dazzling, jewel-like Christmas balloon craft (1967)

Make these for Christmas by Dorothy Lambert Brightbill Start your holiday decorating now by making our dazzling, jewel-like Christmas balloons. They’ll lift tree trimming to new heights — send spirits...

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Create your own seashell menagerie (1972)

She cements seashells by the seashore to create A seashell menagerie The little beach creatures shown here are so amusing, they may turn you into a shell-collecting addict in order to create a flock of...

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An Owl Whoo’s Pretty Square sewing project (1974)

An Owl Whoo’s Pretty Square Covered with squares, in fact — but wisely covered with terry too, and oh such a soft pillow. Size: 12″ x 16″ Materials: Fabrics, 36″ wide: Lightweight yellow terry cloth...

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Make your own gift wrapping bags (1956)

Make your own gift wrapping bags They’re gifts themselves with many “after” uses Have you ever gone through wrapping gymnastics trying to make a pretty package of an odd-shaped gift? The easiest way is...

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Crepe paper flower craft ideas (1967)

Cut yourself a bunch of fun. It’s easy! All you need is a colorful selection of Dennison Crepe Papers, plus a few simple instructions, and you’re ready to grow the biggest, freshest, gayest flowers in...

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Make a welcoming Christmas wreath for your front door (1962)

The welcoming wreath It invites all callers to come inside and share the Christmas spirit with you The traditional symbol of welcome and hospitality is a wreath of fresh greens, trimmed to a...

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How to make a sturdy, useful flip-over chair (1955)

Flip it forward or back Either way, a sturdy, useful chair for outdoors by William E Whitlock – Director, Woman’s Day Workshop This flip-over chair — in the original Hudson Valley version of the 1870s...

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Charlotte, Constance, Cecile & Bertha: Fashions from 1869

Charlotte   Constance   Cecile     Bertha

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Revell jet plane & guided missile ship kits (1956)

Build guided missile ships… jet planes with Revell Authentic Kits from Woolworth’s U.S.S. BOSTON, first Guided Missile Cruiser, built 1955. Revell model shows com-pletely detailed superstructure....

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How to make a dynamite night light (1981)

A Dynamite night light Next time you’re dining out — outdoors, that is — add an extra twinkle of your own to the starlight night! The Dynamite night light we’re talking about is a can-turned-lantern...

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Turn spray cans into clever Christmas decorations (1970)

Stocking stuffers are child’s play These Christmas stocking stuffers decorated by the children for mom and dad show how deodorant cans can be used for a family holiday project. What will mom stuff the...

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Stage a crafty Christmas claybake! (1964)

Christmas claybake In that magical and ever-quickening flurry of days and weeks before Christmas, when lists are drawn up, gifts cached away, parties and visits joyously planned, there are also, for...

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44 Christmas cookie decorating ideas for kids (1987)

Christmas toy cookies for kids of all ages 44 fabulous designs, from drums to choo-choo trains… fun to bake, even more fun to eat! Christmas balls, candles, gingerbread boys, cookie mice, butterflies,...

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Do-it-yourself decorating with colorful oil cloth (1952)

Do-it-yourself decorating ideas From the personal scrapbook of Constance Hunter, home decorator Now! Dozens of bright ideas for your home with colorful Blenback Oil Cloth. Practical ideas, too, because...

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Wild & wonderful new ways to wrap gifts (1961)

Great gift wrap ideas for bulky & odd-shaped kitchen gifts The best way to gift-wrap a bulky or odd-shaped kitchen appliance or utensil is — don’t! Give it a fanciful shape, instead — with...

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Wood carving a fashionable pastime for the young girl (1909)

Wood carving a fashionable accomplishment for the young girl of today When, with refreshing prodigality, a young society woman of New York presented a half dozen fall brides with trousseau chests,...

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This jolly cut-out toy Santa really jumps! (1960)

Our jolly cut-out Santa really jumps! >> Click on either image to get a larger printable version!  He jumps and he jiggles — a spritely old elf all ready to laugh in spite of himself. He’s a...

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