Reviving and Revising an Old Collection

Some of you may remember my old Vintage Media Collection, which has been retired for quite some time now.  Well, today I decided to revive, and also to revise, that collection. Or perhaps I should say that I've started a new collection, which includes some items from the old one.
I'm now collecting old print advertisements, nothing more recent than 1949. 
I'm not making another blog this time. I'm storing these ads in a folder on my computer. 
From time to time, however, I will share a new acquisition.

Books Read In The Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Books are listed by author (or series creator),
 and not necessarily in the order read.


"Summa Theologica"
by St. Thomas Aquinas
long-term Catholic studies
(Kindle book) 

"Mitsy Butterwood" #
by Edna Beiler
[children's fiction, Mennonite]

"The Ocean Within"
"Tides"
by V. M. Caldwell
[children's/YA fiction]

"Katie John"
(openlibrary.org loan)
"Depend on Katie John"
(physical copy) 
by Mary Calhoun
[children's fiction]


"Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir"
by Mary Catherine Crowley 
[short stories for children]
 reserved for Sunday 
(Free Kindle book)


"Kitty From the Start"
by Judy Delton
[children's fiction]
reserved for Sunday


 "Maggie's Rosary
and Other Tales"
by May Ramsay
reserved for Sunday

"The Woman At The Well"
by Dale Evans Rogers
(autobiography, Christian [Protestant])


"Every Day Is A Gift
Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016   

"The Atlantic Ocean" #
by Peter J. Sharp
[nonfiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"the teen-ager's guide to
collecting practically anything"
(title is in lower-case)
by Norah Smaridge and Hilda Hunter
[nonfiction]
(I blogged  about this book several years ago,
and I still feel the way I did then.) 

Rehousing My Break-Off Collection

I was tired of keeping my collection in a dresser drawer, so I decided to do something about it.  I transferred my Break-Offs to a shoe box, and then I put the box on one of my bookshelves.  The shoe box has a good, tight lid, so Winky can't get at the collection. 
I'd planned, at one time, to put my Break-Offs into one or more of those rectangular plastic  containers with clear covers that Chinese food comes in. That didn't work, however, because no matter how much I washed them, they were still too greasy.
I'm thinking of buying some clear plastic food containers, and then arranging the items in my collection by size and/or by what they are made of. But I refuse to spend more than $5.00 at the very most.  After all, I don't spend any money on the items in this collection.

Books Read In The Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Books are listed by author (or series creator),
 and not necessarily in the order read.


 "Nothing Is Impossible
The Story of Beatrix Potter"
by Dorothy Aldis
[children's biography]

  "Summa Theologica"
by St. Thomas Aquinas
long-term Catholic studies
(Kindle book) 

"Adventures With The Buttonwoods" #
"Mitsy Butterwood" #
by Edna Beiler
[children's fiction, Mennonite]

 "Julia's Magic"
"That Julia Redfern"
(physical copies)
"Julia And The Hand Of God"
(openlibrary.org loan) 
by Eleanor Cameron 
[children's fiction]

"Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir"
by Mary Catherine Crowley 
[short stories for children]
 reserved for Sunday 
(Free Kindle book) 

"Every Day Is A Gift
Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016   

"The Funnies: An American Idiom"
edited by David Manning White
and Robert H. Abel
[non-fiction] 

Books Read In The Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Books are listed by author (or series creator),
 and not necessarily in the order read.

 "Summa Theologica"
by St. Thomas Aquinas
long-term Catholic studies
(Kindle book) 

"No Good In Art" #
story by Miriam Cohen
pictures by Lillian Hoban
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir"
by Mary Catherine Crowley 
[short stories for children]
 reserved for Sunday 
(Free Kindle book)


"Maggie Adams, Dancer"
(openlibrary.org loan)
Between Dances:
Maggie Adams' Eighteenth Summer"
(physical copy) 
"Stay On Your Toes, Maggie Adams!"
(openlibrary.org loan)
 [YA fiction]
"Cammy Takes a Bow"
[children's fiction]

 by Karen Strickler Dean

"Longer Flight
A Family Grows Up With Books"
by Annis Duff
[nonfiction] 
  
"The Day I Became an Autodidact:
 And the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies that Befell Me Thereafter"
by Kendall Hailey
[autobiography]


 "Smiling Hill Farm" #
by Miriam E. Mason
[children's fiction, historical] 
 
"Every Day Is A Gift
Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016   

"The Funnies: An American Idiom"
edited by David Manning White
and Robert H. Abel
[non-fiction]
   

Books Read In The Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Books are listed by author (or series creator),
 and not necessarily in the order read.

 "Summa Theologica"
by St. Thomas Aquinas
long-term Catholic studies
(Kindle book) 


"Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir"
by Mary Catherine Crowley 
[short stories for children]
 reserved for Sunday 
(Free Kindle book)


"Longer Flight
A Family Grows Up With Books"
by Annis Duff
[nonfiction]

"Chrysanthemum" #
  by Kevin Henkes
[picture book]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Freckle-Face-Frankel"
by Leota Harris Keir
[children's fiction, Jewish (Conservative) themes]

"Me Me Me Me Me: Not A Novel"
by M. E. Kerr
[YA autobiography] 

 "Son Of Interflux"
by Gordon Korman
[YA fiction]

"grace notes"
"love, annie" 
"just jazz"
by Dandi Daley Mackall
[children's/YA fiction, Christian (Protestant), Blog On! series) ]
(Google Books, replacing copies lost when I moved.)

 "Smiling Hill Farm" #
by Miriam E. Mason
[children's fiction, historical] 

"Mary Ellis, Student Nurse"
by Hope Newell 
[children's/YA fiction, African-Americans]
(openlibrary.org loan)
 
"Every Day Is A Gift
Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016   
  

"Pink Slippers, Bat Mitzvah Blues"
by Ferida Wolff
[children's fiction, Jewish]
 

New Item In Break-Off Collection

I was going through my things.... I love to rummage.... and I came across a lens from a pair
of glasses.   That lens is now in my Break-off Collection.