PAINTINGS MORPH INTO CARDS AND CALENDARS. We showed you Marg Whyte's Christmas cards early in December. Here is another byproduct of her work - calendars based loosely around themes of bush life. We … [Read more...]
End of school year
END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR - SPEECH NIGHT, NO MORE UNIFORM, THROW AWAY THE TEXTBOOKS. We thought that recordings of the achievements of the little darlings in a play, dancing, singing or at speech … [Read more...]
New year’s resolutions – learn to sing
HERE IS A WAY TO START A NEW HOBBY WITHOUT SCARING THE NEIGHBOURS - start singing in the shower - best way to loosen the under-utilised vocal cords. This booklet, with waterproof plastic … [Read more...]
Here comes the sun
SUN-BAKING, GETTING A TAN, GETTING SUNBURNED - THEY WERE THE WAYS TO MARK SUMMER IN AUSTRALIA - last century. This great card sums up the beach in the 1970s. There was some awareness of too … [Read more...]
Are we there yet? Driving holidays.
PASSPORTS FOR CAR TRAVELLERS, what's this? A Trove search dates the passport in the early 1960s as there are advertisements referring to it published in from 1960 to 1962. One of the … [Read more...]
Fire – natural disaster
BUSHFIRES ARE PART of Australia's history. "The weather conditions that set the scene for prolific unmanaged fire in the landscape are the same weather conditions that make the urban environment … [Read more...]
Christmas comes to the Outback
YES, CHRISTMAS APPROACHES, WITH SOME DELIGHTS FOR THE EPHEMERIST..Christmas cards, Christmas wrapping paper and tape. This time last year we posted a beautiful article by Michael Aitken about … [Read more...]
Premiership ephemeral item – Fitzroy 1922 – palmam qui meruit ferat
1922 WAS A PREMIERSHIP YEAR FOR FITZROY FOOTBALL CLUB. Here is a handsome commemorative (OK not intended to be ephemeral) souvenir. The Souvenir Card has a number of beautiful features: holes … [Read more...]
What does Dad want? Socks
MANY FATHERS PROFESS TO NEEDING MORE SOCKS, ON BIRTHDAYS, AT CHRISTMAS AND ON FATHER'S DAY. Bell's Socks were happy to assist fathers to have happy days. Bell's Socks for Men seem to … [Read more...]